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Tenet genuinely made me feel low IQ from being so confused by that car chase...that....swat team fight.... But then I realized it wasn't my fault I didn't know what was happening or even WHY the action should be cool, it was the movies!
I loved the idea of tenet on paper, but boy. Too long, too confusing, not enough to like. How did he get such a big ego about his movies anyways?
I mean, I think Inception really showed that he's thought too highly of himself for quite a while. That movie is an incredibly shallow and uninteresting movie made out to be something clever. It's mostly just eye candy. I never really saw why people loved it so much.
That's a good point, that movie has a lot of nonsense too, just in a little different package. Tbh, the plot entirely falls apart for me unless I forgive the entire movie for pretending that "dreams" are anything other than nonsense neuron noise. But then it takes itself super seriously, and piles on a bunch of Hallmark card emotions (my wife!!).
We had people over when that came out on DVD. No one had seen it yet so we were all excited. My buddy and I couldn't stop laughing at it the entire time though.
Eventually I watched it again and liked it. But it definitely falls apart in places.
I completely checked out when that blue vs red swat "battle" happened. It so incredibly bad.
Ive sat through Primer 20 times to understand it all because it's a movie that actually has complicated structure in it. You can tell right away Tenet is just set pieces and nothing more.
I feel obligated to mention Pi here as well
Pi is a great movie. But it doesn't have anything in relation to Primer.
I wasn't relating it to primer. I was citing another thinker movie with fantastic world building and structure.
Edit: you know. Like Nolan wishes he could pull off without it coming off as wishy washy. The same reason you brought up Primer in the first place.