remembering Inception, "the exposition comes fast and is buried in the sound mix" is not encouraging to me
― Dan S, Friday, 28 August 2020 23:47 (three years ago) link
which prestige actress is exposition girl in this one?
― wasdnous (abanana), Friday, 28 August 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is exposition girl this time
There was a lot of exposition in Inception but the movie slowed down to deliver it. In this, the exposition happens during action scenes or rapidly cut conversations to keep the energy high, almost as if even Nolan doesn't want you to think about it too much (probably not true)
― Vinnie, Saturday, 29 August 2020 00:02 (three years ago) link
Inception's "buried in the sound mix" completely overbearing soundtrack made me so angry. I don't want to experience that again
― Dan S, Saturday, 29 August 2020 00:08 (three years ago) link
like how the bad guy in Inception was named Mal? how about Bane?
Bane comes from the febrile mind of Chuck Dixon, twenty years earlier tbf
(I just learnt yesterday that he was in one of the Schumacher Batflicks)
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Saturday, 29 August 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
Wow, Jeep Swenson (the Schumacher Bane) died a couple months after B & R came out in the summer of '97.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 29 August 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link
saw this.
fucking sucked dick
― pass the cur's dossier (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 01:48 (three years ago) link
keep in mind I liked Inception. this was like the worst parts of Interstellar for 2 and a half hours.
it's rapid fire exposition and little else.
― pass the cur's dossier (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
possibly even blander characters than Inception
what characters?
(I also liked all of the NOlan Batmen and Dunkirk, so I'm not the usual Nolan hater the board is, either....)
― pass the cur's dossier (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 01:50 (three years ago) link
the buried in the sound mix is infuriating. some of the dialogue wasn't even audible over the sound!
― pass the cur's dossier (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
Surprised you found it that much worse than the others. I thought it was about as good as his last couple movies, not as good as The Prestige or Inception. The inaudible dialogue didn't bother me much, as the visuals were enough. If anything, I liked that there wasn't a lot of focus on dialogue this time around - he's not very good at writing it and the concept doesn't even make sense with all the explanation
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 02:30 (three years ago) link
eventually I stopped listening and realized I'd figured out what was happening anyway so I wondered why they just couldn't let it breathe for a moment.
that said, I liked the first half hour.
― pass the cur's dossier (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 02:37 (three years ago) link
letting it breath seems to be the ultimate problem with his films
― Dan S, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 02:56 (three years ago) link
*not letting it breathe
― Dan S, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 02:58 (three years ago) link
yes letting them breathe was a mistake
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 02:59 (three years ago) link
Hard to disagree with most of the comments here but I did think Robert Pattinson was great and liked the fact that his time inverting international super spy character was simply called “Neil”. Also the wardrobe choices were A+++. I probably was just glad to be in a cinema eating popcorn again.
― the article don, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
inaudible dialogue is absolutely infuriating to me, and movies have just been getting worse and worse with that; and too often it carries over to the digital/dvd/streaming versions as well. I have two fucking speakers on my TV. I don't have a 'home theater' and would rather not have one. Please let me hear what people are saying.
― akm, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
Kenneth Branagh is the worst offender.
Every angry line a throaty whisper
― pass the cur's dossier (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
It was nice to be in a theater. There was nobody within 100 feet of me and i stayed masked the whole time (as did the nearest person).
― pass the cur's dossier (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
Honestly, there is little better than seeing a movie in a near-empty theatre, just as there is little worse than seeing a movie in a packed theatre. Even pre-covid. The sound and smell of people eating, the cellphones, the talking, the people getting up and down ...
Though now that I think of it, watching movies at home does do a pretty good job approximating the theatrical experience.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
I used to have a Cinemark exactly 7 minutes from my house that was basically a ghost town during the week. my bit of zen back then was finding a movie to go to solo and enjoying having a theater mostly to myself.
― pass the cur's dossier (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
packed theatres are cool for broad comedies and horror but yeah anything else is pretty much death. the worst is anything vaguely intellectual/arty because you not only have to deal with the chewing but also people either pontificating out loud or over-laughing at the "clever" bits
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
Packed theatres are only cool for air conditioning.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
when i used to give blood on a regular basis my fav move was to do it early on a weekday and then take the free coffee and cookie and woozily enjoy a 11:30am movie in an empty theater
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
a lot of movies are greatly improved when you're down a pint of blood
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
It's only fitting because most of them do suck.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
I'm almost ready mentally to return to a theater because during normal times I went solo most mornings before 10:30 a.m. when I had the damn theatre to myself.
The press people have sounded out my film critics group about keeping the general public out of screenings. There are only a couple of us locally anyway, and pre-COVID we scattered around the room.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 21:23 (three years ago) link
I probably was just glad to be in a cinema eating popcorn again.
This contributed a nonzero amount to my enjoyment of Tenet. Between COVID and having a baby last year, I hadn't been to the theater in more than a year and a half
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
Uhh yeah I saw it tonight cause I guess I felt reckless
I didn’t hate it exactly but I also felt that I would have enjoyed downloading the soundtrack while playing any random James Bond movie in reverse more than this movie, esp as it dragged on and got more tedious
Also the reviews weren’t lying about Elizabeth Debicki’s role being paper thin, I don’t go to Nolan movies for fleshed out female characters but yikes
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 04:35 (three years ago) link
Armed with only one word, Tenet
secret pokemon film
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
the climax of the film is 45 minutes of John David Washington just walking up to random people on the street and barking "Tenet" at them to see if they're spy people
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
so can anyone who's seen it go and listen to the Travis Scott song on the soundtrack and confirm that it "unlocks" the movie or whatever as Nolan claimed
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
I'll take a pass on listening to Travis $cott, i do not feel compelled to unlock this movie
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
The song played over the credits but I just went to check out the lyrics, which contain a couple references to the events in the movie. Movie unlocked!
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
all because Nolan has equity in Genius Media Group
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 3 September 2020 00:48 (three years ago) link
Saw this last Sunday. Best theater in Baltimore miraculously reopened despite the rest of the city remaining closed (they're right on the city/county line, with multiplexes opening up a mile away, so The Senator was allowed to open).
800 cap theater normally, now 25 max.
Felt totally safe and comfortable, wore mask whole time, main theater is gigantic
Movie was SOO fucking stupid but it was big and loud and that was enough for me rn. Felt great to be back in a theater
― flappy bird, Thursday, 10 September 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
cf.
Sound mix is fine—it’s the movie that’s incoherent! hey now pic.twitter.com/a6scjx2ZAS— Nicky Smith (@nickyotissmith) September 6, 2020
― flappy bird, Thursday, 10 September 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
were concessions being sold flappy?
― naked and sexually active alien (rip van wanko), Thursday, 10 September 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
concessions
You mean besides paying money to see a dumb movie in the middle of a pandemic?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 September 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
they were showing this in IMAX last night for $10 and i still couldn't get myself to go
― the late great, Thursday, 10 September 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
did you think the last hour of Interstellar was on par with Citizen Kane? if so, this flick is for u
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 10 September 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
i was hoping for a cross between casino royale (2006) and matrix reloaded
is that too much to ask
― the late great, Thursday, 10 September 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
both of those movies are impotent tbr
― naked and sexually active alien (rip van wanko), Thursday, 10 September 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
uh ... ok
― the late great, Thursday, 10 September 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
joeks
― naked and sexually active alien (rip van wanko), Thursday, 10 September 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
phew!
― the late great, Thursday, 10 September 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
that’s a good one for the post / username thread 8======D
― the late great, Thursday, 10 September 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
Rip: They were, just popcorn and soda and candy. They had every other row blocked off and people separated themselves well. Masks required "unless eating in seat." Super ad-hoc. I went with my mom (she was really dying to go back to the movies, I could've waited but glad I didn't), and we told each other if the situation looked really dire--people misbehaving, coughing, huge crowds--we'd turn around. It was fine. Everyone was on their best behavior and again, this place seats 800 people normally.
Josh: I'm sure you've made equally "dangerous" concessions in the last 6 months. I love my mom.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 10 September 2020 19:02 (three years ago) link
and I would've gone to sit with her in the Senator if they played two hours of unexposed film
― flappy bird, Thursday, 10 September 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link