Tenet (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2020)

looool @ ThENET

say what you like about the tenets of Nolanism...

Score by Ludwig Göransson

Is Hans Zimmer doing ok?

he is calm and composing as he always does iirc

things in every chuck nolan movie ever

1. oscar-winning actress playing a character with no motivation, whose sole purpose is to deliver exposition
2. The message of the movie is based on a proverb that the audience is familiar with. It is stated out loud by the main character, but is not actually supported by the internal logic of the film.

50/50 chance of a dead wife somewhere in there

being real here though, what a monumental, all-time hack this man is

It's frustrating because it's largely his own fault. He'd likely be respected as a talented architect if he didn't simultaneously insist on demonstrating his inept construction skills. Sure, those buildings look pretty at first but they collapse every single time, mah dude.

Also galaxy brain conservative in his politics. I still haven't gotten over Batman as George W Bush wiretapping the entire city to stop The Concept of Terrorism embodied as the Joker.

Speaking of, I would like to wiretap multiplex ticket windows prior to the release of this film so that we can capture all of the variations of the title as uttered by movie patrons who may be less than familiar with the word.

We have thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdOM0x0XDMo

So miniaturized time reversal pools or something.

I appreciate his general inclination of making small + intimate films but it's refreshing to see him branch out and go a little more high-concept for a change.

gonna go out on a limb here and suggest this will be visually accomplished but emotionally inert

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while watching this christopher nolan movie i'm going to take nothing for i see for granted because it looks like things will not always be... exactly what they seem...

It's like Memento except the twist is (get this) the story moves forwards instead of backwards.

tfw a character fingers a bullet hole in a window & asks what happened here, and his partner says what happened hasn’t happened yet pic.twitter.com/TH6AL9Riv7

— Woke Fartbutt (@falsebinary) December 19, 2019

damn he's still got it

https://media.giphy.com/media/rGckn7bN5uIV2/giphy.gif

This reminds me of when I had to keep telling management in a draft PPM that the word is not "tenant."

The movie will be shit, of course.

I believe it's spelled 'shint'.

Tenet as the test of whether movie theaters can open this year.

The studio is pressing ahead with release plans for “Tenet,” the mysterious and much-anticipated new movie from “Inception” director and proven moneymaker Christopher Nolan. Executives are making plans to open the movie widely across the United States as scheduled on July 17 amid the ongoing spread of the coronavirus. They’re going through all the paces of a big summer release, despite many reasons a successful rollout may not be remotely possible.

Second trailer premiering tonight on...Fortnite.

This reminds me how when our company went out for financing, I kept having to correct "tenant" to "tenet" in all our materials

"proven moneymaker Christopher Nolan"

that would be about as generous an epitaph as he ever deserved tbf

https://i.redd.it/67ba11jo8wk01.jpg

Chris also doesn’t allow chairs. I worked with him twice. He doesn’t allow chairs, and his reasoning is, if you have chairs, people will sit, and if they’re sitting, they’re not working.

Inside the movie set of a talentless, peevish tory-cunt schoolmaster! Thing is I refuse sit down for any of his his movies, because not only do they feel like work - they are fucking irredeemable shite.

I'm not even averse to the idea of real directors treating precious actors like shit, but that loathsome mediocrity doing it just reminds me of a boss I used to have who made his office staff lock their smartphones in a cupboard during working hours. He can't get away with it because he makes garbage movies.

"If you've got time to lean, you've time to clean" - Chris Nolan

not to mention the unlawful and cruel abelism/ageism of such a rule. I hope they were all hocking in his coffee every day.

Preschool teacher: “Today we are going to play musical chairs”

Christopher Nolan: pic.twitter.com/Fc1sW9tAMY

— Lunwi (@Lunwi88) June 29, 2020

Someone suggested to me that this is probably untrue and he does have a new product to plug that they are hoping will fill up some Cinemas for lovers of noisy garbage and sitting on seats whilst you cop The Rona!

Yes, "Come see this new movie - the director's a huge fucking asshole" is a time-tested marketing strategy. Seems likely to have the same marketing power as when the DVD case for some straight-to-video no-stars garbage pile says "From the Producers of [HIT MOVIE LOTS OF PEOPLE LIKED]".

Occam's Razor would suggest that a prominent movie director is an asshole who is terrible to the people who work for him

There is no way this is true. Unions alone, etc. But there is something hilarious about the notion. I can imagine all his stars working rest into their scenes. "You know, Chris, I really think my character would be sitting in this shot." "Hey, Chris, what if my character smoked, but was also narcoleptic?"

Nolan is, on the other hand, one of those directors who insists on wearing a suit. (Others I can think of are, of all people, Sam Raimi and Paul Feig; Feig has claimed a good suit means you can always find a place to use the bathroom). It's an interesting strategy. A lot of directors seem to go the other way, kind of scraggly, with beards. I have a friend who is a professor who is clean shaven during the breaks, but grows a beard for class, because it makes him look older and gets him more respect. But a director wearing a suit ... it scans as affectation, which might counterintuitively get you less respect. Now, a chicken suit, that might work, at least once. It's so silly it could diffuse tension, which might make up for Nolan not letting people sit.

Paul Verhoeven apparently filmed a few scenes in his birthday suit.

By the way, I really can't imagine them not moving this release date again, at least in the US. How or have movie theaters been working everywhere else?

IIRC that was out of a particularly Euro conception of "solidarity" when shooting those co-ed locker room sequences eg Starship Troopers, Robocop etc. Probably wouldn't fly today, mind... xp

There is no way this is true.

for some reason I am inclined to believe Anne Hathaway in these matters

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbuCNCmVAAAUSEF.jpg

That seems more plausible.

IIRC that was out of a particularly Euro conception of "solidarity" when shooting those co-ed locker room sequences eg Starship Troopers, Robocop etc.

Sure, Jan (de Bont).

My hot take is that treating employees this way is unacceptable even when it results in films I like and thinking otherwise is Tory

The first thing it reminded me of was this:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a30271308/sloped-toilet-design-productivity/

Others I can think of are, of all people, Sam Raimi and Paul Feig

Wes Anderson is a big suit guy too.

If he really wanted to treat his employees badly he could make them watch his movies.

if you take the suit off nolan he looks like a kind of bloaty football hooligan

#Tenet Review: Christopher Nolan’s Long-Anticipated Time Caper Is a Humorless Disappointment https://t.co/wE01VPA5Gk pic.twitter.com/1w3QX1gOhT

— IndieWire (@IndieWire) August 21, 2020

u loves to see it, not the tedious movie of course.

in this case do read the replies, some hilarious butthurt in there.

I can't bring myself to enjoy the mornings of the Empire magazine cineaste crowd

or moanings even

lots of "humorless" movies are a+. But Nolan is also tedious and bad with humourless. So many people who have not even seen his latest piece of shite seem determined to defend it. Such unswerving loyalty for terrible brands is what keeps the wheels turning I guess.

Hey, have you seen our president/your PM lately?

methinks you're greatly overthinking it

too many underrate the impact of campus utility data when evaluating a director’s work

“We live in a twilight world.”

pattinsons jerry maguire

starting to watch this now, assuming this still applies

Is there any Nolan film that doesn't basically have the theme "Ahh, but you did it to yourself"?

― kinder, Sunday, 27 June 2021 09:06 (two years ago)

Kenneth Brannagh really didn't need to be a grumpy Russian in this, seriously was no-one else available?

I like how the woman's character is "her son", it's good they remind you she has a son every 5 minutes in case you forget she's a mother and start to think she might have any other facets to her whatsoever

I see the young son hangs back out of the foreground for a lot of this movie about what is going to happen in the future

Her son, though

On a tangential John David Washington note, _The Creator_ confirms he has a knack for sf films with big sets and design. (Was very entertained by said new film, I'll add.)

I'm now watching Bill and Ted Face the Music and there are genuinely some of the exact same themes

ive watched kenneth branagh in his last five roles and im not sure he fucking changed expression or accent across the gamut

christopher nolan direct a movie where a woman has an important part beyond being a plot device challenge

Interstellar almost worked but then you realize one character was there to give the protagonist an epiphany about being human and the other was there to decipher morse code

do u often handwave away strong female characters like that

it’s still monday morning here, dmac, let me complain a little without having to address my own systemic biases for a couple hours

i didn't love inception, but it had a much more interesting central conceit, more intriguing puzzle, and much clearer emotional stakes than this! why should i bother deciphering the puzzle if the action on screen is barely comprehensible and motivations obscure?

i thought tbh it had marginally less clear dialogue than incpetion but shared utterly the other flaws you set out there

they were mainly saying "woah" and "party on" iirc

I saw this tonight on a plane with subtitles and it was exactly what I expected it to be after reading the premise. It passed the time well.

but DID IT?

the time passed YOU

Yeah, originally I kept going back in time to watch it again but everything was inverted when I did that, so I cut that off and now I only watch it in the future.

And then your plane landed and you exited and walked backwards to the terminal gate of your departure...

I’m not walking backwards, I’m moonwalking forwards to the best sounding song in the inverted world: full fathom five by the stone roses

they've been showing it for 6 days in 70mm at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland... ends Wednesday

This last string of posts makes be wonder if the problem with this movie is that it needed to be far goofier

xp presumptuous tbh

this movie would be much better if it was a thriller for the forward moving timeline and a romcom for the backwards one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2FXfFeRtJo

a long time out but i listen and laugh every time

Every time I see this thread title I automatically think the movie must be a bio-pic about George Tenet, ex-director of the CIA. Then I think, who the fuck would watch that movie?

there is nothing to say this movie would not wear such a reading tbh

is that guy in the clip Joey McIntyre

I like Nolan’s movies but this is hilarious

That is perfect