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Christopher Nolan's time inverting spy film that follows a protagonist fighting for the survival of the entire world.
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Time Runs Out
Another weird tagline.

I'm not a native English speaker but every tagline for this movie has been slightly off.

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MyCocaine wrote:
December 14th, 2019, 1:01 pm
Time Runs Out
Another weird tagline.

I'm not a native English speaker but every tagline for this movie has been slightly off.
?? the taglines have made perfect grammatical sense so far, "time runs out" is a fairly common phrase to use, dont see anything weird about it or them.

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Nicolaslabra wrote:
December 14th, 2019, 1:16 pm
MyCocaine wrote:
December 14th, 2019, 1:01 pm
Time Runs Out
Another weird tagline.

I'm not a native English speaker but every tagline for this movie has been slightly off.
?? the taglines have made perfect grammatical sense so far, "time runs out" is a fairly common phrase to use, dont see anything weird about it or them.
It's not common to phrase it like that. "Time is Running Out" seems more sensible. Also, "Time Has Come For A New Protagonist", as an isolated phrase makes no sense unless it's linked to Inception.

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MyCocaine wrote:
December 14th, 2019, 1:33 pm
Nicolaslabra wrote:
December 14th, 2019, 1:16 pm
MyCocaine wrote:
December 14th, 2019, 1:01 pm
Another weird tagline.

I'm not a native English speaker but every tagline for this movie has been slightly off.
?? the taglines have made perfect grammatical sense so far, "time runs out" is a fairly common phrase to use, dont see anything weird about it or them.
It's not common to phrase it like that. "Time is Running Out" seems more sensible. Also, "Time Has Come For A New Protagonist", as an isolated phrase makes no sense unless it's linked to Inception.
Sure, perhaps the word "the" would be expected but its really not a big deal. Let's not forget that in narrative writing you normally stay in the immediate past tense ("time ran out") and "time runs out" keeps it very present tense, which could be significant.

It could also be that time is used as more of a proper noun... "Time has come for a new protagonist" makes the most sense without 'the' if we assume Time is a character (not a human obviously)

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I disagree. It makes perfect sense. I don’t think it has to be linked to Inception. Time is always a main component in Nolan’s films.

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The taglines make perfect sense...

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Willem wrote:
December 14th, 2019, 1:46 pm
The taglines make perfect sense...
Technically, yes.

But until further information is given it just looks peculiar.

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I agree. On another note, I think Nolan could be more original with his taglines lol. This one reminds me an awful lot of Dunkirk’s marketing

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I guess he doesn’t want to give too much away too soon. The tag-lines have been super vague.

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AhmadAli95 wrote:
December 14th, 2019, 1:43 pm
I disagree. It makes perfect sense. I don’t think it has to be linked to Inception. Time is always a main component in Nolan’s films.
AGREE. For now all these taglines give us absolutely nothing, it's as cryptic/mysterious as the project itself.

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