#63

I’d assumed the audio just hadn’t been levelled correctly in automated cinemas (I saw it on film) but someone else on the thread was complaining about both inaudible dialogue AND excessive volume, so clearly it isn’t that.

I shall be seeing it again. Dunkirk in IMAX might be the last time I lost myself so totally in a film. I understand and to a point agree with every criticism I’ve heard/read, but it comes down to pure enjoyment doesn’t it? “Don’t think about it; feel it”

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#64

Think all the stuff about dialogue being muffled/indistinct is some weird Nolan in-joke - so many weird scenes of exposition where they’re shouting over the top of a powerboat, or R Patz is falling asleep while explaining something, or Michael Caine talking through a mouthful of chips. Just felt every moment of exposition was deliberately obtuse.

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#65

I enjoyed it but it was total bollocks. The last 5 minutes were just a sloppy followed through brainfart. Pattinson says they’re best mates in the future and protag recruited him, what??? Then he goes and shoots the Indian lady in the car and says they’ve both been working for him the whole time? So he recruited himself in the future? What??

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#66

Not really sure what to make of that. Looked great. Built tension amazingly at times but without any release beyond the start of the next, bigger threat. Some brilliant noises on the soundtrack. Was total bollocks.

Clearly aiming to be a new Inception but where the internal logic of that one lets you argue for different interpretations, here it just seemed opaque or stupid.

The central idea of people travelling in opposite directions seems like it should make for great action scenes but, despite impeccable execution, it simply didn’t work for me. Impossible to get any sense of danger or geography in the final battle when all the explosions are going backwards.

Neil must have come back from significantly further in the future to start with so is he going forwards or backwards?

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#67

Oh. Swiss cinemas often show English films with original sound and both French and German subtitles so didn’t have any problems with the dialogue but could tell it would have been an issue.

#68

Still don’t have a clue how the inverted bullets work. Think a lot of the film’s logic probably doesn’t hold up to as much scrutiny as Nolan would hope for.

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#69

Ah good question but they had simply reversed the entropy of the electrons.
Do you see now?

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#70

I liked when Clemence Posey said ‘don’t try to understand’ aka ‘this is clearly nonsense but go with it cause you’ve another 2 hours of stuff that doesn’t make sense to worry about’

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#71

I watched it with my 4 year old nephew and he switched off after half an hour, saying it was pathetically asinine

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#72

Very articulate 4 year old!

#73

I didn’t really

#74
  • The world will end, everyone will die
  • Including my son?
  • Oh actually no he’ll be fine. Everyone else though… will die.
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#75

Saw it this afternoon. Just a big budget version of the backwards-world episode of Red Dwarf isn’t it?


Liked the scene where there were loads of soldiers practicising fighting backwards in the background. Not sure if Nolan’s just having a laugh at this point
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#76

Also weird that people were talking about freeports on here earlier in the week and then it turns up as a major plot point in Tenet

#77

I just got back from watching this. Forced myself to stay in the cinema despite wanting to leave after an hour. No likeable characters, why the fuck would you cast kenneth branagh as a Russian Hammy bad guy? why did the protagonist even like that icy woman? So many questions. I did however enjoy being back in the cinema although I was really conflicted if I could eat my sandwich or not

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#78

What was in the sandwich?

#79

Basic bitch cheese

#80

Just remembered the protagonist asks for an ‘expresso’ I think. Can’t abide by that.

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#81

reckon you could easily replace all michael caine performances from the last 20 years with CGI and nobody would notice the difference

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#82

They should have set the whole film in the opera house imo (or opera houses)