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Post by Ladyfingers on Nov 11, 2020 12:26:41 GMT
A Nolan movie I actually enjoyed a fair bit. It's quite daft, but it knows it is and asks the protagonist - and you - to just go with it. The central idea and subsequent looping timeline that results from it is kind of fascinating to think about even if there are far too many questions the film doesn't resolve. My girlfriend and I were arguing about what actually happened for ages afterwards, and it was interesting that I just assumed what has become one of the "fan theories" that's going around.
I think you can be critical of Nolan and his particular brand of icy wankery but fuck it if he doesn't try hard. The sheer effort on screen is its own reward. I've never seen a film like this, or its utterly insane set-pieces. A real jumbo jet smashing into a building. We're very forgiving of older movies that attempt nothing as ambitious as this, so I won't hear the nitpicking naysayers besmirch it.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Nov 11, 2020 22:41:03 GMT
Havent seen this but think I read somewhere it was all mumbled dialogue and people were using the English subtitles option just to try to understand the fucken cunt? FFS. Japanese woman at work has gone full berko over this thing and watched it numerous times, in Japanese, then English, then with and without subtitles, and says she wants to keep watching it again and again until she completely understands it. Havent the heart to tell her this director doesnt give a shit about the actual order of the universe (whatever the fuck that is) or what might or might not be feasible in the time space continuum and will gladly lead her down the garden path and through the brambles to the emptied cul de sac addressed "WFT Grove" and then leave her there to her own devices.  ps the fact this "Brent Rambo" kid has now grown up and watermarked every single GIF featuring his boyhood self on the entire internet is almost indescribably sad. |
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Post by Ladyfingers on Nov 11, 2020 23:01:16 GMT
The dialogue is pretty buried, but it's not actually that hard to understand the film even if bits are glossed over. You have to kind of surrender to it, because it does make sense (mostly). The main thing is that it's not a time-travel film, it's a film with non-linear time. It's genuinely worth a look. Can't guarantee you'll like it, but it's actually quite fun and admirably ambitious.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Nov 16, 2020 22:23:27 GMT
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Post by hiccup on Dec 5, 2020 4:50:32 GMT
I watched this the other day and I cannot remember a single thing about it.
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Post by hiccup on Dec 5, 2020 5:44:31 GMT
Oh I remember it now. Didn't like it, so boring.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2020 9:01:21 GMT
This is going to be my Christmas film. I tend to like stuff Rabid doesn't, so I have high hopes lol. JOKING!
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Post by hiccup on Dec 25, 2020 19:42:23 GMT
Did you ever finish Twin Peaks?
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jun 19, 2021 22:45:34 GMT
Didn't like it, so boring.  WTFFFFFFFFFFFFF duuuuuude, this film was non stop excitement. I would love to hear of a film you think of as actually "exciting". I sort of followed along with the time travel aspect but the whole Westworldy dialogue of "changing the past which you cannot change but the future is set and we can't change that but you know what, I think we can change the present to influence the future of a past we cannot change. That is reality" malarkie was a bit of a tune-out. Good solid baddie though. {Spoiler}Met a sweet, sweet clunky death when he did a "oooh, that'll hurt in the morning" tumble off his own boat. Also the bit how they revealed who the woman diving off the boat was 2 hours later was some insanely creative writing. |
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jun 20, 2021 2:55:17 GMT
This mental drone shot gave me such a stiffy i had to take a screenshot  |
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Post by Death Proof on Jun 23, 2021 13:53:39 GMT
I was a bit bored by it as well, but always have to give props to Nolan for using practical effects.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jun 24, 2021 5:43:19 GMT
Nolan movies suffer a bit outside the cinema unless you have a large screen and great speakers. Definitely "experience" films.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Feb 23, 2023 13:06:39 GMT
Rewatching this was pretty interesting. You have to give it your entire attention more than any other film I think I've seen. I've never liked people who say a film is for a certain intellectual calibre of audience but I think this one may genuinely be a problem for the hump of the bell curve.
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Post by pussycat on Feb 24, 2023 14:07:23 GMT
Hated this, but there’s only one Christopher Nolan movie that I think I like and it’s obviously not this one.
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