Hooray! Take that, parks! I've put some sticks and foliage in my waistband like I'm camouflaging my gentleman's area.
@TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote well I'm reading my timeline backwards so let's see what this is about
@internetsdairy @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote this is the plot of Tenet (2020)
@pikesley @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote is that basically Memento? Guy Pearce wakes up in a motel bed full of vegan croissant crumbs and sore knees and has to piece together what happened?
@pikesley @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote oh is Tenet the one where some bullets go backwards in time? I saw a bit of that on TV the other day and I have to say, it looked fucking ridiculous
@internetsdairy @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote Christopher Nolan just can't help himself
@internetsdairy @pikesley @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote well worth a watch. It is absolutely ridiculous but goes to some places with it and the production values are spectacular. There’s one really big dramatic scene in an airport… they pulled it off by doing the big dramatic thing, in an airport.
@jon @pikesley @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote it just looked like a bunch of guns, can't be doing with that (unless it's John Woo)
@internetsdairy @pikesley @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote there are guns but there’s a lot more to it than that (and the action is absolutely top notch)
@pikesley @internetsdairy @TheBreadmonkey “Oh no! The bullet’s going to go back too far and kill God before he creates the universe!”
@pikesley @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote it all sounds like supposedly mind-blowing SF that only blows the minds of people who've never read a Tharg's Future Shock. Which is pretty much all SF films except for Primer. See also: Black Fucking Mirror.
@pikesley @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote (I don't think I've seen Nolan film apart from Memento, which to be fair was great, and I've only seen one and a half Black Mirrors, but still: I am correct)
@internetsdairy @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote ooh, saw a useful Primer primer the other week
https://youtu.be/VYHOfVJEJhw?si=ABhZTX1PffTqFj8E
(Warning: contains spoilers for 2004 low-budget time-travel movie Primer)
@pikesley @internetsdairy @TheBreadmonkey I have never seen Primer but I did see a diagram of it once.
@pikesley @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote I'm not sure I'd like Primer now, given every character is a tech start-up type who would have gone on to invent something appalling for humanity, but it did seem super clever and original and a very effective use of $6k or whatever the budget was
@pikesley @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote ....aaaaaand the director's wiki has a "legal issues" section including restraining orders, DV etc, inevitably
@pikesley @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote sorry Ben I've just looked up and seen where this started. Have another croissant!
@internetsdairy @pikesley @TheBreadmonkey Hooray! Director cancelled, homework cancelled.
@pikesley @internetsdairy @TheBreadmonkey For ages I thought Primer and Looper were the same thing.
@Nickiquote @internetsdairy @TheBreadmonkey Looper is Primer with money
@Nickiquote @internetsdairy @TheBreadmonkey
If you're a fan of the time-loop movie though, I seem to recall Duncan Jones's 2011 effort Source Code being Any Good (and not only because Michelle Monaghan is in it)
@pikesley @internetsdairy @TheBreadmonkey I knew nothing about that film at all except the name, which made it sound Very Dull Indeed.
@pikesley @Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey Time travel is such a stupid trope it's really really hard to succeed with so I go out of my way to watch it.. not in this timeline anyway
@internetsdairy @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote I have a genuine soft spot for Interstellar, Inception was great in the cinema, not sure how that one holds up now
@pikesley @internetsdairy @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote I gave Inception another watch recently while on a Nolan kick, definitely the weakest in the “Nolan plays with time” sub-genre of film. The final layer being a low budget Call of Duty level really didn’t feel like a great payoff.
@pikesley @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote Wasn't The Prestige a Nolan film? I wouldn't mind seeing that, the novel was fantastic; Christopher Priest can actually do the kind of high concept doubling/multiverse kind of thing that I'm guessing Nolan is often attempting. Well he could before he died
@internetsdairy @pikesley @TheBreadmonkey The Prestige seems more and more stupid the more you think about it. I am not sure if that’s Nolan or Priest’s fault. It’s very magical realism or something, but I think a lot of people’s response is just: nah, that’s daft.
@Nickiquote @pikesley @TheBreadmonkey The book is so neatly done (as far as I remember, it's probably 20ish years done I read it). Have you read any Priest? Or his partner Nina Allen? Who writes similar concepts - like they really must have talked about their work way more than any other writing couple - but maybe more successfully as she can do really grounded, real world sections. Priest is a bit more misty (but lots of his are still great)
@internetsdairy @pikesley @TheBreadmonkey I haven’t, I’m afraid. I will investigate.
@Nickiquote @pikesley @TheBreadmonkey hope you enjoy! Nina Allen should be a lot more famous imo
@pikesley @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote Steps outside and ... The motel is in a graveyard, and there's Bouncer's tomb!
@internetsdairy @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote Ralph Cifaretto turns up with a box of pain au chocolat