I watched it again and there was only one small part where I didn’t understand the dialogue (Aaron Taylor Johnson with a mask on plus the accent). So maybe it’s just a theater issue? And this was a good quality leak but not even me watching the official blu ray. Then again, Bane was never a problem for me. Yes, the music is too high but i feel like folks are exaggerating..
As for the movie. God daaaamn..
Honestly, id say I understood about 20 percent the first time but now I’m at about 60. I’m getting there! When you see it again and things start clicking: OH BOY. I definitely enjoyed the end more. I understand the time travel quite a bit now. I was so ****ing lost throughout the third act in my first viewing and now i can’t wait to watch it again soon.
I also sat back and realized...
1) this is Nolan’s snarkiest movie since TDKR. Great one liners.
2) you gotta roll with the Bond-esque villain and the Terminator plot. Maybe I was looking for something else the first time (a Fury Road or Dunkirk experience within the sci-fi genre - which it’s not). But it’s also not another Inception or Interstellar. For the reasons why i criticized the writing in Tenet after my first watch...it’s actually now the reason why i DIG the writing. There’s a ton of exposition here and yeah, I tore it down for it not making sense if you remember. Well A) Nolan DOES understand the plot, he’s just ahead of us here and B) the characters giving or receiving information are naturally out of the loop, whereas Inception & Interstellar’s characters often have knowledge of what’s going on yet they’re relaying info for the audience. Debicki has a couple of unnecessary lines, it’s not a perfect screenplay obviously, but it’s stronger than i initially thought.
3) The casting and editing is spot on.
4) JDW’s protagonist is right along the lines of Heath Ledger and Nolan characters like that, where you don’t need backstory shown to us or even told. This time i liked the guy on screen because his actions showed that he was a good/lonely person stuck in a cold career choice. At first I’d question WHY he cared about so & so or why should we care at all if we don’t know his name, where he came from etc. But that’s exactly why I like him now. Unlike Cobb who treats everyone like garbage and we’re just supposed to empathize with him and his journey becauuuuse?? Or Coop who is a warm guy with good intentions who we like but we’re constantly told who he is and why we should be caring like the token Spielberg/Hollywood lead. ‘Protagonist’ isn’t empty, he’s just more open to interpretation and easier for us to place ourselves in his shoes.
One last thing...sorry for the long winded post
all the highway scenes are MONSTERS
