Tenet (2020) - Christoper Nolan

For me, the battle at the end is the one big weak point of the film, it just looks too much like it was filmed in a quarry rather than a real city ruin and the troops going backwards in the background were literally people just running backwards rather than any kind of trickery, so it stood out like a sore thumb.
 
Watched this today. Very disappointed. It looked good but the story was very convoluted. I normally always know exactly what's going on in movies but even I struggled with parts of this, even if I did get the overall story once it got to the end.

The sound on this was horrendous though, it was very difficult to understand the dialogue and the music seemed overly loud and abrasive. It may or may not have been an 'artistic decision' but I didn't like it.
 
Found the concept really interesting and looks like something Nolan wanted to do for some time as well, but overall feel like as a whole, the film suffered for it to deliver that idea.

Character development isn't Nolan's signature but it was just next level non existent here, I couldn't really figure out protagonist's attachment or motivaton towards the female counterpart. For a stone cold operative he sure made a lot of compromises along the way just for one person. Can't say I've felt much attachment to anyone here really.

Story wise, will probably help to rewatch it as while I understood what they were doing, didn't quite get all the "whys". Also have to agree on the last battle, I know these temporary cities towns probably didn't look like fully fleshed out settlements, but this just looked like a really fancy airsoft range. Same as everyone else, also couldn't figure out who they were even fighting, just looked like they were shooting at buildings :D

Definitely nowhere near his best work, 3.5/5
 
watched this tonight

thought it was good - original idea and well executed

its great when you realise the link ups

my only gripe was the sound mix was annoying, really loud music with quiet dialog (an an asleep child upstairs) means im fighting the volume control all night
 
Mr.Fantastic said:
I experience this with most of Nolan's films and read a lot of complaints online saying the same thing.
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Worked great on Dunkirk where there is little dialog and it's more of an experience / visual storytelling
But in exposition heavy talky films it just means you struggle to hear what they are saying - probably fine in the cinema with massive expensive speakers but not great on my tv
 
gettothechopper said:
my only gripe was the sound mix was annoying, really loud music with quiet dialog (an an asleep child upstairs) means im fighting the volume control all night
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Are you watching this on physical media or a streamed version? I "loaned" a copy from the high sea's* and the sound mix was fine on my sound bar so I wonder my loaned copy was borrowed from a source where the sound mix has been "fixed" at some point.

* - Nowadays I only buy physical media now once I've "borrowed" the film first to see whether it's worth actually spending my money on, because the vast majority of films just aren't good enough currently but there's usually still a few per year that I will pay for if they are good enough. I think at last count I had just over 1k Blu-Ray/DVD's held in storage back in the UK with the vast majority being 1970's-2000's and maybe only a few hundred being 2000's-2020's.
 
ianh said:
Are you watching this on physical media or a streamed version? I "loaned" a copy from the high sea's* and the sound mix was fine on my sound bar so I wonder my loaned copy was borrowed from a source where the sound mix has been "fixed" at some point.

* - Nowadays I only buy physical media now once I've "borrowed" the film first to see whether it's worth actually spending my money on, because the vast majority of films just aren't good enough currently but there's usually still a few per year that I will pay for if they are good enough. I think at last count I had just over 1k Blu-Ray/DVD's held in storage back in the UK with the vast majority being 1970's-2000's and maybe only a few hundred being 2000's-2020's.
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Blu Ray on an LG tv (no sound bar) probably wouldn't care if no kids or a bigger house :D
 
Not sure if I liked it, will have to go back to it

First run through though it feels a convoluted mess, it would probably be better as a few films, one from the normal time view and the other from the inverted time and some more world building on the future, interesting concept though, Nolan does have an obsession with time
 
Watched this and searched for the thread to see if I was being stupid. At least a lot agree.

Its very very rare I turn a film off without finishing it.. Because I usually know what I like.

But I managed 45 mins and gave up.
One of those where you turn to your partner and say "I don't really know what's going on".. "neither do I, should we turn it off?".. "yeah"

Totally confusing, got the very general gist but just wasn't enjoyable, the detail was lost on me.


Also noted the dialogue vs effects issue. Had to crank the AV rec right up. And still the dialogue was poop.
 
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413x said:
Watched this and searched for the thread to see if I was being stupid. At least a lot agree.

Its very very rare I turn a film off without finishing it.. Because I usually know what I like.

But I managed 45 mins and gave up.
One of those where you turn to your partner and say "I don't really know what's going on".. "neither do I, should we turn it off?".. "yeah"

Totally confusing, got the very general gist but just wasn't enjoyable, the detail was lost on me.


Also noted the dialogue vs effects issue. Had to crank the AV rec right up. And still the dialogue was poop.
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It begins to make more sense the further you get into the film. I know that seems true for most films, but there are scenes later in the film that make a HUGE difference in your understanding of the scenes at the beginning.
 
MissChief said:
It begins to make more sense the further you get into the film. I know that seems true for most films, but there are scenes later in the film that make a HUGE difference in your understanding of the scenes at the beginning.
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Yes - although I find this approach to storytelling so obnoxious and distracting. You spend half the film wondering whether you have missed something important, which actually takes you out of the experience rather than immersing you into it… at least in my experience
 
Confusing? Giraffe.

I dunoo. Have some cake. It's blue beret.

I give this movie Ten.

This film made me not bother with Oppenheimer at the cinema. Nolan lost me. Et.
 
413x said:
Watched this and searched for the thread to see if I was being stupid. At least a lot agree.

Its very very rare I turn a film off without finishing it.. Because I usually know what I like.

But I managed 45 mins and gave up.
One of those where you turn to your partner and say "I don't really know what's going on".. "neither do I, should we turn it off?".. "yeah"

Totally confusing, got the very general gist but just wasn't enjoyable, the detail was lost on me.


Also noted the dialogue vs effects issue. Had to crank the AV rec right up. And still the dialogue was poop.
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Same for me, almost never drop a film once it's started. I last an hour before I had to turn it off, really bad.
 
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