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> Even worse, Christopher Nolan's "Tenet" – released in September by Warner Bros – basically bombed at under $60M This is so sad, it's such an incredible movie
by awiesenhofer 6y ago
> Even worse, Christopher Nolan's "Tenet" – released in September by Warner Bros – basically bombed at under $60M
This is so sad, it's such an incredible movie! Were it not for covid it surely would have been the blockbuster of the year in typical Nolan fashion.
- edgyquant 6y agoEh it may have been good but from the trailers my thinking was, “oh look another condescending Chris Nolan movie,” which is a shame since I loved his stuff up to inception.
- tines 6y agoInterstellar was condescending!?
- medium_burrito 6y agoA friend of mine who is a physicist said he literally got up halfway through the movie, yelled "Fuck this" and walked out. EDIT: Another physicist friend sat through it, but he said in his defense he was drunk and fell asleep.
- heimdall 6y agoI don't work as a physicist (but I got my degree in Engineering Physics @ CU-Boulder, 2009) and I went to see Interstellar in IMAX on opening night. I really enjoyed it overall, and the scenes involving the realistically-rendered black hole were worth it alone. I'm relatively easy to please when it comes to movies, but to each their own of course.
- ghaff 6y agoI'd probably be more inclined to use a word like pretentious. I actually liked Inception quite a bit but didn't much care for Interstellar.
- edgyquant 6y agoThat’s the word I was looking for
- wyldfire 6y ago"Interstellar" was an excellent film, physicists who haven't learned to suspend disbelief may have trouble enjoying it.
- edgyquant 6y agoAh damn I thought that was before Inception. Although, yeah, it kinda was.
- paxys 6y agoFrom what I heard from people who saw it in theaters, the sound mixing was terrible so you could only understand half the dialogue, and it was overall very confusing. It was basically made for multiple viewings.
- WalterBright 6y agoPeople praise Solaris all the time. I've tried several times to watch it, but it's just unbearably dull.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoThe original is a crappy attempt at outdoing 2001. The remake isn't bad and Viola Davis's performance is worth seeing along with the twist added to the story.
- WalterBright 6y agoSorry, I meant the original.
- anotherevan 6y agoSaw it in theatre a few days ago, and agree that the sound mixing was bad, making the dialogue difficult to follow. Didn't he learn anything from Interstellar in regards to this? Excellent movie otherwise, and I look forward to watching it again with subtitles. (Although it's possible I already have.)
- setr 6y agoI would like to confirm, it was just truly awful mixing — the only way the theater was able to get you to vaguely hear the dialog was to have volume loud enough the music physically hurt to listen to; the difference between the preceding trailers and the movie itself was so clear I can only assume someone important got hit in the head sometime during development. International friends have mentioned it wasn’t an issue, because they had subtitles and could keep the film at reasonable volume, and they overall enjoyed the movie. Maybe it was intentionally designed to eliminate the English speaking audience. But multiple viewings won’t help you.
- yholio 6y agoOpinions vary. We walked out of the cinema when cars starting traveling in reverse. Simply unwatchable, utter crap. For reference, I liked Interstellar very much. I'm almost sure it would have bombed in any year, in fact, because everyone is postponing releases and freezing production until Covid-19 passes, it probably got an even higher box office than what it would have got in a competitive environment.
- Supermancho 6y agoYeah, every single person I know who started to watch it, gave up in the first 30 minutes - excepting me. I mean the final movie twist was obvious and my wife called it before getting up from the living room and leaving to browse her phone in bed. The editing was rough and it wasn't fully explained what was happening. What other team members, that weren't the team members betraying him and not the guy in the chair "who lasted 18 seconds"? What? I didn't like it that much 6/10 from multiple perspectives.
- badconvincer 6y agoTenet was incredible. It’s one of the few movies lately that I spent a lot of time reading about and watching breakdowns and explanations after the movie.