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LOL indeed.
Tenet's South Korean release, which was expected to earn $15 million, is officially a disaster.
South Korea has reduced the allowed capacity per showing, and upcoming releases are now being delayed (Mulan and The New Mutants are pushed back by 1 week).
The per-screen-average for Tenet is also starting to tank, from $623 last Saturday to $271 yesterday (a drop of over 55% within a week).
South Korea was expected to be one of the biggest markets for Tenet.
https://variety.com/2020/film/asia/tenet-box-office-korea-coronavirus-surges-1234752014/
I don't think Tenet rules Nolan out from doing a Bond film...In fact, it may help. It's destined to be Nolan's least critically acclaimed and financially successful film. He'll need a 'come back.' Perhaps that could be Bond?
Also, beforehand Nolan would have expected creative freedom and total impunity from the Broccoli's. In the wake of Tenet, I can imagine he'll need his wings clipped. Perhaps working with EON is what he needs.
Because, speaking frankly, Nolan is a great director but he's no writer. His scripts are exposition-heavy and his characters lifeless cyphers. If they could get a writer; such as Krysty Wilson-Cairns (who has worked with top-tier names like Sam Mendes, Edgar Wright and Taikia Waititi) then it may reign in his worst excesses.
Basically, Nolan needs someone to simplify his stories. I shouldn't need to go on Wikipedia after to read the plot to actually work out what happened.
If Nolan did Bond, we could get Tom Hardy or (even better) Robert Pattinson...
+1
Anyway, a Bond film written only by Nolan would've been a disaster, but with someone else penning it... well, that's another story.
Maybe Aaron-Taylor? I quite enjoyed the small amount of screentime he had, and is certainly in a good place career-wise.
But that’s a conversation for a different page :)
He's really been improving lately, ever since his brilliant performance in Nocturnal Animals. As you said, he was good in Tenet, despite paper-thin characterization.
Yes, the worst movie ever.
Spectre is a good looking movie save for the awful sepia filter over the opening Mexico sequence, which should have been bright and full of colour. It was shot on 35mm with the aim of having “a slightly hazier, more romantic feel” and it definitely does have that.
PTS aide I have no real issue with the way SP looks.
Also, Deakins does an in depth interview with Hoytema on his Team Deakins podcast, and if youre interested in that sort of thing, its a really good discussion.
His work cannot be called all bad because he used the sepia filter in one film you don't like, my friend.
Granted, those films looked great. I guess it just seems he's a pony that found his trick as of late. Those yellowish hues that just uniformize everything are awful. Where is that guy who did Her and Ad Astra? Come to think of it, maybe it has something to do with production design as well. His palettes and contrasts usually work better in certain already exotic contexts. If the context is on the real side of things, it just tones it further down. An opinion of course. You know, I know Hoytema, spoke with him once in Prague. Nice guy, I have nothing against him, but there are brilliant cinematographers out there, he's not the only god in the block.
Yes, yes, absolutely! Insomnia, Inception and The Prestige looked amazing.
BTW, I've never said van Hoytema's work was bad. I said he was overrated. Very big difference there. I think he has some phenomenal work. I don't think he is the best cinematographer there is. Oh well, same can be said about Nolan, I guess.
The Prestige is an underrated masterpiece.
And it's the film that made me fall in love with Scarlett. ;-)
I haven't seen it yet, but the reviews from those who did aren't encouraging.
Yep, my feelings exactly. About the film and Scarlett ;-)
He’s always come off incredibly smug from
what I’ve seen. Enough that he’s stubborn enough to not look back on working as a DOP and just get any gig he can possibly get as a director, which has so far only been TV episodes. I’m sure if he wanted, he could hop right back on as a DOP but he’d probably perceive that as “giving into defeat”.
Let's give him a little push. ;-)
I've heard of him being a bit of a dick, alright. I've spoken with two cinematographers who have mentioned that Pfister has made rather needlessly nasty remarks about their work. Maybe he's transcended beyond his own CV in his head.
He is a good DoP himself, but I don't think of him as a Grade A name despite his work with Nolan.
Very helpful! Thank you! Even reading that hurt my head and I've seen the film!
Tenet is the perfect example of Christopher Nolan getting way too much power from the studio. Clearly the 'time travelling James Bond' pitch is a very interesting one. However, the execution is appalling. The storytelling is woeful, and the dialogue is dull (at least the parts I heard). I did adore the score though. Also, JDW is an action star waiting to happen - just not as The Protagonist.
However, you can't make a film like Tenet which is built for four-quadrant appeal with a $200m budget and make the film so indecipherable!
I'm a Nolan fan, but I when I see a dud, I'll call it a dud. Whilst the Nolan acolytes will line up to praise this film, audiences will roundly reject it. Take my word for it. If this is meant to be the film to get audiences back to cinemas, then you're better off staying home and getting a Netflix subscription. They're even streaming Inception at the moment! Inception did the high-concept balancing act so much more artfully and was a wholly better constructed film.
Tenet is a $200m turkey, destined to be Nolan's Heaven's Gate. Which is a tragedy as the concept had so much promise.