Inception (with implanted spoilers)

omg early reviews are in and they're all glowing

so psyched

a quick perusal of the early reviews is filling me with too much expectation. will see it opening day, obviously, but must remember that i don't really trust these reviewers all that much.

A friend saw it and was very positive. Definitely planning on hitting the local IMAX opening night; if nothing else Nolan knows how to use that approach more than most. (That said I could still easily see this ending up like litel indicates; if anything Nolan admitted as much in the NYT interview!)

Warner Bros just lifted the embargo on reviews and they are uniformly positive, with some being ecstatic. I am really looking forward to this.

Variety: http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117943 ... id=31&cs=1
Hollywood Reporter: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/fil ... 2197.story
Empire: http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/rev ... FID=136118
IndieWire: http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononho ... with_heart
CHUD: http://chud.com/articles/articles/24313 ... Page1.html
Awards Daily: http://www.awardsdaily.com/?p=23795
Cinematical: http://www.cinematical.com/2010/07/05/inception-review/
In Contention: http://incontention.com/?p=26044
Hit Fix: http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-m ... equal-ease
Film School Rejects: http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/review ... eption.php
Ain't It Cool: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45679
UGO: http://www.ugo.com/movies/inception-review-instareview
JoBlo: http://www.joblo.com/review-inception
Coming Soon: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/reviewsnews.php?id=67539
Wow Hollywood: http://wowhollywood.us/review-inception

can't help but wonder if they're looking at tracking for interest and going 'oh shit, let the reviews out'

sorry was not able to cut and the paste all those links in properly but google is your friend

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/jul/08/christopher-nolan-inception

cannot. wait. to. see. this.

:D

Tickets booked, starting to get pretty excited. I'm thinking the make-or-break point will be how well Nolan has handled the ensemble cast.

Yeah same I have mine for the Friday release date. This film is thing that dreams are made of.

is the thing that dreams are made of.

synecdoche new york 2: LOOK I HAVE A GUN

Will agree with any film review that starts out putting the boot into Aronofsky's Fountain

tbh I am completely stoked for this as well

there's no lineage with Avatar, as that interview above confirms, but I would like to see this, Enter The Void and SNY again in quick succession

All-positive reviews freak me out a little.

Also, sort of concerned that it seems to take place almost entirely in dreams but never crosses PG-13 territory.

What, all your dreams are R/X-rated gore sex fests?

They're all better than PG, lemmetellya

At least half of 'em are a "hard R." xp

not even kidding there was an orgy in my dream last night

posts very much in charactarrrrrrrrgggghhhhh

All of my dreams involving Marion Cotillard & Ellen Page earn an R...for strong language and smoking.

http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2010/07/Inception-Poster.jpg

I'm pretty excited about this one. I'm pretty fascinated by the topic of lucid dreaming in general and this movie will hopefully bend my mind a bit.

excited cuz the previews look cool (despite dicaprio), and i maintain faith that nolan will again someday make a movie i enjoy watching (despite everything since memento).

but i'm bummed by how bland the things shown in the preview are, if the movie takes place largely in dreams. when i saw the early previews, i couldn't tell whether it depicted a sci-fi scenario, hallucinations, the apocalypse, or what. now that we know it's the dreamworld, i'm a bit let down. dreams consist of bendy geography and matrix-fighting? and that's it? mine are a HELL of a lot weirder than that, even when they're PG-13.

suppose it's remotely possible that the film contains things not shown in the preview.

What is it about altering reality that makes one invest in a snappy wardrobe

movie is only 2 minutes 30 sec iirc so probably not

xpost

All-positive reviews freak me out a little.

I'm sure Mr White will be along soon to burst that bubble.

REALLY wanna see what Nolan-naysayer David Thompson thinks of this

Tickets booked formfriday at 4.10pm.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/movies/04inception.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=movies

edelstein not feelin it - http://nymag.com/movies/reviews/67155/

Yay, a pan!

Finally a crack in the facade! I, for one, will be celebrating this film's artistic and hopefully financial failure by purchasing a ticket.

Me too! I just happen to think that if a few crits actually hate it there's a better chance it's actually an interesting movie that takes chances.

I'm serious! I'm actually going to to protest this movie by ironically purchasing a ticket.

I suffer from Meaningless Gesture Syndrome, which affects hundreds across the globe.

In addition to MGS I'm also sadly afflicted with Custosa Nervosa, which causes my eyelids to produce milk-secreting glands.

^

just a flavor of the mind-warping dream imagery you'll be missing out on by going to see the non-milklid-containing Inception. SAY NO TO NEUTERED DREAM MOVIES!

Vote with with your wallet!

Should I burn it, or throw it?

if you burn it, it will move to Miami to form one third of the foundation for a superwallet

went down from a perfect "100" to "77" in Metacritic, mainly because time out (80) and New York Magazine (40).

the trailer looks meh, but if it's fun as Memento was, i'm ok with it.

First time I've actually out and out enjoyed a movie by Chris Nolan, though this is as arrogantly conceived as Memento. Just better.

Is it okay not to dislike Inception?

who refused to accept that a negative view of the movie could be motivated by anything other than a perverse contrarian impulse or a desire to drive up hits on their individual websites.

What might give anyone the idea that Armond White gives negative reviews just to drive up hits on the NY Press website?

grammar problems ahoy in Armond's take

yeah where's the subbing

lol <3 u armond tho u big buffoon

But Nolan never critiques this as Neveldine/taylor did in Gamer.

like Grand Theft Auto’s quasi-cinematic extension of noir and action-flick plots, Inception manipulates the digital audience’s delectation for relentless subterfuge.

what

i know, i know

i think i probably like the dark knight the most of all of his movies but (as i think i've said elsewhere on ilx) it's a thrilling ride which instantly falls apart as soon as you start thinking about it afterwards. i guess that's kind of a hallmark of his films too

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I did this and fwiw my unfortunate memories of this thread were confirmed - loads of effusive praise. but this movie sucked and was Nolan's first real failure imo. It's been all downhill ever since.

oh man I was still on hiatus when this dropped
I had the correct opinion immediately after the credits

http://31.media.tumblr.com/76881c011e5b9541e6319e353a4cddc9/tumblr_n6vld3NGgj1sapo3yo1_500.gif

^^^ directer's cut

leo is an uninteresting actor

Leo's best performance was in The Wolf of Wall Street, like the one role where he felt like the 100% perfect fit

Well also What's Eating Gilbert Grape

both otm

otherwise he's only good for hate-watching: dooly appointed mah-shals, breakdancing etc.

I actually think he's a pretty reliable lead actor, insofar as you kinda know what you're going to get with him and he's not going to fuck it up too much. he gets a lot of these roles bc of that reliability, which sometimes means he's not really exciting. WOWS and Django were both kinda outliers in that regard and yeah Gilbert Grape too.

I would like to apologize for this

100% w/ Nolan on whatever crazy shit he comes up with at this point.

― Simon H., Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:58 PM (seven years ago)

most of his movies are boring

...my unfortunate memories of this thread were confirmed - loads of effusive praise. but this movie sucked and was Nolan's first real failure imo. It's been all downhill ever since.

― Οὖτις, Friday, March 17, 2017 11:25 AM (two hours ago)

no praise from me. and nolan has been making awful movies since 2008.

his first two Batman movies are imo not boring but The Dark Knight missed a decent opportunity by having Harvey Dent be Two-Face for only about 7 minutes before he died. I think carrying that story over to the third film would have been a better idea, as much as I like to exit vehicles ahead of one of my friends, then turn back to them and say "No, they expect one of us in the wreckage, brother."

no praise from me. and nolan has been making awful movies since 2008.

yeah there were some dissenters, amidst all the breathless hyperbole from ppl seeing multiple times in the theater

Lol remember 2010

Tho i still stan 4 dis

OK, just watched this for the first time since the first time, whenever that opening weekend was, and ... it's fine. But for a movie about what it is about, and told the way it is told, there are just way too many machine guns and snowmobile chases. It's like he lacked the courage of his convictions and just cynically decided to throw in the ski chase from "The Spy Who Loved Me."

trying to watch this again after the first go round x years ago when I only made it up to the snow level scene. really trying to watch this objectively and understand what makes people like it but seriously...

I'm maybe missing the point or I should just accept it for what it is: a metaphysical James Bond movie that is all plot and no blood

but it's the central conceit of the film: dreams, and how little the dreams in this film relate to my own experience of dreaming - it actually makes me angry that someone would make a film like this. like, had Nolan ever even experienced dreams? does he know what a dream is?

There's a widely circulated theory that it's actually about film making. I dig Inception fine as a metaphysical Bond film, but I agree much more could've been made of the brilliant central conceit.

If it wanted to be more like real dreams, it could have used more snakes.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Dreamscapeposter.jpg

It's worth remembering the crew create the dreams for their targets, so they're not 'real' dreams.

If I'm remembering correctly.

San Te planted it in yr head

― exit through the (Tape Store), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:24 AM bookmarkflaglink

in yr thread

― gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:26 AM bookmarkflaglink

zombeh zombeh zombie-eh-eh

― he does NOT have the training (HI DERE), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:27 AM bookmarkflaglink

Watched this for the first time since I did in the cinema in Beijing in 2010, as my kids were interested in seeing it (though not interested enough to sit still for two hours lol) - I never really get on with trying to make out the muttered dialogue in Nolan films, this is much more of an issue than any confusion in the plot, which is fairly straightforward until we get to the skiing bit where it seemed to break down into action for the sake of action (though the sudden addition of "oh we're sedated so if we die we get stuck in limbo and lose our minds" was a ridiculous tacked-on plot point) - I am not really sure about the "I incepted my wife" in the end either, it just doesn't land the way it should. But idk, didn't hate it, a 6/10.

visually unappealing, bad dialogue, dumb plot, the annoying 3rd rock guy, it really had it all

I couldn't tell if the dialogue was bad or not because I couldn't hear most of it.