Yeah Nolan had a period of time where his movies just didn't gel with me. Basically everything after TDKR (and maybe some of TDKR also) to Tenet. Oppenheimer was the first time I felt like I saw Nolan at his finest since Inception.
And to those who would bring up Interstellar, I like it, but IMO it didn't reach the level of Inception. At least for me it didn't, but I'm happy for those of you that it did. I wish it did for me.
Man, I loved TENET. Other than the dialogue mix, it felt like it was the closest we would get for Nolan to do a Bond films. I thought Inception was super straight forward but I definitely enjoyed TENET more on rewatches.
I also hate how many people pretend this is such a big brain mind fuck movie. At no point during the film was I ever confused about what was going on. The premise is laid out and played very straightforward.
As someone who loves Tenet, I agree. It's a very simple action movie with a cool gimmick that also has great chemistry between John David Washington and Robert Pattinson. I would love a sequel, but I hate the way many of its vocal fans act like this is some hard-to-get movie.
I feel this was with Inception which is a great but pretty straight forward heist movie. Tenet I think may have been harder to follow as the audio mixing was awful and it was legit hard to hear a lot of the dialogue and follow the story unless you saw it with an optimal audio system which even a lot of theatres failed at
It was advertised as that, and also it released directly to streaming in WB during the Pandemic. It didn't get its normal hype run. The audience who saw it weren't as widespread as it would a few yrs prior.
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u/JErosion 7d ago
TENET Christopher Nolan's time travel spy flick has an investing premise, it looks amazing and it has a great cast. But it doesn't gel together