Tenet

"Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though." \- Douglas Adams, *Mostly Harmless*

I really enjoyed it.  It was like watching something forward, then backwards, and getting a 360 degree view of it.  I see it as an exercise in playing with time as a dimension, as he seems to like doing (Memento, Interstellar, Inception, probably others).  Cool trick. 

It was pretty straightforward. Batman is working in his past to preserve his future with his best friend from his current past and his best friend's current present knowing that his future self is going to meet his past self to create a team to go back in time to prevent a nuclear war in the current present.

Hard to hear all the dialog. Hard to understand the plot. I’m a huge Nolan fan but Tenet just didn’t do it for me. Probably my least favorite of his movies.

Sound problems plagued this film. The plot was convoluted. The antagonist (other than Sator who was their useful idiot) was invisible because they're from the future and want to blow the world up because the future is too bleak. Never a good idea to have an invisible antagonist. And lastly, very little time is spent on the actual turnstile technology so you see them used but the director chose action over explanation.

Some of the coolest action set pieces I've ever seen strung together by a plot that is complete and total nonsense. It's a really fun movie to watch and a really frustrating movie to think about

Too much hate on this movie. Not perfect and probably isn't supposed to make total sense but it does work to a certain degree if you understand the timelines.

Tenet is so far up its own ass I just can't. I'm genuinely happy you liked it though!

One of my favs. Actually several things wrong with it but it’s just such an original concept and thought provoking. If you only watch it once, it will never sit well. A flaw for some (shouldn’t you be able to fully consume a movie in one sitting!!) but I really enjoy the rewatches. The car chase scene is amazing.

Your fun has just started ! To me this movie is way more than a movie. It’s like a riddle, an experience. It’s something you’re gonna enjoy watching multiple times to get the full understanding of it. And each time, more pieces of the puzzle will become clear. It’s truly delicious if you like multi-dimensional storytelling !

I don't think it's all that confusing but I also just don't think it's all that intriguing. I enjoy Nolan but this one was a dud for me.

omg i watched it with my roommate last semester and we literally had to pause like every 20 mins to be like "wait what just happened??" but the visuals were so cool i didn't even care that my brain was melting.

I never liked that movie it's made like that episode of the Seinfeld when they go to wedding in India.

When it first came out. I wasn’t a fan of the explanation for what the film hinges on. The idea being, if the storyteller can’t quite tell me through the film how this kind of time travel works. And opts to tell me to “just go with it”. I wasn’t quite sure what it meant in the sense of Nolan trust in his audience. I thought it was a smart action film with a solid ensemble cast and some interesting filmmaking as usual from Nolan. Beyond that. I wasn’t feeling it at all. I revisited it in the last few months and it just spoke to me. It had me sitting there drawing diagrams to understand how it works. And I just found myself enamoured. Don’t get me wrong, it has flaws. But I think it’s an incredible film and will stand against the test of time very well. Nolan continuing his thing of making these espionage-Bond like films as well. Ever since he said Batman was his chance to do something James Bond-esque. You can see it in his films. Inception being another one. But what I enjoyed about Tenet even when I first saw it and wasn’t too keen. Nolan is very aware of literary criticism within storytelling. It doesn’t mean he averts the faults, but Tenet is intriguing if not just for how it approaches the hero’s journey. If you like it, you’ll wind up revisiting it and finding new things, reflecting differently on sequences and provoking your imagination ultimately.

It's my favorite of his. You're not meant to understand what's happening. That's just the director. He tells a complete story, but not in full. The only people aware of that complete story are the director, the physicist he consulted with to make the film, and maybe his inner circle. It exists on diner napkins, probably. And it took ten years for him to figure it all out. Think about what that says about him. He latches on to a novel sci-fi concept and spends a decade hashing it out... then puts it up there for two hours and tells us, "you \*can\* find the solution, you just have to look hard." Like, it took you a fuckin' decade to figure it out yourself, dude, and you made the thing! Directors like Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch and Shane Carruth (Primer) took the same approach, and would all say in interview that the answer to a particular film is achievable. It's a bad habit of people who make "mind-bending" movies. But going with it as it is... if any James Bond movie had been this good... I mean, it's just astonishing from a writing standpoint \*and\* an FX standpoint. Plus he blew up a commercial airliner to get the proper shot.

Watched the theater scene in college before it was released as part of a "focus" group, none of us picked up that things were going in reverse. I think that's why it's not the opening scene, we had all kinds of things to say about the bullet going in reverse except that it was going in reverse haha. Literally nobody, they even pointed out the bullet thing and people were like aww yes a reflection of his feelings clearly why that looked weird. A statement about PTSD possibly and how the mind can't remember things, Then they said it went backwards and we just looked blankly like ... what you mean backwards? like he can see the future, okay got it so he sees the future before it happens and he does this because he feels his emotions. What a waste of a focus group, I didn't know it was a Christopher Nolen film and thought the scene was from some foreign film freak with no idea how to make a movie. Got really freaked out when I was watching the movie and going "this looks and FEELS familiar" took me a while to realize my own timeline was going backwards as well. I had seen the future in the past

Been on my to do list, pretty confident it will make perfect sense on 5g of mushrooms.

Plot doesn’t matter to me if every single character is a huge pile of nothing and the stakes are “the end of the world.” Even Primer, the driest most technical time travel movie ever, has better character drama and more suspense than Tenet.

Temporal Pincers Movement.

I respect the film, but it outsmarted itself. It's a very confusing concept, right up there with Primer. I don't mind that. But the audio issues and plot left little else to really dig into.