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No Time To Die | October 8 2021 | 82% on RT | RIP Sean Connery
antovolk replied to Neo's topic in Box Office Discussion
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No Time To Die | October 8 2021 | 82% on RT | RIP Sean Connery
antovolk replied to Neo's topic in Box Office Discussion
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Now I’ve seen this properly (and first, serious serious hats off to that London drive in - Troubadour Meridian Water in Enfield - for *nailing* the sound, dialogue and music as clear as it can be over radio - even fixing some of original cinema mix’s much reported issues. Just quality of everything, *this* is the place to go if you aren’t, like me, ready for indoor cinema at this time)... this isn’t Nolan’s masterpiece. But it certainly is the *most* Nolan. It’s a hell of an unwieldy beast. Less Bond but more...Mission Impossible Fallout - it’s relentless. As mentioned first time there’s something in the way it doesn’t unleash the timey wimey madness right away but it gradually builds, the inversion is almost a character in itself, before it goes all out nuts. He lulls us into an old school almost by the numbers but slick and very Nolan still spy thriller before pulling the rug under us almost. The world building in this also, we’ve seen elements of this with Inception and Interstellar and odds of sequels/prequels/inverquels are nil but the world of Tenet is one I really hope Nolan allows further canonised exploration of - maybe comics? So much more to explore here. There’s a certain self awareness to it all, people say Nolan’s made the film people stereotype him for and he did! On purpose, knowingly. The cast is absolutely impeccable here, JDW and Pattinson are just dynamite and carry this entire thing, Washington especially. Of course there’s a certain element of wish they were in it more with Caine, Taylor Johnson, Poésy etc but they were great as they are. Ultimately and I don’t think that’s a bad thing, they’re all chess pieces in this massive game that Nolan’s laying out, the fate of the world. Can we talk about Dimple Kapadia as the absolute MVP though, what a fresh-feeling and charismatic twist on an M-type figure. In fact there’s something in the way Nolan plays with all those Bond/spy tropes with the right balance of freshness, self awareness and straightheadedness. The one IMO weakness is how much the themes for the first time end up taking a backseat. There’s always been something thematic driving the high concept - eg returning to family in Inception - but here that aspect felt like a box tick mention. But appropriate for the spy genre? After all, this is a save the world story, with the biggest stakes for a Nolan film yet. The scale of this is just jaw dropping, especially knowing how much was shot and executed for real. And Ludwig’s score, my god. Relentless, it’s very evocative of Nolan’s new more experimental and visceral blockbuster stage of filmmaking he’s come into with Dunkirk and now this. The detail and the intricacies of it, while carrying an incredible energy throughout and feeling fresh. And I really appreciated the Bondian touches - the guitar, the synergy with Travis Scott’s song... Looking forward to diving even more with the screenplay, home release and..one day...when this is closer to over...IMAX 70mm...
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No Time To Die | October 8 2021 | 82% on RT | RIP Sean Connery
antovolk replied to Neo's topic in Box Office Discussion
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Were there any clipping/distortion issues at yours? They utterly fucked it at Colchester (yes drove all the way there) on Friday. Anything beyond the quieter dialogue scenes is all crackling and popping. Hoping next week at the London/Enfield one it's fine... edit: saw your other post, man I'm glad it worked out for you. Was so let down by what happened on Friday.
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So so sorry to report that my drive in experience with this was utterly terrible. Now, the one I'm heading to next week where I had a great time with Unhinged might fare a lot better since that's an LED screen and not DCP projector which means they might get a more appropriate copy of the film to screen (perhaps the home video version?) but - coupled with all the existing audio mix issues people are talking about like the dialogue which are magnified even more here, FM just cannot handle the (theatrical mix's) score and anything louder than calm dialogue scenes. Even the end credits Travis Scott song was crackling and distorting throughout. Felt like I didn't even watch the film in all honesty. Especially disappointing given how much I put hopes in this option given, you know, all that's happening, plus a 150 mile round trip. But otherwise, from what I saw....fuck I need to see it properly. It's nuts. And love how it just progressively gets batshit insane. The pacing and build is brilliant. But again I need to see it properly to form a proper judgement on it
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bingo and why the whole thing with releasing it now is so fucking infuriating (as someone who's not confident about heading back into indoor cinemas yet). At least there is a way to read it all as Nolan written it - the screenplay book is out on the 3rd. If not for the drive-in option - trekking 150 or so miles roundtrip tonight for this - I would have gone for that.
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Exactly, though that's actually a good point, I do wonder whether they might go the full 1.43:1 for the IMAX sequences in this given it's the Alexa LF's native open gate aspect ratio. Then again since I think this is being filmed with anamorphic lenses (according to the clapperboards Fraser posted)...that on a 1.43 sensor will give you something close to 1.9:1, and Top Gun went for that anyway though the Venice is like 1.5:1 natively.