A QUESTION FOR TODAY: what's your Nolan ranking post-Tenet? mine is 1. Dunkirk, 2. Interstellar, 3. The Dark Knight, 4. Inception, 5. The Dark Knight Rises, 6. The Prestige, 7. Batman Begins, 8. Memento, 9. Tenet, 10. Insomnia & 11. Following
Terrific ranking. I think it's astonishing that to me, all of his films are at the very least very good, and most of them are what I consider masterworks. Here's my ranking: 1.) The Dark Knight. 2.) Memento. 3.) Inception. 4.) Dunkirk. 5.) Interstellar. 6.) The Prestige. 7.) Tenet. 8.) The Dark Knight Rises. 9.) Batman Begins. 10.) Insomnia. 11.) Following.
1) The Dark Knight 2) Memento 3) Inception 4) Batman Begins 5) Tenet 6) Interstellar 7) The Dark Knight Rises Haven’t seen the rest, and there’s a pretty big gap between 4 and 5.
1) The Dark Knight 2) Batman Begins 3) Inception 4) Memento 5) The Prestige 6) Tenet 7) Insomnia 8) The Dark Knight Rises 9) Dunkirk 10) Interstellar Love them all tho. Sadly haven't seen "Following" yet DX
15:00 "goes against the entropy of an entire industry" Well said. TENET did something DIFFERENT. Love it or hate it, you have to applaud film makers who actually try to make their films more than the sum of all current tropes.
“This shit is fire, drop it.” - Christopher Nolan This is definitely how it happened. I’m in the same boat. I wasn’t crazy about Tenet when I first watched it, but the more I watched it, the more I was able to embrace it. I still think it’s Nolan’s weakest film in a long time, but I like it for what it is.
I thought it was amazing the first time I watched it (With subtitles but it was on a plane so those two cancel out.) and by far better than Interstellar and weirdly I enjoy the emotions of the Protagonist. That being written Dunkirk (2017) and other such films in Nolan's repertoire are better.
One thing I love about Christopher Nolan even in movies of his that I’m not crazy about, is that he’s constantly experimenting and trying new things and totally committing to them. Even when it doesn’t totally work for me, I can admire that creative instinct.
I personally loved it, but even if I shared your opinion, I’ll take that over safe, boring, generic, studio mandated, sterile blockbusters, any day of the week.
I saw Tenet 2x in the movie theatre when it came out. I didn't understand it the first time, but it didn't matter because I was invested in the Protagonist story. The second time it was amazing. And then I bought the dvd and I've rewatched it many times. I even have a Sator square tattoo. I adore Tenet. The movie is amazing. Just feel it. And I felt it so much in the movie theatre with the music blasting off, wow.
I heard in a different comment section that a poor dude went to watch this in IMAX in a seat by the wall and left the theater hearing slightly less in his left ear than his right 😆
It's the energy you bring to talking about a movie I haven't even seen and don't have a whole lot of interest in seeing that gets me. Nolan might not really do it for me most of the time, but it's so much fun to hear you talk about his work.
I love how Bailey talks about the things he loves, fuck it’s like serotonin to me! Giving Tenet the love it deserves…I’ve always said when people ask what it’s about “how cares it’s sick as shit!!”
When I first saw it I must have been in “vibes mode” because I came out and absolutely loved it. I have watched it multiple times which helped to solidify everything inside it. I followed along with the plot on first watch but obviously it clicked even more on future watches. Glad to see you did a video on it because it does deserve the love
I love TENET as well. I literally watched it in theaters about 5 times and then I bought it in 4K and watched it at least 3 more times. Multiple rewatches (at least seeing it twice) do result in a BETTER understanding of the film even if not a COMPLETE understanding of the film. This movie had enthralled me so much that I spent a lot of time researching TENET on the internet, but I know the majority of normal humans wouldn’t do that lol.
They say that if you mix some psychedelics and stimulants that you can figure it out in reverse, making the first time you watch it actually the last one.
I LOVED & LOVE Tenet!! On my sixth rewatch now! The film demands something of you. It’s not a passive experience. It both compels and demands your engagement! I’ve never seen anything quite like it!
I definitely don't consider myself a genius in any way, but when I hear people talk about how they didn't understand Tenet at all, I kinda feel like one. I walked out of the theatre on my first viewing and actually felt like I understood most of it. Obviously repeat viewings showed me some things I missed and deepened my understanding of the movie, but from the first time I felt like I generally understood the plot and all the sci-fi mechanics and was able to keep track of most everything that happened.
Even without completely understanding tenet. I do know but after the first time I loved it. Everything. The sound. The cinematography. The actinng. The weirdness. It's for me yet another masterpiece in the Nolan filmography. He is a master. Even the name tenet is masterful.
I too love Tenet, had to watch it about six times to fully get it. Once with the subtitles on. It's a puzzle box of a movie. You have to delve deep to fully appreciate it, it's not a casual viewing experience.
And you still didn't manage it...cause it's impossible, literally has zero internal coherence But you managed the second best thing: to convince yourself that you did
I honestly loved Tenet on my first and only watch, and like yourself I keep coming back to the movie. I'm glad you've released this video, I've found it difficult to find any video essays that aren't negative about the film.
I watched Tenet for the first time yesterday. I was so impressed I went to RUclips to watch all the "explained" and such videos. Not because I needed explanations, but because I wanted MORE. And I watched them all. And this one is definitely the best of them!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. “Tenet” is going to be for movies what “808s & Heartbreak” was for Hip Hop. Pieces of art that were ahead of their time.
Make It Make Sense is the best advice when viewing this movie, I've seen some theorize that Neil is Kat & Sator's son. My theory is that The Protagonist is Michael from Fresh(1994).
Nolan Ranked 1. The Prestige 2. The Dark Knight 3. Inception 4. Tenet 5. Dunkirk 6. Memento 7. Interstellar 8. Batman Begins 9. The Dark Knight Rises Sadly haven’t watched Insomnia or Following yet. I think I like pretty much all of these, but for me The Prestige is the clear winner. Probably the best-plotted film I can think of; the way information is conveyed and the storylines are woven together is just brilliant. Every twist lands the first time you see it and is earned as you rewatch. I love how the three-tiered plotting, used here to maximize the twists, is used again in Dunkirk to maximize the intensity. Anyway, great video Bailey! So glad the RUclips gods let it through! Your enthusiasm is infectious, and I can’t wait for the next vid!
The moment the bass drop hit during the opening sequence I could've cried. I hadn't been to theater in MONTHS and seeing it in IMAX was just incredible. 😭
DUDES ROCK and bailey is an absolute dude for making such a kickass video. More people need to find this channel so share, share share! This dude deserves the appreciation.
I absolutely love tenet's score, I remember blasting that off on my headphones and speakers constantly last year when it was released on spotify. It's something else and so unique.
Not a fan of Tenet but this video made me want to give the movie another shot. My Nolan ranking 1-The Dark Knight 2-The Prestige 3-Batman Begins 4-The Dark Knight Rises 5-Inception 6-Dunkirk 7-Interstellar 8-Memento 9-Tenet 10- Following
Don't you wonder why no other truly great film needs you to do this? Not one? Not Apocalypse Now, not Jaws, not The Parallax View, Not any of Kubrick's films, not Shutter Island, not Memento or any other of Nolan's films, not Donnie Darko, not Fight Club, not Jacob's Ladder, not David Lynch's stuff, not 2001 - A Space Odyssey, not Fight Club, not anything else I can think of EXCEPT for Primer. Whose basic concept Tenet "borrows". Coincidence? I mean there are films where you don't get the basic story and plot mechanics the first time you watch them. But then we are in the territory of comparing Nolan to Tommy Wiseau. Tenet is Nolan over-indulging in an approach he likes, but overdid here. I think Tenet is a super interesting movie. But storytelling-wise it's a failure. Not because of ambition, but because the craftmanship of storytelling here is just misguided. The editing, making an exposition-heavy film and then messing with the sound mix, the reliance on plot mechanics and treating characters as mechanical things within these plot mechanics. All basic tools in filmmaking/ storytelling that were applied badly. Every time I talk to someone else in the business about Tenet, everyone is baffled how it happened in this form.
@@TheJedifr33style There's no high horse. But there are expectations of a film working as a film. And all the films I mentioned don't need to be watched several times to fully work. I still have to meet one person from the industry, who doesn't shake their head over how Tenet got made in this form.
Yup, beyond reason it is my favorite Nolan film. I said the same thing when I saw it in theaters, it's more than the sum of its parts. There's something about it that keeps drawing me back. I saw it twice on the big screen and would have gone back more but that was when Covid was really hurting theaters and we had to wear masks. But I fucking loved the experience
Thank you! I've been waiting for someone to go ahead and say it and I'm so proud and happy that you did. This movie requires you to shut off your snobby, prejudged notions of what a film is and forces you to play along, adapt, and roll with the punches. You saying it's a vibe is perfect, I've seen the movie probably 6 or 7 times now and between the thrills, the score (MMMMMMM), and the extreme technicality behind its making, I love it more and more every time. Watching the making of featurettes also adds a beautiful amount of clarity to things I didn't entirely consider. Like how extreme the editing must have been, how he pulled off the extreme sailing scenes with boats that literally "don't jive like this", the inverted and still going forward fight scenes, and landing a huge helicopter on the deck of a private yacht - just to name a few things. Thank you for showing me I'm not a minority on loving this film, it's honestly in my top 3 Nolans.
Wow. Thank you for this video. That you can articulate so perfectly all my own thoughts and feelings on tenet and WITHOUT spoilers is… amazing. I don’t know where to start when people ask about this movie so from this day on I’ll take a deep breath, sit them down, and play your vid. Thanks again!!
Being an ardent fan of Nolan, this video absolutely rules my man. Your energy and the way you described the sheer grandeur of this kind of cinema which will not be forgotten about for a long time, is commendable. After all, it's a movie about two dudes doing cool shit. Cheers!
i got lost right after the theater scene, so i just watched the movie, didn't think it's bad. The stunt, the visuals and techniques are pure master class. I think people are bashing it because they want to know the details of the entire movie; knowing the plot wasnt enough for them.
You summed it up perfectly, I’m also madly in love with his film. Took me multiple watches to finally understand the movie and even now while it makes sense in my mind, I would find it challenging to articulate what the fu*k is going on to a first time watcher!! Anyway great video! 👍
I agree with your frame 1457 Chapter! I mean, I agree with the whole video but that is the one I agreed with the most! It's like the music gives the movies what it needed And Honestly, there was a time around 2020 ending when I was obsessed with its whole Soundtrack!
When I heard the scientist say, "don't try to understand it. Feel it." I took her advice. I just tried to vibe with the movie. Didn't turn my brain off but ya know... Just relaxed and stopped bothering with understanding it all. And I ended up really understanding most of what was going on and I just had a blast. It was a fantastic experience. Great job, Bailey. I have come to expect well-made, thoughtful, energetic videos from this channel and you never disappoint. Great job, my guy
The king returns- can't wait to see whatever you cover next. The list rn is probably: 1. The Dark Knight 2. The Prestige 3. Inception 4. Interstellar 5. Batman Begins 6. Tenet 7. Dunkirk 8. The Dark Knight Rises 9. Memento 10. Insomnia
_Tenet_ - one of my favorite movies of all time. Up there with _2001, Arrival, Alien_ - I think this movie is brilliant, original, and, as you say, pedal to the metal all the way through.
I really like the distinction made here, between switching off your brain in order to enjoy a generic blockbuster (like most superhero films imo), and relaxing and being in the moment in order to enjoy a blockbuster like Tenet. It's really, really different. I don't love all of Nolan's work, but I absolutely adore some of it. My personal ranking is: 1. Dunkirk 2. Inception 3. The prestige 4. Batman begins 5. The dark knight 6.Tenet 7. The dark knight rises 8. Memento 9. Insomnia 10. Interstellar
Great video man. Keep it up. And let me just say it.. Tenet is masterpiece. My favourite action movie of all time. Haven't watched it in like 10 month but after ur video i'll have to watch it for the 4th time!
I was able to understand the science fiction involving inversion. Physicists up to this point in time have discovered that from our frame of time, time moves forward into the future, into a state of higher entropy (a concept associated with energy). When the entropy is reversed, the way an endothermic and exothermic reaction relate to the release or absorption of energy, then you go into the past. It’s trying to make sense of the time travel, which permeates the entire film, where I got scrambled
As soon as I saw you dropped this video I knew I had to watch Tenet 1) because you have great taste and 2) so I can watch this video without risk of being spoiled
Thanks to this video I went and rewatched it for a second time and I have to say it was a far better and far more enjoyable experience this time around. Definitely made much more sense, it was just that first viewing was extremely overwhelming. This is for sure that kind of movie you need to see more than once
whenever i watch tenet i feel like i am on the cusp of fully understanding what's going on but afterwards i couldn't tell you a thing about the actual inversion parts. I don't understand tenet, but i _get_ tenet
I consider tenet as successful failure, don't get me wrong, i loved the film, i even watched it on IMAX 70mm. the visuals were stunning and amazed by NOLAN filmmaking, i loved how he shot the movie with practical effects but there are several things i didn't like about the movie, 1 of'em were is the movie itself. After watching Interstellar, inception on cinemas i wanted to see it again because i didn't get the story but it's not same with tenet. i got the story plot of 1st screening which was weird, spoiler i even said to my friend that "at freeport, the guys he's fighting is himself" my friend were shocked when it happened. since i am sci-fi geek i already know about grandfather paradox, bootstrap paradox and learned about time inversion in this film. what i am trying to say is this movie didn't gave me the feeling of rewatch because i understood it. This movie was not also emotional/character driven story rather than situation drive. with inception it's about cobb getting his way to his children with interstellar is the same but with TENET its different. Anyways at end of the day this movie is still good but not for me, this is my least fav NOLAN film. Please feel to correct me if i'm wrong or add on your opinion.
I agree with alot of your appraisals. It gets better upon rewatch, at risk of sounding like a broken record. Still not as perfect as Inception or TDK. Rises the ranks over time.
I think the movie skips the emotional/character aspect that you mention to the very end when we discover that the protagonist and Neil knew each other but never seen in screen, for the same reason that "ignorance is our ammunition" is a way to justify it.
@@Konoba7 Yes the Neil / Protag relationship is something that's built to function upon rewatch, as you now have Neil's knowledge. Kat's emotional journey also works better although still pales in comparison to say, Cobb's, which is understandable
This movie had my full attention for close to five hours. When the movie ended on my first watch, I felt so bamboozled and clueless that I had to watch it again……immediately. I tried to piece things together from both watches but I can tell you that I’m still learning about this movie till today. Tenet is still my fav Nolan movie…..after The Prestige
My Nolan ranking goes as follows (Keep in mind none of his films are bad to me): 1) Interstellar 2) The Dark knight 3) Inception 4) The Dark Knight Rises 5) Dunkirk 6) The Prestige 8) Batman Begins 9) Memento 10) Tenet 11) Insomnia I haven't seen Following yet.
1 - 3 Interchangeable: 1)Inception 2) The Dark Knight 3) Tenet 4) Memento 5) Interstellar 6)Prestige 7) Dunkirk 8) Following 9)Begins 10)Insomnia 11)Rises Unreal filmography. He's in a class with the best ever.
I laughted hard at the Christopher Nolan with Travis Scott in your video HAHAHAHAHA it's still weird to me seeing two very different things that I like collide
Tenet is my favorite Nolan film so far. But my experience seeing it in cinemas was different than most. I basically went in and "felt" it rather than understood it from the first viewing simply because I've always felt that Nolan leans too far into exposition, or complexity for complexities sake, and have never taken those scenes too seriously. This meant that I got the big picture, it being a time travel Roger Moore Bond film, with a humanist protagonist as an example of the type of human we have to be to do the hard things and better this world. Small things, like what the heck is in the coat check in the opening sequence? Didn't know, didn't care. I think the story is easy to follow visually, and I never felt lost. I think the people who were lost got hung up on catching every word, which you never needed to. American agents. American agents pretending to be Ukrainian or Russian, or it doesn't matter. Double agent, here to rescue him, something important in coat check, got it.
I respect you opinion, and this is well made. I can't say I feel it as much as you tho. I wish the action was all of the movie and it stopped trying to make a grand story out of it cause the story just doesn’t make sense or make me feel anything. The action was generally great, especially the hallway fight...I could watch that over and over, but the constant narrative reinforcement is telling me to pay attention to the story which is so boring, especially anything involving the villain is dreadful. The best way to enjoy the story is to not pay attention to it...that's not a good thing lol. The experience of time reversal is the best part of this film and it should have fully focused on that instead of what we got.
1) inception 2) the dark knight 3) memento 4) interstellar 5) the prestige 6) tenet 7) dunkirk 8) the dark knight rises 9) batman begins (haven't watched insomnia and the following)
Great video. I loved Tenet right from the first watch and don't understand the critique. Even when my brain hurts in the final battle, I still fucking enjoy it.
It might of helped that my first viewing of the movie was off of my 4k Bluray copy with subtitles turned on, (sorry Nolan but your sound mix is too specific it sounds like garbage in the theater every time) I understood the basics of the movie and only a second viewing allowed me to piece together the stuff I missed. It's probably my personal favorite so far of Nolan's. It's a head scratcher for sure but that's what I loved about it.
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A QUESTION FOR TODAY: what's your Nolan ranking post-Tenet? mine is 1. Dunkirk, 2. Interstellar, 3. The Dark Knight, 4. Inception, 5. The Dark Knight Rises, 6. The Prestige, 7. Batman Begins, 8. Memento, 9. Tenet, 10. Insomnia & 11. Following
Interstellar
Inception
The Prestige
TDKR
Memento
BB
TDK
Insomnia
Tenet
Dunkirk
haven’t seen the following yet 😁
1. The Prestige, 2. Dunkirk, 3. Tenet, 4. Rises, 5. Memento, 6. Interstellar, 7. Inception, 8. Dark Knight, 9. Begins, 10. Insomnia
Terrific ranking. I think it's astonishing that to me, all of his films are at the very least very good, and most of them are what I consider masterworks. Here's my ranking: 1.) The Dark Knight. 2.) Memento. 3.) Inception. 4.) Dunkirk. 5.) Interstellar. 6.) The Prestige. 7.) Tenet. 8.) The Dark Knight Rises. 9.) Batman Begins. 10.) Insomnia. 11.) Following.
1) The Dark Knight
2) Memento
3) Inception
4) Batman Begins
5) Tenet
6) Interstellar
7) The Dark Knight Rises
Haven’t seen the rest, and there’s a pretty big gap between 4 and 5.
1) The Dark Knight
2) Batman Begins
3) Inception
4) Memento
5) The Prestige
6) Tenet
7) Insomnia
8) The Dark Knight Rises
9) Dunkirk
10) Interstellar
Love them all tho. Sadly haven't seen "Following" yet DX
Nolan saying "this shit is fire. Drop it." Absolutely cracked me up so hard
Checked the comments to see if that was mentioned and voila! "this shit is fire"
SAME
15:00 "goes against the entropy of an entire industry" Well said. TENET did something DIFFERENT.
Love it or hate it, you have to applaud film makers who actually try to make their films more than the sum of all current tropes.
“This shit is fire, drop it.” - Christopher Nolan
This is definitely how it happened.
I’m in the same boat. I wasn’t crazy about Tenet when I first watched it, but the more I watched it, the more I was able to embrace it. I still think it’s Nolan’s weakest film in a long time, but I like it for what it is.
I thought it was amazing the first time I watched it (With subtitles but it was on a plane so those two cancel out.) and by far better than Interstellar and weirdly I enjoy the emotions of the Protagonist. That being written Dunkirk (2017) and other such films in Nolan's repertoire are better.
One thing I love about Christopher Nolan even in movies of his that I’m not crazy about, is that he’s constantly experimenting and trying new things and totally committing to them. Even when it doesn’t totally work for me, I can admire that creative instinct.
...not a fan of Tenet, but I can get behind what you're saying.
I personally loved it, but even if I shared your opinion, I’ll take that over safe, boring, generic, studio mandated, sterile blockbusters, any day of the week.
I saw Tenet 2x in the movie theatre when it came out. I didn't understand it the first time, but it didn't matter because I was invested in the Protagonist story. The second time it was amazing. And then I bought the dvd and I've rewatched it many times. I even have a Sator square tattoo. I adore Tenet. The movie is amazing. Just feel it. And I felt it so much in the movie theatre with the music blasting off, wow.
Exactly, "just feel it"
It's the only sensible thing to do, lol
I heard in a different comment section that a poor dude went to watch this in IMAX in a seat by the wall and left the theater hearing slightly less in his left ear than his right 😆
*Gigachad smiles "Tenet supremacy, yes."
Tenet is a gigachad's movie
100%
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Could you imagine how much of a bummer it'd been if we had an unnecessary backstory for Washington forced on us?
His backstory hadn't happened yet
What's happened happened @evanward4303
@@evanward4303this Guy gets it
It's the energy you bring to talking about a movie I haven't even seen and don't have a whole lot of interest in seeing that gets me. Nolan might not really do it for me most of the time, but it's so much fun to hear you talk about his work.
A year later and that soundtrack still gives me chills
I love how Bailey talks about the things he loves, fuck it’s like serotonin to me! Giving Tenet the love it deserves…I’ve always said when people ask what it’s about “how cares it’s sick as shit!!”
“how[sic] cares it’s sick as shit!!” -- that is your answer to an exposition-heavy movie. Congrats. you got it.
You should watch BenfromCanada’s video on Tenet, so much love and energy coming from him
When I first saw it I must have been in “vibes mode” because I came out and absolutely loved it. I have watched it multiple times which helped to solidify everything inside it. I followed along with the plot on first watch but obviously it clicked even more on future watches. Glad to see you did a video on it because it does deserve the love
I love TENET as well. I literally watched it in theaters about 5 times and then I bought it in 4K and watched it at least 3 more times. Multiple rewatches (at least seeing it twice) do result in a BETTER understanding of the film even if not a COMPLETE understanding of the film. This movie had enthralled me so much that I spent a lot of time researching TENET on the internet, but I know the majority of normal humans wouldn’t do that lol.
14:50 Show don't tell is a false god. It's almost always good to have exposition, but it's almost never okay to say what a character is feeling.
Man I like the sheer love and humor you express while narrating your videos. Really captivating.
12:50 tht switch of music to RED ROOM BLUE ROOM I felt tht in my soul
They say that if you mix some psychedelics and stimulants that you can figure it out in reverse, making the first time you watch it actually the last one.
I LOVED & LOVE Tenet!! On my sixth rewatch now! The film demands something of you. It’s not a passive experience. It both compels and demands your engagement! I’ve never seen anything quite like it!
I definitely don't consider myself a genius in any way, but when I hear people talk about how they didn't understand Tenet at all, I kinda feel like one. I walked out of the theatre on my first viewing and actually felt like I understood most of it. Obviously repeat viewings showed me some things I missed and deepened my understanding of the movie, but from the first time I felt like I generally understood the plot and all the sci-fi mechanics and was able to keep track of most everything that happened.
"This shit is fire. Drop it" Dude you floored me hahaha
Even without completely understanding tenet. I do know but after the first time I loved it. Everything. The sound. The cinematography. The actinng. The weirdness. It's for me yet another masterpiece in the Nolan filmography. He is a master. Even the name tenet is masterful.
to my dismay tenet was not a film about renting out sections of buildings.
I too love Tenet, had to watch it about six times to fully get it. Once with the subtitles on. It's a puzzle box of a movie. You have to delve deep to fully appreciate it, it's not a casual viewing experience.
And you still didn't manage it...cause it's impossible, literally has zero internal coherence
But you managed the second best thing: to convince yourself that you did
I honestly loved Tenet on my first and only watch, and like yourself I keep coming back to the movie. I'm glad you've released this video, I've found it difficult to find any video essays that aren't negative about the film.
The amount of times I've watched this masterpiece of a video is unfathomable. Pure cinema.
I watched Tenet for the first time yesterday.
I was so impressed I went to RUclips to watch all the "explained" and such videos. Not because I needed explanations, but because I wanted MORE.
And I watched them all.
And this one is definitely the best of them!
Having a total blast with your analysis and how you put it to words.
Absolutely love the vibes of this film and the challenge it brings.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. “Tenet” is going to be for movies what “808s & Heartbreak” was for Hip Hop. Pieces of art that were ahead of their time.
Damn this is 100% true
When I watch movies like Tenet, I always think "Maybe we don't fear what we don't understand."
Make It Make Sense is the best advice when viewing this movie, I've seen some theorize that Neil is Kat & Sator's son. My theory is that The Protagonist is Michael from Fresh(1994).
Bro the chills when he says mission accomplished
This is my favorite essay on anything now. Your passion is so intense.
I feel like we're in this golden age of sci fi/ thriller.
this is the only TENET explanation video you ever need to watch
This is the fucking best thing done on TENET. Hands down... or up... depending on how we see it.
Nolan Ranked
1. The Prestige
2. The Dark Knight
3. Inception
4. Tenet
5. Dunkirk
6. Memento
7. Interstellar
8. Batman Begins
9. The Dark Knight Rises
Sadly haven’t watched Insomnia or Following yet. I think I like pretty much all of these, but for me The Prestige is the clear winner. Probably the best-plotted film I can think of; the way information is conveyed and the storylines are woven together is just brilliant. Every twist lands the first time you see it and is earned as you rewatch. I love how the three-tiered plotting, used here to maximize the twists, is used again in Dunkirk to maximize the intensity.
Anyway, great video Bailey! So glad the RUclips gods let it through! Your enthusiasm is infectious, and I can’t wait for the next vid!
Tenet is my favourite film due to all the parts of the film coming together in such creative ways.
Dunkirk is my favourite as well. It is the Nolan film that shows he can tell a story purely through audiovisual means.
The moment the bass drop hit during the opening sequence I could've cried.
I hadn't been to theater in MONTHS and seeing it in IMAX was just incredible. 😭
DUDES ROCK and bailey is an absolute dude for making such a kickass video. More people need to find this channel so share, share share! This dude deserves the appreciation.
missed you, man
Always opening my eyes with these videos, great work man, always love to hear the positivity from you
I absolutely love tenet's score, I remember blasting that off on my headphones and speakers constantly last year when it was released on spotify. It's something else and so unique.
Not a fan of Tenet but this video made me want to give the movie another shot.
My Nolan ranking
1-The Dark Knight
2-The Prestige
3-Batman Begins
4-The Dark Knight Rises
5-Inception
6-Dunkirk
7-Interstellar
8-Memento
9-Tenet
10- Following
Great list!
ah yes the first movie in over 10 years that i had to see more than twice to get a grasp on, love it
Don't you wonder why no other truly great film needs you to do this? Not one? Not Apocalypse Now, not Jaws, not The Parallax View, Not any of Kubrick's films, not Shutter Island, not Memento or any other of Nolan's films, not Donnie Darko, not Fight Club, not Jacob's Ladder, not David Lynch's stuff, not 2001 - A Space Odyssey, not Fight Club, not anything else I can think of EXCEPT for Primer. Whose basic concept Tenet "borrows". Coincidence? I mean there are films where you don't get the basic story and plot mechanics the first time you watch them. But then we are in the territory of comparing Nolan to Tommy Wiseau. Tenet is Nolan over-indulging in an approach he likes, but overdid here. I think Tenet is a super interesting movie. But storytelling-wise it's a failure. Not because of ambition, but because the craftmanship of storytelling here is just misguided. The editing, making an exposition-heavy film and then messing with the sound mix, the reliance on plot mechanics and treating characters as mechanical things within these plot mechanics. All basic tools in filmmaking/ storytelling that were applied badly. Every time I talk to someone else in the business about Tenet, everyone is baffled how it happened in this form.
@@thetechsite9619 jeez get off your highhorse
@@TheJedifr33style There's no high horse. But there are expectations of a film working as a film. And all the films I mentioned don't need to be watched several times to fully work. I still have to meet one person from the industry, who doesn't shake their head over how Tenet got made in this form.
Yup, beyond reason it is my favorite Nolan film. I said the same thing when I saw it in theaters, it's more than the sum of its parts. There's something about it that keeps drawing me back. I saw it twice on the big screen and would have gone back more but that was when Covid was really hurting theaters and we had to wear masks. But I fucking loved the experience
This is your best video yet! The script, editing, and pacing is immaculate. Loved every second of this man, amazing job!
Thank you! I've been waiting for someone to go ahead and say it and I'm so proud and happy that you did. This movie requires you to shut off your snobby, prejudged notions of what a film is and forces you to play along, adapt, and roll with the punches. You saying it's a vibe is perfect, I've seen the movie probably 6 or 7 times now and between the thrills, the score (MMMMMMM), and the extreme technicality behind its making, I love it more and more every time.
Watching the making of featurettes also adds a beautiful amount of clarity to things I didn't entirely consider. Like how extreme the editing must have been, how he pulled off the extreme sailing scenes with boats that literally "don't jive like this", the inverted and still going forward fight scenes, and landing a huge helicopter on the deck of a private yacht - just to name a few things.
Thank you for showing me I'm not a minority on loving this film, it's honestly in my top 3 Nolans.
This is what I needed today. Subscribed!!
Wow. Thank you for this video. That you can articulate so perfectly all my own thoughts and feelings on tenet and WITHOUT spoilers is… amazing. I don’t know where to start when people ask about this movie so from this day on I’ll take a deep breath, sit them down, and play your vid. Thanks again!!
welcome back man :) we missed ya
Being an ardent fan of Nolan, this video absolutely rules my man. Your energy and the way you described the sheer grandeur of this kind of cinema which will not be forgotten about for a long time, is commendable. After all, it's a movie about two dudes doing cool shit. Cheers!
i got lost right after the theater scene, so i just watched the movie, didn't think it's bad. The stunt, the visuals and techniques are pure master class. I think people are bashing it because they want to know the details of the entire movie; knowing the plot wasnt enough for them.
Great video, brilliant analysis and fantastic editing!
Bailey bringing bangers.
You summed it up perfectly, I’m also madly in love with his film. Took me multiple watches to finally understand the movie and even now while it makes sense in my mind, I would find it challenging to articulate what the fu*k is going on to a first time watcher!! Anyway great video! 👍
I love the way you talk about movies. Great vid
Ah man you really captured one of the core reasons why i adore tenet, great essay as always!
This movie has the most interesting place into my mindscape that this video urged me to see it again.
Neurons were firing full throttle while watching this movie. And I can't get enough of it.
I WISSHHH they made more movies like this in the modern day, im constantly trying to find psychological thrillers like this but there is nothing
I agree with your frame 1457 Chapter!
I mean, I agree with the whole video but that is the one I agreed with the most!
It's like the music gives the movies what it needed
And Honestly, there was a time around 2020 ending when I was obsessed with its whole Soundtrack!
the moment you used sicko mode in the background i went WTF. amazing video!
Hi awesome review! This basically encapsulated everything I loved about tenet and more thanks for giving a voice on it
An excellent vid essay, well done, you need more recognition!
When I heard the scientist say, "don't try to understand it. Feel it." I took her advice. I just tried to vibe with the movie. Didn't turn my brain off but ya know... Just relaxed and stopped bothering with understanding it all.
And I ended up really understanding most of what was going on and I just had a blast. It was a fantastic experience.
Great job, Bailey. I have come to expect well-made, thoughtful, energetic videos from this channel and you never disappoint. Great job, my guy
So why is this an exposition-heavy movie then? Which is not about feelings - not at all - but about plot mechanics playing out?
honestly, this is how i initially approached the movie and i enjoyed it
The king returns- can't wait to see whatever you cover next.
The list rn is probably:
1. The Dark Knight
2. The Prestige
3. Inception
4. Interstellar
5. Batman Begins
6. Tenet
7. Dunkirk
8. The Dark Knight Rises
9. Memento
10. Insomnia
Holy moly. I'm surprised you put Memento so low.
@@scottmckenzie9426 They're all great movies, Memento's goated. Still a personal list tho.
11:53 I’ve thought about this too lmfao Nolan’s one of the best
_Tenet_ - one of my favorite movies of all time. Up there with _2001, Arrival, Alien_ - I think this movie is brilliant, original, and, as you say, pedal to the metal all the way through.
I really like the distinction made here, between switching off your brain in order to enjoy a generic blockbuster (like most superhero films imo), and relaxing and being in the moment in order to enjoy a blockbuster like Tenet. It's really, really different.
I don't love all of Nolan's work, but I absolutely adore some of it.
My personal ranking is:
1. Dunkirk
2. Inception
3. The prestige
4. Batman begins
5. The dark knight
6.Tenet
7. The dark knight rises
8. Memento
9. Insomnia
10. Interstellar
Interstellar and Memento are top 3 for me
dudes rock and so does this video man! so good.
Great video man. Keep it up.
And let me just say it.. Tenet is masterpiece. My favourite action movie of all time. Haven't watched it in like 10 month but after ur video i'll have to watch it for the 4th time!
I was able to understand the science fiction involving inversion. Physicists up to this point in time have discovered that from our frame of time, time moves forward into the future, into a state of higher entropy (a concept associated with energy). When the entropy is reversed, the way an endothermic and exothermic reaction relate to the release or absorption of energy, then you go into the past. It’s trying to make sense of the time travel, which permeates the entire film, where I got scrambled
Exactly how I felt. First viewing, a bit dissapointed. Just thinking about it a year later? I'm amazed by it (haven't even rewatched yet)
I haven’t even seen Tenet but I thought this rocked, dude
As soon as I saw you dropped this video I knew I had to watch Tenet 1) because you have great taste and 2) so I can watch this video without risk of being spoiled
Thanks to this video I went and rewatched it for a second time and I have to say it was a far better and far more enjoyable experience this time around. Definitely made much more sense, it was just that first viewing was extremely overwhelming. This is for sure that kind of movie you need to see more than once
Absolutely great vid as always ❤
I love this movie. I personally think the reason he is just called The Protagonist is this is not his story. It's Kat's.
pump this into my veins
Greatest movie ever made for
Me.
I think the dialogue sound 'problem' actually helps the film as you just have to surrender and experience the work
I needed this, thank you so much!
whenever i watch tenet i feel like i am on the cusp of fully understanding what's going on but afterwards i couldn't tell you a thing about the actual inversion parts. I don't understand tenet, but i _get_ tenet
I consider tenet as successful failure, don't get me wrong, i loved the film, i even watched it on IMAX 70mm. the visuals were stunning and amazed by NOLAN filmmaking, i loved how he shot the movie with practical effects but there are several things i didn't like about the movie, 1 of'em were is the movie itself. After watching Interstellar, inception on cinemas i wanted to see it again because i didn't get the story but it's not same with tenet. i got the story plot of 1st screening which was weird, spoiler i even said to my friend that "at freeport, the guys he's fighting is himself" my friend were shocked when it happened. since i am sci-fi geek i already know about grandfather paradox, bootstrap paradox and learned about time inversion in this film. what i am trying to say is this movie didn't gave me the feeling of rewatch because i understood it. This movie was not also emotional/character driven story rather than situation drive. with inception it's about cobb getting his way to his children with interstellar is the same but with TENET its different. Anyways at end of the day this movie is still good but not for me, this is my least fav NOLAN film. Please feel to correct me if i'm wrong or add on your opinion.
I agree with alot of your appraisals. It gets better upon rewatch, at risk of sounding like a broken record. Still not as perfect as Inception or TDK. Rises the ranks over time.
I think the movie skips the emotional/character aspect that you mention to the very end when we discover that the protagonist and Neil knew each other but never seen in screen, for the same reason that "ignorance is our ammunition" is a way to justify it.
@@Konoba7 Yes the Neil / Protag relationship is something that's built to function upon rewatch, as you now have Neil's knowledge. Kat's emotional journey also works better although still pales in comparison to say, Cobb's, which is understandable
This movie had my full attention for close to five hours. When the movie ended on my first watch, I felt so bamboozled and clueless that I had to watch it again……immediately.
I tried to piece things together from both watches but I can tell you that I’m still learning about this movie till today.
Tenet is still my fav Nolan movie…..after The Prestige
My Nolan ranking goes as follows (Keep in mind none of his films are bad to me):
1) Interstellar
2) The Dark knight
3) Inception
4) The Dark Knight Rises
5) Dunkirk
6) The Prestige
8) Batman Begins
9) Memento
10) Tenet
11) Insomnia
I haven't seen Following yet.
1 - 3 Interchangeable: 1)Inception 2) The Dark Knight 3) Tenet
4) Memento 5) Interstellar 6)Prestige 7) Dunkirk 8) Following
9)Begins 10)Insomnia 11)Rises
Unreal filmography. He's in a class with the best ever.
I laughted hard at the Christopher Nolan with Travis Scott in your video HAHAHAHAHA it's still weird to me seeing two very different things that I like collide
you nailed it. i just wish they'd bring it back to IMAX in Toronto b/c we never got to see it here.
Absolutely stupendous work
Tenet is my favorite Nolan film so far. But my experience seeing it in cinemas was different than most.
I basically went in and "felt" it rather than understood it from the first viewing simply because I've always felt that Nolan leans too far into exposition, or complexity for complexities sake, and have never taken those scenes too seriously.
This meant that I got the big picture, it being a time travel Roger Moore Bond film, with a humanist protagonist as an example of the type of human we have to be to do the hard things and better this world.
Small things, like what the heck is in the coat check in the opening sequence? Didn't know, didn't care.
I think the story is easy to follow visually, and I never felt lost. I think the people who were lost got hung up on catching every word, which you never needed to.
American agents. American agents pretending to be Ukrainian or Russian, or it doesn't matter. Double agent, here to rescue him, something important in coat check, got it.
I respect you opinion, and this is well made. I can't say I feel it as much as you tho. I wish the action was all of the movie and it stopped trying to make a grand story out of it cause the story just doesn’t make sense or make me feel anything. The action was generally great, especially the hallway fight...I could watch that over and over, but the constant narrative reinforcement is telling me to pay attention to the story which is so boring, especially anything involving the villain is dreadful. The best way to enjoy the story is to not pay attention to it...that's not a good thing lol. The experience of time reversal is the best part of this film and it should have fully focused on that instead of what we got.
i highly recommend watching it with captions
I feel the same, couldn’t stop thinking about this movie
I might not truly understand your take but I certainly FEEL it
1) inception 2) the dark knight 3) memento 4) interstellar 5) the prestige 6) tenet 7) dunkirk 8) the dark knight rises 9) batman begins (haven't watched insomnia and the following)
Great video. I loved Tenet right from the first watch and don't understand the critique. Even when my brain hurts in the final battle, I still fucking enjoy it.
"Against the entropy of an entire industry"...🤯🤯🤯
Ahhh my weekly dose of serotonin, thanks bailey.
It might of helped that my first viewing of the movie was off of my 4k Bluray copy with subtitles turned on, (sorry Nolan but your sound mix is too specific it sounds like garbage in the theater every time) I understood the basics of the movie and only a second viewing allowed me to piece together the stuff I missed. It's probably my personal favorite so far of Nolan's. It's a head scratcher for sure but that's what I loved about it.
Another Loverboy banger !!!!