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The last couple of pages of this thread really took me back to mid-Noughties online Batman movie arguments. Thanks for the nostalgia hit everyone!

I was kind of hoping Nolan had a new-found love for sub-2 hour movies after Dunkirk. Hope it merits that length.

Not technically Tenet related, but it does make the prospect of Tenet more exciting: "How IMAX made Christopher Nolan a better filmmaker " (He also says the film should just be delayed to next year, which I agree with.)

You think those months are viable? Next year, more like.

This movie has become a weirdly useful indicator for gauging how the US is handling the virus as a whole. Every delay = things are still going badly.

Fingers crossed that 5 times is the charm for a decent JP sequel! 🤞

The Prestige is still Nolan's best movie and Interstellar's reception was perfectly fair. It was a deeply flawed film that had admirable ambition.

There are reports from European countries that after initial customer flurries from shops reopening, retail footfall is about 50% of what it was the same time last year. The fear is still real, even in countries doing far better than the US. I've long held that WB were mad to even entertain the idea of not getting Tenet the hell out of summer and nothing has yet to change my mind on that. If their (unlikely) goal is to take a hit for the industry to get people into cinema-going again then fine, I guess, but I think they'll still be disappointed.

You think it's bad in the movie, try reading the original book. I forget the exact wording but when she meets her (now free) ex-slave after returning home she instantly begins ordering him about and "his eyes shone at the relief of finally being told what to do again."

"We'll find out next week"

I went from thinking 'this was a bad idea' to basically surrendering a minute later and chuckling. Were it not for [waves hand] absolutely everything going on I suspect this would have had a nice little run.

I wouldn't watch this in July as I live with a vulnerable person and the UK's lockdown easement strategy has thus far been a shambles. I'd still be surprised if WB sticks to that date because space restrictions mean the film simply can't make that much money even if people aren't already concerned about the virus. That said... as a box office watcher it'd be undeniably interesting to see how the movie fares as a canary in the coalmine if it stays where it is.

Warning! Some UK newspapers are posting a major plot spoiler today all over twitter (they're calling it a rumour but I'm guessing it's true). Pricks.

Lockdown is falling apart in the UK, so I've gone from thinking "it'd be madness for this to keep its release date" to "governments are mad, so I guess it might as well keep it now."

I'm fine not knowing much but it's definitely trying a bit too hard to copy Inception's already-way-too-copied trailer. It's not tempting me enough to go to the cinema in July at any rate.

The current plan as I understand it in the UK is that if new cases/deaths keep going down then cinemas will open early July with strict social distancing. It's hard to exaggerate how much that will limit capacity when you think of how big a 2 meter radius from every single cinema seat is, but I guess easing people back in gently is the goal.

Again, it's not about whether theaters will be open, it's about whether WB thinks enough people will bother showing up worldwide to make the release date worth it. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. As for the Contagion comparison - well yeah, the whole world had to cripple its economy and citizens massively change their lifestyles for 3 months and counting just to stop hospitals from overflowing. Let's not be flippant about that. We're only looking at normality on the distant horizon because for a long time things weren't normal.

One could argue people will be more accepting of going to a cinema that far down the line when a 'new normal' has set in. But the broader truth is much bleaker: any film released at any point this year is taking a risk.

Sorry, but I totally agree with that open letter. I think some on here are wildly misjudging what the general cinema-going appetite will be like in a couple months. I'm usually at Nolan movies opening week, but if the UK's lockdown easing strategy pans out how I think it will then fuck that. If they do stick with the release date then all I can hope is that I'm wrong and that the situation is far, far better by then - for every country.

I'm sure I don't need to tell you how a beach differs from a movie theater. Yeah, some will still turn up to the latter but 'some' isn't good enough for Tenet.

UK cinemas won't open before July 4th. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/uk-government-says-cinemas-wont-open-before-july-4-1294132?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

UK cinemas have proposed opening at the end of June, FWIW. Doesn't necessarily mean they'll be allowed to, of course.

This is madness. No way things will be close to normal in July. My guess is WB blinks when the time comes.

This is so gonna bomb but I look forward to checking it out.