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[FunkMiller]

Attack helicopter movie or nothing.

 

[Days like these...]

Hated

Inception is his worst movie.

Hated Interstellar too. Prestige was good. The Batman movies I don't remember. Haven't bothered with the rest and probably won't ever.

 

[Revolutionary]

Mr. Damon I don't feel so good

Tom Holland to Star in Christopher Nolan’s Latest Film

Matt Damon is already on the call sheet for the top secret feature that Universal will open in 2026.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Also sources say the setting is "not the present day".

 

[Hawking Radiation]

What the fuck is this thing?! Jesus, Am i going to have nightmares tonight?

 

[FunkMiller]

Also sources say the setting is "not the present day".

Well, super futuristic attack helicopters probably would exist in the future, yes.

(I'm not letting it go).

 

[IntentionalPun]

Tom Holland lol

 

[SJRB]

Spider-Man crossover confirmed!!

 

[AJUMP23]

I would like Nolan to make a Star Wars film.

 

[Shubh_C63]

When is the Akira movie happening!

 

[PrimetimeKnight]

Mr. Damon I don't feel so good

Tom Holland to Star in Christopher Nolan’s Latest Film

Matt Damon is already on the call sheet for the top secret feature that Universal will open in 2026.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Also sources say the setting is "not the present day".

To Holland:

 

[dotnotbot]

Mr. Damon I don't feel so good

Tom Holland to Star in Christopher Nolan’s Latest Film

Matt Damon is already on the call sheet for the top secret feature that Universal will open in 2026.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Also sources say the setting is "not the present day".

Bond movie set in 80s with Holland playing main role

 

[AJUMP23]

Bond movie set in 80s with Holland playing main role

We had a bunch of 80s Bond movies.

 

[jason10mm]

Bond movie set in 80s with Holland playing main role

Only if there was a scene where all the Bond villains were standing around, being shot from the waist up, asking "wheres Bond? Anyone seen him?" and you see a little pair of hands jumping into and out of the bottom of the frame as diminutive TH tries to get their attention.

 

[VulcanRaven]

What the fuck is this thing?! Jesus, Am i going to have nightmares tonight?

Its from Team America. Its from the makers of South Park.

 

[jason10mm]

We had a bunch of 80s Bond movies.

And they were GLORIOUS! Who wouldn't want more of these?????

 

[AJUMP23]

And they were GLORIOUS! Who wouldn't want more of these?????

Because I do not think they could make them like that. They would get the aesthetic, but not the culture. they would inject todays culture into the 80s.

 

[sankt-Antonio]

People shitting on Tenet is wild to me.

The opening sequence alone is worth the price of admission assuming you saw it in IMAX or Dolby. When the heavy bass kicks in when the SWAT team starts jogging through the stadium and throughout that entire ordeal was god-tier.

The concept is super fun. Robert Pattenson's character was amazing. The protagonist was awesome. Set pieces were sick.

Definitely agree that it's not the most coherent of his works, but as an experience it was peak, and on rewatch you get extra tidbits and details that make it a treat.

...

Nolan movies are always a must see, so whatever he's got Damon doing, I'll be there day one in the best theater available.

In what world is the protagonist awesome? He’s a nameless, emotionless, uncool bond concept, not a character that makes the audience feel any emotion.

I don’t even want to understand why he choose to do this - it’s dump and made the movie worse.

And that’s a theme with Nolan. His nonsensical “no goes” that in this day and age just make his movies worse.
Like him having a handful of extras on set to show the battle of Dunkirk, robbing it from epicnes, or him directing action in Batman when he is just objectively bad at it.

He should have used CGI in one and leave action to someone who knows how to do it in the other.
It’s maddening because his movies could be legitimate classics. But it’s like he wants to sabotage them himself. Tenet with a likable main character could have rivaled Bond.

 

[jason10mm]

Because I do not think they could make them like that. They would get the aesthetic, but not the culture. they would inject todays culture into the 80s.

Fair enough. I think a few of the retro-80's styled projects (Stranger Things, Totally Killer) hit it pretty well all things considered but yeah, I agree that the right vibe would be hard to recreate. Certainly the callous humor of that era would be hard to reproduce and James Bond as he existed back then would be an absolute no go by todays standards (which is why I think a throw back film COULD work, his womanizing ways CAN work with a deft touch and especially if its Henry Cavill doing it

 

[Keylime]

In what world is the protagonist awesome? He’s a nameless, emotionless, uncool bond concept, not a character that makes the audience feel any emotion.

I don’t even want to understand why he choose to do this - it’s dump and made the movie worse.

And that’s a theme with Nolan. His nonsensical “no goes” that in this day and age just make his movies worse.
Like him having a handful of extras on set to show the battle of Dunkirk, robbing it from epicnes, or him directing action in Batman when he is just objectively bad at it.

He should have used CGI in one and leave action to someone who knows how to do it in the other.
It’s maddening because his movies could be legitimate classics. But it’s like he wants to sabotage them himself. Tenet with a likable main character could have rivaled Bond.

The protagonist was charming and handled the intensity of the action well, which was really all that was required of him. The actor playing him I thought killed it.

I can definitely get that they didn't give him some oscar-worthy dialogue, but for Tenet it feels like the "world" is more or less the main character. I didn't buy the romance angle at all with the woman, but I thought that actress did well. The main villain was appropriately over the top.

Totally get that it's not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but as far as insane set pieces and cool world mechanics, I loved it.

Inception is the better movie of the two when it comes it comes to this kind of thing, as it gave the characters more emotional threads to pull on...but the experience I had with Tenet hit me much harder and stayed with me longer than Inception has.

 

[RagnarokIV]

Just compare them with Pattison which is absolutely wonderful to watch in it and has very little to do besides being the coolest mysterious sidekick.

I absolutely love Robert Patrick, he’s great in everything. He should have been James in the new Silent Hill movie.

 

[clarky]

Tom Holland? FFS. Dudes been stinking up Spiderman for too long as is.

Will reserve judgement as Nolan pulled that Joker out of Ledger somehow, but still.

 

[jason10mm]

The protagonist was charming and handled the intensity of the action well, which was really all that was required of him. The actor playing him I thought killed it.

I can definitely get that they didn't give him some oscar-worthy dialogue, but for Tenet it feels like the "world" is more or less the main character. I didn't buy the romance angle at all with the woman, but I thought that actress did well. The main villain was appropriately over the top.

Washington? No way, he is a total wooden plank. Same lack of range in The Creator. These types of roles are not his bag, he is woefully miscast with those directors. Both Nolan and Edwards can't write or direct emotion well, so they need the actor to do all the heavy lifting and Washington just didn't do it. Tenant I think was just too much for any actor, but The Creator could have definitely used a more dynamic lead.