That was brilliant!
The boy bought me Tenet for my birthday and me, him and a bunch of friends had not seen it so I showed it off in my home theater to them. Instead of having bragging rights, I had a lot of very angry people glaring at me wondering what the heck I had just put them through. Till I also showed them this that you likely saw already:
It got a ton of laughs. Why on Earth would you have the exposition scenes nearly impossible to hear?
Still, a Nolan failure tends to be more interesting than most movies relative successes.
Yeah, I watched that Pitch Meeting the moment it went up because I knew Ryan would have something to say, and as usual, he nailed it. Usually his observant tongue-in-cheek-iness brings some clarity, but with this film? Nope.
And yes, even when Nolan shits the bed, it tends to be more interesting than most films on offer at a given time. I want to watch
Tenet, but it just seems to push me away like a girl at the bar who spent the whole night flirting just to say "no" around midnight (crude analogy, but I'll stand by it.) I don't need a movie to make complete sense to enjoy it, but I at least need it to make enough sense that I can follow the threads it's stringing together;
Tenet just goes off the rails as soon as possible and doesn't look back. I almost feel like it was a exercise in "how far can I bullshit until someone calls me on it?" I might actually pour a cocktail and force myself to finish it just to say I've seen it and get it over with. There's intellectually engaging writing, then there's shit like
Tenet, stuffed so far up its own ass, its eyes can be seen in the back of its own throat, the latter being the hardest pill to swallow.