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.
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.