he is calm and composing as he always does iirc
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
things in every chuck nolan movie ever
1. oscar-winning actress playing a character with no motivation, whose sole purpose is to deliver exposition2. 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.
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
50/50 chance of a dead wife somewhere in there
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
being real here though, what a monumental, all-time hack this man is
― imago, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
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.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
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.
― OneSecondBefore, Thursday, 23 May 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
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.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 May 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
We have thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdOM0x0XDMo
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
So miniaturized time reversal pools or something.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
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.
― i was so hungry that i ate a hole cake entirely to myself (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
gonna go out on a limb here and suggest this will be visually accomplished but emotionally inert― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 17:56 (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 17:56 (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― i chop up the orange and chomp on the inside of it (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
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...
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
It's like Memento except the twist is (get this) the story moves forwards instead of backwards.
― i was so hungry that i ate a hole cake entirely to myself (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
damn he's still got it
https://media.giphy.com/media/rGckn7bN5uIV2/giphy.gif
― omar little, Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
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.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Thursday, 19 December 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
I believe it's spelled 'shint'.
― i was so hungry that i ate a hole cake entirely to myself (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 December 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
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.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 21 May 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
This reminds me how when our company went out for financing, I kept having to correct "tenant" to "tenet" in all our materials
― some vast airy pantaloon is required (PBKR), Thursday, 21 May 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
"proven moneymaker Christopher Nolan"
that would be about as generous an epitaph as he ever deserved tbf
― calzino, Thursday, 21 May 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
https://i.redd.it/67ba11jo8wk01.jpg
― piscesx, Friday, 22 May 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Monday, 29 June 2020 22:15 (three years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Monday, 29 June 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
"If you've got time to lean, you've time to clean" - Chris Nolan
― Number None, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 04:57 (three years ago) link
not to mention the unlawful and cruel abelism/ageism of such a rule. I hope they were all hocking in his coffee every day.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 08:04 (three years ago) link
Preschool teacher: “Today we are going to play musical chairs”Christopher Nolan: pic.twitter.com/Fc1sW9tAMY— Lunwi (@Lunwi88) June 29, 2020
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 10:00 (three years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 10:04 (three years ago) link
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]".
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link
Occam's Razor would suggest that a prominent movie director is an asshole who is terrible to the people who work for him
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 12:08 (three years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 12:41 (three years ago) link
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?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link
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
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 12:44 (three years ago) link
There is no way this is true.
for some reason I am inclined to believe Anne Hathaway in these matters
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 12:45 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbuCNCmVAAAUSEF.jpg
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
That seems more plausible.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
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).
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 12:47 (three years ago) link
My hot take is that treating employees this way is unacceptable even when it results in films I like and thinking otherwise is Tory
― Keir’d flex (wins), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 12:57 (three years ago) link
The first thing it reminded me of was this:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a30271308/sloped-toilet-design-productivity/
― mirostones, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 13:01 (three years ago) link
Others I can think of are, of all people, Sam Raimi and Paul Feig
Wes Anderson is a big suit guy too.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
If he really wanted to treat his employees badly he could make them watch his movies.
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
if you take the suit off nolan he looks like a kind of bloaty football hooligan
― solo scampito (mh), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 01:10 (three years ago) link
#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.
― calzino, Friday, 21 August 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
in this case do read the replies, some hilarious butthurt in there.
― calzino, Friday, 21 August 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
I can't bring myself to enjoy the mornings of the Empire magazine cineaste crowd
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Friday, 21 August 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Friday, 21 August 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
Hey, have you seen our president/your PM lately?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 August 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
living in the version of Inception where you take a handful of co-dydramols and sleep all day, cos dreaming is better watching Nolan movies or living in neo-fascist elective dictatorships!
― calzino, Friday, 21 August 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
If anything, a lot of Nolan movies are themselves kind of like neo-fascist dreams.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 August 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
how does he maintain such darkness for over a decade, without doing even one half decent movie and still keep having big hits? Got to give it him he's a top-notch conman!
― calzino, Friday, 21 August 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
pattinsons jerry maguire
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 13 August 2023 08:47 (eight months ago) link
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)
― kinder, Friday, 29 September 2023 21:58 (six months ago) link
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 whatsoeverI 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
― kinder, Friday, 29 September 2023 23:15 (six months ago) link
Her son, though
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 29 September 2023 23:19 (six months ago) link
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.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 September 2023 02:07 (six months ago) link
I'm now watching Bill and Ted Face the Music and there are genuinely some of the exact same themes
― kinder, Saturday, 30 September 2023 21:03 (six months ago) link
ive watched kenneth branagh in his last five roles and im not sure he fucking changed expression or accent across the gamut
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 September 2023 21:58 (six months ago) link
christopher nolan direct a movie where a woman has an important part beyond being a plot device challenge
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 2 October 2023 14:05 (six months ago) link
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
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 2 October 2023 14:07 (six months ago) link
do u often handwave away strong female characters like that
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 2 October 2023 14:12 (six months ago) link
it’s still monday morning here, dmac, let me complain a little without having to address my own systemic biases for a couple hours
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 2 October 2023 14:33 (six months ago) link
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?
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Monday, 2 October 2023 14:40 (six months ago) link
i thought tbh it had marginally less clear dialogue than incpetion but shared utterly the other flaws you set out there
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 2 October 2023 14:58 (six months ago) link
they were mainly saying "woah" and "party on" iirc
― kinder, Monday, 2 October 2023 20:12 (six months ago) link
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.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 26 February 2024 05:14 (one month ago) link
but DID IT?
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2024 05:30 (one month ago) link
the time passed YOU
― kinder, Monday, 26 February 2024 09:18 (one month ago) link
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.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 26 February 2024 14:37 (one month ago) link
And then your plane landed and you exited and walked backwards to the terminal gate of your departure...
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Monday, 26 February 2024 14:52 (one month ago) link
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
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 26 February 2024 21:05 (one month ago) link
they've been showing it for 6 days in 70mm at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland... ends Wednesday
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 26 February 2024 21:27 (one month ago) link
This last string of posts makes be wonder if the problem with this movie is that it needed to be far goofier
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 26 February 2024 21:28 (one month ago) link
xp presumptuous tbh
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2024 22:23 (one month ago) link
this movie would be much better if it was a thriller for the forward moving timeline and a romcom for the backwards one
― scanner darkly, Monday, 26 February 2024 22:50 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2FXfFeRtJo
― Maresn3st, Friday, 5 April 2024 17:07 (two weeks ago) link
a long time out but i listen and laugh every time
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 5 April 2024 17:59 (two weeks ago) link
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?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 5 April 2024 18:05 (two weeks ago) link
there is nothing to say this movie would not wear such a reading tbh
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 5 April 2024 19:04 (two weeks ago) link
is that guy in the clip Joey McIntyre
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 April 2024 19:05 (two weeks ago) link
I like Nolan’s movies but this is hilarious
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 5 April 2024 19:32 (two weeks ago) link
That is perfect
― Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 5 April 2024 19:59 (two weeks ago) link