People clown the boy stuckkman but I feel he did a good job of explaining why the reviews haven’t been like 10/10’s across the board

It’s nothing to do with sound systems or speakers or theatres

Nolan’s sound mixers have said since TDKR he favours dialogue to be lower in his mixes than foley and score.

He wants it to confuse and engage the listener idk some artsy s***

The theatres aren’t part of it, it’s how the audio is processed

I dm’d John David Washington but it was a no go :/

Just the fact its a sci fi movie p much means it wont get 10/10s

Inception moreso got mostly 7-8/10s across the board. It just got less mixed reviews than Tenet.

????

Nolan been known to have trash audio mixing in a lot of his movies

Isn't that like one of the most universally agreed upon criticism people have on Nolan? besides OD exposition and lack of emotion (minus Interstellar)

Just came back from cinema and this is my number one gripe, watched in imax and the mixing of volume to sound effects was so out of control, number of scenes I could not for the life of me hear what was being said.

Worse it happens in the opening scene just like with the The Dark Knight Rises opening scene, it's just baffling. Subtitles should be mandatory for him from here on out, and someone in his team needs to grow some balls during testing and call this out in advance

tenet by christopher nolan

Here is a quote from a sound mixer of his answering a question regarding this

reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/cjtlzp/im_richard_king_sound_designer_and_supervising/evg2jsm/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Everyone itt read!

But yeah it’s dumb and it needs to stop lmfao.

It’s intentional and for effect. THE MIKE DEAN INFLUENCE

Thanks for sharing - I am not a film buff /expert, but I really can't appreciate the guys answer. Nolans films have so much exposition dialogue, you can't understand the scenes and connect with the film as a whole if you don't know why things are happening. IMO its such a bs intellectual position to say its an "experience for the audience, beyond merely an intellectual one". A film like Drive, or No Country For Old Men could justify this because its so much about the living the moment of the scene, and even they don't do that. Tenet is not one of those films (tho it has amazing scenes).

Why do people clown him? He's the best reviewer on youtube lmfao

Nolan is a unique director. Accept his style or don't watch his movies. Simple lol

Why give such a dumb reply?

If you got nothing to add / rebut, then feel free to ignore my comment your not forced to agree. "Simple lol"

Has anyone seen this yet?

Thoughts?

I think it's crazy that he perfected his filmmaking with Dunkirk and then proceeded to make one of his most divisive movies ever. Low-key respect him for that. Just hope it's a risk that will pay-off when I see it.

almost makes it seem as if he calculated this, which he probably did

Worst instance of this was when Caine was on his deathbed in Interstellar giving away important plot exposition and you couldn’t f***ing make out a word of what he was saying

Doubt it. I think hes long past done with those kinds of days (like where he agreed to TDKR if it got Inception funded or got Prestige made thanks to Batman)

He just gets a blank check for anything nowadays and some of his experimenting ends up resonating with everyone (Dunkirk) and some is a little more divisive (Interstellar and Tenet)

Need that soundtrack NOW

His first miss, its not bad, but bang average given his repertoire

Gon be sick for running

Interesting notion

I think it's also not worth ignoring that Nolan's been making movies for 20+ years, has made 11 feature length movies, and all of them, even though some have clear issues, have been pretty universally positively received by audiences and critics alike. And each one has managed to maintain either cultural long-lasting significance (TDK Trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk) or cult classic status (Memento, Insomnia, The Prestige). His practical effect use has ensured that in a lot of cases.

Even with the divisiveness of TENET, it seems like even the people who didn't care for the movie aren't hating on it. There's enough respect and craft there for it to still be well received, even by those being critical of it.

Hard thing to do this far in a filmmaker's career and something only a handful have managed to pull off. I'm not a Nolan shill, but I feel like the guy gets a bad rep and people love to overhate on him to seem indie or cool. There's no denying the filmmaker is one of the most successful (if not the most powerful) in the business right now and anyone trying to act like it's not warranted, is VERY misguided.

It's okay to critique a style lmao, especially if its as important as hearing the f***ing dialogue