Pageturn: Law Abiding Citizen.

Its clever because everybody thought it was called Tenent but its not its Tenet which is a palindrome which is like reversed or something like what happens in the movie.
Its genius really.

So it's a waste of time then?

Tenet - blatantly fucking obvious what was going to happen in the latter half if you've seen any of Nolan's previous films.

Student kevel mumbo jumbo bollocks. If Kojima wrote the plot to a film this is it. Its literal student gibberish shit. An ego product.

Looks outstanding though and Branagh is great fun. The lead tries to Bond it up and fails spectacularly, and Pattinson wobbles from great to pathetic.

I enjoyed watching it but I dont know why or what for. The concept is fairly fucking simple, he's just chucked some bollocks into the mix and thats what loses its entire core. Stick to the fucking core principle and idea, dont chuck in theoretical nonsense that you think sounds cool.

Theres a scene in there where you can clearly tell he's wanking himself off as he types it.

Interstellar and Inception have their problems but theyre a fun ride and have great moments. This is like someone started a fire and pissed gasoline on it.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Pageturn: Law Abiding Citizen.

Bants

I watched Tenet last night too. The wife was very bored. I thought it was clever, if perhaps trying to be a bit too clever for its own good.
I think I enjoyed it, I'm not really sure. I think ultimately I found myself consciously trying to persevere with it rather than truly going along with the story.

Perhaps I'll appreciate it more with further viewings but right now I felt it was a bit smug, a bit too clever for its own goodm

I don't think I'll bother with Tenet as it hasn't had a double thumbs up from pretty much anyone.

I require a minimum of two doubles before I change my mind.

I think the concept of the film and how it works is actually quite clever and it does work when you stop to think about it.

But the film itself doesn't explain it very well (a couple of rushed and mumbled expositionary monologues as the thing is happening is not good filmmaking) and it doesn't sell it well because it kind of forgets about it for the middle of the film and so you forget it too.

I kinda wish a better filmmaker had directed it. They probably wouldn't have made the end section so visually bland and confusingly shot and concept might have been woven in more fluently.

Tenet is utter rubbish.

They could have done a way better job of the finale imo in quite an easy way and it would have been really fun.

I thought it was going to be inception 2 but it was more an insipid number 2.

Having said that I thought Robert pattinson was fun in it.

Prepare to be detniopasid.

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

I think the concept of the film and how it works is actually quite clever and it does work when you stop to think about it.

But the film itself doesn't explain it very well (a couple of rushed and mumbled expositionary monologues as the thing is happening is not good filmmaking) and it doesn't sell it well because it kind of forgets about it for the middle of the film and so you forget it too.

I kinda wish a better filmmaker had directed it. They probably wouldn't have made the end section so visually bland and confusingly shot and concept might have been woven in more fluently.

Is it Nolan's Only Revolutions?

Discovered Radio 4's The Film Programme last night which goes out 4pm each Thursday (with a repeat at 11pm each Sunday). Of course it's available anytime online.  Last night's episode was about the great flop Heaven's Gate which was good listening. I went to the programme's sub website on the the BBC site and there seems to be plenty of good varied content.

Final few Film Festival bits from me...

The Twentieth Century

I could have sworn that I've written about this already, but I can't see it so...  It's a gloriously strange film - a reimagining of the life of Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, with a newly found focus on shoe fetishes, ice mazes and competitive seal clubbing.  Visually it deliberately echoes German Expressionism, creating a slightly giddy sense of the unreal and the absurd.  The casting is also gender neutral - I have never seen so many women with drawn on moustaches.  Not everyone's going to find this funny, and I suspect it's much more amusing if you're Canadian, but I found the whole thing gleefully hilarious.  Meanwhile, stuffed in between all the silliness and playful deviance, are some fairly genuine observations about the politics of then and now.  You can pretty much work out whether it's for you or not from the trailer, so here goes:

 

Detention

The film of the videogame that I haven't actually played.  Detention's an odd one from my perspective.  It's a horror of sorts, set during the "White Terror" period in Taiwan, detailing the fates of a group of students and teachers who have illegally set up a book club.  It leans quite heavily the not-very-scary scares early on in the film, then loops back into more of a character piece, before mashing the two together for the finale.

My problem with it, fundamentally, is that in there are the bones of a really compelling, and genuinely horrifying film about a much ignored time in our recent collective history in there.  However, the decision to tell the story through fictional monsters has the effect of diminishing the impact of the genuine atrocities, rendering a potentially powerful and moving tale disappointingly hollow. 

The Skin

One of those films you really want to like, but...don't.  An Iranian folk fantasy about a man who finds himself torn between saving his mother from Jinn, or using the situation to get closer to the woman he loves. There are moments of beauty, and I enjoyed the musical framing mechanism, but ultimately it's a film in which very little happens, quite slowly, with no particular purpose. By the end I wondered whether I'd fundamentally missed something - I probably had, but that doesn't alter the fact I really didn't get much out of it...


Finally, top 3 from the films I watched...

The Twentieth Century - absurd, satirical pastiche that will annoy as many as enjoy. But I loved it.
The Columnist - Dark, hilarious and anchored by a brilliantly charismatic central performance.
Caveat - Flawed horror, but the first 45 minutes are so wonderfully creepy I can forgive it losing its way.

Lord_Griff wrote:

ShabbyMcCrabby wrote:

I think the concept of the film and how it works is actually quite clever and it does work when you stop to think about it.

But the film itself doesn't explain it very well (a couple of rushed and mumbled expositionary monologues as the thing is happening is not good filmmaking) and it doesn't sell it well because it kind of forgets about it for the middle of the film and so you forget it too.

I kinda wish a better filmmaker had directed it. They probably wouldn't have made the end section so visually bland and confusingly shot and concept might have been woven in more fluently.

Is it Nolan's Only Revolutions?

I haven't read it. No good I assume?