• Odusei@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    I mean that they went digital early, whereas Nolan wanted a longer theatrical run (during a pandemic). Dude threw a big hissyfit about it, then said he’d never work with WB again.

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      1 year ago

      Plus it was a big yawner. I’ve never been so bored watching an action scene. It was like watching someone rewind a taped episode of DBZ

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        1 year ago

        I love Nolan movies, but he really needs to stop trying to put action scenes in them. He clearly doesn’t know how to film people fighting each other whatsoever.

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          Tenet genuinely made me feel low IQ from being so confused by that car chase…that…swat team fight… But then I realized it wasn’t my fault I didn’t know what was happening or even WHY the action should be cool, it was the movies!

          I loved the idea of tenet on paper, but boy. Too long, too confusing, not enough to like. How did he get such a big ego about his movies anyways?

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            I mean, I think Inception really showed that he’s thought too highly of himself for quite a while. That movie is an incredibly shallow and uninteresting movie made out to be something clever. It’s mostly just eye candy. I never really saw why people loved it so much.

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              That’s a good point, that movie has a lot of nonsense too, just in a little different package. Tbh, the plot entirely falls apart for me unless I forgive the entire movie for pretending that “dreams” are anything other than nonsense neuron noise. But then it takes itself super seriously, and piles on a bunch of Hallmark card emotions (my wife!!).

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                We had people over when that came out on DVD. No one had seen it yet so we were all excited. My buddy and I couldn’t stop laughing at it the entire time though.

                Eventually I watched it again and liked it. But it definitely falls apart in places.

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            1 year ago

            I completely checked out when that blue vs red swat “battle” happened. It so incredibly bad.

            Ive sat through Primer 20 times to understand it all because it’s a movie that actually has complicated structure in it. You can tell right away Tenet is just set pieces and nothing more.

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                1 year ago

                Pi is a great movie. But it doesn’t have anything in relation to Primer.

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                  I wasn’t relating it to primer. I was citing another thinker movie with fantastic world building and structure.

                  Edit: you know. Like Nolan wishes he could pull off without it coming off as wishy washy. The same reason you brought up Primer in the first place.