@internetsdairy @TheBreadmonkey @Nickiquote this is the plot of Tenet (2020)
@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
@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