Action-Adventure TENET

[MessenjahMatt]

This is a 'soon as it's over I want to watch it again' type movie for me. I love it more and more every time, and can't wait to get the 4K Blu.

I'm manifesting a sequel where Denzel plays an older version of the Protagonist. With Mads Mikkelsen as the bad guy, Rebecca Ferguson as a Tenet agent, and some inversion scenes in the snow. I put it all into a poster just to get it out of my head... I wouldn't consider it spoilery, but just to be safe concerning certain characters/objects in it...

Spoiler

Apologies for the hacky 2 replacing an E thing, ha.

 

[TheVileOne]

I'm not sure you're getting my point. I'm saying that the Cold War isn't just a relic of the 80s anymore. It's happening now. As evidenced by the fact that they tried to destroy our democracy from within in the most brazen and obvious way possible. So allusions to Cold War-era don't feel so trite to me anymore, especially in a big, larger than life action movie that is clear meant as an homage to classic Bond movies.

The Sator character is a throwback to mustache twirling Bond villains of old more than anything. And his "if I'm going down, I'm taking everyone with me" motivation just feels oddly resonant given current circumstances. Was just something that occurred to me as I was thinking back on him.

Still a badly written, badly performed character by Kenneth Branagh. With a bad Russian accent.

 

[shauner111]

Badly performed? No.

 

[BatLobster]

Still a badly written, badly performed character by Kenneth Branagh. With a bad Russian accent.

 

[Blade Hoarder]

I'm not sure you're getting my point. I'm saying that the Cold War isn't just a relic of the 80s anymore. It's happening now. As evidenced by the fact that they tried to destroy our democracy from within in the most brazen and obvious way possible. So allusions to Cold War-era don't feel so trite to me anymore, especially in a big, larger than life action movie that is clear meant as an homage to classic Bond movies.

The Sator character is a throwback to mustache twirling Bond villains of old more than anything. And his "if I'm going down, I'm taking everyone with me" motivation just feels oddly resonant given current circumstances. Was just something that occurred to me as I was thinking back on him.

so if the villain is a representation of the 60’s Cold War paranoia-fueled spy movies. They should’ve done the same thing to the hero and gave him a personality/psychology. It’s a bit weird to pick the villain from the 60’s and the hero from a FPS shooter.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Badly performed? No.

Felt like poor man's Gary Oldman villain.

 

[shauner111]

I think for what the character needed to be straight from the page, he knocked it out of the park performance wise. He did what was asked of him. I personally found him very intimidating AND over the top at the same time.

 

[MadVillainy]

I can't stand this bruv, man
Christopher Nolan Says Fellow Directors Have Called to Complain About His ‘Inaudible’ Sound /


Actually though. He does need to fix this in his post Inception output

 

[samsnee]

They’re not wrong

 

[Lasirius]

It’s been an issue for a bit, I think Tenet was the worst offender.

 

[MadVillainy]

I noticed it once in TDK. In the scene where Gordon and Dent meet in Dent's office.
But save for Inception every other movie it's an issue in multiple scenes.
And it's incredibly annoying.

I get he's an "artiste" but come on. It's a common complaint and even other directors complain

 

[Closerframe]

When you're so far up your own ass it's hard to take criticism.

 

[Prison Mike]

I noticed it once in TDK. In the scene where Gordon and Dent meet in Dent's office.
But save for Inception every other movie it's an issue in multiple scenes.
And it's incredibly annoying.

I get he's an "artiste" but come on. It's a common complaint and even other directors complain

Now that you mentioned it, I do remember not fully understanding what Gordon said at the end of the scene (when I first saw it in theaters). He sounded drowned out by the music.

 

[MadVillainy]

Honestly I could even say the whole Batvoice was an audio issue too. I don't think it was terrible. It's a funny joke and meme, but I don't think that dampened my opinion of Bale Batman. That being said it was perfect in Batman Begins but worse in TDK and especially TDKR.
I feel like I read Nolan was the one who was the one who pushed Bale to get even more guttural and growly with it.

Maybe Nolan is a headbanger listening to Death metal or a huge rap/trap fan listening to Future and Travis Scott (he was on the TENET soundtrack ) on headphones so his ears are shot. But he needs to fix it.
And it's ridiculously obnoxious, whether it's his art or not, to put something out there for people to enjoy, multiple people point out the issue, and he turns his nose up at it.

I love Nolan's work. I only dislike Dunkirk in his filmography. But he's officially getting into head up his own ass territory. To paraphrase a wise man: He needs to get that head of his out his backside and get real.

 

[Da-Scribe]

Finally saw this. Nolan and Bay are like two sides of the same *****ey coin to me.

Bay is the guy at the parties crushing beers, breaking stuff, and being a general loudmouth.

Nolan is the guy who corners you right next to the stereo and just whispers the whole time about artists and musicians you’ve heard of but then he still talks about it as if he knows ways more.

 

[terry78]

Well Nolan did admit he likes Bay movies.

 

[metaphysician]

Well Nolan did admit he likes Bay movies.

I feel like Michael Bay is underrated as a director. When he tries, he's pretty good. . . its just that what he's good at is a sort of nihilistic macho-satire, rather than a more conventional "real art" style. Also, he's most associated with the Transformers movies, where he's basically just doing work-for-hire. He's not a great director, but he's not a hack either.

Conversely, Nolan *is* a great director. . . but his personal predilections aren't *that* too terribly far away from Bay, either. He just prefers to make the narrative equivalent of Rube Goldberg machines, with fewer explosions than Bay but with a sort of vaguely similar. . . emotionally distant fascination?

 

[Kane52630]

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I know it’s been slim pickings this year but this is the only 2020 movie I can’t wait to see again.

 

[Asr]

For a movie made by a director who champions the theatrical experience as much as he does, Tenet is one of those rare movies I'd have to watch at home with subtitles so I can read all of the dialog that I missed in the theater.

 

[Blade Hoarder]

The irony has been noted.

 

[TheVileOne]

I have a question? Is the sound issue with Tenet really about being conservative about sound? I don't think that's the right word to use in this case.

 

[BatLobster]

I will be fully honest here and say that Nolan has gone a little crazy here and people just wanting to be able to hear dialogue is totally reasonable.

I will also be honest and say that this borderline insanity only makes me like him more.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I get what he means and he's right but it's the wrong context. You can be innovate but still hear what is going on.

You enjoy a movie less when you can't understand it. It's that simple.

 

[TheVileOne]

I will be fully honest here and say that Nolan has gone a little crazy here and people just wanting to be able to hear dialogue is totally reasonable.

I will also be honest and say that this borderline insanity only makes me like him more.

He's an iconoclast.