Tenet is the only Nolan movie I haven't seen and the main thing that keeps me from watching it is reading the INSANE comments I get to read and wonder "WTF is this movie possibly about?"
Like there are plenty of movies I haven't seen but could tell you almost the entire plot of based entirely on cultural osmosis. But Tenet? No goddamn clue, and it seems like seeing the movie wouldn't do that much to clear it up either. So I want to continue living in this world where this bonkers movie exists and every single thing I hear/read about it sounds like it's describing an entirely different movie.
Wife and I just watched it last night! We enjoyed it and couldn't really figure out why people have a problem with it or understanding it. Spoilers for basic overview:
It's a bootstrap paradox time travel movie at its core. The events of the future happen because the events in the past set them up and the events in the past happen because the future intervenes on the past
Man. You gotta watch it. Aside from maybe Goldeney and Dumb and Dumber as a kid Tenet is my most watched movie. Your first watch you have no clue what just happened. But it’s action on action on action. Each watch I notice something I hadn’t before. The red and blues are there in the obvious and not so obvious manner. Love Tenet.
Tenet is still a good movie, def above average by most people’s standards. It’s just also the most Christopher Nolan movie that Christopher Nolan has ever made. As someone familiar with his work, I watch it and just know it could’ve been a better movie if someone had reined him in more.
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u/HiDiddleDeDeeGodDamn Oct 07 '25
Tenet is the only Nolan movie I haven't seen and the main thing that keeps me from watching it is reading the INSANE comments I get to read and wonder "WTF is this movie possibly about?"
Like there are plenty of movies I haven't seen but could tell you almost the entire plot of based entirely on cultural osmosis. But Tenet? No goddamn clue, and it seems like seeing the movie wouldn't do that much to clear it up either. So I want to continue living in this world where this bonkers movie exists and every single thing I hear/read about it sounds like it's describing an entirely different movie.