is inception about to kick ass?

ZT said:
Did anyone else see the trailer for M Night Shyamalan's new movie Devil at Inception? During the trailer, when it showed "From the mind of M Night Shyamalan", the entire audience laughed. It was awesome.
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That's very amusing.
 
I was sitting in the theater waiting for a movie to start (which shall remain nameless, for my own safety) when I saw the trailer for Inception, my reaction looked something like this:
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But I just saw one of the best reviews from critics who usually hate everything.

I also loved The Dark Knight, & anything to do with dreams so I'll probably put a stamp on this as "BEST FILM EVER ZOMG!!!one!!".
 
AHA-Lambda said:
his gf doesn't like it so then he overanalyses it and calls it a missed opportunity? piss off =/
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Inception fanboyism is getting annoying; the film is by no means perfect.

I enjoyed the film, and over all it was good. However people's dedication to this film is beginning to get so goddamn contrived.
 
ZT, getting annoyed by something being too popular? NO, IT CANNOT BEEEE
 
I have no problem with it's popularity; but I do have a problem with people who flip out when you criticize the film like you just insulted their mother.

Quit Trollin'
 
ZT said:
Inception fanboyism is getting annoying; the film is by no means perfect.

I enjoyed the film, and over all it was good. However people's dedication to this film is beginning to get so goddamn contrived.
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I agree.

This movie was great as an entertaining, thought-provoking film. However it is not perfect in my opinion. I think it's a bit ridiculous in regards to how dreams within dreams work. Of course it be exhausting to try to make sense of all of it, which is how I felt mostly in that part of the movie. It almost felt like the movie was border lining on Matrix 2's mentality. Thankfully it didn't cross that line completely. I understand your suppose to buy into Christoper Nolan's laws in the dreamworld, but some of the things were just too far-fetched for me to accept. Then by "Level 3", I started to feel the film was dragging a bit.

For me personally, the film shines most in it's visual scenes and ideas. The part when he's trying to push himself out of the alley. That was so suspenseful and well done. Then the whole manipulating city blocks was interesting. The idea that our subconscious can become aware of another that alters their environment. That's awesome and creepy. But what kept me mostly interested in this movie was Leo's character's tormented past. So seeing the visual representation of his mind in limbo was the most astounding to me. I loved the surrealism of his world and it seemed the most dream-like out of all the dream sequences in the movie.

With that said, it is a great movie. Though it isn't a masterpiece in my opinion. I still heavily respect Nolan for making a really inspirational film though.
 
Me personally, I loved how good the movie was at making you feel uneasy (or at least I did).

The part in the bar where everyone just turns and looks at Dom I was like "oh shiii". Also the part where Ellen Paige's character (forget her name) is in the elevator that takes her through Doms memories.
 
ZT said:
I have no problem with it's popularity; but I do have a problem with people who flip out when you criticize the film like you just insulted their mother.

Quit Trollin'
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nah i get that and it aint perfect. The thing that got me was just that:

leaving cinema: "i really enjoyed that movie it was awesome"
*talks to gf*
"you know what your right, it did suck lets pick it apart"

>_>
 
AHA-Lambda said:
nah i get that and it aint perfect. The thing that got me was just that:

leaving cinema: "i really enjoyed that movie it was awesome"
*talks to gf*
"you know what your right, it did suck lets pick it apart"

>_>
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People shouldn't collaborate? :p If he has a girlfriend that can dissect a film, she's probably a pretty cool chick.
 
I'm guilty of that effect. I'm rather easy to please at the cinema, but my wife tends to notice all the things that were wrong with it. It's not unless I'm watching at home that I see everything that is wrong with a movie. I think it's sensory overload.
 
ZT said:
People shouldn't collaborate? :p If he has a girlfriend that can dissect a film, she's probably a pretty cool chick.
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okay when you put it that way i'm being a bit harsh then :p

but still it seemed like a big 180 to me =/
 
I am almost certain (after reading reviews) that one of the allegories of Inception is indeed film making.
 
Not a bad film. I don't think it's the be-all-end-all that everyone says, but it's good. I like Memento better though.

In a way, I'm disappointed because I really like the concept but I feel like
towards the end it became an excuse for Nolan to play Bond. And he didn't really stand out doing that.

Actually, besides that awesome hotel gravity-altered fight scene with Joseph Gordon Levitt, no fight scene really stood out to me. For a guy who has been hyped up to be the second-coming of Spielberg, that's disappointing. Also, there were a lot of logical inconsistencies with the dreamworld (the van rolling, compared to the van falling for example, the gravity for another) and the first hour was really poorly filled with soooo much exposition, but what else could he have done about that? Still, that's not an excuse when you have $160 million dollars at your disposal.
And there was something with Mal that really bugged me too but I can't remember... Maybe it's that she's so remarkably attractive and not my wife? That's probably it.

7/10
 
Oh my f*cking god. I love this movie!

I have the biggest man crush on Leonardo DiCaprio now.
 
I walked away from this movie feeling like it probably would have made a better series than film. It's an elaborate concept and it feels like the entire film is an explanatory lecture on how and why everything is happening. Near the end, the film speeds and tenses up, and then calms, and repeats this about 4 or 5 times.

I'm by no means saying I didn't enjoy it, but I feel like it is a great premise for an episodic show that could be explained as it goes along. Maybe it will be.
 
All in all an enjoyable movie. Easily worth it just for the rolling gravity fight scene. It looks like they booked a lot of time on the Vomit Comit to shoot some of these scenes. 3rd Rock from the Sun kid is going to become a big name actor I think.

10 minutes into the movie I was thinking. "This movie better not end like I think it's going to end", and then it did. Also, did anyone have flashbacks of Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear arctic missions? I swear they copied the whole look and feel of that level exactly.
 
It reminded me of the snowy mountain fortresses in Just Cause 2.
 
It reminded me of a number of James Bond films but mostly Call of Duty 2, without the grenade spamming.
 
The movie did pull a lot from other movies and genres but all in all felt original. I say its like Mission Impossible, 007, the Matrix, and a shitload of video games
 
Yeah, I agree with most of what has been said here. I thought it was not without its faults, but was overall an awesome flick. I used to hate that kid from 3rd Rock too...now I love him and kept seeing him as the next Heath Ledger in so many scenes. I REALLY hope he takes all of Shia's roles away from him. If this kid were in Crystal Skull I would have LOVED IT!! :thumbs:
 
You guys should see Mysterious Skin. That was when I started to respect Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a talented movie actor.

Of course he was also great in Inception. But even Leonardo DiCaprio has redeemed himself since his Titanic days.
 
I read from a few sources that at the end of Inception, when he sees his kids, at the right corner of the screen you can see the shadow of someones head deliberately pop up, like the shadow cast off from a film projector.


Watched The Following (Nolan's first film) yesterday. Pretty good, but convoluted.
 
Excellent films. Things no one has mentioned yet that I'm just going to throw out there:
  • The only time we actually see the top falling over by itself is when he's in the hotel on the phone to his kids. He spins it at other times but the camera either just cuts away (when he's showing it to Juno) or it falls off what it was spinning on (in the Indian guy's basement).

  • When Cobb's making his big confession he talks about how they grew old together in the dream world and we get shown that, but when they put their heads on the train tracks they're young. We must consider the fact that in their decades long shared dream they experimented with multiple levels (and he said he had to go really, really deep to plant the inception in her mind).

  • The scene were Mol kills herself is very strange. She is in the opposite building to him but the room behind her looks like an unwrecked version of the room he's in. When he tells her to get off the ledge he gestures towards himself into his own room, when she would have to go away from him to get back into her room.

  • I would like to propose the possibility that the Mol that shows up is real, not a projection (or perhaps is sometimes real, sometimes not) and she uses the dream machine on a sleeping Cobb to try and wake him up. Then again, that would contradict the above one time when we see the top falling over. But as stated already, that's her totem, not his. Say he took her totem in the dream world after she woke up (jumped out of the hotel). That means he never actually held it in reality, only the dream, so should it even work at all if that was the case?
 
MuToiD_MaN said:
I'm guilty of that effect. I'm rather easy to please at the cinema, but my wife tends to notice all the things that were wrong with it. It's not unless I'm watching at home that I see everything that is wrong with a movie. I think it's sensory overload.
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Nolan can have that effect on you. Like when you look back and realize that the Joker has filled two warehouses, a passenger ferry, and a hospital with explosives and apparently everyone was napping.
 
Erestheux said:
The whole movie could not have been a continuous dream, because Leo's top is shown falling over before entering Cillian's dream.
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Ya, there's a lot of evidence to suggest he isn't dreaming in the end and his top was in the process of falling. The fact that he had his wedding ring on in every dream sequence yet not in any of the real world scenes seems to give me the answer. I think Nolan wanted to end the movie this way but still wanted to **** with us at the same time.

This is such a great movie on so many levels. The dreamworld idea itself is intriguing so I think the movie hit the ground running and delivered big time. Normally I'd be annoyed with the complete lack of explanation regarding how the dream machine works but the movie is so good I stopped caring.

The soundtrack was absolutely phenomenal, especially the way the music was incorporated into the film. I got goose bumps the first time they played that Edith Piaf song and slowed it down in the dream, still sounding excellent. I don't know of any other movie that has been so clever with the incorporation of it's music.
 
Soundtrack reminded me of Shutter Island. Also DiCaprio reminded me of Shutter Island. Also, the question of what's real what's not reminded me of Shutter Island. I expected him to wash up on a beach and hear the fog horn. It would be like a prequel.
 
I really liked the movie, though I didn't really understand the significance of Ariadne:

When they hired her as the Architect I thought the plan was to connect their victims to Ariadne as the host so that she could create the dream worlds. But since Ariadne turned out not to be even 'invited' to the operation initially (she had to convince Cobb to take her with them on the plane) I'm not sure I understand what her role was.

Since the host creates the world of the dream and the hosts are Yusuf, Arthur, Eames what exactly is Ariadne supposed to do? Create a maze, but how? And when in the movie does the maze come into play?
 
I think it was her job to create the maze and then teach it to the host
 
To all you chuckle****s wondering about the end


Guess what it doesn't matter if the top falls or not. We go from gritty, high contrast shots to this sudden rush of soft, warm colour as he enters the house. Is Nolan enough of a bad director to frame shots in regards to mood so clumsily? And woah hey guess what the children are wearing the same clothes as in every previous shot of them. So woop dee doo, we see their faces, but that doesn't mean anything - even if the top falls, it's just as illusory as the children's faces. He's dreaming.
 
Whether or not he's dreaming isn't the point though. It's the fact that he doesn't care if he is or not, because as long as he was with his kids that was his reality.
 
If everyone liked the movie a lot, I suggest you download the album. got mine on Amazon for $9 and there is no tax which is cheaper than on iTunes. Very cool to be playing other games to it too
 
Man, I've rarely watched a movie that was so carried by ideas. I mean, none of the performances in that film were spectacular. The dialogue was clumpy and rubbish. The characters weren't very fleshed out (indeed, we get a brilliant cast trying their best to make good on slim pickings). Even the action wasn't that interesting - the film has the same faculty as The Matrix for an iconic image, but not nearly as much of an eye for iconic situations*. The underground dream den, the falling van and the spinning corridor were all cool, but if the whole movie recalled a videogame the snow fortress was like a middling level from a fairly boring one, and nothing quite felt sustained or cohesive enough.

Only a competent execution, but such lovely ideas.

*You know what I really mean? I'm talking about space. Nolan isn't a very good spacial director; his camerawork is as choppy and disconnected as his plots are intricate.
 
This film is brilliant. To the people wondering about the ending,
it's up to you whether the top falls or not. You come to your own conclusion.
That's the sign of a good film, one that makes you think.
 
What if you don't like being forced to think?
 
Sulkdodds said:
but not nearly as much of an eye for iconic situations*
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Sulkdodds said:
The underground dream den, the falling van and the spinning corridor were all cool
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When I read this, my mind split in half and rolled in two separate directions.

I agree with you with the rest of your critique.

Sulkdodds said:
and nothing quite felt sustained or cohesive enough.
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I thought the same thing in particular, but I came to think it could have been constructed that way on purpose to emphasize the mood of a dream world. I've been rocking back and forth on that. Not sure if I give Nolan enough credit to do that on purpose, mainly because if he HAD done this on purpose, he could have done a much better job.
 
Some bitch walked out of the movie when I saw it saying she couldn't understand the movie. I wanted to smack her in the face. Pay attention when you are watching a flick and maybe you'll enjoy it. All of my friends including myself followed the story perfectly. And as for the ending I thought it was good enough.
because as far as I know, when Cobb wakes up he still may be able to see his children in real life too. Even if he goes insane in the dream world
 
Eejit said:
What if you don't like being forced to think?
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Welcomes you with open arms:
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The only gripe I have with Inception is: (no spoiler needed)

the Japanese guy's accent is hard as hell to understand when you're trying to make sure you don't get lost at the plot exposition part of the movie. Seriously, my wife and I were both like "okay, everyone says this is a thinky movie, I have to concentrate ... wait what the HELL all did that guy just say?!"
 
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