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In our latest—and longest—episode sponsored by Keeps, we discuss Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated time-travel thriller Tenet. JVL has questions like “Is Christopher Nolan overrated?” Vic has questions like “What the hell is going on?” And Sonny claims to have answers as well as a mind-blowing reveal. Plus tennis talk and eating and drinking in bathrooms!
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“Michael Jordan, The Batman, and Cassette Tapes!” might actually be longer, depending on how much intro clip there is. But I’m not going to worry about it.
Counterpoint: freakishly tall people tend to have health issues, such as with Andre The Giant. But then again, so do freakishly short people…
I may wait until after I see the movie to listen to this podcast. (Assuming Cuomo ever opens the theaters in New York State.)
However, I wonder if Nolan is making the same mistake the director of John Carter did: “I’m so famous, I don’t need to cast a star!”
Hmm, well I’m not going to listen to it all again to make sure, but I don’t remember there being anything like “spoilers.” Not that matter, anyway. At most it might just convince not to bother seeing it, assuming the theaters ever do re-open.
The guys have said in the past that spoilers are to be assumed.
On the other hand, if this is a Christopher Nolan time travel movie, then spoilers may be the only way you ever figure out what’s going on!
Well yes, but I think that was part of the point of their review etc: even with spoilers it was still an incomprehensible mess.
One of them said they ordered a copy of the script, which wasn’t available quite yet, because so much of the dialogue was impossible to make out.
If that line judge had had an adam’s apple, would he have laughed off the tennis ball hit?
I saw this movie with three teenage boys, all understood it the first time through. For two of them it is their new favorite movie. I thought the movie was great. The dialogue sound was a little hard to understand.
The fan theory about the son being Neil is … probably wrong. Remember this is not a movie about time travel. It is a movie about time reversal. For Neil to appear at the same time as his childhood self he would have to grow then travel backwards in time for the same length. For example, if I want to travel back in time to see my 10 year old self and start when I am 20 I will be 30 at the time I am there. I dont think the time works out for Neil because he is about 30 looking so he would have had to do nothing but time reversal since his teens to make it work since the child looks about 5-7. That means he would have been recruiting in his teens….maybe but I dont think the time works.
Nine people in the theater and JVL is worried that six of them weren’t wearing masks? Were they sitting within six feet of him? Does he even know what he’s afraid of anymore?
Yes.
He’s afraid of Trump.
Note to the Georgetown Cronies:
Obviously. And one of the greats would have had another win. But we are where we are.
Tenet was duller than I expected. I started checking my wristwatch at about the one hour mark, and checked it many times thereafter.
The first half of the film is basically a heist followed by a heist followed by another heist; the second half, action scene followed by action scene, sometimes run in “reverse time”.
We don’t really get to meet any of the characters, except Kenneth Branagh’s laughable portrait of a Russian arms dealer who literally wants to destroy the world, or maybe the universe: the film isn’t clear.
John David Washington is watchable, even if we never find out what makes his character tick. When he jeopardizes his mission to save the world (or maybe the universe) to save the arms dealer’s wife (Elizabeth Debicki) instead, it just seems like an exercise in Hollywood movie clichés. And Robert Pattinson, as his sidekick, is deeply boring.
Anyone heard if/when the guys will be back? It’s been more than a month…
I’m wondering too. GLoP also took almost a month off, but they have a new one out today. Of course, Jonah is being Jonah again… “MAGA Barbie,” my @ss…
And here we are a week later still wondering.
I suppose there are ways to contact the guys to ask, aside from Ricochet where they don’t actually seem to spend any time. But I don’t know what they are. I certainly wouldn’t join The Bulwank just to try and get a message to JVL.
I looked over Sonny Bunch’s twitter and could not see anything about it but haven’t spent enough time (and he converted to the Bulwork quick – wow).
With GLOP being a political nightmare (which hopefully will end when they get to celebrate Biden win and bask in his decorum) this was the only great podcast left. Sad.
There have been rumors that they’re quitting after the next show (specifically Vic).
😭😭😭
What next show? It’s been over 2 months already.
https://twitter.com/victorinomatus/status/1326703992123101184?s=21
Well of course, I don’t follow twitter.
I was amused by the one comment asking if we’re now expected to subscribe to the Sub-Bulwark. The Bulwark is already Sub.
Dammit.
Eh, it had a good run, but I already don’t miss it.