Tenet (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2020)

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