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Not a surprise to me personally, as every film by him that I have seen has been meh.
And he messed up the film adaptation of The Prestige, a book by one of my favourite authors, which I’ve never really forgiven him for. But this thread is for people who like and appreciate his work so I’ll stop there
Shame, never read the book but I loved The Prestige.
Pretty brutal review!
The story of the two 19th century magicians (with its twist) is just the backstory in the novel; the framing story is set in the modern world, and it’s this modern story which contains the true shocks and the true horror. I was hoping Nolan would do the whole story justice so I was a bit disappointed that he actually only filmed the backstory. Ah well.
Sounds like a lot was lost in translation from book to screen, then. Sounds like quite the interesting premise, I'll have to check it out sometime.
Inception and Interstellar scored 74. Dunkirk 94, Rises 78 and TDK 84.
“Easy to admire, hard to love”. From THR review.
It’s gonna be a pretty divisive film.
Ouch. XD
Empire: “Nolan has made his own Bond film here, borrowing everything he likes about it, binning everything he doesn’t, then Nolaning it all up.”.
Excerpts from this good review in Empire:
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/tenet/
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This is a film engineered for dissection and deconstruction. Just as Inception was, this is an M.C. Escher painting, but folded, origami-like, and with holes poked into it for its own denizens to fall through.
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And ultimately, for all of that, Tenet once again proves Nolan’s undying commitment to big-screen thrills and spills. There’s a lot riding on this film, to resurrect cinema, to wrench people away from their televisions, facemasks and all. It may well do the trick: if you’re after a big old explosive Nolan braingasm, that is exactly what you’re going to get, shot on old-fashioned film too (as the end credits proudly state). By the time it’s done, you might not know what the hell’s gone on, but it is exciting nevertheless. It is ferociously entertaining.
and "spoiler free" podcast link in this one:
I'm done posting. I look forward to your personal reviews later. I do hope you see it to make up your own minds and I hope most of you find it a very enjoyable, thrilling movie.
I really don’t like all this “yeah you’re not gonna understand what’s goin on but hey, it’s visually cool and it is made to let you forget about your tv” narrative. It’s not Robert Bresson or Andrei Tarkovskij, it’s a 225 $ millions spy-action blockbuster we are talking about here.
If things are too much confused it’s Nolan’s fault. Anyway I’m even more curious now.
His stuff always leaves me cold, I must admit. It's good, I watch it, I follow it, I don't get bored, but I never love it, if you know what I mean?
I watched Inception for only the first time since the cinema this week, and I was watching the snow stuff, trying to imagine him doing a Bond movie, and I think I'd be massively sad if he did. The action is fine, but I didn't care about it- no emotional response generated. I think he'd make a really cold, unfunny, unemotional Bond movie, even though it would be technically excellent and be full of brilliant ideas. But I watch Bond because it makes you love it. A blockbuster should do more than just make you nod and scratch your chin.
I dunno, I'm not for a moment saying anyone is wrong to think he's great and really enjoy his stuff- he's clearly a massive talent and bursting with ideas and invention, it just doesn't work for me.
I've never seen a 'twist' so signposted as in that movie: there were a bunch of young kids chatting all the way through it when I saw it and I actually heard them, even though they weren't paying attention, guess what it was before the reveal. Maybe it was supposed to be obvious, I don't know, but my overriding memory of it is of one character (Caine?) giving another a written note to meet him in a theatre and the note said 'The Adelphi, London'. Both characters were in London at the time 8-|
Maybe my memory cheats, I don't know, but my impression was of a very stupid film pretending to be a clever one.
The big twist at the end of the movie comes about halfway through the original novel, and it’s not really built up into a big thing there anyway.
So the novel catches you out. While you’re reading, you work out the twist yourself quite early on and you think ‘I’ve worked the novel out’ but then the twist is revealed and you think ‘hang on, I’ve still got half the book to go, what’s going to happen next, is there something I’ve missed?’ and more importantly you start thinking ‘what is going to happen in the modern day sections?’
However I will say that few things are as divisive as a novel. Novels that some people love, others hate. I think Christopher Priest’s novel is great but I do know people who have read it and prefer the film anyway :))
Sounds like the twist in the novel is a bit like the whodunnit in Knives Out. Have you seen it? It seems like the mystery is solved about twenty mins into the movie, but then it goes in another direction- that's actually a film that manages to surprise, in a good way.
Not yet but it’s on my list of films to watch, the people I know who have seen it all recommend it
Even if the 'funny' lines the reviews keep posting don't exactly sound hilarious. Apparently the Protagonist gets intimately frisked at an airport and says something like 'I'd usually ask you to buy me a drink first'. Ho-ho. Makes you yearn for Roger's "This should shake them off!" whilst being driven down a flight of steps.
I quite enjoyed Knives Out but feel like one of the only ones who didn't think it was a "masterpiece" like I constantly see it praised as.
Yeah I wouldn't call it a masterpiece; it's just a really fun, well put-together Friday night film.
Well none of us have been able to have many dates recently, no ;)
A very well-written script with some fantastic and funny performances and production design, absolutely. Masterpiece though? Probably not.
Affirmative :)