Tenet (Christopher Nolan, September 3, 2020) Movie • Page 58

Having two little kids at home going absolutely stir crazy after 9 months of lockdown, this doesn't surprise me at all.

 

The Croods is probably a better movie

 

Not surprising at all that a family movie would beat out Tenet lol

 

More people probably pirated tenet than a kids movie as well.

 

I did not realize that Tenet was $19.99 for a digital rental. Interesting choice. Have other movies with initial twenty buck rentals also had that option even after you could buy it physically (or rent at Redbox)?

I’ve also heard that the digital doesn’t shift aspect ratio for the parts shot in IMAX like the Blu-ray does, which makes that price even rougher, imo.

 

now here’s a paradox i can get behind

 

It is really remarkable that a movie this expensive would screw up something like the sound levels, something that has been so normalized over the years that you barely even think of it.

The rest of it is okay. The rewind stuff is silly and tries to conceal what is otherwise a fairly routine action movie.

 

uhh...

 

Nolan’s premises work best when they’re about characters who feel at least some emotions and appear to want things. When that’s taken away, like in this movie, it’s a very thin experience even though there was some of the most fun visual stuff Nolan has ever done. Sits near the bottom of his filmography.

 

He leans so hard on “cool” in this movie, and it’s not like the emotional cores to his other films are complex but at least they’re there. The character motivations echoed Hitchcock’s laziest movies, and the Casablanca reference would land better if Pattinson and Washington had like, anything at all more to their moments together.

Pattinson and Himesh Patel are great actors.

 

I dunno, it was definitely carried by cool more than emotion for me, but Kat was a strong enough emotional core for me to not quite agree. Granted, the execution wasn’t great, in the predictable ways that often happen with Nolan’s women. So, “lazy” probably is the right word. But, I personally connected with Kat enough in spite of intellectually knowing the execution was, uh, problematic, that it didn’t feel too sterile to me (in comparison to his other films).

 

I’m still rolling my eyes over The Protagonist’s (haha) “I ordered hot sauce over an hour ago” line.

this was neither cool or emotional

 

who just orders hot sauce at a restaraunt ?

 

It's amazing how much they explained the premise over and over again and then when the action sequence started I had no idea what was happening lol

 

It was just time travel with extra steps. A needless overcomplication of a simple action film.

 

I just remembered and feel like rewatching Looper

 

great movie

 

This movie has cars doing flippy flips and gets my approval

 

I rewatched it this morning!

Damn fine film.

 

Is Christopher Nolan an enemy of sleeping children? I’m trying very hard to watch this while my daughter is sleeping but my goodness the difference in volume between the dialogue and score/sound effects is maddening.

 

I have never had to pick up my remote to adjust the volume so much for one movie.

 

Just finished this - it was uh...something. I’m not sure how but I was both wildly entertained and wholly confused for most of the runtime. First 30 was a little slow but it definitely picked up in the last half.

Not my favorite Nolan film but credit for at least continuing to give us original ideas.

Side note: If (and not saying they should) Marvel decides to recast Black Panther, I would love to see John David Washington. He definitely exhibited a lot of that stoic coolness in this that Chadwick brought to the role.

 

My brother bought me the steelbook for Christmas and I just watched the opening sequence before bed. That shit is as good as anything I’ve seen in an action movie in the past few years.