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Despite its obvious convolutions, I'll probably check out Tenet when it hit video. If for no other reason than it's so outside of the horse shit Hollywood's been crankin' out over the past decade.
@OG_Dacs yea we went to see the new mutants. It was a theater where you order food. Had to order it and go get it when it was ready, no more waiters. Could only drink at the bar. I missed the first 15 minutes. And beside they raised the prices so much. We went to a early show. Tickets, two burger and fries was over 75 bucks. Each movie ticket was 15 bucks. I'm done with movie theaters
The thing I love msot about Christopher Nolan is that he hasn't stopped trying new things and a improving upon the formula that has made him so much money. A lesser director would just make inception over and over again and get rich off of it but Nolan is constantly trying to be better. While certain things he tries don't pay off I still respect the effort.
His film, "Interstellar" for me, remains easily amongst my top 10 films of all time. I'm a sci-fi geek when it comes to film and the ponderous, philosophical combined with genuine scientific implications of that film absolutely astonished me after seeing that one! I just love both the "wormhole scene" and then finally the more famous, "Black hole" scene exist as some of the greatest cinematic, mindbogglingly beautiful scenes ever put to film.
Plus his willingness to use practical effects over massive CGI when practical effects are less expensive-the plane crash into the hanger, for example...
Memento is still one of my all time facourites. Inception and Interstellar are also excellent movies. I really enjoyed Tenet. I appreciate a good mind fuck.
It's insane how calm and accepting of the 'Reverse Entropy" The Protagonist is. he is just like 'Okay, I get it, no big deal". really, I would have like a million questions.
@@tf2scoutpunch175 sure, if you're actually curious. For example: In quantum vacuum fluctuations two virtual particles appear spontaneously. Lets say its an electron with spin +1/2, negative charge and regular matter. The partner particle will be a positron, an electrons antiparticle. That Positron will have negative energy, positive charge and -1/2 spin. Their properties cancel each other out. in this case you can assume (according to CPT symmetry) that the positron isn't actually an anti particle with positive charge and -1/2 spin but rather the regular electron traveling back in time. Due to the time reversal the spin goes from +1/2 to -1/2, the properties reverse from negative to positive charge. (negative and positive energy are negligible here because they don't have anything to do with reverse entropy and only serve to keep the energy sum at 0 to not violate thermodynamics) This is only one example. But the fact that positrons, and any anti particle for that matter, is the regular particle with reversed entropy has been well studied. However this only works in theory from a mathematical standpoint. We may never know wether it is actually traveling back in time. However, from what we know it is very well possible. Here is an article for more info: phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Modern_Physics/Supplemental_Modules_(Modern_Physics)/Antimatter If you're curious, quantum fluctuations are a very fascinating phenomenon worth looking up. I gave you the short version. But he appearance of energy out of nothing does not violate thermodynamics. crazy stuff
Okay No lie, me and my family were watching this movie on a DVD and we reached a moment in the movie where an entire scene played over and over, and due to the premise of this movie, we thought that's what was supposed to happen, so each time it repeated we thought it was part of the movie. When we figured out the DVD player was rewinding the scene it pretty much added another hour onto it. So, that was a good way to spend Christmas Eve.
@@HOLLASOUNDS That's not so hard. Once you have the knowledge and one machine in the future, you can simply send the INFORMATION on how to build one back, then have someone else build it in the past. That's pretty much how Andrei built his empire: With some information and gold from the future.
@@dominicpascal5512 That's a paradox, and something I used to think about long before this film come out. I get sent information on how to build a time machine from the future the person got the information on how to build the time machine because they already have the information because the guy built the time machine in the past. Long story short Nobody actually ever designed the time machine it just exists in a loop.
What I like about Nolan is that he trusts the audience to figure things out instead of a typical Hollywood thriller that walks you through step by step what is happening or at least makes the outcome obvious and clichéd. Tenet is indeed a huge technical achievment but is lacking in emotional impact that steals from the films potential. Nolan's next film about Oppenhiemmer will I hope be more balanced...
I dunno, in the first half of the movie I had no idea what was going on... but then all of a sudden, in the second half of the movie.. i had absolutely 100% no idea what was going on
Well you aren't missing much... the more you understand, the more you realize that the concept of inverted objects is kind of unworkable in the real world.
I like Nolan's ambition for making very "complex" and unique movies , but Tenet was another one of their films that I didn't know what the hell was happening!
I honestly think his entire thing is that the movie wont make 100% sense to almost anyone unless you watch it multiple times. Which like....whatever, im fine with it because its different from most movies where the writers act like everyone in the audience is a retarded 5 year old, having an over simplified story and explaining everything that was already implied.
"But it stands out as more of an impressive technical achievment rather than a gripping story that you care about" perfectly sums up my feelings about Nolan films
some of his movies have really engaging plots and they unravel those plots in an interesting and fun way like memento, inception, the prestige and the dark knight (pretty straight forward but the joker plan comes along slowly as the movie goes)
For his worst movies, yeah that's the case. The movies that I think did a good job at balancing intriguing plot and engaging storytelling are Memento, Inception, Interstellar, and the first two Dark Knight movies.
I consider this film to be close to as good as inception which is my favorite Nolan films. Nolan has made some great films and some films that are just ok but he hasn’t made a bad film yet, and that’s an achievement compared to other directors. One of my favorite directors.
@You Didn't See Graphite, Because It's Not There Denis Villeneuve - Basically you are saying I should see the new Dune film... I was not going to, BUT NOW I WILL! All adaptations will be a disappointment, as I read the book straight through in 3 days W/O sleeping... IMHO
This is true. The movie reminded me of Quantum of Solace, though it did have some wry remarks about time travel too. The first half is Quantum of Solace. The second half is better than that.
In Tenet, after the big military battle and the death of Sator, the Protagonist and Neil have a conversation where it dawns on the Protagonist that he is the architect and Neil is his greatest friend. It is clearly meant to be a moving scene, given the tears streaming down the Protagonist's face. However, it left me completely blank and confused. Christopher Nolan must have buried himself in this theoretical headfuck world for too long and lost the perspective of the audience, or perhaps he just wanted to write a more headfucky movie than Primer.
The Prestige was the pinnacle of Nolan for me, it had a great story, lots of layers/twinned elements, it was clever, well acted, challenging to the watcher without becoming impenetrable, a fabulous, cinegenius film.
Realy? A magician that uses instantaneous cloning in the late 19th century and creates a new version of himself in every performance he makes thus having to kill his extra copies, all out of spite because another magician has a trick he cannot reverse-engineer, THAT's Nolan's pinnacle for you? ROFL
@@lm7_gio calling it the pinnacle of Nolan was misguided but the movie was pretty good, describing it in a negative way won't change that. Jonathan Nolan writes some pretty good stuff
@@lm7_gioYou literally do not know what happened in a movie that you're trashing. "The Prestige" act is the movie itself and you are the audience that has been fooled.
I just realised that the thing that makes Drinker so captivating is that he delivers a college-level literature thesis while speaking like your drunk roommate Hank who eats stove-fried beans at eleven at night
@@mikespearwood3914 He's got a game review on his channel from a little over a year ago but I can't remember which one. I almost thought it wasn't him. I found it, resident evil 6 a retrospective.
@@pennedarts A movie script which took the director about 2 years to invent and another 5 years or so to figure out, even though it was stolen from a television episode which aired over 20 years ago. That sounds about right for Hollywood's finest.
Nail on the head. Inception had a simple tale, made unnecessarily complicated, Too many guys were going out of their way to prove their "intelligence" by shouting how much they liked the film. But emperor Nolan often really has no clothes on. It's all vanity. I appreciate what he's trying but the novelty has worn off long ago. I still love Memento. There's something like an Occam's razor to story telling, where maintaining simplicity in it's design often is a virtue. I never feel like having to remember 10 different names or 20 different timelines.
I loved the movie the first time I watched it, second time I saw some cool details I missed but the thing about this movie is that you cant think about the concept too much because even at its core its confusing, but due to it being shot form different peoples perspectives and in different times its becomes impossible to follow or comprehend, even if you start writing the events down in a notebook (trust me). But the overall dynamic of this movie was incredible to me, the ending was perfectly tense and thrilling and the ending ending was awesome with Pattisons revelation and the ending ending ending was cool with that Indian arms dealer being shot.
"prioritizing grandiose intellectual concepts at the expense of crafting an emotionally satisfying narrative with strong and interesting characters" is the most eloquent and comprehensive description of Christopher Nolan I've ever heard
@MajimasMajimemes seen memento? Dark knight? Insomnia? Overrated but still good interstellar? He's a very good and thought provoking film maker, I didn't like tenet from my first viewing, but I didn't get anything either.
Tenet's biggest lesson is that please give Nolan, a Bond movie to direct. That way, he can't over-complicate the plot beyond an acceptable limit and still bring the best of his directorial tools to the game.
Bond movies are embarrassing relics from a bygone era. Tenet was Nolan's big dumb action movie and it was smarter than every other big dumb action movie combined.
@@The_ScapeGoat yeah I keep asking myself to pretend it's a Michael Bay movie, and hey, it's not so bad! I think we're being too harsh on Nolan's take on the action genre, however it tries so hard to convince you it's intellectually captivating film-watching experience, when it's almost impossible to see it that way on the first watch. The set-pieces alone are inventive and original. Definitely a good take on a Mission: Impossible film, essentially what it is.
Actually I want to give Nolan something like a black comedy, where two aging brothers played by Ron Pearlman and Tom Waits have to bury their dad/scatter his ashes. Ones a waster bum, the other the owner of a blues bar on the east coast and hate each other. They have to go on a road trip across america to see all the places he wanted before he died and a way to get them to reconsile. Its about generations and rebels realising time moves without them and they meet a woman Chloe Moretz that is becoming them. But its complex in timelines and a web of set ups over decades that pay off in this trip. Waits, the waster has a studebaker cliche and Pearlman quips "what are you a fucking muppet? I aint driving in that"
This is simply what happens when a director as genius as Nolan is, gets too much control (re Army of the Dead, The Phantom Menace etc). I loved hearing recently that Tarantino cut his favorite scene from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Not only was it his and Leo (DeCaprio)'s favorite scene, he also believed that Julia Butters (the young girl actor from the set) would win an Oscar. Good to see that one of the best directors around is willing to let other people tell him no, and he to an extent will listen. I think Nolan could do with the same.
I'm actually really happy to hear he was a highlight of this movie as far as acting and character goes, especially after I noticed he was in the movie while watching the review.
He was too confident for a black person in Russia I'm sure sure or something like that. If you are trully a minority , you shouldn't bug a majority in any way and try to hide confidence or your behaviour might get very problematic and cause stereotypical hate, like racism. Western modern left really stupid to try to use minorities' validity , all they do is breed stereotypical hate on both sides, divide for power and to conquer non believers. Maybe he just had the gun exposing him, self defence is almost non existent concept ( try to prove it's self defence, most likely you'll get in jail anyways) in any not US country.
@EramSemperRecta reminds me of the Frankenstein Chronicles series on Amazon, where a black actor is cast into a white role, and nobody in Victorian England bats an eye or even acknowledges his race. It's like a weird form of blackface, somehow pretending that racism never existed.
oh man, this review is spot on. Even thinking there was a problem with the theater’s speaker system. I thought mine was going to shake apart and I even told management after that it was so loud I couldn’t understand the dialogue. Turns out, it was just Nolan.
I went into this movie really wanting to enjoy it. I'm not one of those people that thinks that everything Nolan touches turns to gold, but I have very much enjoyed some of his past movies, such as Memento, The Prestige, Inception, and even Interstellar (even though I acknowledge that it has some story flaws). The thing is, each one of those films has a central character that I came to care about. I cared about the motivations for the characters that Guy Pearce, Hugh Jackman, Leonardo Dicaprio, and Matthew McConaughey played in those films. In this film, it felt to me that the characters are essentially stand-ins for concepts, even more so than in some of Nolan past films, and ultimately I ended up feeling kind of lukewarm about this film when it was over. There were definitely some amazing moments, and I wouldn't say that I completely disliked it, but I walked away feeling that it is unlikely that I'll have the burning desire to watch it again, despite the fact that repeat viewings would probably be interesting on an intellectual level. Also, I agree with this review in that the sound mixing is just incredibly bad for a big-budget film. There were indeed moments where I had trouble understanding what was being said, and I work on producing music/audio on regular basis so, I use my ears critically often and yet, there were times when the dialogue in this film was almost inaudible to me.
@@saftpackerl because dafoe character is more interesting, I mean hes basically a less crazy joker with an obsession with the light. Pattinson make a god damn good performance especially the accent.
Nolan makes movies that sometimes work like a miracle and other times they simply don't. One thing you can credit him though is that he never produces unimaginative boring crap. In a day and age when movies tend to be safe, bland and unchallenging, Nolan is a breath of desperately needed fresh air. Whether his new movies succeed in their goal or not, they are something to look forward to and that today is a big win.
While I agree that it's nice that he likes to think outside the box, I don't think he does it from a storytelling standpoint. He has a visual or conceptual "outside the box" idea, and then shoehorns a story into it. It doesn't work for me.
Nolan's habit of making his movies as over-complicated as possible finally bit him in the ass with Tenet but I get what you are saying, he should have made this movie like he made Inception, that one is pretty easy to understand but this one is so confusing.
It made sense in Interstellar where the dialogue barely mattered yet the music drove the emotions of many scenes. In Tenet it serves no purpose and only damages the film.
"For me, the standout was Robert Pattinson, who manages to switch easily between quirky, eccentric scientist, and kick ass, no nonsense spy with a bit of suave British charm thrown in for good measure. He always gives the impression that he knows more than he's letting on, and he's pretty fun to watch." -- ya got that right. He is the plot, really, and worth watching the movie for. He never disappoints.
the reason why he of all characters seems the most confident and in control is because.... he is. Some people don't agree with the whole Neil is just older Max theory, but if you follow it, it makes logical sense that he would be doing the most time travel through inverting himself, and as such, is more knowledgeable of all events in the movie than every other character. In essence, it would make him the true protagonist as the current protagonist set him on a path to help him for just this reason. After writing this comment, I realize now that talking about this movie results in a lot of circular logic that more or less just says "it happened because it happened" but in a way, thats kind of the movie's charm.
@@isaackmojica8302 yep, thought that too at the first watch. Seriously, give the movie another go, the pacing seems MUCH more forgiving the second time
@@purplespark8 actually, it was difficult. Not just the concept of reverse entropy on paper, which in itself is beyond the simple "its just goes in reverse" definition, but the fact that when shooting scenes with reversed time the filmmakers had to stage two moving sections of one scene that would have to go into the opposite direction of each other. It's not just reversing the tape back. People and props had to move backwards in real time.
Brad Jones had a pretty quotable review of this movie. "Imagine you're watching The Matrix, and the opening scene is the ledge scene, then 5 minutes in we have the pill scene, 15 minutes in is the lobby shootout, then an hour in we've skipped to The Matrix Reloaded and are watching the highway chase." Also "maybe it makes sense, maybe it doesn't. To hell if I know, don't ask me, I only saw the movie."
it is like watching the end of evangelion, i mean jesus christ, why do people like to confuse themselves just to pretend they're smart, movies shouldn't be unnecessarily convoluted
@@khalidhatim7035 No no no, don't get made at other people. You and i both know the problem, the only difference being i'm willing to admit it. We're too dumb for Tenet. That's perfectly fine btw.
You know Tenet made me think a lot about The Matrix...If The Matrix hadn’t so expertly and clearly defined the rules of it’s world. That to me is the biggest weakness of Tenet. Also, remember how Tenet said that when you invert you have to provide your own oxygen and yet Kat had no oxygen mask when she went back on the boat. Things like that take me out of the film.
Gotta say, I initially avoided TENET almost entirely because of Robert Pattinson and ultimately went in dreading it merely because he was in it. Well. Oil. Beef. Hooked. If the handsome bastard didn’t go right ahead and s almost single handedly carry everyone else on his broad shoulders with his performance and win over my cold dead heart!
Your assessment of movies seems to generally match my opinion, and Tenet seems another match. I just watched this last night with my wife, and my wife had tuned out by the end of the movie, and I kept at it, hoping to be drawn in by some event that eventually sewed everything together. This didn't seem to occur, at least not to my level of intellect, I guess. ;) It was fun to look at, interesting in spots, but I found myself watching something that just didn't gel and make me invest my interest and emotion into it. A handful of scenes were quite cool visually, but I never really bought into the reverse time and how it was being integrated into the story. And that red/blue soldiers battle at the end just seemed like a bunch of guys running around shooting things you never actually saw shooting back. Felt like some kind of 'marvel cgi mess' where 1000s of characters who meant nothing were fighting battles that didn't matter.
Tenet is a prime example of how, no matter how smart and talented you are, no matter how much effort and skill you put into the story and execution, there is no way for time travel to make logical sense. There will always be contradictions, paradoxes, and things you just have to hand-wave away.
I've seen a lot of time travelling stories told well. This was a piece of shit because Nolan couldn't be bothered to explain anything well or get his audience to emotionally invest it anything
Time Travel is and always will be a concept that should be left to books, they have the time and ability to actually try to explain a theory. Not even a 3 hour movie can get the world building down, and if it tried there'd be no story. Basically, if a movie is gonna play with time travel, just deduct a point or two from its score and move on. It's never going to make sense.
I'm might give it another shot on home release if there is subtitles because I feel like I missed half of the movie with the sound so muffled. But I doubt it will make the characters or story any more interesting.
W-Tek He’s a good actor though, and would be a good choice. I’m going to guess you don’t actually have a reason for disliking him other than “twilight bad.”
"He's been responsible for some excellent movies in his career as well as The Dark Knight Rises". Ouch. But even that movie is better than 90% Hollywood movies in the past 10 years though.
What's worse is She looked just like my late grandmother! When she was in her twenties, anyways... At probably 5' 11" my grandmother was taller then average... She passed away in 1987... But I made the mistake of looking through a box of old pictures, and found nudes! My grandparents were artists... Anyways... Elizabeth Debicki made Poor John David Washington look short, even though he's a football player! IMHO
@@arnold3768 Almost exactly 2 meters. I'm not American but it honestly isn't hard to just google it. It really only gets annoying in something like a recipe where it would pretty tedious to convert dozens of measurements to metric.
To me, this movie's an example of when one has more plot than story. It has a great high-concept plot that moves us through these spectacular set pieces, but very little in actual story that would've been important to understand the value of certain things beyond plot devices or people beyond their roles and tasks. Another thing about the film that really bugs me is that the movie clearly wants to be bloodier than it actually is, but they don't want to risk the PG-13 rating, so we get a lot of bloodless gunshots, stabbings, etc. Just pulls me out of the movie a bit more.
Brilliant, balanced analysis of this film. When I came out the Cinema I thought some of the same things (grandiose and pretentious narrative structure and visual themes at the expense of the basics of what makes a film memorable) but the sheer effort put into this film just makes me want to watch it again and again.
"Time travel. Since my first day on the job as a Starfleet captain I swore I'd never let myself get caught in one of these godforsaken paradoxes - the future is the past, the past is the future, it all gives me a headache." -Captain Janeway
The scene that made me laugh was when they were explaining the world would end and everyone would disappear then Kat asks: “including my son?” Lmao really?
Holly: They're all dead. Everybody's dead, Dave. Lister: Peterson isn't, is he? Holly: Everybody's dead, Dave! Lister: Not Chen! Holly: Gordon Bennett! Yes, Chen. Everyone. Everybody's dead, Dave! Lister: Rimmer? Holly: He's dead, Dave. Everybody is dead. Everybody is dead, Dave. Lister: Wait. Are you trying to tell me everybody's dead? Holly: Should've never let him out in the first place...
Also, it doesn't stop her from going rogue right at the end which would end the world INCLUDING HER SON. What a load of shite this movie was, it turned me off CN's previous work.
Technically still Inception lol. The whole cast is based off a production. Most notably, Cobb is the “director” of the whole operation, and who plays Cobb?
@@matthewcastillo310 Cobb even dresses like Nolan. The most interesting thing is in Inception, Cobb is asked to insert a suggestion in to Cillian Murphy's mind. Do you recall the controversy around Sandy Hook appearing in the 2nd Batman movie? Not long after, a school shooting took place in a place called, wait for it, Sandy Hook. I found it odd and I am not one to automatically believe every conspiracy hypothesis I hear. There were many interenet voices suggesting Sandy Hook appearing in one of the most lucrative movies ever was no coinsidence. To then have a similar scenario turn up in Nolan's next film was very curious indeed.
@@abhinavannam9045 Actually even if you make sense of inversion while watching it first time, you should watch it second time. Movie gives you something extra second time, especially the connection between Protagonist and Pattinson's character becomes completely different and interesting.
So glad you brought up the sound mixing for the dialogue...honestly thought I was going deaf or something...I've never had to turn on subtitles for an english spoken film before
Imagine a Christopher Nolan film where the main characters travel out into space where time moves a lot slower than on Earth and then they try to perform inception on somebody whilst being inverted.
Nolan Films (Increasingly): Cold, unengaging characters mumbling meaningfully, while a single clever premise is repeated ad nauseum with increasingly bombastic music and frenzied action... to disguise the cold unengaging characters at the centre of it all
This review is absolutely perfect. I left the theater thinking Nolan is basically Kojima and needs someone to reign him in. So much spectacle and high concept sci-fi, but not emotion. I feel nothing for any of the characters.
And this is the problem with Nolan in general.His movies are mostly plot/concept driven and not so character driven,or even a balanced combination of both.His best character so far is Ledger's Joker and,well,he's crearly an antagonist,elevated by the latter's great performance.
@@reneelasswell3734 Totally agree. The only connection I felt to the characters was just the baseline "hey these are the good guys, I'd rather not see them die, I suppose"
@@reneelasswell3734 You weren't supposed to get attached to the characters, their names are barely mentioned. You missed the point of the film entirely.
So spot on about the sound balance! It was hard. I like the music but it was hard to hear parts, unless that was the intention. And it was contrived I think for that purpose. I found it hard, but I liked it. And three times watching it I get more out of it. The Protagonist was a soldier in something that was instructed by no one and for nothing much I felt/heard/saw... and I liked Tallin and the Linnahaal. You're last comment was accurate. Good to have these movies than not, but the better ones will tighten up on the ideas more with a robust script.
IMO tenet is better to watch as a young teen or kid because as a kid you have to assume you won't always understand everything in movies so you just go with the flow and figure out whatever you can, and in this case might make tenet more enjoyable and entertaining to watch.
No hes not. Hes not underrated. The world knows hes awesome and a superb performer. That knowledge is just suppressed by the social adjendas and PC culture, antifa, nazi ass, adjenda pushing jobless pieces of shit of today who have forced an opinion that if your white, make great quality films, & are talented then your nothing but the oppressor of those who can't tie thier shoes or find their way home without a damn smart phone. Who cares about how talented one person is. Its all about how mediocre everyone else is. They deserve Oscar's just for existing. Just ask them. They'll flat out tell you they do.
Yes, this film is built around one central concept, and everything else is secondary and unimportant, including characters. It's very technical, cold, and dispassionate. Not by mistake - I think it was intentionally made to be this way, and I absolutely love it the way it is.
One of the biggest issues with Nolan is that he creates these visually incredible films with cool effects and concepts, but sometimes forgets to put likable, fleshed out characters into the plot.
Totally agree which is why I still think Insomnia is one of his best movies, there are no big, clever plot devices, concepts or macguffins, just a great psychological study of two broken characters in an extreme environment - sometimes less is more!
I've been a huge fan since Good Time, I think hes made the exact right moves since twilight to become a well respected actor. I'm surprised he took Batman though, I would think he would be leery of these tent pole franchise pictures. High risk, high reward I guess. I'm worried the Nolan films are going to be the template, the trailer seems very reminiscent of those films. I'd like to see some risks taken. I hated that the second two films focused so much on him retiring - my head canon Batman is kind of nuts, and obsessed, would never consider stopping
@@keithmichael112 That's the Batman in most fan's headcanon. There are certain superheroes who never retire, never truly get a Hollywood happy ending. It just goes against the character too much. As such It's really annoying when writers/producers/directors don't realize this and try to force some BS ending to the character. Batman is one and Captain America is another. For Cap his sense of duty will always compel him to be a hero, plus he's a man out of time, whoever he may have wanted to be and the life he may have once thought of having all vanished when he fell into the sea. As for Batman well Bruce Wayne is the costume Batman wears in the daytime, there's no person there to ever actually have a normal life so any notion of him not being Batman is absurd.
@@thefilthyrhombus3856 it's kind of a catch 22, a reasonable person would consider that they should stop dressing like a bat and fighting crime, maybe enjoy some nice french restaurants, but they also wouldn't have started in the first place.
The lead actor, Denzel Washington's son, was wooden and drove a lot of the disinterest for me, Robert Pattinson was excellent. The sound balance had me reaching for the off switch on numerous occasions and the ending made me wonder why I had resisted. Time travel needs to be handled correctly and I'm not sure it ever has been. It always raises the paradox questions like "if you travel back in time to prevent X then the reason for you travelling in the first place ceases to exist, so you don't, so X happens which makes you travel back in time...... and the parallel universe explanation is bullshit too, if you're changing the events in a parallel universe then really, what's the point?. What I did find good conceptually was the incorporation of the well known physics principle that it is the flow of entropy that causes and maintains the arrow of time.
@@joaquimpereira4995 Whatt about that scene where the protagonist in the freeport is trying to prevent himself from taking off the mask? They were fighting, which is a form of touching. So do you only get annihilated if you know its yourself you touched? Theres a lot of unanswered rules.
I love a good mind-fuck movie, and Nolan is the master. To this day I still think his best work is The Prestige. It's the Nolan film I watch the most. Even though you got clues to the plot throughout the movie, it still felt surprising and satisfying when it was revealed.
Agreed... and in this I was just waiting for 'Protagonist' to be told what the audience already knew from the beginning. I think the main issue with the attempted twist, was the lack of misdirection. If they had revealed a new character to be the attacker in the freeport, or the leader of the 'timecops' - it would have felt unearned and frustrating. But leaving no other options just left the audience waiting... Waiting sucks.
This movie felt like a mind fuck at the beginning, but as soon as I started noticing the similarities to Primer (which I've seen probably a dozen times to sort it all out) I could pay attention to the few things that were different and it was way easier to make sense of. Aside from the phone conversations between forward and inverse, fuck that part.
@@mahbubulhaque735 yeah, the way they travel backwards is different, but the mechanism of the time travel is similar, can only go back as far as a fixed point as you need to set time in the correct orientation. But also the multiple versions of yourself already on their pre-destined routes. The more I think about the movie though, the more the flaws there really bother me for a guy that claimed to have thought it out for years.
@@JayFlowie I don't think "You can go far as a certain point" is quite right. In Primer you have to be in the box for 6 hours to travel back. Thus you make a new version of yourself. But, that's how every time travel movie works. Prisoners of Azkaban also did that before Primer (Though it's a fantasy). In Tenet you don't have to be in the turnstile to travel back. Turnstile is something like a time inversion door. When you enter the turnstile you only create an inverted version of yourself. Like Primer you can't jump to a certain moment. You have to go in the real time to be in that moment. BTW, can you tell me the problems you found in the movie? Maybe, I have the answer. I am not a Science expert. I've watched it like 6 times and I found some interesting facts which I can share. I also think Tenet is not perfect. But, it's imperfection somehow made it a perfect film. At least, for me.
Ah, so the sound editing is like every Christopher Nolan film since Inception character one: 'psss pss psst psst psst' character two: 'fvvt tvvf fftv vvt pvv' *EXPLOSION* ; *LOUDER EXPLOSION*
Good in cinemas but when I'm watching it on the TV, I'm constantly adjusting the volume. Interstellar's my favorite but God damn just give my volume-changing thumbs a rest.
In a twist no one saw coming, Chris Nolan *_Shyamalaned_* himself. He's gone a little too far up his own arse and he's bought in a little too much in to what people have said and think about him over the years it's starting to show.
Tenet was Nolan out Nolaning himself. It was sort of a self-parody. It was a wink at the audience and then turning the amp up to 11. And the sound was bad on purpose, because it doesn't matter what they were saying. That's the point. Who cares what his name is, he's "generic Nolan protagonist #10." As they tell you at the beginning (where you can hear), and used extensively in the promotional campaigns "Don't try to understand it, feel it." It's just a fun action movie, with fun characters doing Nolanesque movie stuff.
No question about. It has a compelling story. It looks great, it doesn't have Hans Zimmer re hashing the same handful of tunes over and over. It has a sub text about the magic of the movies versus the hard graft that goes into making them and it has the mystery surrounding the truthfulness of the magicians' respective diaries to one another. Inception is good fun, but every other film you can keep.
"Tenet acts smart and looks nice, but you never really feel invested in what's going on". Agree 100%. The biggest thrill of watch this movie was reaffirming how much I love eating shitty theatre popcorn in the dark.
So glad you mentioned the sound editing. I thought I just had a bad stream as I struggled to hear much of what was being said... I'm a movie that you really need to hear what the heck is going on. What a strange decision.
Part of me thinks that this film's concept would be perfect for a video game. Heck, I want to see what happens if Nolan and Kojima worked on a project together.
The concept is that the movie is a palindrome like the title. Once you see that it starts burning a slightly better movie. Still the worst of Nolan from a narrative stand point with interstellar.
