#42

There was a lot more sunscreen in this film then I expected. Like it’s crazy how much of the finale is sunscreen related.

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#43

Enjoyed this utter, utter nonsense. Weird how such an expensive film had such bad editing, sound mixing and logic.

If I ever hear the phrase ‘temporal pinsir movement’ again it’ll be too soon.

Don’t remember Kenneth Brannagh and Aaron Taylor Johnson in any of the advertisement, I don’t think they were distracting the same way Matt Damon was in Interstellar.

The poorly written and under-represented female characters in his films will suit the Bond film he seems to want to make.

#45

Must have missed the later trailers.
Kick Ass plays the leader of the soldiers that appear half way through.
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#46

It’s made a good box office start (with the USA and China release this weekend) though I wonder what the word of mouth will be for a film this convoluted (not to mention the constantly changing pandemic situation in terms of what’s open etc). On the other hand if Wonder Woman and Black Widow wind up moving out of the year it’ll have no competition for the rest of the year so might be able to tick along regardless. Also all the Nolan fanatics might go and see it repeatedly.

#48

The name’s Martin. Chris Martin

#49

Saw it and it annoyed me.
Why can Nolan not understand that you need to be able to understand dialogue? That should be a difficult thing for a director to understand.

Was utter guff and was so loud it hurt my ears.

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#50

Accurate

#51

Despite being a big Nolan fan my expectations were pretty low for this. No idea it would be this bad though, fucking hell.

Absolute garbage nonsense. It may improve for me with a second (or third) view but I could not give less than two fucks about anyone or anything that happened in that film at all so I’m unlikely to bother.
Well, maybe in a couple of years when it’s on Netflix and if I’m really bored.

Anything anyone said was completely garbled by masks, mumbled if not wearing a mask or just incomprehensible due to ridiculous BWAMage. The dialogue I could decipher was fucking shit anyway though so maybe not a great loss.

The action scenes had very little spatial awareness. Plus I didn’t care who was doing what to who or why or when so… shrug.
Also, why did whatever-his-name-was try to shoot past-himself in the head three times during the fight with past-himself? In the time-airlock bit in Oslo airport? Weird.

Actually the one action scene I did like was in the restaurant kitchen near the beginning. That was pretty cool.

Washington was decent, Debicki was good, Pattinson was good, Branagh was completely farcical.

It looked pretty in places. Some of the sounds were quite nice occasionally I guess.
Some of the music was alright - ooo but sometimes they played it backwards though. Do you see? It was played backwards sometimes. Like some of the characters in the film were going backwards sometimes. Ooo.

5\ FFO KCUF TENET FUCK OFF /5

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#52

Watched this tonight.

Good to be back in the cinema. Film was an absolute mess

#54

Why was Kick Ass trying to be Jason statham

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#55

Despite my mixed feelings about the film I hope it still makes shitloads of money because if it doesn’t it’s just hastening a world where all we get at the cinema is franchise product. And Nolan should get back to writing films with his brother.

#56

I spent the entire film thinking it was Jay from The Inbetweeners.

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#57

I did that too! Thought he’d got fat and old.

#58

Hench and mature*

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#60

Saw this in 70mm earlier this week. Can’t imagine seeing it on a smaller screen and enjoying it as much as I did - VFX were truly incredible, to the extent that I didn’t notice them, I just bought absolutely everything that was happening onscreen. Think the last film to do that was probably Inception. Basically (visually, at least) the opposite of an MCU film where every 10 minutes you’re dropped unceremoniously into the uncanny valley.

Comes to pieces the second you start to question any of it, but I didn’t do that while I was watching the film which is all I ask for really. Nolan is very good at this imo. I also appreciate a time travel film that understands its central premise is nonsense and outright tells the audience that, so “Don’t think about it, feel it” is second only to Jeff Daniels’ line in Looper “this time time travel crap just fries your brain”.

He’s fucking brilliant in Tenet, arguably the best thing about it. But if you don’t like his chirpy-posh-boy thing (is that his thing? I don’t think I’ve seen a Robert Pattinson film before) then I can see how it could grate.

It was both, and that’s the fundamental problem with it, if you’re looking for one. Thinks it’s very clever, yet patronises the audience to a remarkable degree (given Nolan’s previous tendency towards assuming the audience is keeping up). Didn’t bother me unduly but I can totally understand the people who hated it on this basis.

Feels like I’m the only person who didn’t have this problem. Bar a few lines of dialogue that were indecipherable under gas masks in the very first scene, I’m sure I could hear it all. But I saw it at Amsterdam’s equivalent of the BFI so it was LOUD. My friend has a theory that smaller cinemas mute the sound a little (possibly even compress it?) and that’s the reason so many people have been having difficulties.

Basically where I’m at.

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#61

This may or may not be a sign of a good film but my take is the complete opposite to yours. Loved Pattinson (don’t think I’ve ever seen him in anything before, certainly nothing in the last 10 years) but thought JDW was a charisma vacuum. He was great in BlackKklansman so I read it as a deliberate choice to play the character as ‘cold’ (which ties into simply calling him The Protagonist, on the nose though that might be) vs Pattinson’s warmth. If i were really pretentious I could draw a parallel between this and the inverse-explosion scene, but I won’t.

The physicality he brings is really something, though. Felt every single punch of that corridor fight.

TIL Aaron Taylor-Johnson is

  1. English
  2. in Tenet

Think this is the first time since Kick-Ass that I’ve seen him be remotely likeable/charismatic.

#62

I also did not have this problem. Not sure why everyone else did.

Seen it twice now anyway, first time at the Everyman (decadent, comfy) second time in 4DX (pointless, fun), and really like it. Not going to try to preach to anyone that they should like it too, but I really don’t understand the hate. Each to their own I guess.

Thought it was extremely well done, score was brilliant, JDW fantastic again.

#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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