Tenet (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2020)

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?

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!

If anything, a lot of Nolan movies are themselves kind of like neo-fascist dreams.

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!

aren't all Nolan films humorless and disappointing

Not if your name is P Badshaw or Fred, who get their silk glove out for a new Nolan movie!

he's the hot topic of movie maker guys

every one of his movies feels like it was cooked up in a '90s mall, in the shared break room of the national guard recruiting office, a 'brain games' pretentious toy store, and one of those places that sells manufactured movie memorabilia ('a copy of the shooting script from the second-to-last episode of M*A*S*H)

supposedly Nolan was in line to take a percentage of movie ticket sales and to that I say l o fucking l

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

Is Boris actually inspiring or maintaining any stans in his current, wholly nominal, role?

that johnson, stan in full

https://knightayton.co.uk/media/k2/items/cache/e6b24df417ad7ceb7a489b8a35382a8c_L.jpg

the basic tenets from the book of being a being a complete cunt says that if you are a complete cunt then you should neither procreate, making more lousy rich brat kids nor make fucking shit movies and fuck off and die instead

I will cop to still kinda liking a couple Nolan movies, but I can't fathom getting excited about a new one in 2020.

I'll cop to not completely disliking The Prestige at the time, but hated it when I re-watched it and had developed a contemptuous familiarity of that stillborn shit he does over and over again ad nauseam to diminishing returns.

lol.. bowie as Tesla was pretty funny tbf!

the fact that a few critics actually hate this one makes me think it might end up being partly interesting. probably not though

lads we can all make our own threads to talk about wanking if that's what you need

I love that a complete fucking garbage movie is being marketed as the "get back to the cineplexes and die of the rona to help us" version of "eat out to help out". good luck Nolan you gallant auteur.

this is quite possibly the topic I agree with calzino the most about

I'd make the case that all of his movies are worth watching, even if most are hanging on for dear life, but few are worth watching more than once.

TDKR is not worth watching

Yeah, if you're going to skip one, no one would miss that at all. Talk about epitomizing "humorless disappointment," though tbf, Tom Hardy probably had some fun with that.

The Guardian gave it two stars and called it a dud. It wasn't Peter Bradshaw though, who has mostly good opinions imo, in spite of the fact that he tells the plot too much. I almost always agree with him. Catherine Shoard is good as well, so is Benjamin Lee. Obv it would be good to hear Gilbert Adair's take but he's deed. Thankfully we don't have to hear Phillip French telling us the plot in great detail since he is also deed.

I'm not glad that Phillip French is deed, obv, but I am glad to not hear any opinion of his.

Badshaw gave 5 stars to Dunkirk, need i say any more?

he has given 4/5 stars to so much garbage now his cred is shot. And he quoted his generosity to such "auteurs" as gaspar noo! and aranwrongsky as evidence of him supporting challenging avant-garde cinema, he's a clueless fucking charlie!

Dunkirk was the only Nolan movie I've kind of liked, but only after seeing it a second time and watching it with a friend who was really into it

it's the biggest load of brit propaganda bollox since the royal edition of it's a knockout!

or since the rona spreading street parties of middle-class suburbs of leafy ingerland

:)

and it fails on basic level of not representing the scale of what actually happened at Dunkirk, it's absolute cack on every level.

I liked Aronofsky's earliest films, Pi and Requiem for a Dream. I hated Black Swan but was fascinated by mother! and still not sure what to think about it

is that guy in the clip Joey McIntyre

I like Nolan’s movies but this is hilarious

That is perfect