Tenet (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2020)

you know what else I liked when I was 14? Stage magic

It feels as if people's capacity for enjoying what is essentially eye-rollingly silly bollocks has pretty much evaporated in the Covid era.

I think actually people probably want more eye-rollingly silly bollocks. What people don't want, speaking for people here, is stuff that is so po-faced and serious that the only reaction is to treat it as eye-rollingly silly bollocks. But yeah, in the best of times there are so, so few comedies worth a shit, let alone actually funny, and now more than ever ...

best thing about memento is ice queen Carrie-Anne Moss

We watched Memento a couple of months ago, holds up. It's actually clever and fun and modestly profound rather than BIG LOUD IDEAS IN YOU FACE! The Prestige I bet would hold up, too, because it actually (as I remember it) takes its eye-rollingly silly bollocks seriously in a good way. Which is to say, more inward than outward. There's nothing clever about big explosions.

there's a free clickbait piece for anyone who notices that the first nolan movie to get even a little critical pushback is the one with a black lead

Tenet's current RT score (80) is higher than godawful Interstellar (72)

RT scores tend to drop as more reviews get added so we'll see but I'm expecting it to dip below that

Tenet score will go down as more people see it over time and post things like "this is literally the worst movie I have ever seen."

"Interstellar worst movie I have ever seen"
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Tenet is the worst movie I've ever seen.

Do you think he just started this project with a list of palindromes and took off from there?

MARTIN DONOVAN

Have you heard of "A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama"?

THE PROTAGONIST
(intrigued)
Tell me more.

The Batman movies were shit because, well, they're Batman movies and I'm no longer 14.

The Batman movies were shit because, well, they're Batman movies and I'm no longer 14.

Blue Velvet and Rope are shit because I'm no longer 14

I will watch this — I’m easily entertained by the spy genre and expect to enjoy this, though how much remains an open question. I’m holding off on reading reviews. I had high expectations for Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan’s war realism was oddly underwhelming for me. The film felt vague. I had a horrible seat in the back side of the theatre though.

Oddly my favourite film of his is Interstellar. Thinking back on it I am left with the impression of the climax and the feelings of love, time, and finiteness. He was able to convey something there that overcame whatever shortcomings in plot, dialogue, etc., that I no longer remember and don’t really matter in light of what the film was able to convey visually and emotionally.

Inception was fun for its novelty but I have no design to watch it again. And you can only love a film about a
Superhero so much, not to mention the questionable politics already mentioned in a comment above.

So yeah — Interstellar and the idea that love cannot escape time.

This recent Patrick H. Willems video goes into Nolan's bland visual style.
https://youtu.be/v92uAesOimQ?t=197
skip the skits, they're lame

this video goes into nolan's increasing bombast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGdwy5sYmKw

But didn't Interstellar say love CAN escape time, which was part of its wishywashy Hollywood blarghness?

I listened to four students today (all dudes) praising him.

He's our Kubrick, which means I say to hell with him.

Interstellar was great if you like shit

I like more Nolan than most ppl here tho so i'll see my way out

you should be permitted to throw solid wood chalk-dusters at your students for talking such shite, Alf!

"He's our Kubrick" I guess you're being facetious

sorry am slow at this

He's our Kubrick, which means I say to hell with him.

Kubrick was actually funny on occasion

Bale's Aristocrats joke was hilarious fuiud

David Lynch, Wong Kar-wai, Agnès Varda, Apitchatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Béla Tarr, Abbas Kiarostami, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Lucretia Martel, Claire Denis, Terrence Malick, Jia Zhangke, Tsai Ming-liang, Kelly Reichardt, Asghar Farhadi, Hayao Miyaziki, Ang Lee

our Kubrick is among these as well as others

wow marvel wave 4 is gonna be wild

Dan uhh I suspect you are taking this thread too literal

ok can't read you guys

if you read the Inception thread, it'll give more insight. there was of course nuance to many of the opinions expressed, but the overwhelming consensus of Nolan was "he should be killed"

Regardless, Kubrick and Nolan don't belong in the same conversation

unless he's overseeing a piss-yellow "unmastering" of 2001: A Space Odyssey of course

ringfencing kubrick is what gave us nolan sorry if this offends

(also snyder)

yeah but Snydolant didn't ever make The Killing, Paths of Glory, Barry Lyndon or Dr Strangelove!

kubrick made them iirc

all of them much closer to 9/10 rather than zero point zero recurring.... not saying he deserves deification, just that he was actually pretty bloody good at this old film-making game!

the way SK gets discussed has created a bad space for bad ppl to congregate and make bad films in

("bad" = "bad not good" obv but i wanted my claim on just one line)

Ok but that doesn't make Kubrick the equivalent of Nolan

sometimes you have to bend the stick

I guess the cult of nolan and the cult of Kubrick have a bit more equivalence

Bradshaw five-star the final nail in the coffin for this one

Bonzo Badshaw with his five-star Nolan reviews - what a wazzock!

good idea for a new Viz character, he follows Nolan about, heaping superlatives on everything he does.

I'm looking forward to watching this. Not going to a theater, though!

the review we've been waiting for

Big Movie. Big Screen. Loved it. pic.twitter.com/DrAY5tRg5P

— Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) August 25, 2020

always good to get the old thetan levels recharged and wandering about London in character!

I have this egg shaped orb that belonged to an ancient alien race that i throw at cinema screens when Nolan movies are playing, different strokes and all that.

the imdb plot synopsis of this movie sounds like an onion parody of a christopher nolan movie:

Armed with only one word, Tenet, and fighting for the survival of the entire world, a Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

you're telling me - it's 150 minutes long!