Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I watched Tenet a second time last night. It is better the second time around when I understand what is going on. But I will not be watching a third time
I watch and read a lot of stuff on time travel theory, so I'm not the best person to speak to this because all that has done is made my feeble brain confused. But, the future people want to destroy the current day people because we fucked up the planet. At least according to Sator. Also, the future people believe the in the theory that changing their past wont' affect their present, right? Like, if I kill your grandfather in the past, that won't make you disappear in the present. With that being said, wouldn't that apply to everything? So if they destroy the past, their planet being fucked up in the future isn't going to change.
The Argonaut wrote:I watched Tenet a second time last night. It is better the second time around when I understand what is going on. But I will not be watching a third time
yeah, after an initial viewing and then reading up afterward, a second viewing would be good. but also, i'm not super motivated to do so - maybe because i don't really care about the characters?
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Ok, after sleeping on this for a night:
I watch and read a lot of stuff on time travel theory, so I'm not the best person to speak to this because all that has done is made my feeble brain confused. But, the future people want to destroy the current day people because we fucked up the planet. At least according to Sator. Also, the future people believe the in the theory that changing their past wont' affect their present, right? Like, if I kill your grandfather in the past, that won't make you disappear in the present. With that being said, wouldn't that apply to everything? So if they destroy the past, their planet being fucked up in the future isn't going to change.
all the paradoxical stuff, if thought about too much, takes you out of it for sure. which is a problem with all time travel movies really, best not to overthink and enjoy the attempt.
as far as the future's plot to change the past, i tried to think of it as a desperate attempt to save their present, so they're willing to give it a go even though it could fuck up their present even more, or not have the desired effect at all.
I liked the different (possibly fresh?) take on time travel... that you have to travel backward through it, instead of travel instantly to a point in time.
spike wrote:I liked the different (possibly fresh?) take on time travel... that you have to travel backward through it, instead of travel instantly to a point in time.
Isn't this how it works in Primer? They just spend the time hiding in a box instead of running around backwards
spike wrote:I liked the different (possibly fresh?) take on time travel... that you have to travel backward through it, instead of travel instantly to a point in time.
Isn't this how it works in Primer? They just spend the time hiding in a box instead of running around backwards
I can’t recall. That’s why I stopped short of giving Nolan credit for the idea.
Inversion and temporal pincers are still fresh and cool ideas.
The idea in Primer is similar, yes. You have to wait in the charged box the amount of time you'd like to go back. You go from point B to A instead of A to B.
