Tenet (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2020)

i want to know The Protagonist's pronouns

According to a magazine ad I glimpsed on the bus that I assume was for this, it is like James Bond... on acid

ie extremely bad not good and goes on forever - checks out tbh

I wonder if, in America at least, WB is targeting conservatives with their advertising or are trying to, since it would seem to me they're more likely to "brave" a movie theater.

would watch this if everyone throughout the movie referred to the protagonist as such, like "your usual table, Mr. Protagonist?", "hey, it's that pesky protagonist - get him!", etc

makes it easy for him to identify the baddies if they're all named An Antagonist tbf

Worked for Neal Stephenson

Andy Anonymous

like how the bad guy in Inception was named Mal? how about Bane?

i've noticed that wiki articles love using the word "tritagonist" recently. was it on some word-a-day calendar?

or the villain in Interstellar being Mann all along

Saw it last night, it's the most Nolan-y of his movies yet. Ridiculous plot, huge spectacles, possibly even blander characters than Inception. The exposition comes fast and is buried in the sound mix but the story is pretty incomprehensible anyway. Loved Göransson's score, and I'm happy it's prioritized over dialogue. Enjoyed it overall. Nolan haters will really hate it, water is wet

remembering Inception, "the exposition comes fast and is buried in the sound mix" is not encouraging to me

which prestige actress is exposition girl in this one?

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)

Inception's "buried in the sound mix" completely overbearing soundtrack made me so angry. I don't want to experience that again

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)

Wow, Jeep Swenson (the Schumacher Bane) died a couple months after B & R came out in the summer of '97.

saw this.

fucking sucked dick

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.

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....)

the buried in the sound mix is infuriating. some of the dialogue wasn't even audible over the sound!

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

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.

letting it breath seems to be the ultimate problem with his films

*not letting it breathe

yes letting them breathe was a mistake

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.

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.

Kenneth Branagh is the worst offender.

Every angry line a throaty whisper

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).

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.

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.

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

Packed theatres are only cool for air conditioning.

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

a lot of movies are greatly improved when you're down a pint of blood

It's only fitting because most of them do suck.

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.

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

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

Armed with only one word, Tenet

secret pokemon film

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

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

I'll take a pass on listening to Travis $cott, i do not feel compelled to unlock this movie

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!

all because Nolan has equity in Genius Media Group

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

cf.

Sound mix is fine—it’s the movie that’s incoherent! hey now pic.twitter.com/a6scjx2ZAS

— Nicky Smith (@nickyotissmith) September 6, 2020

were concessions being sold flappy?

concessions

You mean besides paying money to see a dumb movie in the middle of a pandemic?