Every day for several months I go, is this is the night I waste my hard earned free evening watching
Tenet,
Well I finally watched it.
That was the biggest budget high concept, but totally dumb sci-fi Bond movie ever. Was rolling my eyes so hard for most of it. Also was pretty poorly edited + bad sound mixing. The first 30-40 mins feel like watching some clip version where every scene is 60 seconds long with no intro/outro or pacing.
I'm pretty mixed on Nolan. I thought Dunkirk was fantastic and very well shot. But I wanna
every time people say Inception is some great intelligent sci-fi film.
I think I've realized I just don't sync with Nolan's view of science fiction. Whenever he makes a non-sci-fi movie I like it. Memento, Batman movies, Dunkirk are all enjoyable. But I don't like Inception, Interstellar or Tenet.
Basically every sci-fi movie is Nolan thinking he is smarter than everyone and making the most clever sci-fi film. But it's really not and is just big and dumb explosion-y that pretends to be smart. Which to me is pretty much textbook definition of as pretentious as you can get as a filmmaker.
I probably should just avoid any sci-fi stuff he does in the future and stick to his non-sci-fi. Also his writing and dialogue in Tenet was pretty crappy, which just gives it more of a low level pulp dumb feel which doesn't gel with the high concept thing he's trying to pull off. I feel like someone else could've pulled off the story concept better and maybe been less pretentious about it. Maybe would've worked better as an indie film and not the SAVIOR OF THE FILM INDUSTRY
Reading a lot of comic books lately, the plot of Tenet actually feels like some Image comic book run. Which is fine, but just admit you're making a comic book level sci-fi film and not some grand savior high brow cinema.