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• TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The professional reviews are hilariously mixed, I’m pretty sure Coppola unwittingly made a movie that also serves as a litmus test to see how pretentious and up your own ass you are.

  The honest reviews are basically, this made no sense, I don’t know what he was thinking. The positive reviews can be boiled down to “if you have to ask, you’re not sophisticated enough to understand”.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is this going to be like Starship Troopers, where everyone comes back a decade later and says it was good, actually?

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    • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think Starship Troopers had the opposite problem where people weren’t thinking about it hard enough.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is it more or less pretentious than Tennet?

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    • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’d say less, because the movie makes itself completely clear that it’s a fable about power and greed.

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Sounds good to me, thanks

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      • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Tenet is pretty much about power and greed too. Sator’s greed for power. And hatred for the world we live in.

        The backstory of him being helped (and commanded) by people from the future who want to reverse time because we fucked up the planet and therefore life in the future is shit, is pretty much just about climate change.

        The movie wasn’t that deep tbh. Nolan throws in some time inversion stuff for the wow factor and because it looks cool, but tbh it’s just “let’s blow up the world to fix a big problem” (classic case of a villain with a relatable goal) vs the good guys with “the world has loads of people living in it, we can’t just blow it up”.

        Personally I liked it. Don’t think it was a cinematic masterpiece you need to be incredibly cultured to understand or anything though.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Tenet was fucking cool as shit, call it what you want, person who probably never made a movie.

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What movie did you make?

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    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The reception of it appears to be, but prob only because Coppola is seen as more prestigious by critics because he never made a batman movie.

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I don’t think Batman makes Nolan any less prestigious. It might even make him moreso, if only because of The Dark Knight. He was able to pour even more money into whatever he wanted to after that.

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Apart from sound design, I had no problems with Tennet. Insomnia was more pretentious.

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s definitely a new take.

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  • BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And as is typical the truth is somewhere in the middle.

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  • dubious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    my kind of movie! ye of dimwit status be warned.

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• JoYo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  it’s a retelling of the fall of rome set in modern new york city.

  it’s alright, wow platinum (plaza) was amazing.

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That sounds interesting. I feel like that tiny but of context would probably draw more people to see it. Not sure why they kept it all mysterious.

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    • JoYo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      i think the trailer makes it pretty obvious. i feel like people are making more analogies to trump and musk that are kinda ridiculous. it’s like how populist characters in film used to be compared to Julius Caesar; like sure that’s apt but also stfu and listen to the story.

      also plazas ass is so nice.

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      • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Keep on farming. Content has to come from somewhere!

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    • dubious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      because you don’t feed the viewer biases. like good music, it can be interpreted in many ways. let the viewer decide for themselves. if the viewer is too dimwitted to draw their own conclusion, then let them fuck off as dimwits should.

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nope

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