Current Events > Anyone else refusing to give Christopher Nolan any money after Tenet?

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https://youtu.be/2G6-uyYEop4

Like he should be in jail for this terrible dialogue

Yup I'm on the same boat.

Christopher Nolan has way more Hits that go beyond and above than Misses, like Tenet. So I'll still be watching Oppenheimer because odds are the Historical Piece movie won't devolve into "Exposition the Movie" like Tenet was.

Tenet was solid and I'm not a little baby so... no?

Tenet was a complete miss, but everything else from him I've seen was a pretty good watch so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and say that Tenet is not the beginning of the end or something.

That tantrum he threw over WB's 2021 decision was clownshoes though, not like he was Denis Villeneuve who actually had a movie best seen in IMAX coming out that year.

No, that's dumb

Prestoff posted...

Christopher Nolan has way more Hits that go beyond and above than Misses, like Tenet. So I'll still be watching Oppenheimer because odds are the Historical Piece movie won't devolve into "Exposition the Movie" like Tenet was.

Hes not exactly tested in the field of based on a trur story that isnt big bang war stuff, and hollywood biopics tend to be extremely boringly shot.

we should definitely keep our hype low.

Tenet is an excellent film, idk wtf yall are smoking

CSCA33 posted...

Tenet is an excellent film, idk wtf yall are smoking

I too enjoy my films with extremely poor audio mixing even in the theaters designed for the movie and cardboard characters that have nothing of interest to them.

https://youtu.be/s2FXfFeRtJo

Tenet was awful but its his only bad movie in my opinion. And Im very excited for Oppenheimer. And it has Matt Damon and I fucking love Matt Damon

Insomnia, DKR, Inception, Interstellar and Tenet are bad

BurmesePenguin posted...

Insomnia, DKR, Inception, Interstellar and Tenet are bad

Lol, okay dude

I'm going to wait and see if the Bhagavad-Gita is in Oppenheimer before I see the movie. That's a deal breaker for me if it's not there.

BurmesePenguin posted...

Insomnia, DKR, Inception, Interstellar and Tenet are bad

Insomnia mid, DKR and Tenet straight up bad. Inception and Interstellar are good tho

bsp77 posted...

Lol, okay dude

Maybe films like The Greasy Strangler are more his speed? Different strokes for different folks and all.

KitKats posted...

Maybe films like The Greasy Strangler are more his speed? Different strokes for different folks and all.

I dont know what that means.

KitKats posted...

Maybe films like The Greasy Strangler are more his speed? Different strokes for different folks and all.

Sure, but if he thinks Inception and Interstellar are bad, then he clearly doesn't like Nolan, and I don't care about whether or not he is interested in Oppenheimer.

The Prestige is one of the best films ever made.

i don't like nolan all that much but i'm not on some "i refuse to give him money" type shit. i'd go see oppenheimer if my movie bro wanted me to. i wouldn't on my own, though.

BurmesePenguin posted...

I dont know what that means.

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+greasy+strangler

Its a film^

Movie sound is always crap. Too much bass. Makes me glad I don't have a pacemaker.

I know I saw Tenet, but I legitimately can't remember anything about it except it has to do with bullets that travel through time.

Avirosb posted...

Movie sound is always crap. Too much bass. Makes me glad I don't have a pacemaker.

Thats why youre glad you dont have a pacemaker?

BurmesePenguin posted...

The Prestige is one of the best films ever made.

That's definitely an opinion I can get behind. It's in my personal top 10 movies of all time. I had reserves about the sci fi element in the movie, but after more thoughts and repeated viewing it only helped elevate the movie than hurt it. It does feel out of the bloom, but it enhances the movie and the message it was trying to convey.

Never saw the draw to this director. His only good movie if not a little boring was Interstellar.

BurmesePenguin posted...

The Prestige is one of the best films ever made.

I am giving you shit, but my fiance never understood why Nolan is so revered. She thought both Dark Knight and Inception were pretty good but nothing special. I just showed her The Prestige two nights ago and she loved it.

Whoa it's almost like different people like different things.

nah Tenet was dope, can't wait for Oppenheimer.

Ranting__Nord posted...

Whoa it's almost like different people like different things.

Who the fuck are you?

Avirosb posted...

Movie sound is always crap. Too much bass. Makes me glad I don't have a pacemaker.

Ive noticed that as well over the years, its gotten worse

MICHALECOLE posted...

Thats why youre glad you dont have a pacemaker?

I'm sure having one would make some situations suck more than others.
On the other hand, being alive would be a plus. Mostly.

BurmesePenguin posted...

Who the fuck are you?

Ranting Nord, nice to meet you.

I forgot where I saw this but someone said Nolan purposely does this shit where you're unable to understand what the fuck they're talking about. It's one of those artsy fartsy "creative" thing where he uses dialogue more for sound effects rather than actually telling the scene or plot.

Nolan is a hit or miss for me. He sounds like an intelligent person when you hear him talk. Non of his films I've seen I would consider bad. But there's always a scene somewhere. Where I'm thinking to myself, "why did they do that?".

I've sort of lost interest in his films. For me he sort of feels like the thinking mans Micheal Bay.

nah, his track record is still pretty great overall. sometimes content creators made a dud. that's the risk they take by being creative. Pink Floyd released Ummagumma and we still love them.

CountDog posted...

For me he sort of feels like the thinking mans Micheal Bay.

I can't even think of anything remotely similar about them other than having big budgets

dancing_cactuar posted...

I too enjoy my films with extremely poor audio mixing even in the theaters designed for the movie and cardboard characters that have nothing of interest to them.

If by audio you mena some scenes were extremely loud and others were super quiet, absofuckinglutely.

Christopher Nolan FTW

No. Refusing to watch a director's future work because of potentially one bad movie is pretty dumb, especially assuming if you liked his previous work.

Granted, I missed Tenet thanks to covid and never got around to watching it, but I have a hard time imagining this thought process unless he randomly made a horrifically racist film or something akin to that.

Lol did you upload that video yourself? It doesn't have any comments or likes or anything why

I thought tenet was OK. That scene was cringe except for the fact that Neil is her son.

I like to pretend that Tenet doesn't exist and I get annoyed when I'm reminded of it.

I asked for my money back from the theater on account of the fact I couldn't hear any dialog for the last third of the movie. The theater dude then informed me that it wasn't a theater problem and that's just how the movie was, but he gave me my money back anyway for having to bother with such a shit movie.

Complaining about not understanding the dialogue is missing the point that you weren't supposed to hear everything. People aren't used to that and think it's a pretentious answer but it's similar to not getting subtitles from R2D2

matteus70 posted...

I thought tenet was OK. That scene was cringe except for the fact that Neil is her son.

... you just blew my mind and made this movie retroactively kinda cool, is this truth?

I enjoyed Tenet, eatched it several times now. As far as I'm concerned, Nolan hasn't had a dud yet.

Also lol if you lasted until tenet, it makes no sense to suddenly stop and not keep going. Dude peaked with the dark knight. Inception was okay conceptually if a bit dumb, but tdkr was one of the most trash movies ever made and interstellar is lame.

Hinakuluiau posted...

Complaining about not understanding the dialogue is missing the point that you weren't supposed to hear everything. People aren't used to that and think it's a pretentious answer but it's similar to not getting subtitles from R2D2

That's all well in good except for the part where it is a unique audience problem. If Nolan was making thing deliberately hard to hear as an artistic decision to represent the chaos of the situation, that's fine, but none of the characters have any issues hearing each other. So clearly in universe, it's not that hard to hear dialog. It's also clearly presented in closed captioning. Which makes the decision to muffle it for the audience fall apart, since it's extremely half-assed. Also important plot information probably shouldn't be delivered through the barely audible dialog.

And if R2-D2 was delivering loads of plot-significant exposition through his beeps and chirps, you'd better believe people would want subtitles. But they wisely didn't have R2 do much talking.

But the thing about the muffled dialogue stuff is it isn't unique to Tenet so I find it a bit strange people are using Tenet as the main target for that.