I am on Google images and looking at pictures. I also know that Tenet was chosen because it is a palindrome and it has something to do with time travel, or something. Tell me if my predictions are correct:
There's a white guy and a black guy. The black guy is, like, some highly competent and important... Something? Like, he's some kind of action man, but you know, intelligent, sophisticated action man. He's the character that does stuff. The white guy is some kind of scientist action man who works for the government and is exploring experimental time travel technology or something, but also does stuff. Or rather time manipulation, basically Adam Sandler's Click but directed by Christopher Nolan. There is also a woman, I didn't see her in the posters but I am sure there is some white girl involved who is maybe also some kind of scientist and has a quasi romance with the black guy that never gets explicit because Nolan is afraid of sex but he knows he has to put it in his movie.
There is a non linear narrative aided by the time manipulation thing. It is essentially a heist movie, which also involves stereotypical foreign bad guys. He's already done Asians in Inception so I'm guessing they'll go back to the other standard Hollywood villain type, Slavs (although he has kinda done that to in TDK iirc). I say there is definitely some evil slavs involved somewhere, but maybe they won't be the main villain. There will definitely be a small "side quest" during the first quarter or so of the movie, so maybe that is where slavs are involved. Also some kind of terrorist.
I also expect that it is hard to figure out who the real bad guy is and what they want. Also there's gonna be lots of dumb twists and some girl who betrays someone. The soundtrack is basically a bunch of Zimmer bwooms. The ending is ambiguous and involves some kind of nonsense bro philosophy about time, and the black guy talking very sternly. There will also be a very hard choice somewhere in the course of the movie, where it's like, should we or should we not use the time manipulation thing? Perhaps this will involve the white girl dying.
The backbone of the movie though is gonna be weird high concept action sequences involving time manipulation. There's gonna be lots of buildings collapsing and there will definitely be some kind of sequence involving water flowing in reverse or something like that. In between the sequences there's "serious" pseudopholosophical conversations mostly between the white guy and the black guy taking place on fancy rooftops, and then something happens and the black guy has to punch Russians.
Pretty much right on the money actually. There are some genuinely neat sequences - well, like one and a half - but it lacked a lot of the flair and hype you'd expect for a decade-long passion project. Like, it was surprisingly conventional and linear, and maybe a bit boring? Every bit of dialogue is exposition.
Also Nolan's insistence on a theatre release is single handledly responsible for killing cinema. So.
Lmao for real? I honestly haven't even seen the trailer, I really didn't know anything about it beyond hearing someone say that Tenet is a palindrome and has something to do with time travel, and seeing that people didn't like it very much.
Every bit of dialogue is exposition.
Oh yeah I forgot to say copious exposition, that's most Nolan movies and I know this wasn't one of people's favorite movies so I just assumed the worst stuff about his movies would be more worse in this one.
Also Nolan’s insistence on a theatre release is single handledly responsible for killing cinema.
Responsible for killing his movie I guess, but cinema? Why?
I was being a little flippant, but long and the short of it: Nolan demanded that his mastapeece be shown on the big screen in the middle of a pandemic, and it was probably the largest film to actually make it to cinemas last year. The fact that cinemas were partially closed, that audiences weren't too keen to go out, and that the film itself was kinda mediocre all combined to a poor box office. This lead directly to things like big movies like Bond and Dune getting further delayed, and Warner Bros to announce that all their films will be getting simultaneous digital release on HBO Max - which then lead to things like Denis Villeneuve to write an open letter decrying the death of cinema.
Granted, this was the direction things were heading anyways, and it mostly affects blockbusters and corporate multiplexes that stake their business in wide scale releases. But in any case, a A-list director's pet project bombing didn't help the ongoing conversations about the slow death of theatres.
I haven't seen Tenet, I don't even know the plot. But going off of the poster and knowing the director I feel like I've seen it already lol
Having seen Tenet I'm not sure Nolan knew what the plot was, either
I am on Google images and looking at pictures. I also know that Tenet was chosen because it is a palindrome and it has something to do with time travel, or something. Tell me if my predictions are correct:
There's a white guy and a black guy. The black guy is, like, some highly competent and important... Something? Like, he's some kind of action man, but you know, intelligent, sophisticated action man. He's the character that does stuff. The white guy is some kind of scientist action man who works for the government and is exploring experimental time travel technology or something, but also does stuff. Or rather time manipulation, basically Adam Sandler's Click but directed by Christopher Nolan. There is also a woman, I didn't see her in the posters but I am sure there is some white girl involved who is maybe also some kind of scientist and has a quasi romance with the black guy that never gets explicit because Nolan is afraid of sex but he knows he has to put it in his movie.
There is a non linear narrative aided by the time manipulation thing. It is essentially a heist movie, which also involves stereotypical foreign bad guys. He's already done Asians in Inception so I'm guessing they'll go back to the other standard Hollywood villain type, Slavs (although he has kinda done that to in TDK iirc). I say there is definitely some evil slavs involved somewhere, but maybe they won't be the main villain. There will definitely be a small "side quest" during the first quarter or so of the movie, so maybe that is where slavs are involved. Also some kind of terrorist.
I also expect that it is hard to figure out who the real bad guy is and what they want. Also there's gonna be lots of dumb twists and some girl who betrays someone. The soundtrack is basically a bunch of Zimmer bwooms. The ending is ambiguous and involves some kind of nonsense bro philosophy about time, and the black guy talking very sternly. There will also be a very hard choice somewhere in the course of the movie, where it's like, should we or should we not use the time manipulation thing? Perhaps this will involve the white girl dying.
The backbone of the movie though is gonna be weird high concept action sequences involving time manipulation. There's gonna be lots of buildings collapsing and there will definitely be some kind of sequence involving water flowing in reverse or something like that. In between the sequences there's "serious" pseudopholosophical conversations mostly between the white guy and the black guy taking place on fancy rooftops, and then something happens and the black guy has to punch Russians.
Pretty much right on the money actually. There are some genuinely neat sequences - well, like one and a half - but it lacked a lot of the flair and hype you'd expect for a decade-long passion project. Like, it was surprisingly conventional and linear, and maybe a bit boring? Every bit of dialogue is exposition.
Also Nolan's insistence on a theatre release is single handledly responsible for killing cinema. So.
Lmao for real? I honestly haven't even seen the trailer, I really didn't know anything about it beyond hearing someone say that Tenet is a palindrome and has something to do with time travel, and seeing that people didn't like it very much.
Oh yeah I forgot to say copious exposition, that's most Nolan movies and I know this wasn't one of people's favorite movies so I just assumed the worst stuff about his movies would be more worse in this one.
Responsible for killing his movie I guess, but cinema? Why?
I was being a little flippant, but long and the short of it: Nolan demanded that his mastapeece be shown on the big screen in the middle of a pandemic, and it was probably the largest film to actually make it to cinemas last year. The fact that cinemas were partially closed, that audiences weren't too keen to go out, and that the film itself was kinda mediocre all combined to a poor box office. This lead directly to things like big movies like Bond and Dune getting further delayed, and Warner Bros to announce that all their films will be getting simultaneous digital release on HBO Max - which then lead to things like Denis Villeneuve to write an open letter decrying the death of cinema.
Granted, this was the direction things were heading anyways, and it mostly affects blockbusters and corporate multiplexes that stake their business in wide scale releases. But in any case, a A-list director's pet project bombing didn't help the ongoing conversations about the slow death of theatres.