What's your opinion on Tenet (2020) by British-American filmmaker Sir Christopher Edward Nolan?Do you understand 100% of the movie plot?Do you think Nolan himself understands his own movie?What's your favorite and least favorite part of the movie?
I don't completely get it but I'm a moron. I really like Tenet though, I thought the concept is unique. My favorite part of the movie is the opening scene, it's that signature Nolan throwing you right into some intriguing scene that pulls you into the movie. My least favorite scenes were the yacht bits, a little on the nose of the typical russian rich bit, I think they could have been more creative there with that character.
>>214987635Like all of his movies, I understood it enough. He holds your hand and hits you over the head with exposition. And he's good enough at filmmaking that you suspend disbelief and don't think about it too much. And then later it's not like I find big plotholes when thinking about them. They're well made and more thoughtful and original than what other guys are making. I wasn't that huge into Dunkirk and I still haven't seen Oppenheimer, but other than those I'm a fan of his movies. The Prestige was so great the first and immediate second watches. I liked all the Batmans. Insomnia was one of the weaker entries for me I guess. Solid movie but I love his bigger stuff. I only saw Tenet once and I should watch it again sometime.
I liked Elizabeth Debicki's legs.
>>214987635i think it's an allegory for time travel meant to ease you into (or out of) the task of killing baby hitler.
>>214987827Oppenheimer was good but I would never watch it again, I think because you basically know the story it's not as compelling as some original/fictional story.
>>214987635It pains me that he finally used Elizabeth Debicki and he stuck her with a less interesting version of her Night Manager role.It’s also the only one of his movies where I’ve genuinely had a hard time keeping track of what is being said due to the dialogue being too low in the mix. There’s a scene where Kick-Ass is explaining the final mission, while wearing a mask, and the music and additional sounds are far too loud to hear him. If your story is reliant on spoken exposition, make it audible
>>214987880I never had any problem hearing the dialog in this movie. The original theater mix could be seat to be difficult but the home version that's fixed. Are you listening on TV speakers or something?
>>214987938Cinema and at home. Even looking up the scene in question online it’s hard to follow
>>214987635awful movie and the nigger gives a worst of all time lead performance in a major studio movie
I haven't watched it but I want to worship the Debicki
i think about it every day. the bi-directionality of causality is the most brilliant device of animating characters as moving forces. its strangely intimate in a cerebral manner – the music and the orphic / oedipal themes also elevate it enormously.
>>214987635I watched 5 minutes, couldn't understand any of the dialogue, wasn't willing to put on subtitles, so I just turned it off.
With some time travel stories, a character takes the slow way into the future in suspended animation. This is the first story I know of someone taking the slow way into the past. And Niel especially as his last mission is to recruit the protagonist. Who goes on to meet him in the future and send him back after they have their adventures.
>future earth is ravaged (we assume)>future humans are angry with the past and want to destroy it>presumably the idea is that they cause their own destruction via apocalypse or some shit>they use time travel to send back future shit to patsies in the past for them to blow up the world, or somethingQuestion: if future people had time travel, why wouldn't they just all reverse their entropy and build up a reversed entropy community going backward in time? They could go back to before the apocalypse, over say hundreds of years, and when they reach a nice stopping point just dereverse entropy and live forward again. Repeat foreverThey could probably cooperate with past humans too, who would keep their community safe proactively by e.g. protecting the site of their community in the future, seeding it for agriculture etc.
>>214987635I've rewatched it recently and it's both a very good movie and a real fucking mess.I like the general idea behind it and Neil is a great character, but man... There are so many things that don't make sense especially towards the end.>the final battle is impossible to follow>you need an IQ of 250+ to understand Neil's timeline and deathAnd also>what even is the algorithm? How does that shit even work?There's this female character at the beginning of the movie who says "don't try to understand it, feel it" which is clearly a line for the viewer. Problem is, your mind is constantly trying to make sense of everything. Such a weird movie.
>>214988111That's one theory for the future enemies game plan: to reverse the world's entropy so they could essentially colonize the past.
Tenet is a shitty film and it makes no sense. It hand waves logic away by saying "it's a paradox." Like in the climax, the backwards team starts their mission after the apocalypse bomb detonated. So how did they get to that point in time? They sat around, going forward in time, doing nothing, hoping the world wouldn't end, felt the apocalypse bomb go off, then waited another hour or so and said, alright, now let's reverse and go in for the temporal pincer? They're pretty fucking lucky the world didn't actually end. Unless they were born in the future, and rewound themselves for years and years to get to the mission, but why do that if you already knew the mission was a success? Paradox. Don't think about it.
>>214988273Ahhhh yeah right I remember now, I couldn't remember what they said the evil plot was, I just assumed it was to meganuke the past or something
>>214988320That was the risk, that they would grandfather paradox the world out of existence. Things had gotten so bad they had risked it.
>>214987635I liked it and understood it well enough to follow on first viewing.
>>214988310>>214988320>>214988361the narrative device is just symbolic of psychological growth / individuation. as the protagonist grows past the oediapal desire (cucking sator) he becomes the monomythical "master of two worlds" – literally the master of running forwards and backwards through time. His (omni)potency stems from his sacrifice.
>>214987985hi Chris
>>214987635I think if he's actually British-American and has American citizenship it needs to be stripped from him for accepting a title of nobility.
Realistically, would it be possible to have sex with your reversed-entropy-self?
>>214987635one zesty ahh buck
>>214987635+ Good director, great original concept.- Plot execution was a mess.- Debicki underused, Denzel Jr. As protagonist was a joke (Pattinson would have carried it better).- Launched on early COVID, box office fucked.Better than actual Hollywood, but one of Nolan's weakest movies. Want to like it, but cant.
>>214987635>Do you understand 100% of the movie plot?this movie about shooting bullets in the future at niggas in the past therefore if you take a shit in the future the shit go back up your butt in the past
>>214988667That would be terrifying. Cum would slowly materialize in your butthole an hour beforehand, and then he would suddenly suck it out into his dick, and then he would start fucking you.
>>214988904Now THAT'S a movie I would like to watch!
>>214988111There are no future baddiesIt's all a big conCIA/MI5 invented/discovered the time travel and have used it, setting up everything in the filmThe Russian bad guy is fake (but he doesn't know it), there is no danger of apocalypse, it's all theatre - a movie, if you willHence "protagonist", hence Pattinson dressing as NolanBut what we see is only half the movie: we see the half where Pattinson is the director and black man the protagonist; we don't see the other half where black man is the director and Pattinson the protagonist
>>214988192>>what even is the algorithm? How does that shit even work?>>214988310>They sat around, going forward in time, doing nothing, hoping the world wouldn't end, felt the apocalypse bomb go off, then waited another hour or so and said, alright, now let's reverse and go in for the temporal pincer?See >>214989442>>214988655A funnier line was needed here. 4 stars.
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The way the reverse time works is too confusing. But at least it is an original idea
>>214989442>>214989471>ackchyually it's about filmmakingTypical dimwit Nolanfag. Name a cringier fandom.Pro-tip: you can't.
