Poll of the Day > Tenet kinda went over my head

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The longer the movie went on the more convoluted it became. By the end, I didn't understand like why some of the main characters weren't supposed to do what they did.

But the acting was good and the soundtrack was good. I also liked seeing a male black lead in a movie that wasn't an all black cast. That doesn't happen too often.

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Not surprised.

DDirtyDastard posted...

Not surprised.

Inception was the same way. Nolan builds these hyper complex time traveling story lines that just get very convoluted very quickly.

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Did you see it in theaters or is it available for streaming?

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I think I'm going to go see it sometime this week. I haven't been to a theater since before COVID!

PK_Spam posted...

Did you see it in theaters or is it available for streaming?

I went to the theater. They have good social distancing in place here at theaters.

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Now that I've seen it, I can easily see why parts of this movie might be confusing or go over your head. Not sure if I fully grasped everything myself. It's not that the convolution is terribly complicated, but the movie moves at such a breakneck pace with so much information and exposition thrown at you in a short amount of time. My poor grandmother could not follow it at all, but she did enjoy the action (which is mainly why I took her). We didn't even realize it was called "Tenet" because that's the name of the organization that "hires" The Protagonist until I looked it up after the movie. I know they mentioned it, but again, it moves at such a breakneck pace that it's hard to keep track of all the pieces.