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    PAPA NOL∀N'S TENƎꓕ | August 26 internationally. September 2 "in select US cities" | 75% on RT after 228 reviews

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    I watched it the second time tonight. Before I booked the screening I had to make sure they have subtitles, so they give me one of those Captiview machines you put in the drink holder so that it won't obstruct other viewers and guess what?

     

    HOLY SHIT! The first time I saw this movie I was so CONFUSED. Aside from the visuals nothing really made sense, everything else was confusing. 
     

    But tonight, with the subtitles, everything actually made sense and it hit so different when I can finally understand what the hell was going on. I don't think Nolan lost his touch, he just made a more complex film. Yes, Interstellar and Inception were confusing at first, but this one is more confusing than those at first watch. 
     

    Crazy how this movie blew my mind away on the second watch, it felt like I was watching it again for the first time.

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    ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** TENET SPOILERS ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS***

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    12 hours ago, Gcsin20 said:

    Just saw it here in Australia, that is not what happens. This is the most Nolan-y film he’s ever made and definitely requires multiple viewings to fully get. WARNING: VERY DETAILED SPOILERS BELOW:


     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Opening Scene is the Opera. JDW is trying to save a target of an assassination attempt but is caught and then tied up on a railroad. Decides to take his cyanide pill and passes out, but wakes up in hospital to find out that was just a test to see if he could be trusted with the secret of Time Inversion and “Tenet” (from what I gathered, an organisation that has been specifically built to stop the end of the world in this instance). He learns about time inversion (which broadly speaking deals with reversing an objects entropy achieved through a futuristic machine called a turntable) and gets a lead that takes him to an arms dealer in India. The building is extremely well guarded so he hires Pattinson to help him infiltrate it. Once there, they realise it’s actually the arm dealers wife who has the information they need, which is that a Russian Oligarch is the one who has been the source of these inverted bullets that they’ve recently encountered and that he somehow wants to end the world. JDW organises a meeting with the Oligarchs wife (Debicki) and she ends up explaining that she wants to leave her husband but can’t because he has blackmail over her (criminal fraud essentially over a fake painting) and she will never get to see her son again if she leaves him. So JDW decides to steal this painting to help her (but really to get the oligarchs attention, that’s the main reason). They crash a plane into the secure storage facility to get to it, but encounter an inverted “masked man” along with another who’s not inverted (these are both JDW from later on in the movie, you regularly see that you exist as your normal self and your inverted self after going through a turntable). JDW then  pretends to be an arms dealer and gets invited to a dinner party where we first properly meet Branagh and after he briefly considers killing JDW, they decide to work together on an arms deal (I believe, honestly a little unsure how this all worked here). We discover that there are these 9 boxes that are each part of an algorithm that when combined, give you the secret to how Time Inversion works. The 9 boxes themselves have been inverted throughout time from when they were created in the far future as a way to hide that secret since it’s considered a weapon that could destroy the world instantaneously (the reason it would is that if someone were to create “a grandfather paradox” the world would most likely just cease to exist. This is quoted a few times along with the idea that inversion is the future’s Manhattan project and it being so dangerous for the world to have this knowledge. The creator in the far future kills herself to protect the secret of inversion). Branagh wants to obtain these 9 pieces so that he can end the world since he’s got terminal cancer and is dying anyways. JDW and Pattinson manage to extract one of these pieces from a moving vehicle but Branagh shows up inverted and has Debecki hostage, which makes JDW pretend to give up the box to save her life. However they are captured straight after anyways. The turning point of the movie happens next, where Branagh (who’s inverted and speaking gibberish to the normal JDW) threatens and then shoots Debecki in the stomach to get JDW to actually reveal where the box is. Pattinson, JDW and a full squad of soldiers (part of Tenet) decide to go through the turntable and chase Branagh, which sets off the movie reversing and the car chase scene happening again but backwards. Branagh finds the box and then stays inverted to go back to his “death” 10 days earlier, at which point the world would end (he’s rigged the locations of the boxes to a heartbeat sensor so that when he dies, the locations are known in the future). Our heroes are also travelling back in time and go to the Storage facility and JDW fights himself and we see that Pattinson knew he was fighting him, but didn’t mention it since that was part of the plan. In the end to stop Branagh, they need to make sure he doesn’t have the 9 pieces at the moment of his death so Debecki goes to that day to try and prevent it from happening, while Pattinson and JDW go to the site of one of the 9 pieces to try and steal it. A complex plan of using inverted and non inverted soldiers occurs (where the non inverted ones “fail”, tell the inverted ones what to expect and then they succeed, basically. But it all happens at the same time). Sets off an insane set piece with two armies fighting this enemy army, half inverted and half not. JDW almost dies but has his life saved by an unknown man who sacrifices his own life. They get the box and Debecki kills Branagh to save the day. In the aftermath, JDW, Pattinson, and Aaron Taylor Johnson (one of the commandos of the tenet army) break the box pieces they have into 3, and decide to split up and head in different directions never to see each other again so that it’s impossible for it to be combined. Pattinson gives his piece to JDW and says he has to head back into the fight and we realise he’s the one who dies to save JDW. Turns out JDW inverts himself and lives the rest of his life going backwards in time and ends up recruiting Pattinson as well as setting up the Tenet organisation so that all of this is possible. For Pattinson it’s the end of a long friendship and his death but for JDW it’s basically the start. Think the Doctor and River Song from Doctor Who. And that’s it. 

     

    Saw it last night too mate and half the time couldn't understand the dialogue. Not sure if it was just my theatre or the sound mixing was just really awful. Will have to rewatch it next week! Thanks for this

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    La La Land | Now Playing | Record-Tieing 14 Oscar Noms and Record-Breaking 16 BOFFY Noms

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    2 hours ago, Xavier said:

    I saw La La Land last night and while I didn't particularly love it at the beginning (come on guys, the opening sequence everyone is raving about is not that special), it really grew on me as it progressed to the point where I loved it, especially the ending.

    They hit it big with the leads. Stone is just so lovable and while I didn't watch any Gosling movies before (and I don't get the raves about his looks either), the guy is amazing here, playing the piano and dancing and singing.

     

    I am looking forward for the live rendition of "City of stars" on Oscar night, which I'm sure it's happening.

    :WHATanabe: in Mia's voice, "Are you kidding?" It's a fucking spectacular scene, a directorial achievement.

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    La La Land | Now Playing | Record-Tieing 14 Oscar Noms and Record-Breaking 16 BOFFY Noms

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    1 hour ago, JonathanLB said:

    I saw this on screener tonight, just got sent it today, and I really enjoyed it! I wasn't sure if it would be my type of film, and from the trailers honestly? I wasn't interested at all. I would have skipped it.

     

    I'm very glad I got sent it, though, because it's a gem. I thought visually it was splendid, absolutely fantastic cinematography and overall visual style and flair. The dialogue was often very funny, but also very genuine. I felt like I've had some of these types of conversations with my girlfriend before, it just felt real in the good way. Not real in the "holy shit this is boring" way, but in the way that they captured how people talk and how arguments play out, etc. I thought the music was very good; there's a particular piece in the middle that involves Ryan Gosling playing (not to spoil anything) that's fantastic, I thought. It's an industry movie meets musical movie meets movie-about-music movie. Very interesting combination and synthesis! It worked for me. 

     

    In a bleak year (my opinion), La La Land shines pretty bright. I would say at this point it'll make my Top 5 DGA nominees list when I vote. If you're excited to go see this and think it's your type of movie, I'm imagining you will love it, considering I wasn't sure if it would be a movie for me and I really enjoyed it anyway.

    I'm happy to hear you enjoyed it considering I am crazily promoting this film to my friends which I know are not big on musicals. What do you think of Volphutroit winner Emma Stone? Do you think she has a chance for that Best Actress Oscar?

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    La La Land | Now Playing | Record-Tieing 14 Oscar Noms and Record-Breaking 16 BOFFY Noms

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    I'm actually surprised that there is so much hype for this film in my country. I have seen so many angry posters in FB and Twitter when they moved La La Land's release date from December 7 to February 1 to accommodate some tragic local films which were disqualified in an upcoming festival lmao. My country should aim for quality. They moved Arrival and Your Name to unspecified dates too. A real mess. :sadben:

    PHILIPPINES BOX OFFICE thread​

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    1 hour ago, kayumanggi said:

    Opening at No.1, "Fantastic Beasts" Finds P126.42M in Just 4 Days

    https://www.clickthecity.com/movies/a/31428/opening-at-no1-fantastic-beasts-finds-p12642m-in-just-4-days

     

    The wizarding world of Harry Potter triumphantly returned to Philippine cinemas as Warner Bros.’ “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” opened at No.1 with a spellbinding P126.42-million in only four days for the Nov. 17-20 frame.  This was announced today by Francis Soliven, General Manager of Warner Bros. Philippines.

     

    The Harry Potter spinoff posted the Biggest November Opening Weekend for a Warner Bros. Film All-Time surpassing 2005’s “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’s” P105-million bow. 

    That's good! 

     

    Do you know when will La La Land open in the Philippines?

    Weekend Numbers: Fantastic Beasts 75M, Strange 17.6M, Trolls 17.5M, Arrival 11.8M, Edge of 17 4.8M, Bleed 2.35M, Billy Lynn 930k

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    20 minutes ago, RyneOh1040 said:

    If you've seen Fantastic Beasts....

     

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    I've been trying to think about what things from FB stuck out.  Like what didn't align with the potter universe.  The big one for me is the obscuras.  How in 7 years did we never hear of that.  Then I thought maybe as time passed it would have made sense that wizards didn't have to hide as much and therefore didn't suppress their magic (a la something like being a Jew in WW1.). But then I couldn't reconcile what happened to the obscuras from before ,what became of them? and then it hit me:  DEMENTORS!!!!  I've read the books many times over and I can't ever remember their origination being talked about.  Do you think obscuras become dementors? 

     

    Except Rowling foreshadowed it.

    If you have the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them book, you will see that it was published by Obscurus Books. Also in the Deathly Hallows, Aberforth pretty much implied that Ariana herself was an obscurus.

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