Saw X is really good with a bit of a ridiculous ending. Probably the most intense single trap since The Rack as well.
Lot of fun, 4 bags.
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I wanted to see it in imax but canāt bring myself to watch a movie that long in old style seats where you have to make the whole row get up. Going to a VIP theatre instead.
Yeah, they need to retrofit most of the IMAXs out there with new seating. There has been such advancement in the seating game since most of them were built that it makes it hard to justify going to the IMAX even with the bigger screen.
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Yeah, Dolby Cinema is the sweet spot here. Full recliner with enhanced picture and sound. Three hours of Oppenheimer in IMAX was enough to know that I never really want to deal with IMAX seats again at all.
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Yeah I prefer Dolby Cinema as well vs your standard LieMax. So good. Oppenheimer 70mm was the rare exception I made lately.
definitely watch Flower Moon at home
RIP Burt.
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Dude looked like he was half in the grave in 1978. Props to making it another 45 years.
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In my last batch of DVDs from the library, I got a copy of Tenet since itās not on streaming these days. However, Iām deeply afraid that Iām going to hate it and that Iām just going to be stuck feeling the need to watch it to completion for a fairly long runtime. Now itās just staring me in the face from my TV stand, like Iāve saddled myself with some sort of weird homework obligation. My odds of success feel so slim.
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Spoiler: youre likely going to hate it
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You can stop at the halfway point if you donāt like it
Glad to see MI Dead Reckoning is streaming but itās DOA for me until they reduce the streaming price to less than $20.
Barbie tho 
Yeah itās unforgivably bad
I feel an odd compulsion to finish most movies so that Iām allowed (within my own set of self-imposed rules) to have an opinion on them. A person canāt just go full Peter Griffin and lead with āI did not care for The Godfatherā and then casually throw in that theyāve never actually seen the whole thing.
But perhaps Iāll just return it to the library unseen. Oppenheimer warmed me to Nolan enough to make me want to look in on the stuff of his that I havenāt checked out, but it hasnāt proven sufficient to shake the thought of āthereās no such thing as a person who dislikes Inception and likes Tenet, is there?ā
(My post above was mostly bait to see if it would draw out responses of āno, no, youāll love it,ā which doesnāt appear to be in the cards.)
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Tenet is super ambitious. It says what if we attempt to mess with the fundamental aspect of movie language, that of temporal cause and effect. Momento is similar but itās messing with narrative flow not actual cause of effect. The result was a shot that didnāt hit. I kind of respect him for taking it, but I would have respected him a lot more if the movie didnāt have some terrible dialog, bland sets, etc.
The thing Iāll say about Tenet is itās one of the movies that I donāt like that Iāve found myself going back and watching again and simultaneously appreciating its attempt and reaffirming its terribleness.
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I mostly agree.
Big ideas, terrible execution.
I watched it again too just to marvel at some of the technical stuff with the temporal intersections, but the whole thing feels soulless.
And that turns out to be an essential element for something that demands so much intellectual labor from the audience.
Hey, thatās enough for me to give Oppie a shot when itās streaming.
I havenāt seen Dunkirk. I tried a few minutes of it and it felt the same as Tenet. People say itās a technical marvel and does fun stuff once again with how the audience experience temporal location and causation (through mixing editing timelines, nothing supernatural or sci-fi). But I felt the usual emptiness Iāve come to associate with Nolan when Jonathan isnāt there to co write his scripts.
The Prestige remains my favorite Nolan movie, which was based on a similar but very different book. The ending in particular is very different but just as āwaitā¦am I seeing what I think Iām seeingā¦ā
For sure, Oppenheimer immediately became my favorite Nolan work and feels like the only one where I land on the positive side of the range of consensus public opinion. Even the other stuff that I liked (Batman Begins, Dark Knight, The Prestige), it didnāt feel like I liked it as much as others did, so I always approach Nolan stuff with skepticism. When the Nolan fanbase doesnāt go over-the-top bonkers about one of his movies, it feels like a bad sign.
I see that I once recorded a meh grade of Dunkirk, but honestly I donāt remember it at all. Best guess is that it just goes into the blender that my brain throws other unmemorable war movies into.
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What do you think of Jonathan Nolanās stuff?
For me, war movies need to do something that doesnāt make the whole thing feel redundant. But even the people who loved Dunkirk described it in a way where I felt like sure, but did it do anything that wonāt feel equal to or lesser than Saving Private Ryan? Iāll chase it with Cool Hand Luke if I want to laugh a little too.
Saving Private Ryan raised the bar so high for fictional stories that the only way to complement it was for Peter Jackson to do a 180 and instead restore WWI documentary footage to hyper-realistic quality.
Tenet is mostly just a victim of Nolanās success. If it was just the sequel to Casino Royale and retrofitted a bit there it would be seen as incredible imo.
It feels like a Bond movie at times to me, and is better than most of them.
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