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Just finished this.   Hadnt even considered that the little boy was Pattinson...........but wouldnt Cat recognize him?

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I was going to watch it again with the subtitles anyway because even at home there was plenty of dialog missed.    Even with that I still enjoyed it a great deal

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6 minutes ago, rage-a-holic said:

Watched it with 2 other people and subtitles on. We all agreed it was definitely Nolan's worst.

 

On 12/2/2020 at 9:50 AM, crash_davis said:

imo this is prob his worst film. i rewatch interstellar, the batman movies, and definitely inception. after my second viewing, will not watch this again.

Are you shitting me?  this asshole was able to make something more foul than "Dunkirk"?  Because that was the worst piece of shit to ever hit the big screen.   I've seen gay snuff-porn that was a better watch.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here:  Maybe this guy just plain sucks at the movie thing. 

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I was looking forward to this.  Meh.  Comparing it to Bond films, near the bottom.

I liked all the time travel shit, and the visuals were cool, but the film kind of dragged, boring in a lot of spots.

The three main characters were cardboard cut outs. Branagh was comically bad as a villian. I'm not a movie snob, love action flicks, but if you're going to get me invested in a highly intellectual script, give me some character depth.  If not, just give me dumb action/violence.

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Why the fuck was he so consumed with saving the wifes life? At first it was assumed it was to get access to her husband, but after that was done and buried, he still risked everything to save her.  So dumb.  If there's a love interested establish it, which Nolan didn't.

 

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On 12/8/2020 at 12:01 AM, rage-a-holic said:

Watched it with 2 other people and subtitles on. We all agreed it was definitely Nolan's worst.

 

10 hours ago, Mach 1 said:

I was looking forward to this.  Meh.  Comparing it to Bond films, near the bottom.

I liked all the time travel shit, and the visuals were cool, but the film kind of dragged, boring in a lot of spots.

The three main characters were cardboard cut outs. Branagh was comically bad as a villian. I'm not a movie snob, love action flicks, but if you're going to get me invested in a highly intellectual script, give me some character depth.  If not, just give me dumb action/violence.

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Why the fuck was he so consumed with saving the wifes life? At first it was assumed it was to get access to her husband, but after that was done and buried, he still risked everything to save her.  So dumb.  If there's a love interested establish it, which Nolan didn't.

 

Thanks. I was considering streaming this, now I'll wait for it to hit a network.

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Agreed with a lot of the comments. If you pretend there is no plot and just watch the action scenes. The characters are so boring and one dimensional not sure the main guy is just called protagonist ironically or not. Movies that over-think time travel are funny.

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I watched it with 10 or so others on my friends back porch with a projector.. The guy that recommended the move was celebrating his 50th and likes Sci-Fi kind of stuff and was super excited.. The movie ended and he stood up an apologized to everyone.. 

 

 

 

 

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Pretty damn great.  One of the advantages of never giving much of a damn about plot is that when someone is throwing something at you that is confusing, such as Nolan always does, I just give in and accept it.

This movie clarified for me why I'm not necessarily a fan of the kinds of standard issue fight scenes of the past few decades.  These at least had something interesting to think about/look at.

I looked over Nolan's list of films and although based on the reviews I'm in the minority, I'm liking his newer stuff.  His last three (this, Dunkirk and Interstellar) have a particular tone and rhythm that to me is just perfect. 

(From the first moment this was a Nolan movie, and not a "Bond movie".  Which for me was good because I hate Bond movies.)

 

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(From the first moment this was a Nolan movie, and not a "Bond movie".  Which for me was good because I hate Bond movies.)
 


Some of early press clippings suggested it was gonna be a spy movie. Add to it, Nolan is rumored to be a huge Bond fan. Definitely not a Bond film thought. Ban the OP.


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I have really liked most of his movies.  This one was just too fucking confusing to be a great movie.  The sound just made it worse.  One volume level for fuck's sake.  Nothing is more annoying when watching a movie at home and constantly having to change the volume because the characters are barely audible during dialogue scenes and then an action scene blows your eardrums out.

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On 12/8/2020 at 12:06 AM, Gil Bang said:

 

Are you shitting me?  this asshole was able to make something more foul than "Dunkirk"?  Because that was the worst piece of shit to ever hit the big screen.   I've seen gay snuff-porn that was a better watch.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here:  Maybe this guy just plain sucks at the movie thing. 

Totally agree about Dunkirk. Was boring af and it was a hard sit through. Would not recommend. 

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Saw this in theaters and kind of enjoyed it at the time, although I didn't understand it much. I enjoyed the action shots and the overall tone of the movie.

Watched it again at home this past week and thought I might understand it more on second viewing. Even watched a youtube explanation video to prepare me. Still didn't follow everything and it seemed complicated just for the sake of being complicated. Realized I had no desire to further dissect the movie and that will probably be my last viewing.

I'm a big fan of Christopher Nolan - Interstellar and Inception are both top 10 movies for me - but I think this was his least enjoyable movie for me.

I look forward to John David Washington's career and expect him to make great movies over the next 10+ years.

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On 12/8/2020 at 12:06 AM, Gil Bang said:

 

Are you shitting me?  this asshole was able to make something more foul than "Dunkirk"?  Because that was the worst piece of shit to ever hit the big screen.   I've seen gay snuff-porn that was a better watch.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here:  Maybe this guy just plain sucks at the movie thing. 

This is horrible, this take.  It's so bad that it wouldn't even make a decent troll attempt.  Inception, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Interstellar, Dunkirk, The Prestige, Memento, Insomnia -- all are excellent.

That said, I thought this one was just okay.  Visually excellent, good dialogue, mostly good acting, but it just wasn't as tight of a plot as most of his others.  It's still well worth a watch and I'd give it a 7/10, but in Nolan's pantheon that's bottom third.

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I liked it.  I am struggling with what happens if someone inverts for a few days then goes back through the revolving door and is now moving forward again, but in the past.  How do they catch up?  For instance, when the chick dives off the boat, are there just two of her in that timeline now?  No catching up?

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This is horrible, this take.  It's so bad that it wouldn't even make a decent troll attempt.  Inception, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Interstellar, Dunkirk, The Prestige, Memento, Insomnia -- all are excellent.
That said, I thought this one was just okay.  Visually excellent, good dialogue, mostly good acting, but it just wasn't as tight of a plot as most of his others.  It's still well worth a watch and I'd give it a 7/10, but in Nolan's pantheon that's bottom third.

Dunkirk is pure 100% dogshit. Sorry that you’re such a fanboy that you can’t see the truth.
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Dunkirk is pure 100% dogshit. Sorry that you’re such a fanboy that you can’t see the truth.

I liked Dunkirk. Not my favorite movie ever but it was far from dogshit.

It got an 81% audience score on RT and an 8.3 user rating on Metacritic. It won 3 Oscars.

It’s fine to not like it, but recognize that you have a minority opinion there, and not some universally accepted truth.
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Finally watched this piece of shit. Nolan is king of writing the Family Circus and directing it as if he’d written Citizen Kane.

Towards the end, I finally accepted the stupidity of not thinking about the fact they didn’t have an explanation for anything, and just rolled with it. Then he breaks his own rule about needing canned air, because non-canned air will kill you when you’re inverted, by Kat not needing it just to service the plot.

Nolan may be the most overrated writer-director in history.

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Just saw this on a plane. I thought Kenneth Branagh was great, thought Robert Pattinson was good, thought JDWashington was good in the physical role but a little dull otherwise.

The plot was zany, but interesting. Lots of meat left off the bone that could have been put into play for the betterment of the movie, but the convoluted action needed a lot of the runtime afforded to the film lest you'd have a movie north of 3 hours which would have been a huge complaint.

I thought the visuals, the scenes, the sets/location and music were all fine, but felt a bit dated. A very "2010-ish" suspense aesthetic which was not that edgy though still very thrilling, but felt "been there and one that". 

With an hour left I was convinced the big reveal was going to be Neil was the young son of Kat and there was going to be, as the big bow to land the powerful message of this movie, the love of a mother and son or whatever (which would explain why she stuck around the marriage and to a lesser extent why Andrei cared about her relationship with their son), but that was a whiff. 

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Funny, I just saw on a plane and came to post as well. I liked it. But I liked Dunkirk as well so to some up thread maybe my taste in movies is off. 
 

opening scene at opera house sucked me in and was entertained throughout. As I was on plane subtitles were on from the start so I didn’t have an issue with sound that some mention.

I did guess that he was fighting himself in the Freeport once Pattinson ripped the mask of the one he was chasing. 

Pattinson did a good job. JDW did as well. could have used more of Ives; thought he was a good character. Took me a while to figure out that was MCU Quicksilver. 

to the poster above re: Kat not needing oxygen - they didn’t forget the plot device. Once she had gone backwards far enough to get to Vietnam in time, then she started working forward and, as such, didn’t need the oxygen anymore as she was going “in the same direction.”  Before that, she was always in a sealed environment. 

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On 1/31/2021 at 4:19 PM, A-Tex Devil said:

I liked it.  I am struggling with what happens if someone inverts for a few days then goes back through the revolving door and is now moving forward again, but in the past.  How do they catch up?  For instance, when the chick dives off the boat, are there just two of her in that timeline now?  No catching up?

Just watched it on HBO Max. Had that thought; but then I thought “well; she just has to wait until the day she goes back and then slip into her old life.”

Not spoilering because it has been out for a long while:

How did Sator die on the 14th and then also live the rest of the movie to meet the Protagonist, etc? The only thing I can figure is that the Sator who left the yacht on the helicopter is the “younger” Sator and the one who came back on the helicopter is the “older” one who is coming to kill himself once he thinks the job is done. 

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Second viewing was better for me. 

I am going to spoiler it because it just dropped on HBO - but I don't think anyone who hasn't seen will understand any of this:

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Entropy inversion is an interesting plot device.

Hawking - The thermodynamic arrow would reverse during a contracting phase of the Universe or inside black holes. Possible observational tests of this prediction are discussed.

https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.32.2489

 

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