What I'm watching (Part 1)

Joshua v Pulev

Still hope Tyson batters him.

The BBC are playing the official 1982 World Cup film as a tribute to Paolo Rossi complete with Rick Wakeman soundtrack and Sean Connery narration. It is a disastrous film to watch for the best World Cup I watched.

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Brilliant film every time I watch it.

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This^.
Still the set piece scenes are good. Things have really moved on.

National Geographic programme about this place

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That’s just astonishing.

Dark. S1 ep1.

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Did you ever get to the bottom of this Steve?

The whole series has been spot on!

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Amazon raised a ticket…

Nothing heard since. I suspect they are limiting bandwidth cos Covid but not being that open.

There seems to be some 4K of you search but the options for most stuff have gone.

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Haha good luck!

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Watched Tenet for the second time. This time I picked up more nuance from the plot, but also definitely found quite a bit of the dialogue more difficult to follow. I’m inclined to think he’s bullshitting when he says it’s deliberately hard to hear. Here and there, maybe, but instinctively I think it just isn’t all that well recorded/mixed. I guess that seems unlikely at that kind of budget, but it’s hard to conceive of someone making it that hard to understand, on purpose.

I reckon I’m done with this film now. It won’t be like Inception, which I have watched at least half a dozen times, and still love it. Tenet is ok. But it’s definitely trying to be too clever for it’s own good. It’s an intriguing concept, but the whole production is too abrasive for my senses. It barely ever lets up on the intensity… a constant barrage of sound and editing and panning and so on. There’s no dynamic ebb and flow to the story. It just about held my attention for a second viewing, but only just.

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Let me tell you a story:

Dad_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ and she said no turnips.

The end.

F-

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Haha! Yep.

If he could sort all those not insignificant problems out then he might turn out to be the genius his fanboys claim he is.

At the moment for me he’s a clever dick making films with little emotional content or connection. It will be great if he can marry his concepts with the other aspects of good film making.

With Inception, I felt he did. It’s honestly one of my favourite films. I just find it endlessly engaging, and emotionally really powerful. Plot-driven films for me aren’t usually something I can watch repeatedly, as obviously I already know all the twists. But that one, is like a poem… you know the words already, but they are so beautifully laid-out, you can keep coming back.

As to his other films, not so sure. I did enjoy Interstellar, and found some mileage in the concept, but definitely right on the line between genius and clever-dick. I will watch it again though (which will be my third viewing), unlike Tenet.

I still love Tenet, and indeed all the Nolan films. I don’t think there’s any important dialogue that is inaudible. I might watch it with subtitles soon though!

I found the opposite. I couldn’t care less about the protagonists and was not invested in what happened to them beyond passive interest. Its only opinion, but I don’t think he’s very good at this aspect, and likely because it doesn’t interest him or attach much importance to it.

Is it available for streaming yet?