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Tenet is good but I understand why people don’t like it because I’ve seen it 3 times and couldn’t tell you what happens other than my lizard brain enjoyment of stuff going backwards

 

for a director who usually is (occasionally overly so) attentive about everything, the seeming lack of care to detail in that movie is insane

 

Maybe that's the point he was trying to make? Idk it's just a weird movie

 

i’m talking about tenet. oppenheimer is very good lol.

 

Oppenheimer is a good 8/10.

 

I struggle with the third act of Interstellar. Keeps that movie from being in the top tier Nolans for me

 

I feel like Oppenheimer is pretty easily Nolan’s best. Just such an effective, massive piece of filmmaking. If it’s not that one, what is it?

 

Tenet is better than most of his movies. His last three are probably his best three.

 

i agree with 2/3s of those. the prestige is so much better than tenet lol. as is memento.

 

The Prestige and Memento are fantastic

 

Someday I should give Dunkirk another shot. The craft was impressive, but by the last stretch, I was kinda over the story structure. Maybe it’d work better for me upon a second watch.

Also curious if some of what I bounced off of in Interstellar would work better for me now.

 

Dunkirk may be my second favorite. I would like to revisit Tenet, Oppenheimer earned enough good will that I’m slightly more interested in rewatching it.

 

Dunkirk is his most middling piece.

 

Yes, let’s get the “Tenet is good actually” train going.

 

D&D were good show runners, they ran the show well for 5 seasons till it ran out of source material and fell off a cliff.

 

True, but I did retroactively enjoy (since I read them later) how much closer to the books Seasons 1 and 2 stayed. And the biggest change they made from the books was actaully a good one that ruled (arya/Tywin)

 

I dont need to type my Tenet defensive anymore because now it has a video

 

vibes > plot is the exact kind of dumb bullshit i’d expect from a youtube analysis lol

 

Patrick Willems is a good critic, I’m guessing he has more to say than the thumbnail

 

That is by far his worst video. Miami Vice is a completely different type of film.

 

Patrick (H) Willems is actually good, unlike the vast majority of major “video essay” channels, lol. Though I don’t think that’s the video I’d use to prove he’s great.

His stretch at the end of last year tackling topics like AI and the word “content” was excellent.

 

yeah fair enough, have no idea who he is outside of the context of that video, but it didn’t exactly make me want to check out more either.

 

I’m not even opposed to “vibes > plot” as a thesis. I’m trying to read Finnegan’s Wake right now. I just really didn’t like Tenet

 

This is the second time (I’m assuming) your phone has done this, lol.

 

lol whoops, yes, ty