Tenet (Christopher Nolan, September 3, 2020) Movie • Page 60

This is how I have always felt about his films.

 

armageddon was better than interstellar

 

Armageddon is what all popcorn movies should try to be.

 

AMEN

 

Armageddon made us listen to that dreadful Aerosmith song for years. Interstellar is not guilty of that.

 

To be clear, I haven’t seen any of his other movies except The Prestige (which I liked) and BB + TDK (a long time ago). But I have a hard time believing with the critical reception they’ve mostly gotten that they could be as bad as this. Me and my friends got drunk on election night and Netflix party watched 6 Underground, the most recent Bay movie, and it was awful. This movie provided mostly the same sensation

 

I'd say the only positive of Interstellar is the music

 

lol WAT

 

This was aight, somehow kinda generic. I fell asleep

 

Or maybe i woke up

 

Give me organ music all day

do not give me "surviving falling into a black hole because you love your daughter and become a ghost that haunts her"

 

I think this is my cue to unfollow this thread

 

"How is Nolan any different than Michael Bay" is truly a multiverse-brained point of no return for the Entertainment Forum lol

 

That’s not what I said. I asked how this movie is any different than a Michael Bay movie, which is how it felt to me.

 

You aren't the one who said it

 

Michael Bay movies are more exciting than this snoozer

 

lmao

 

Nolan is a Michael Bay fan and studies his work fwiw

 

i mean, “michael bay movies are more exciting than this snoozer” isn’t even a take worth posting. of course they are. the entirety of michael bay’s career has been based on excitement with little substance

that doesn’t mean his movies are better. almost all of them are worse. but i do agree that nolan movies feel like Bay movies at their absolute peak potential, and he should lean into that more instead of hindering it with gobbledygook nonsense

 

The biggest problem with Michael Bay movies are their explicit jingoism more than their technical shortcomings. Nolan's films are considerably more politically confused; does Nolan think that Occupy Wall Street is equivalent to Bane? Is it okay to warrantlessly wiretap an entire city if you blow it all up at the end?

 

aaaannyyywaaaayyyyy... i saw this

expected a lot worse from what others were saying. besides being a satisfying blockbuster, it was easier to follow than i feared. the cast is no less than memorable, and the action scenes are the best in any nolan movie this side of the first one shown in TDK. pacing was better than expected too, the first half nearly cruised for me. some issues were mentioned already i think. subtitles helped more than they should've, and i'm not fan of debicki's character being more or less a damsel in distress at all. especially for a 2020 blockbuster

but it's good. certainly a step down from how incredible dunkirk was. i probably need to watch it again to see how sold i am on it or if more things need digesting. can't help but assume i'd enjoy this more if i/everyone could see this on the big screen, but most of us will never know that i guess

 

now for the *appropriate* ranking

dark knight
prestige
memento
batman begins
dunkirk
inception
tenet
dark knight rises
insomnia
following
interstellar

 

no way

 

Only one I haven't watched recently is Following. The Prestige moves up every time I rewatch it.

Interstellar
Inception
The Dark Knight
Dunkirk
The Prestige
The Dark Knight Rises
Tenet
Batman Begins
Memento
Insomnia
Following

 

Interstellar > The Prestige > Inception > The Dark Knight > whatever else