Batman: I’m not the one wearing hockey pads.

Aside from the Batmans, I’ve never watched a Nolan movie that I fully “got” the first time around (and I’ve seen all of them.) Part of the fun is watching a second or third time and picking up all the little clues that were hidden in plain sight the whole time.

Joker: I’m gonna make this pencil disappear.

People always learned the wrong lesson from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Just because they weren’t high camp of Schumacher’s Batman didn’t mean they were ultra-serious or gritty. Batman Begins might have taken the Batman character seriously, but it’s full of fun moments breaking up the gloom and doom. But for…

The diversion Joker uses to force a re-route on Dent’s convoy involves using a fire truck...that’s on fire.  Probably my fave Nolan joke.

I love Tenet. Its biggest problem is that to get the most of it, you have to watch it more than once. And if you don’t like it the first time, why would you watch it again?

All that experience with shirtlessness didn’t count for anything?

I am underwhelmed. The whole PLOT hinges upon the idea that the heroine’s marriage is unsettlingly un-sexy. It honestly makes no sense that her husband married her, which leaves you guessing about his motivations until the end of the story. (Might he have a... Nefarious Scheme?) This trailer seems like a far more…

Another thing to keep in mind that makes the narrator more interesting:

This looks like well-dressed oatmeal (no disrespect to K S-T).

I’m not sure the patriarchy thesis holds given how many prominent black women (Walker, Mallory, and Omar come to mind immediately) have been caught espousing/holding these or related conspiratorial beliefs. There’s also this recent story, where a viral picture in which a kind-faced, suit-clad, elderly white man with a…