tbf you could say that about the entire movie

But a whole battle felt kinda random

true

the only foreshadowing for it was during jdw's meeting with michael caine when he explains that there was an explosion in stalsk 12 on the same day as the opera siege

other than that tho theres basically no buildup to it

But do you realize tho? By mentionning that battle and being alive, Michael Caine is saying we already won, even if he doesnt know it.
Him by mentionning the battle and Kat by telling the story of the girl on the boat, both of them are saying "we won". They dont know it yet, we dont know it yet.

yeah i understood that part, im pretty sure jdw realizes that they have already won when neil explains it to him in the shipping container to the freeport

im just saying that the transition to the battle itself was literally them waiting while inverted until the day of the battle came. not much buildup there

Well in the old james bond movies you always had a big battle scene without any build up. The cavalry comes outta nowhere.. I feel like that was more a reference to that, i might be wrong.

I think in interviews Nolan did say he was influenced by some of he stuff he saw in old Bond movies as a kid

The war scene felt a bit stupid to me too

All this hype and i ended up feeling nothing. Gonna wait as long as i can to rewatch cause i already forgot most of it and my 4* still stands. Probs gonna go down upon rewatch so yeah i'm being generous rn Mr Nolan

this still is mind blowing though i had to go back a few times to see what was going on even what i though was happening was not

i dont get one thing how did he recruit him in the beginning and he said afterwords when he was going to the plane he was about to meet him ? i guessing the present became the past and the past became the future?

edit so this explains what i was saying

Pattinson gives his part to Washington and reveals that, from his perspective, they’ve actually known each other for years: Future Washington recruited past Pattinson into the Tenet organization. (Whether this happened in the timeline before or after the events of the film is unclear; many theories have sprung up on this subject.) Pattinson heads back to the Turnstile, and Washington sees that his backpack is the same as the corpse’s. Pattinson’s inverted self will run back into the tunnel, close the gate and then take the bullet. It’s also the same backpack that was seen on the mystery man in the opera house, which means there’s yet another version of Pattinson floating around the timeline saving Washington’s life there, too.

Lol felt like it came outta nowhere

My head hurts

It was Neil. It has his red chain on the back.

man.

It’s been too long since I watched this. It’s like forgetting s*** I learnt in school. Straight up don’t even know what any of the theories itt are saying

Rewatch time

That ending battle had to have been the most anticlimactic s*** I’ve ever seen from Nolan

I’m really amazed and repulsed by this movie at the same time it’s wild...

Like on one hand reversing time is a great plot device. It’s Hitchcock style suspense whenever you see a bullet hole, blood, or wreckage. Even more Hitchcock style the way it all wraps up and some of the movie explains itself at the end.

And visually it’s incredible. The building double explosion is madness, and I still can’t figure out how the self-combat scene was even imagined.

But on the other hand.. trying to rationalize any of it just makes my eyes roll so hard. And the dialogue sometimes jesus.. idk man. I wanna just appreciate it all the way

Why wouldn't they lol. That's the whole thing with the movie.

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Legit rewatched the movie and loved almost everything about it but that line made everyone in the room laugh

yea I didn’t even know what tf was going on but I didn’t really care either

So Neil was Kat’s son right? The fact that he knew too much, his pre-existing relationship with the protagonist, being British

Plus, why else would they dye Robert Pattinson’s hair blonde?

Everything is basically either shown during or explained before the battle begins