Just back from seeing it. It was …alright? The action scenes were good in a dumb blockbuster sort of way. The plot may have been overly dense or overly stupid - It was hard to tell when the dialogue was buried beneath white noise or the incredibly loud score during key scenes. There was some right cheeseballs lines in the quieter scenes though. Fair clipped along, so I didn’t feel the running time.
Might watch an episode of The Muppet Show now.
3 Likes
Nolan’s next project should be reviving the Muppets’ popularity clearly
Two and a bit hours of total fucking nonsense.
Brilliant. Loved it, 8/10
11 Likes
I think it was the best of recent Nolan, probably since Inception for me? Same old obfuscation and obsession with circularity so if that annoys you I don’t know why you’re still bothering with him at all. Does make me chuckle how desperate he is to get art into his films and can only manage people being thrown into a few paintings. How much does he have to compromise d’you reckon? I liked the lead. Uncharacteristically charming and witty for one of his films. And he knew absolutely everything - “do you know about such and such?” “the (detailed description of some obtuse or clandestine thing)? yeah sure.” I found it quite reassuring, but I guess it demonstrates the oddness of his films, where everything just glides along like clockwork. Although he did become less eloquent and cool as the film went on, which is admirable. The last bit was fun and all but the blue team/red team thing reminded me of begrudging employees going on a mandatory paintballing outing at the weekend. And really, why was it that the good guys could get to the past first all the time then? The baddies just seemed to stop bothering with all that shite at a certain point.
Really really looking forward to this, love watching his films on the big screen.
As @almal100 said, it is a very very silly film. Can’t say I didn’t enjoy myself the whole time, and it never dragged. A few thoughts:
-
John David Washington is such a star, just boundless charisma. Look forward to his roles in the future. Didn’t enjoy Pattinson as much as usual, accent seemed all over the place too. Branagh is absolutely preposterous.
-
Another exceptionally male heavy Nolan film. Is there any reason Debicki couldn’t have played the Pattinson role? And an age appropriate actress could play Branagh’s wife? Not that I can think of.
-
This is his worst yet for unclear dialogue - and so much of the dialogue that’s missed is exposition. It’s not just gas masks, but loads of shouting and mumbling too. Reckon a good third of this is completely inaudible.
-
First hour when you’re just whipping along on a easy to follow spy adventure is really good fun, but then the plot becomes needlessly complex. About half of the complexity could be cut out with no loss to the film. I didn’t have a fucking clue what was happening in the final battle. That said I did let myself got washed up in the nonsense and just not think about it too much.
-
Regardless of plot and writing thoughts, he is still an absolute master of action and spectacle. Pace didn’t let up either.
-
Has a Nolan original ever set up a sequel as much as this has? Loads of dangling threads. The Neil stuff instantly made me think of Doctor Who and River Song.
-
Really not sure why there was so much fuss made about people avoiding spoilers. There’s no particularly mind blowing reveals or anything.
5 Likes
Aaron Taylor-Johnson once again completely unrecognisable
2 Likes
A really bad part of this film is when Michael Caine appears and his character is also called Sir Michael.
5 Likes
To be honest, I think Nolan doesn’t think he can write women very well so he just doesn’t bother much. Also rich wankers generally do have much younger wives so that aspect at least seemed realistic, even allowing for Hollywood’s age gap issues.
3 Likes
I thought the final battle was great. The bit where it got to 5 minutes and everything flipped was brilliant
He loves people chatting behind masks, doesn’t he? This, Bane, Hardy in Dunkirk, he must have a ball going to the shops at the moment
5 Likes
I didn’t realise this happened at all. Was really hard to place everyone physically in the space and understand how one team’s action were effecting the others.
5 Likes
Seen it twice now. Doesn’t get any better the second time.
3 Likes
Try a subtitled showing for your third time?
Honestly was tempted today. Some bits I listened extra hard and still no idea. The final conversation between Washington and Brannagh is absurd.
Really enjoyed it. Didn’t have any problems with the sound or casting. He’s very good at what he does, shame he doesn’t take more cues from the cinema geniuses of this forum.
1 Like
Did you notice who was backwards running on the other side of the fence after the car chase when they go in the chamber? Was it one of the goons, or a main character? It’s been bugging me since I saw it! They weren’t going the same direction as everyone else.
Prisoner of Azkaban did it better.
It’s The Night Manager on rewind.
Utter cobblers.
3 Likes
Po faced nonsense. Was so bored but also quite lol at how bad some of it is.
4 Likes