WTF Happened to Tenet?
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Tenet was one of the most controversial movies of 2020 - for many reasons. While everyone should have been excited to see the latest Christopher Nolan movie, it became highly divisive when the director refused to cave to pressure to send it to streaming, resulting in Warner Bros releasing the film at the height of the global pandemic, which directly impacted its box office. The reception to the film was also mixed, with many complaining that the plot was impossible to figure out, while some deemed the sound mix unintelligible. In this episode of WTF Happened to this Movie, written by Brad Hamerly, edited by Kier Gomes and narrated by Mathew Plale, we look into the Movie’s divisive release and its reputation two years later.
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I watched Tenet for the first time tomorrow.
Loved it too. Can’t wait to watch it yesterday.
@@SFO14 I'm having so much fun tomorrow
I watched it Tomorrow but seen it yesterday. As I’m watching this video today
Full points, sir. Full points.
"What did he say?" The most spoken words by the audience throughout this film
I had no problem hearing the dialogue. Didn’t see in theatres though,
Same as Dunkirk. I’ll watch any further Nolan films at home with subtitles.
There were couple of words I heard, and I've heard them repeatedly from anybody who went in to see the film, or bought the film, with high expectations. 'Boring' and 'Shite'. I've been a film-buff for over 30 years, and I own the steelbook of this movie, tbh I don't know why I've still got it, I'm never going to revisit it again.
Exactly
I watched this on my phone in an airplane which is pretty noisy and I still heard all of the dialogue.
I am the world's greatest detective, and I still don't know wtf is happening in this movie.
Bullshit. That is what.
"I find the audience reactions to this movie amusing" The Joker
F** off Batman, Nolan revived you, stop being cocky
😂😂😂😂
You didn’t get prep time 🤷🏻
Saw this at an IMAX with Laser (a few months later when theaters opened in NY, I saw it on 70mm IMAX in Lincoln Square.) and I walked out of there with my hearing muffled kind of like walking out from a concert. It was so insanely loud I could feel the rumble in my chest. Tenet was the absolute loudest experience I’ve ever had in a movie theater to this date.
Can't tell if complimenting or complaining. 🤔
That sounds fantastic.
Same!!! It was wild.
Who is laser ?
Those guns in the beginning were way too loud
I saw Tenet 3 times in IMAX… and have since watched it a few more times and I love it even more with each viewing… unbelievably mind bending and captivating.
Edit: that was hilarious, he said “the Oscar-snubbed Hobbs & Shaw”
sad
He also called Mulan an epic, lol
Yikes bro.
Maybe you can tell me WTH happened in that movie then 🙃
If you like “mind bending”, you should check out the movie Primer. It’s pretty intense.
Took four times for me to get this flick. Then I watched video essays and realized I still don’t get it.
I watched Tenet in an IMAX set to Nolan's viewing/audio specifications... I still couldn't understand half the dialogue. I was able to follow the story fine, but I missed some key character explanations along the way. It was also the LOUDEST movie-going experience of my entire life. I was scared I would damage my hearing after the opening scene. Overall, I still liked the movie.
Didn't miss a thing...
One word. SUBTITILES
@@sufferhead6943Theater doesn't show subtitle for English dialogue.
@@thementalcritic lol. maybe normal theatre. but broke mf theatre has it all.
Im so lucky to be german, because in german the movie have so much clearer voices.
I had to watch Tenet on streaming due to those stupid lockdowns in Oregon.
I thought the concept was fantastic but the execution left a lot to be desired. Like a lot of Nolan films, the emotional component was absent and i never really got to know the characters since they spoke only in non stop exposition. And the final action set piece was an army of people facing off against a hidden, faceless army of people. It was extremely underwhelming.
It's a shame because some of the action sequences are stunning and the soundtrack is insanely good.
Well said. Character: “I only speak in exposition”
You're right, Nolan doesn't know how to do the emotional component so usually tries to distract us with something else
I was just hoping David Tennant would wander up on Washington and Pattinson and start babbling about how time is...more like a giant ball of weebledy-wobbledy, timey-wimey...stuff.
@@platform14 I would disagree, except for in this particular circumstance.
@@platform14 Really? Interstellar wasn’t emotional with a lot of heart?
PRACTICAL EFFECTS BEFORE CGI
That's my motto
If you watch that boring and repetitive massive fight at the end and you don’t think it NEEDED vfx I insist you weren’t paying attention
Movies are kind of food and sex. The real thing is always best
Tenet is undoubtedly Nolan's most indulgent movie. went over the top and then some
Still better then MCU diarrhea.
True, the MCU fatigue keeps getting worse. Lost all interest after endgame
@@alsaj9992 Same the MCU is sooooo whack now I can't even watch it for free
Tenet is hot garbage. But still better than MCU shit.
Nolan is so amazing he created his own country "Noreway" amazing
Even if there was no conflict at Warner Bros about movies coming out on streaming instead of theaters, the movie would still be viewed the same way. I remember seeing it and found it really confusing and hard to follow
Exactly.....I think I like it? If that makes sense. But damn so hard to follow.
I agree, when people say that you have to see the movie like 3 times to get everything that doesn't seem like a huge advantage for me
It’s not for dumb people
@@SNNetwork like what you figured it out the first time or?
Bet you didn't even get The Prestige
Agreed. Tenet was just too much of a niche movie, even for Nolan's standards.. it would've never crossed the Inception or Dark Knight level of numbers (if anything,it would've done close to 500m at most or similar to Interstellar numbers), general audience just don't care about that kind of movies. and a confusing movie like that, which purposely requires multiple viewing, coming out in a middle of pandemic made the matters worse as well. nobody in a middle of pandemic would've risked their life to go watch this kind of movie
Filmmakers like Nolan are in a very short supply
The, Business Aspect Of Hollywood, is squarely to blame for that, if it's, not, a blockbuster, than, it's, already, on borrowed time.
Thankfully
@@damenb8786 He, probably, squashed a lot of careers, with, his comments, as the studios, are going to be cutting back on the budgets even further, now, tragic.
@@colinrobinson4233 Yeah, if, not, for, COVID, this film, probably, would have been a flop, anyway, whether, it's, concept, execution, or, both, this film, simply, had no chance, and, that's about it, just is.
And meanwhile directors of crappy superhero films continue to crap out their crap.
This movie was a confusing disappointment... Such a bummer
This was one of the best experiences I've had watching movies, which unironically, is something I say every time I exit the theater from a Nolan film. His movies are made for theaters.
Not my favorite Nolan movie ever. It's no Inception, Interstellar, The Dark Knight, or Batman Begins. But I do admire the effort and passion that went into the filming. Also love that Nolan stuck to his guns when it came to movies coming out into theaters. This is why Nolan is such an inspiration to me as both a director and writer.
I saw this 5 times in theaters. Would absolutely love if they did a rerelease so it can get the shot it deserves
So underrated
Nope...
an under rated Nolan's film, gimme a break ... the guy have made stinkers over stinkers, with like perhaps a couple decent ones in the middle, and is glorified like a god ...
people nowadays really do have extremely low standards ...
@@slckb0y65 - Nolan is a very visual filmmaker...who wants people to think he's smarter than he is.
He's also so arrogant it doesn't occur to him most theaters don't have the kind of sound mix he believes his work demands because they can't - it's either too expensive, or the multiplex is built in a such a way as to harm other filmgoers enjoyment of the movie when his is next door.
@@drdarkeny yup, honestly even during his whole batman trilogy craze i though the movies were passable at best, second one was the best but thanks to Ledger only,
and given the direction Nolan gave to Christian "throat cancer" Bale and Tom "gay british lord" Hardy, i'd be enclined to beleive he's the only one he didn't direct.
and as proof of his next level genius : exhibit A : at the end of batman begins they need a microwave weapon to vaporize the hallucinogen they put into the city's water for days.
because of course, nobody in an entire freakin' chicago sized city boiled water, took a shower, or just drank a glass of water in the meantime.
also, microwaves powerfull enough to instantly boil water in underground pipes would totally not have the same effect as a freakin BFG on the population who's body are mainly made out of water ... HUUUUuuuurrrr to the DDDDDUUUUUUURrrrrrrrrrrrrr !!!!
ohhh but it's just that i'm too stupid to understand his deep level thinking, of course, of course ... ;)
I did watch it in the cinema. It was only about 5 percent full. The sounds were great but I didn't know what the characters were talking about and the story telling was a mess. I have rewatched the film another two more times since and still confirmed that that the plot was a mess and I still don't know what was going on.
Congrats you're a rational person with common sense, because only imbeciles are raving about how the movie is a psychological mind bending masterpiece.
@@VR_schles5626 👌
It's prolly the first out of sequence movie I have watched and then rewatched and then rewatched again and still have no idea what is going on. Stuff looks cool though.
@@hollanderson Yes I like the weird looking action sequences
it is def a film that does a lousy job of explaining itself for the common movie goer, you need an companion explainer video. which is too bad, cuz he couldve made it land better as iconic if it was slightly easier to grasp
I wish they would release it in IMAX again for a limited time. I would absolutely go see it.
It’s better with some noise canceling headphones. Couldn’t hear shit in imax
I really enjoyed Tenet than most did. It’s the most Nolan film, and that soundtrack by Ludwig is one of the best soundtracks to a movie
Ludwig is so damn good
Nah
The movie turned out to be like a tech demo, not a single normal as on not film buff could follow this thing . My friend even fell asleep next to me in it saying the low pitch noises made him sleepy and he couldn't follow it anyways .
I love the tech demo analogy. Tenet feels like a proof-of-concept that was forcibly stretched to be feature length film before script a had the chance to fully mature. (I’m not saying that’s how the production actually went, it’s just what the resulting film appears as imo)
Personally I think it's the pinnacle of his career so far and a very ambitious film.
when a director speaks down to you.
About concepts that are total nonsense but he knows simpletons will say is brilliant 🤣🤣.
@@VR_schles5626 it's actually the other way around
@@anthonymartensen3164 it's concepts make perfect sense and only intelligent people say it's crap?
I think this movie was made for you 🤣
I love Nolan but Tenet and Dunkirk were massive disappointments imo. I have high hopes with Oppenheimer though.
When a director trusts his blind followers too much....
I loved this movie. It certainly isn’t perfect but I just really enjoy watching it.
ONLY if i was released in non covid time and in theatres only....it would have been a big success
Most would go to watch it twice (to understand it)
Also after taking a week of thoughts
Tenet has been one of my most favorite viewing experiences in my life. It still affects me today as the story is designed to invite you to engage with the story long after it's over.
This is very well stated and I agree fully.
All Nolan's movies are
I thought it was pretty terrible.
@@Healthnwealth250 and you're welcome to that opinion but it would be preferable to hear why you thought it was terrible rather than just saying so
@@Lockn3s5 anything I say you will deny. It was convoluted, terribly written , bad acting , no substance
Nolan fans happened. Nolan and Shyamalan have this in common, the fans elevated them to godlike status and they believed in the fans.
Tenet is Nolan trying to look like the smartest guy in the room, ended up looking like a kid giving a bad presentation in front of the class.
Nah, M Night was a one trick pony. Nolan is much more than that.
I watched this movie high for the first time when it came to Netflix and was blown away by the story and the uniqueness of it. the cinematography was stunning, and the music (watched it with headphones on my 70 inch tv) really made me feel like I was in the movie. I don’t know how to describe it well, maybe attention grabbing. But the first scene really made me feel a bit anxious cause of the music.
I also loved the sophistication of the characters, and how they talked and carried themselves. Truly a masterpiece imo.
Ps. Watch movies high but not stoned asf and don’t understand shit. I think when I watch movies while high, I really feel the movie and experience what the director was trying to portray.
I watched Dr strange high in 3d and it was one of the best experiences.
Tenet was never on netflix you must be thinking of a different streaming app
I’m a huge Nolan fan but making a movie where the audio is unintelligible is still a mystery to me.
I’ve never experienced these audio problems with Interstellar or Tenet that people complain about. I’m a Chris Nolan fan as well. However, he would never have been able to get away with a film as “sloppy” as Tenet without first building up the credibility he did.
He got cute, thought he could make anything work and it backfired.
It’s almost like they have Liam neeson doing the dialog
@@mmclaurin8035 Well put.
One of the most pretentious films I've ever seen.
Inception was the kind of movie you had to watch a few times to fully understand what the hell is going on, for me at least it was. But it was still something you could enjoy even the first time despite the confusion. The tenet was so hard to follow that I couldn’t even enjoy it enough to finish it. And when i watched it again, it still was confusing. I love clever and chaotic movies inception.
I dont get it, i understood the film in 1 watch?
The film is essentially about time existing all at once and the things that happen in our future are determined by our actions in the past and vice Vera. Loved tenet one of my favorite Nolan films
Best thing Christopher nolan gifted us in 2020
2020 is bad freaking bad
Since this film came out it’s been equally frustrating and entertaining seeing many big YT film essayists try to argue this train wreck of a movie is some kind of misunderstood master piece.
Exactly. It's pretentious AF.
Gimmick and a concept with shallow ass protagonist called "The Protagonist" acting like its deep. Tenet is mentioned TWICE, serves no purpose, the pace never gives way to breathe, its spectacle without meaning, sci-fi without consistency. End plot was garbage because it felt the movie was trying to put me back into the seat by saying "WAIT THERE IS A COOL PLOT TWIST!!!!"
Apsolute shit movie
@@Kserijaro I think Nolan comes up with cool but gimmicky set pieces first, then wraps a story around it. Usually he manages to get a decent or even good story out of it, but with Tenet nothing he was trying to achieve or establish actually landed imo. The stakes are only expressed through exposition, the McGuffin is shoehorned in, and completely impotent as a high stakes trope. Same goes for the character relationships and motivations. Nothing feels sincere. The twist with the Indian lady being revealed to be the big boss instead of the guy, literal seconds after their first introduction is completely irrelevant and of no consequence. It’s like giving the answer to a question nobody is asking for.
nolan's career in a nutshell ... like tell me interstellar isn't bargain bin 2001 a space odisey with global wahming propaganda on top.
@@zerocore_ Agreed! The end battle scene in *Tenet* is just a dull, incomprehensible mess. There's no sense of geography (who is where, and where "here" even is), no real flow to the action, no clear delineation between the units in combat, no clearly defined movement from the battle's beginning to its end (and what the end goal truly was, the motivation that drove it; not only for the film, but especially in the sense of that whole scene), and a ridiculous McGuffin that underwhelmed. Just another philosophical cluster fuck.
It was just men in indistinguishable uniforms running, yelling, shooting, and exploding *_into_* buildings (which was visually interesting and a concept that could've been better explored and executed). The harrowing D-Day landing in *Saving Private Ryan* or the tense, chaotic-but-followable shootout in *Heat* it was not. Very disappointing.
The Nolans are great at the underlying concepts and big picture, and the visuals usually amaze, but I prefer the gravity defying and time stretching action scenes in *Inception* to groups of men in grey camo and black helmets running and shooting at grey buildings in a featureless, grey desert.
Just... no sense of geography, scale, or stakes....
It also doesn't help that the story, to my lights, was rather obtuse and almost numbingly impenetrable. *Very* _indulgent!! _
I didn't understand Tenet so I watched a bunch of youtube vids about Tenet and now I still don't understand Tenet.
Nice! 😉
“TENET” is a great example of underrated & misunderstood. Yet, utterly complex & confusing. 😅
Honestly, Tenet was the worst, 100% rotten, horrible and worst told story I've ever had the displeasure of seeing. I would rather get a Brazilian than suffer through this abomination again.
Still the most talked about movie post pandemic. Wildly underrated. Neil is the most interesting sidekick ever
post?
I forgot all about this movie and how much I hated it for being nonsense until Joblo made a video about it. There are plenty of reasons to not like this movie. The poor audio mixing issues which requires the viewer to use subtitles is the most blatant (I feel bad for the people who paid money to see this in theaters, which is what Nolan was originally pushing for). The underwritten characters with their lack of backstories, motives, character arcs, and other relatable characteristics audiences can relate to. Backstories like “you sold me a fake painting, so now you can’t see our son” …who even writes this nonsense? How is this supposed to be relatable for anyone to even care about? This looks like less of a character development and more like an unnecessary lazily contrived plot device to have Kat involved in the story so the protagonist meets Sator. That’s the problem with this film. Nolan sees everyone as plot devices rather than actual characters. He couldn’t even be bothered to give the protagonist a real name. Protagonist is a title of a character or rather a placeholder for a name…not the character’s name.
The plot holes in this movie, especially involving Neil: If protagonist can go back in time to kill people, then what prevents someone else from doing the same to stop protagonist? If protagonist can go back in time, then why didn't he go back to help his supposed friend Neil so his friend didn't have to die...If they're such good friends why does he still recruit and send Neil on a suicide mission he knows will get him killed, or why does protagonist not send someone else to help Neil so he doesn't get killed? Why did protagonist risk the whole world to save Kat (which he barely knows or has any established relationship with), but couldn’t be bothered to save his supposed best friend Neil?
People talk about this movie?
This wasn’t a movie in the classic sense. I love the technical execution, the overall look (especially the choice the casts clothing) and the aspect of it being basically a jigsaw puzzle.
I did see it 3 times in an IMAX theatre and then at least seven times on Blu-ray and like to think about every sequence in detail.
Tenet had my mind going 100 miles a hour @ 1st watch. This movie was genius.
I think the mindf#}^k thing is really a distraction to make you enjoy the action more.
I watched at home with subtitles and the ability to rewind just to fully understand a scene if it was too fast moving and this movie still didn't make much sense as a narrative whole. I also found it odd Nolan was too lazy to replace the story's placeholder 'protagonist' and give him an actual name. I'm surprised he didn't just call the villain "antagonist" 😄
I’m pretty sure the name is intentional so you constantly remember he IS the protagonist. It also makes the world seem more far-fetched and sci-if since you wouldn’t ever refer to someone as the “protagonist” in our world.
@@mihneasvideos I can't tell if you're stupid or just being sarcastic...?
Garbage level writing about a nameless character running around trying to get to the thing, while a community of Dark Knight fan boys eat it up stating,"You don't understand it. Nolan is a Genius." Then explain the story. Explain the main characters motives beside I'm the protagonist who likes hot sauce.
Yeah. Nolan is constantly trying to push more and more fantastic stories, which is good, but in this, he totally over did it. Sometimes less is more.
The characters were just there to spout exposition, it was so dull.
Nolan failed humanity by inciting people to expose their lives. People want to forget how bad it was COVID-wise by the time of its release. He just cared about his damn movie.
Then he shows his less than humble character by tell people to f' off about his badly mixed sound. He didn't get the slap of humility he needed when the movie failed, he is still waiting for it (I hope not with Oppenheimerr, I like Cillian Murphy).
Oppenheimer's, budget, probably, isn't nearly to the level of, TENET's, it should be, OK, meanwhile, check out, Fat Man, And, Little Boy, with, Paul Newman, and, Dwight Schultz, Playing Against Type, (brilliantly).
@@matthewdaley746 Still, with the, goddamned, commas?
@@zabbzudah8918 Blasphemy aside, when you're the son of a teacher, (and, Grammar Nazi), it's far better to put in too many than it is, to, not, put in enough, no doubt.
Lol 😆
@@chrish8229 What horrific messes generated.
Noreway? lol
The only word that pops in my mind about this movie: pretentious. Did not watch it, but it takes itself so serious like it's some kind of revolutionary, don't know, it may be good.
The end of this movie, where one army fought another army in this strange abandoned town or some shit, felt like Inception. This movie felt like a dream within a dream.
Personally, it's become one of my favorite movies. I love it and have rewatched it many times. Time manipulation/ time loop stories are my favorite subgenre.
I loved it too. One of the few films I can immediately rewatch. Score was spot on, too.
this film didn't do it for me. stunning cinematography, but the sci-fi is more fi than sci. every time the characters try to explain the science, the more it makes no sense and seems far-fetched to the story... it's like the opposite of Interstellar. all the elements are just not coming together. people are being awed by the bafflement.
I agree with much of what you've said, but the end battle scene in Tenet is just a dull, incomprehensible mess; it's indicative toward the movie as a whole.
My problems with the battle:
There's no sense of geography (who is where, and where "here" even is), no real flow to the action, rather boilerplate cinematography, no clear delineation between the units in combat, no clearly defined movement from the battle's beginning to its end (and what the end goal truly was; not just for the film, but particularly in the sense of that whole scene), what was it's purpose in the story when it was just starting something that has already begun *and* come to fruition, and the *ridiculous* McGuffin that underwhelmed and was simply the excuse to play with the *Rewind* and *Play* buttons on his remote controller. It's just weak storytelling.
It was just mostly unknown characters with mostly unknown motivations in indistinguishable uniforms running, yelling, shooting, and exploding *_into_* buildings (which was visually interesting, but a concept that could've been better explored and executed). The overwhelming and immersive D-Day landing in *Saving Private Ryan* or the tense, chaotic-but-followable shootout in *Heat* this scene was not. Very disappointing.
The Nolans are great at the underlying concepts and big picture ideas and gimmicks and gags, and the visuals usually amaze (and they've come up with some fun and entertaining action set pieces, though it often feels like they just write a story _around_ them), but I prefer the gravity defying and time stretching action scenes in *Inception* to men in identical grey uniforms with full-face helmets running and shooting at grey buildings in a featureless grey desert.
Just... no sense of geography, scale, story progression, or stakes.... Not to mention the lack of emotional connection to most of the characters and the fact that they, rather lazily, all speak in exposition.
It also doesn't help that the story, to my lights, was rather obtuse and almost numbingly impenetrable. Just my opinion though.
The fucking cheek of Nolan to be at WB STILL despite the fact that Nolan was insisting that Tenet MUST BE THEATRICAL during the absolute peak of COVID is a level of tone deafness most celebrities wouldn't muster. I kinda hope Oppenheimer underperforms to bring him down to reality
TENET was one of the greatest cinematic experiences I've had in a theater aside from seeing Avatar at L.A. Live. The sound was amazing and literally had your seat shaking with the bass during the opening grand opera house siege amongst other action sequences. It's an international spy film dealing with nuclear proliferation amongst other themes that subverts your expectations. The first time you view the film is like feeling the bullet inverted. The second time you watch it's all clear with you asking yourself how did I miss that the first time.
You: What happened to Tenet?
The Protagonist: It hasn’t happened yet
A handful of amazing scenes wrapped tightly in disjointed, boring, and inaudible fluff. Felt like some amateur doing a decent impression of a Christopher Nolan film
I've come to the conclusion he does his best work on smaller films.
Nailed it!!
Finally someone who thinks this film was so boring…
You nailed it! I feel the same way.
That accurately explains literally every single one of his films.
John Washington’s performance was very underwhelming. He didn’t seem to fit in well with the film. It almost seemed like he was a terrible actor but I think this role just didn’t fit him. Still, I thought the film was okay
John David Washington was mis-cast. He didn't (doesn't) have the range to pull off the Tenet protagonist. Chiwetel Ejiofor would have been a better choice....also the Racing Yacht scene just didn't play.
Range?? Emotion isn't something required for this, or almost any other, Nolan film.
@@zabbzudah8918ok good point. Maybe “presence” is a better word. He had the most screen time but was the least engaging character
I had a really bad car accident then fell down some stairs, got really, drunk, took 3 tabs of acid, contracted covid then had someone random punch me in the face three time. Then I watched Tenet and actually enjoyed and understood it.
Like most Nolan movies, you have to give it at least two viewings to catch everything. Tenet requires about five. And even with that I still think it’s an amazing picture and would love to see a sequel.
Even if there ever was a sequel planned, the box office put the kibosh on that, in truly short order, no question.
I got it in one viewing.
@@Lockn3s5 Outstanding!!
@@Lockn3s5 What did you "get" from it?
@@zabbzudah8918 I understood the mechanics of the story and how you were essentially watching two halves of the story moving towards each other and overlapping that creates a paradoxical time loop inside the narrative. Once you get to the halfway point in the film you've essentially seen the whole film as the narrative only takes place within that timeframe. You start moving backwards through the same story from the halfway point onward as more information about the first half is contextualized to you as you're now moving backwards through it. The highway heist scene is the moment the stories converge on the timeline as everything you just watched plays out again in reverse immediately after the scene.
When describing the film to others I would make a gesture with each of my hands representing the two parts of the story. I'd line my hands across from each other from the fingertips and push them into each other until they overlapped and went through each other kind of like this
👉👈, 🤝, 👈👉
I found it was the easiest way to explain the story to people.
seriously that subscribe bell shit has to go at the end.
I skipped the theater, but have seen it many times on my home system where the dialogue is not an issue. Fantastic film. Releasing the opera house scene to RUclips was a good move, I simply wasn't interested in seeing it until then.
I will forever remember driving one hour outside Los Angeles 4 times to see this during the lockdown. Happy to have been apart of that first 20 m! This movie gets better every time you watch, misunderstood for most! Damn love your vids man
Nolan is so far up his own arse thinking that he was going to save cinema that it worked against him this time.
I am a huge Tenet fanboy. Yes, both metaphorically and physically. Saw it in the theater 3 times and untold times at home (actually, maybe about 7). I find it to be a perfect blend of brains and spectacle.
What the fuck is a metaphorical fanboy?
@@MrFakNo I am literally a big fanboy (6'3" 300 pounds) but also a big fanboy as I love this movie.
I expected it to suck because of the reviews, but it's one of his best movies. I love how it's deliberately complex but "solvable".
@@unclechaelsneckvein what do you mean by solvable?
@@anthonymartensen3164 Just that you can make sense of it and you can figure out what's happening.
Christopher Nolan's name doesn't carry the same weight it used to after tenant
i liked tenet. saw it opening day in a covid protected theater, too.
I have zero complaints about Tenet besides the need for subtitles, but that's true of most of Nolan's other movies. I didn't fully understand Inception or Interstellar until I watched it with subtitles, although Dunkirk has a lot more of the "show, don't tell" moments that make the subtitles less necessary. I don't know if I ever truly needed subtitles for the dark knight trilogy but they do help.
Tenet is best viewed at home with the subtitles turned on
I'm going to try that.
Like Inception and Interstellar the movie was just one character asking a million questions so that other characters can explain the plot.
One of the most intense film experiences. A movie that requires the audience to open its imagination. I wish more films invited the audience to do that.
No it isn't. It was terrible and made no sense 😂🤣👍🤣
Imagine trying to make sense out of nonsense...
@@XYZ-ol6pc right?
Lol, NO. Leaving out basic stuff called logic doesnt make a great movie.
Tenet, Top Gun 2 and Mortal Kombat really suffered from the pandemic. They were all amazing and deserved better.
Tenet is certainly a movie that you gotta watch a couple of times. it is well paced, the cinematography is gorgeous and somehow a very grounded story.
The end battle scene in Tenet is just a dull, incomprehensible mess; it's indicative toward the movie as a whole and, and it's the film's beginning, it sets a bad precedent and informs the rest of the film and all that preceded it. There's no sense of geography (who is where, and where here is), no real flow to the action, no clear delineation between the units in combat, no clearly defined movement from the battle's beginning to its end (and what the end goal truly was; not for the film, but in the sense of that whole scene), and a ridiculous McGuffin that underwhelmed.
It was just men in indistinguishable uniforms and gear running, yelling, shooting, and exploding into buildings (which was visually interesting and a concept that could've been better explored and executed). The D-Day landing in Saving Private Ryan or the tense, chaotic-but-followable shootout in Heat it was not. Very disappointing.
The Nolans are great at the underlying concepts and big picture, and the visuals usually amaze, but I prefer the gravity defying and time stretching action scenes in Inception to men in grey camo and helmets running and shooting at grey buildings in a featureless desert. Just... no sense of geography, scale, or stakes....
It also doesn't help that the story, to my lights, was rather obtuse and almost numbingly impenetrable. Just my thoughts.
@@zabbzudah8918 exactly the end battle was a mess Aint gon lie
@@keezemojito1278 I know right!
Check out some videos that explain the plotholes in this movie. Then you'll realize you wasted your time diving too deep into it.
"You're not pushing the poop. You're pulling it."
Tenet-style!
A genius and a traditionalist. He may have an issue with sound but the art of the industry is strengthened thanks to this man.
Like, James Cameron, he never uses CGI unless he absolutely has to, there are many scenes that you'd swear are CGI, but, truly surprisingly, they aren't.
@@matthewdaley746 I worked under James Cameron for free during the "New World Pictures" era. His use of practical and optical effects was inspiring. Nothing more refreshing for a movie purist than to see the efforts of dedicated filmmakers.
@@SirSmoldham At least, you're, not, one of those actors that very nearly died, he sure, seems, to have an awful lot of those, incredibly frightening, really is.
@@matthewdaley746 He was hardcore but he never put anyone through anything he wouldn't do himself. Those that couldn't keep up got attitude.
@@SirSmoldham The, Abyss, appeared to go against that perception, Michael Biehn, and, Ed Harris, nearly died due to his excess, when they dared to speak out, he, subsequently, destroyed their careers.
After repeatedly being bitten by Nolan’s “experiential audio” choices, I just don’t want to see any of his movies anymore. I can’t stand his snobby attitude that you can only hear things if you are in a super modern theatre. And no, the dialogue is NOT a “sound effect” Mr. Nolan. 🤬
This was a good movie. I remember going and seeing it in theaters and being excited about movies again
No. That not good movie because box office bomb
The funniest thing is that everyone critiquing this film will still be talking about it ten years from now
I didn't understand a good part of the movie, but it's still one of my favorites ever.
At least he's making original material.
I know I would get lots of hate if I mentioned that Norway is misspelled as "Noreway" at 5:10, so I won't.
I saw this movie on DVD, not really expecting much. To my surprise I ended up enjoying it very much. And I even managed to guess a major plot point.
The totem was Malls. It's not his. If you do your research him and Mall only went 1 LEVEL UP. When they died in Limbo. Implying the entire movie takes place 1 level above the Limbo they escaped (so Mall actually got out and Cobb has been trapped the whole movie)
Tenet is brilliant. It gets better the more you watch it. I had different experience’s in the cinema. The first was the full blown Nolan soundtrack over dialogue experience with my husband. Hubby enjoyed the action but the mind boggling stuff was a bit too much for him. It grabbed and intrigued me though, so I went with my bff to see it in a smaller boutique cinema. The dialogue was more distinct in that cinema and my friend enjoyed it as an a mind boggling action spy movie. I was able to answer some of her queries over lunch as I had been able to sort out a little more. Then I went for a third time with my daughters. This time it was in a standard cinema with standard sound and again the dialogue was easier to discern. By then I had watched a few RUclips recaps and explanations so I watched for more detail and saw so much more. Subsequent viewings at home have varied from just sitting back and enjoying to rewinding to see how that was one how this worked. It’s a different viewing experience to this day and when I made hubby to sit down at home with dialogue priority sound settings he enjoyed it more being able to catch what was going on.
It's so bleak and also completely illogical. Are you saying it gets bleaker and more illogical with repeat viewing?
@@StefanReich Going for logic in these sci-fi thrillers is idiotic
You're god Damm tenet box office flop flops flops flop flop Bomb
Tenet will go down as one of the most influential works in Nolan's career. Before criticizing and watching baseless reviews, this movie was made for IMAX only and I had the pleasure of watching this in theatres during COVID times.
Background score and music is so instrumental for this movie and also you need to patiently watch first half without messing around. Then you are in for goddamn treat of your life, also if you have bit of science background or interest it will hook you immensely throughout the movie. This is cinematic masterpiece but sadly we don't want to use our brain anymore.
It IS a religious movie. Not just a pailindrome for a title.
Distinguished characters and places are in reference to the *Sator* Square.
Which is a religious symbol, that quite like the Ichthys, Christians used under the Greco-Romans.
Notice the initial mission takes place within an *Opera*. And the "foundation" is built on one word alone, *Tenet*...
That the only man trying to take reality with him when he dies, name himself is *Sator*...
Tenet was store brand Inception.
LoL, YES!
I can't believe this movie was released 2 years ago during pandemic
Nobody can seem to just admit, this was one of his weaker films. That's all there is to it.
I think it's his best
I also think it's his best
I saw this on two theaters. The first had that annoying audio. The second did not. Movie was still soulless but not as bad as Interstellar.
I saw this movie five times in theaters - I freaking loved it!
I'm not happy. Because box office bomb
I acknowledge it for what it is: A flamboyant cinematic magic trick.
In an age dominated by CGI spandex movies, I'm really ok with that.
That's noreway to spell Norway.
I saw it once and felt no desire to want to understand it. Maybe I wasn't in the mood
The only Nolan film I despise.
As a massive Nolan fan there was just so much wrong with the film. My particular gripe was how bad the final "battle" scene was. It felt like someone filming a weekend paintball match. No sense of threat, no real defined enemy, timed building collapses, it was awful.
TENET: A COVID-19 Love Story
Sometimes seen in the careers of other successful directors - their ultimate movie is one where their visionary style is meant to be the star - everything else takes a back seat and no need for big star actors.
I actually liked this movie also I think that backwards fight was cool.
Topical fanboy enjoy every garbage nolan throw at his miserable nerds 🤓 fans
When I read all of the reviews about not being able to understand what was being said, I made it a point to wait until it was available streaming.
This may sound corny but thank you for putting in the after credits at the end of the video ! I love the effort it goes to pay homage to the film genre .
The “underlying truth” Nolan is talking about in reference to the ending of Inception is _not_ that the world is real, that underlying truth is that Leonardo DiCaprio’s character can’t tell and never could… but he doesn’t care anymore anyways.
Bad sound aside I think this movie is an amazing technical piece of sh!t.
“Not going to mix these films for substandard theatres” oozes the same pretension as the movie. It was some how slow, over the top and boring all at once. He’s overrated at this point, his next film is really going to have to be good for me to care at all
I love this movie. It was the one Nolan movie I felt compelled to watch repeatedly as soon as it was released. Slow first half, but it snowballs... and the details matter. The more I watch it the more I appreciate the care that went into crafting it.
Tenet's the type of film that dazzles people who don't think very deeply, because they can ignore everything that doesn't make any sense - which are many and fundamental.
You understand the movie?