Action-Adventure TENET

[jmc]

I ain't spoiling myself with that leak.

 

[Persona]

I love Nolan but this feels like a trailer for a Nolan parody--the music, the typeface, the wooden dialogue, Pattinson's Nolan hair (and Martin Donovan felt like he wandered in from a mediocre TV pilot). Eh. Sound mixing and editing were also very rough, have to kind of think they rushed this trailer to get it in front of the Christmas movies.

That said, y'all let me know how the 6-minute Tenet prologue is when you go watch TROS in IMAX.

 

[Gee]

I ain't spoiling myself with that leak.

Same. Seeing TRoS next Tuesday and I'm a patient guy.

 

[James.B]

 

[MovieSlave]

Trailer was pretty good and a bit trippy. I wonder what he has up his sleeve for this film. Knowing what the overall idea and plot for Inception was didn't prepare me for when I actually saw that crazy movie. Fantastic.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

Damn that Imax prologue was pretty badass and intense as hell. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time.

 

[Gold Samurai]

It's not a complete Nolan movie without protagonists in sharp suits

 

[Luigi]

REALLY? Usually the July 4th weekend is pretty big. There are really no other potential blockbusters in July 2020?

Yup. As others have pointed out, July is basically vacant with the exception of Tenet.

 

[Webfoot Hero]

Still got no real idea what it's about.

 

[Travesty]

Something about time manipulation....I dunno?

 

[Gee]

Something about time manipulation....I dunno?

 

[Hunter Rider]

Definitely getting Inception 2.0 from this but that's not a bad thing, there looks to be some really cool, innovative sequences, I'm excited and intrigued!

 

[LvtLeeTDK]

The tension is really high with this trailer.

Something about Nolan's music taste always get me. His movies' music does not really have a clear melody like, say John William's music for movies, but it's really really good in a different way.

Maybe stupid to ask but what is a prologue that you guys are talking about ?

 

[Asr]

Saw the new Star Wars tonight on an IMAX screen and had no idea there'd be an extended prologue of Tenet attached.

My impression of the IMAX prologue: HOLY ****BALLS THAT WAS AMAZING!

I don't think anyone in the audience knew what movie the prologue was for until it ended, and even then I think some people were still confused, because none of the actors were super-recognizeable, and it didn't even have Nolan's name shown anywhere. Heck, I had no idea what movie it was for either until I saw Pattinson's face towards the end.

It was intense as hell, and played out sort of like The Dark Knight's opening bank scene except dialed up to 20! The action was fast and aggressive, no holds barred in a PG-13 way. Pretty much a gut punch all the way through!

Before seeing this prologue I was kinda iffy on the movie and wasn't sure I was going to see it, but now it's on my must-see list for 2020!

Side-note: if WB can get a trailer for one of their movies attached to a Disney-owned movie (Star Wars I mean), they need to attach Wonder Woman 84's latest trailer too. I was really hoping to catch it on the big screen and ended up disappointed.

 

[Albright]

could someone put what happens in the prologue in spoiler tags...I don‘t have an IMAX here in 200km distance

 

[flickchick85]

Maybe stupid to ask but what is a prologue that you guys are talking about ?

IMAX shows of Star Wars have a 6-minute prologue of this film attached, much like they've done with previous Nolan films.

 

[Asr]

could someone put what happens in the prologue in spoiler tags...I don‘t have an IMAX here in 200km distance

General description:

Spoiler

- Starts out inside an orchestral concert hall somewhere in Europe (blanking on the country, but the name of the concert hall is shown in a non-English language) showing people walking in, and the orchestra tuning up.
- As the orchestra is tuning up, suddenly a bomb goes off right under the stage, causing most of the orchestra members to fall through.
- Various faceless SWAT-like armed soldiers swarm onto the stage, and shoot dead the remaining orchestra members, along with concert-goers in the audience.
- Other armed soldiers are shown driving up to the concert hall (initially seems like the "cavalry" but it's quickly shown that they're not).
- The soldiers that drove up come through the front doors and are shown putting some type of gas into the vents going to the concert hall, which causes most of the concert audience to get knocked out.
- A few of the armed soldiers inside the concert hall exchange gunfire between each other, showing that some of these are "good guys" while others are "bad guys", or at least on different sides.
- One of the extra well-dressed audience members in the concert box seats seems to be a pivotal character, as he's shown held up by an unknown guy with a gun.
- One of the armed soldiers throws another bomb into the mezzanine as the remaining soldiers run out of the concert hall.
- As two of the last guys emerge outside the concert hall, the bomb thrown into the mezzanine blows up, causing a decent explosion that's visible from outside.
- Montage edit of various scenes, including Pattinson's character inside a car (might be the same scene already shown in the first trailer).
- "TENET" title shown to an explosive musical stinger.

 

[Gold Samurai]

It would make things really tense if the protagonists only had two hours and 15 minutes to accomplish their mission. Roughly the length of the movie

No scenes of them flying to different locations etc

 

[OutOfBoose]

General description:

Awful description that gets nearly everything wrong.

More or less correct one:

Spoiler

We see a concert hall in Russia where some terrorists take the stage and take the auditory hostage. This is watched by a russian police unit who send in 'the americans'. It seems to be some kind of counter-terrorisr unit. While the russian police fill a gas in the audience room that makes everyone pass out, the americans rescue someone who was watching the concert in some kind of v.i.p. area. The terrorists plant bombs and one of the americans decides to dismantle the bombs allthough it is not part of their orders. It is shown, that some gadgets can manipulate time, but it is not clearly shown how or why. He succeeds in a way and only the vip area is destroyed. They escape into a bus with their target, only to reveal that they have 'the wrong guy'.

 

[Asr]

^ Yours is a lot better than mine for sure, but IMO mine is still semi-consistent with yours, and I was trying to go off memory after also seeing Star Wars earlier. In any case, I haven't been following Tenet much (only saw the very first theatrical trailer which I was barely paying attention to), and it wasn't that obvious to me who all the various armed guys were.

 

[The Shape]

Prologue is fascinating. So much to unpack.

I know this won't be the case but -- this film really looks like it could take place in the same universe as Inception. "Spiritual" sequel? Literal sequel? Neither? Who knows, but if Nolan were to ever make a sequel to one of his own films like Inception, I imagine it would be with some type of huge, super top secret, "seemingly not a sequel" project like this. Compare the first Inception teasers to the first teaser and trailer for this. And there are already some seemingly striking similarities between the two films: similar aesthetic/cinematography, train yard scene with JDW, many different locations, heist/espionage concept, "time" as a driving theme, mind-bending technology or reality manipulation, Michael Caine in glasses, etc.

Either way, this looks like peak Nolan. Nolan unleashed. Nolan overdosing on Nolan. It’s almost like he’s parodying himself, but I love it.

 

[Kane52630]

That prologue was some interesting stuff. Lots to unpack...

My only complaint is that they didn't show it in 1.43 : 1

 

[Doctor Jones]

Finally saw this trailer. It was great! This is in my top three most anticipated next year. Definitely intriguing. I'm guessing the time aspect might be the thing that's worse than nuclear holocaust.

 

[TheSmoothKnight]

So, I've seen couple of tweets that the Prologue was too scary and too violent.

 

[Arachnerd]

Well, it's Twitter. I'd be surprised if no one threw a fit at it.