I saw Nolan’s BOND MOVIE last night and it was fine. It thought itself very serious and self important and, though certainly not dumb, was only ever scraping a 2.2 from a poly when it was clearly acting like it thought itself an Oxford don.
James Bond has to be a nobody - a leading tv guy or someone like that. They don’t want to put their chips into a big guy as a change in case it fails. Once they are established wheel out the money for them (like the the latter Craig’s) but you don’t want shell big bucks and then be caught with your pants down for ages if it’s a Dalton type deal.
I tell you what Tenet is shit. Apart from the scene they showed as the trailer a year or two ago, a couple of fight scenes and the actors the film was all over the shop.
I think they must have known the finale was impossible to parse because they did the thing they did in the big short (a film about credit swap defaults) which was a have a giant fucking red number tell you something was happening. The stakes in the finale are established but the film is so confusing that it is unclear what the aim is. How do you know they’re doing the thing well if things go a certain way
Spoiler:
It becomes clear this is the way when a character seemingly goes off script to the plan and everything goes fine anyway.
The finale did have a clever premise but I don’t think they did enough with it.
They seemingly at random invoke stuff from a year one bachelors physics course but with not that much care really because they feel contradictory and pointless to the point where one character just says “go to sleep” - why the fuck bring it up!
My feeling is the film spun out from a drunk idea in the way terminator sprang from the flaming robot (in this case a fight happening forwards and backwards in time) and then expanded from that.
I hadn’t seen the dunc trailer until yesterday. It was a quite shocking for me seeing this interpretation of things that didn’t match my Vision. I was expecting more loneliness and roughness compared to density and cleanness. I can’t really put it in better terms.