Tenet (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2020)

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

aronofsky is way more entertainingly neurotic than nolan

I loved Pi at the time as well, but probably needed my head looking at!

Dunkirk was definitely only 3.5/5 not 5/5.

not sure why but seeing mother! reminded me of the two Emir Kusturica films I watched a while ago

a surreal story as parable, told with an insouciance that was kind of captivating

at least aranofsky embraces his wrongness and goes with it I suppose, whatever you think about him, it isn't as stultifyingly tedious and sterile as everything with the nolan touch.

There are 5-6 minutes of Joe Wright's Atonement adaptation at Dunkirk that are better, cinematically, than Nolan's but I wonder if Nolan's is more true. Both films are pretty good as films.

I honestly don't give a shit about either film, so I don't know why I'm even talking about it. Rewind and forget.

yeah well that does capture the scale of the event and it utilises cgi to do it, but it still looks better than 200 ppl on a beach with Branagh and some cunt pissing about with a remote control spitfire.

it isn't much cop either tbf

but at least it has some heated saucy dialogue that you soon forget as the movie bores you death!

will watch Tenet at home when it's convenient

don't remember Atonement the movie although I loved the book.

Dunkirk had no interesting dialogue. I can’t defend it but at least it was more appealing than the The Dark Knight. I couldn't get through that film, I tried twice. The first time after an hour or so I left the theater and waited outside on the curb until the friends I was watching it with had finished it. I don't ever remember feeling that way about another film.

Inception was almost as bad, I watched it in a theater with a friend who I really like and respect. I didn't want to make a scene but had to grit my teeth through the whole thing until the end

that Rick and Morty ep that takes the piss is hilarious. Inception is probably the worst movie I have seen in my entire lifetime.

and I say this as someone who once took my kid to an autism friendly showing of John Carter at 10 am on some cursed Sunday

xpost lucky you!

3/5 for Dunkirk feels about right. The kid wandering round the beaches while ordered lines of tommies waited to get bombed to shit was pretty good in a cut-rate Come And See sort of way, tho the idea of war as purgatory was kinda undercut by the rest of the movie being about how heroism is possible in war. I instinctively reject that premise which is why the movie as whole didn't work on me, but even so its my 2nd favourite Nolan after Interstellar, which is a terrific dumb-2001 let down by a clunky deus ex machina of an ending.

The only kinds of heroism possible in war are the same kinds possible without a war. A war is just the irrelevant envelope in which the heroism is contained.

— Aimless Marley