I feel like I have watched far different Nolan films than everybody else, because they've all had coherent storylines although the Batman's had some thematic issues.
I feel like Tenet is an incoherent mess but in general I really like Nolan.
Walking out of the theatre I remember thinking that it was exactly the sort of movie you would think of the hook for and spend your career thinking of how to execute it, and the answer ended up being “you kind of can’t”
Tenet was his worst, imo, but it still had a lot more interesting parts than many other action movies. I was just strongly unimpressed by the plot and the logic of the sci-fi conceit.
Tenet was his worst, imo, but it still had a lot more interesting parts than many other action movies. I was just strongly unimpressed by the plot and the logic of the sci-fi conceit.
The problem with tenet is like…I get it, man. “What if you made a palindrome that was a movie” is a fucking cool idea. But it either needed more time in actual production or just someone different at the helm because not only is it one of the worst “I can’t hear what they’re fucking saying” of his movies, what they’re saying is just complete nonsense
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I still haven’t seen Tenet or Interstellar.
The only thing I know about Interstellar is that TARS is just STAR backwards
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I generally like Nolan's work a lot, and I especially love The Prestige and Inception and to a lesser extent Memento, and I even liked Interstellar a lot more than many people seem to, but I have had no real interest in any of his films since.
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I get that people don’t like the audio in tenet, but at the same time, I liked what he did with it, it is frustrating not being able to hear every word during high intensity moments, but at the same time it felt realistic, you’re in an intense moment, everything is happening, you don’t always have to get every word and I could at least understand the vast majority of it so I got a strong jist of what happened it made me feel more in the moment.
But I get why people weren’t necessarily into that entire thing.
Normally, when you have a sci-fi tech premise, it's immediately clear why having that thing would be good or why people would want it. Avatar is like "this is the best mineral". Okay, makes sense. Tenet's premise goes off the rails near instantly. How are bullets that fire backwards helpful? Like... more helpful than regular ones? You're like "oh, they can predict the future of battles, so they can win perfectly with no casualties," but both sides are doing that, so it's now just an extremely confusing clusterfuck that isn't producing any kind of impressive result at all. Which could be the theme of the movie, that this technology with unlimited potential just became another arms race that helped no one, but IF the movie thinks that is its theme, it certainly does not focus on it very much. It's much more concerned with the single worst love story in a Nolan movie... which is saying a lot.
Rather than excessively shit on something people love, I'm going to recommend a movie I enjoy: The Music Never Stopped, with JK Simmons. It's loosely based on a real-life case of anterograde amnesia (the same memory disease that serves as a gimmick in Memento), by way of a case study by Oliver Sacks from his book An Anthropologist on Mars.
Besides being a mostly fact-based portrayal of anterograde amnesia, the drama is driven by the relationship between a father (Simmons) and his neurologically impaired son (Lou Taylor Pucci).
And I love Oliver Sacks because of how warm and human he wrote about disability, and that warmth comes through in the film despite the bleak subject matter.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Nolan's stuff is nearly always right up my alley. Tenet is a pile of shit but I really like Interstellar and the Prestige especially. Haven't seen Oppenheimer yet what with the kid and all.
I liked Interstellar up until his tumble through time. The final Batman Nolan did I felt was the worst of the 3. I have not really seen Tenant and I am not sure what people are trying to say with certain clips I have not seen Inception at all and I feel with Tenant they are trying to tie the two together?
Dunkirk caused us to really look at rebooting the home speaker system. [replacing the wires and the speakers since the mixer still works}
SAG-AFTRA and Replica Studios Introduce Groundbreaking AI Voice Agreement at CES
tl:dr sag-aftra has once again thrown voice actors, particularly game VAs under the bus
Gods, i hate this shit. So much. It's not even ai! it's not even fucking intelligent! It's just processed regurgitation machines. But hey, it makes money, andi t's totally gonna enable a new wave of thieves artists any day now
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Tenet, to me, just felt like Nolan trying to recapture the cool, probably too clever for its own good non-linear storytelling of Memento, but just kind of indulging in all of his worst impulses while doing so. I think it's almost inarguably his worst. Either that or Batman Begins.
Beyond those, I generally like most everything else he's done and I don't see a lot of issues with bad plotting or nonsensical storytelling.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
I liked Interstellar up until his tumble through time. The final Batman Nolan did I felt was the worst of the 3. I have not really seen Tenant and I am not sure what people are trying to say with certain clips I have not seen Inception at all and I feel with Tenant they are trying to tie the two together?
Dunkirk caused us to really look at rebooting the home speaker system. [replacing the wires and the speakers since the mixer still works}
Tenet and Inception are not connected in any way whatsoever.
I liked Interstellar up until his tumble through time. The final Batman Nolan did I felt was the worst of the 3. I have not really seen Tenant and I am not sure what people are trying to say with certain clips I have not seen Inception at all and I feel with Tenant they are trying to tie the two together?
Dunkirk caused us to really look at rebooting the home speaker system. [replacing the wires and the speakers since the mixer still works}
Tenet and Inception are not connected in any way whatsoever.
I have not seen either but on YT shorts and other social media people were trying to tie the two together so I did not understand what they were doing
I liked Interstellar up until his tumble through time. The final Batman Nolan did I felt was the worst of the 3. I have not really seen Tenant and I am not sure what people are trying to say with certain clips I have not seen Inception at all and I feel with Tenant they are trying to tie the two together?
Dunkirk caused us to really look at rebooting the home speaker system. [replacing the wires and the speakers since the mixer still works}
Tenet and Inception are not connected in any way whatsoever.
I have not seen either but on YT shorts and other social media people were trying to tie the two together so I did not understand what they were doing
These are people that are franchise poisoned. "I didn't like the new Pixar movie because it doesn't fit with my theories of the Pixar Universe," that kind of person.
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I liked Interstellar up until his tumble through time. The final Batman Nolan did I felt was the worst of the 3. I have not really seen Tenant and I am not sure what people are trying to say with certain clips I have not seen Inception at all and I feel with Tenant they are trying to tie the two together?
Dunkirk caused us to really look at rebooting the home speaker system. [replacing the wires and the speakers since the mixer still works}
Tenet and Inception are not connected in any way whatsoever.
I have not seen either but on YT shorts and other social media people were trying to tie the two together so I did not understand what they were doing
I liked Interstellar up until his tumble through time. The final Batman Nolan did I felt was the worst of the 3. I have not really seen Tenant and I am not sure what people are trying to say with certain clips I have not seen Inception at all and I feel with Tenant they are trying to tie the two together?
Dunkirk caused us to really look at rebooting the home speaker system. [replacing the wires and the speakers since the mixer still works}
Tenet and Inception are not connected in any way whatsoever.
I have not seen either but on YT shorts and other social media people were trying to tie the two together so I did not understand what they were doing
They are doing bad things
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minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
I liked Interstellar up until his tumble through time. The final Batman Nolan did I felt was the worst of the 3. I have not really seen Tenant and I am not sure what people are trying to say with certain clips I have not seen Inception at all and I feel with Tenant they are trying to tie the two together?
Dunkirk caused us to really look at rebooting the home speaker system. [replacing the wires and the speakers since the mixer still works}
Tenet and Inception are not connected in any way whatsoever.
I have not seen either but on YT shorts and other social media people were trying to tie the two together so I did not understand what they were doing
These are people that are franchise poisoned. "I didn't like the new Pixar movie because it doesn't fit with my theories of the Pixar Universe," that kind of person.
Are these people part of the family tree that contains the people who make 3 hour long videos about the master Zelda timeline?
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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I liked Interstellar up until his tumble through time. The final Batman Nolan did I felt was the worst of the 3. I have not really seen Tenant and I am not sure what people are trying to say with certain clips I have not seen Inception at all and I feel with Tenant they are trying to tie the two together?
Dunkirk caused us to really look at rebooting the home speaker system. [replacing the wires and the speakers since the mixer still works}
Tenet and Inception are not connected in any way whatsoever.
I have not seen either but on YT shorts and other social media people were trying to tie the two together so I did not understand what they were doing
Those people are idiots donny
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Are the details of the SAG-AFTRA voice actor AI agreement available to the public yet? All the links I've found just point back to the press release.
Unless it has a lot of protections in there for voice actors, I am skeptical of any labor agreement that involves AI
Like if you record a bunch of stuff for an AI to use and any time that AI gets used you get paid, that's... something, I guess? I dunno, depends on what the actors want, frankly
Are the details of the SAG-AFTRA voice actor AI agreement available to the public yet? All the links I've found just point back to the press release.
Unless it has a lot of protections in there for voice actors, I am skeptical of any labor agreement that involves AI
Like if you record a bunch of stuff for an AI to use and any time that AI gets used you get paid, that's... something, I guess? I dunno, depends on what the actors want, frankly
I am too, but I'd like to argue from a position of knowledge rather than a position of assumptions.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
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Like Wes Anderson or JJ Abrams.
Walking out of the theatre I remember thinking that it was exactly the sort of movie you would think of the hook for and spend your career thinking of how to execute it, and the answer ended up being “you kind of can’t”
I never really clicked with interstellar. But it was an ok movie.
The problem with tenet is like…I get it, man. “What if you made a palindrome that was a movie” is a fucking cool idea. But it either needed more time in actual production or just someone different at the helm because not only is it one of the worst “I can’t hear what they’re fucking saying” of his movies, what they’re saying is just complete nonsense
The only thing I know about Interstellar is that TARS is just STAR backwards
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But I get why people weren’t necessarily into that entire thing.
Satans..... hints.....
Raijen, TARS backwards is SRAT. Why do you think STAR backwards is TARS?
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Besides being a mostly fact-based portrayal of anterograde amnesia, the drama is driven by the relationship between a father (Simmons) and his neurologically impaired son (Lou Taylor Pucci).
And I love Oliver Sacks because of how warm and human he wrote about disability, and that warmth comes through in the film despite the bleak subject matter.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
tbh it is tickling a part of my memory and I cannot place the context yet I know it's familiar
Raijin makes this joke every time we bring up interstellar and it broke me.
kill your masters
tl:dr sag-aftra has once again thrown voice actors, particularly game VAs under the bus
so, back when interstellar came out, former poster Chincymcchilla made a post explaining to all of us that TARS backwards is actually STAR
whether or not it was a joke, ironic, or just a bad day, none who still live know the truth, but were forever blessed with this knowledge about TARS
Holy shit that's great. I am blinded by the delightful history of the bit.
Dunkirk caused us to really look at rebooting the home speaker system. [replacing the wires and the speakers since the mixer still works}
Gods, i hate this shit. So much. It's not even ai! it's not even fucking intelligent! It's just processed regurgitation machines. But hey, it makes money, andi t's totally gonna enable a new wave of thieves artists any day now
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Beyond those, I generally like most everything else he's done and I don't see a lot of issues with bad plotting or nonsensical storytelling.
Tenet and Inception are not connected in any way whatsoever.
I have not seen either but on YT shorts and other social media people were trying to tie the two together so I did not understand what they were doing
These are people that are franchise poisoned. "I didn't like the new Pixar movie because it doesn't fit with my theories of the Pixar Universe," that kind of person.
Those people are idiots donny
They are doing bad things
Are these people part of the family tree that contains the people who make 3 hour long videos about the master Zelda timeline?
Simple farmers. People of the land. The common clay of the new west. You know, morons.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Unless it has a lot of protections in there for voice actors, I am skeptical of any labor agreement that involves AI
Like if you record a bunch of stuff for an AI to use and any time that AI gets used you get paid, that's... something, I guess? I dunno, depends on what the actors want, frankly
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I am too, but I'd like to argue from a position of knowledge rather than a position of assumptions.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.