Inception (with implanted spoilers)

Saw this this morning. Leo has just about mastered disguising what a bad actor he is. Aside from that, god, so many images from this are playing over in my mind.

Loved the style of it too, though I thought Leo, and some of the others (esp Cillian Murphy) were like Nolan surrogates in how they looked; the hair, the clothing...

I've gotta say, having never really liked DiCaprio when he was younger, he's really growing on me as he grows older and more Jack Nicholson-like.

^^^ I hated him in the Basketball Diaries days but have really enjoyed him of late. And his histrionics were well in check in this movie.

looking forward to seeing this at the IMAX in 2011

gukbe to the left

Just back from IMAX in m/cr. I thought there were some serious longueurs during the set-up and was actually getting a bit twitchy after an hour, but then the great sprawling finale from when they go "in" on the flight is *stupendous* and redeemed the whole film for me. Loved all the stuff with the team (Tom Hardy in particular is A+++ great) and Nolan's technique in holding the tiers of dream together was stunning.

Tom Hardy was indeed awesome, his interplay with JGL was first class.

A couple of real lols from their bickering, but he also seemed very at ease with the serious business of thumping/shooting/blowing people up. Mind you, if you've seen Bronson his dedication to the craft is pretty clear, an absolute brute in that.

Tom Hardy was indeed awesome

I looked him up on imdb to see why he looked so familiar to me, and it turns out he was that horrible Jean Luc Picard clone in Star Trek Nemesis!

He's phenomenal in Bronson. Good actor generally, I first noticed him in the BBC4 remake of A For Andromeda a few years ago. Always notice when he pops up randomly in something - a tiny cameo in Marie Antoiette, supporting role in Guy Ritchie's godawful Rock'n'Rolla. He usually plays nutters/weirdos. Hopefully this will lead to bigger, better roles.

spoiler
spoiler

it was definitely a dream at the end--the kids were wearing the same goddamn clothes theyd been wearing all movie

spoiler

Haha, good, simple point. Well noticed / deduced.

yea when I see it later tonight there's like five items mentioned in this thread alone that I plan on taking a close look at.

i would probably have liked this more when i was 18 and smoked more wed. at that point i hearted the heck out of films about dreams/reality/memory/_____. like 'brazil' and 'existenz' got under my skin in a big way.

liked so much about this, and it's obviously amazing for a blockbuster, but it was never uncanny. (better than 'the matrix' though.)

too much exposition, and a little too little clarity about what was going on from time to time. my fave moment was probably the train coming down the street. but i don't entirely understand the limbo thing. the time differential is an interesting idea and very cinematic in execution, but the limbo idea felt way too far away from anything i've experienced.

lot of it reminded me of the collapsing memories in 'eternal sunshine', but not in a good way.

helped out by pretty amazing cast: hardy and jgl espesh.

maybe as i get older and jaded and lyfe gets more and more real i get less interested in exploring the idea that hey man dreams, reality, what's really real nahmean?

you smoke wed.

i actually dug the amoutn of exposition, i was impressed that it was pretty well thought-out, except for the time disparity between the different levels which they cheated a lot.

mostly i liked this.

when shit gets real though dude just can't direct a fast-paced action sequence to save his life.

also: shutter island much?

lol'd at max's line that leo shd've kept the accent

but yeah s0 much like 'shutter island'. tragic dead wife and all. liked 'em both.

probably going to see this again as part of 'curb your enthusiasm' type mix-up. might help.

juno's line 'whose subconcious is this' was lol but im kind of like -- that's a fair question? she designs the thing. but why is it only leo's mental artefacts who intrude.

sorta reminded me of that guinness ad with the big beat soundtrack from the 1990s, as well as 'intolerance'.

tragic CRAZY dead wife who he couldnt save from her craziness no less

sorta reminded me of that guinness ad with the big beat soundtrack from the 1990s, as well as 'intolerance'.

― I’ll put you in a f *ckin Weingarten you c*nt! (history mayne), Friday, July 16, 2010 7:54 PM (31 seconds ago) Bookmark

oh man that is so one for the print campaign

guess i was also a bit disappointed that shit didnt get weirder and cooler the deeper they got. leo & marion really spent 50 years designing a generic-looking city with a bunch of their old houses?? they weren't having magical adventures and flying thru space and shit?

also the way the staircase thing finally got pulled out i really expected j g levitt to actually say "lol"

eternal sunshine handled dreams/memories way more "realistically" and interesting

also the way the staircase thing finally got pulled out i really expected j g levitt to actually say "lol"

― al-goreda (s1ocki), Friday, July 16, 2010 7:56 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i actually did "lol" because what he said was "paradox" and it was really dumb

leo & marion really spent 50 years designing a generic-looking city with a bunch of their old houses?

exackly! it was a really depressing place, and kind of empty of people? i dunno, the dreams that 'get' me are ones involving people i haven't seen in years. probably more like 'land of the lost' than the video game 'civilization' (iirc, i haven't played a video game in a while).

xpost

otm x 2

ken watanabe was pretty great too i thought

he looks kinda like jimmy smits

aha, not guinness, smirnoff, and directed by michel gondry. and using pre-matrix bullet-time.

boom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vj4jppqwkw

http://www.taoistic.com/images/chuangtzu-3.jpg

SPOILET

I kept expecting the kids to have horribly disfigured faces the way that he shied away from looking at them.

or clown faces

u know i did actually like this and thought the premise was pretty clev, and i give it props for making me give a shit about stuff that happens in a dreamworld - it actually felt like there were things at stake, people in danger, etc

was hoping theyd have lil leo faces

yeah the last 20 minutes or so were hella tenssse~

anyone else have trouble making out ken watanabe's mumbling in the first 30 mins or so

fuckin everyone mumbled in this movie

anyone else have trouble making out ken watanabe's mumbling in the first 30 mins or so

― al-goreda (s1ocki), Saturday, July 17, 2010 1:40 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yes. i was wondering if it was the particular screening i was in. but the dialogue was mixed too low, especially him. and at the end too.

inception: secretly a mumblecore film?

not enough sofas

o come one everyone's lying all draped all over the place all the time

(come on)

come on come al

max, what adjectives are you warehousing in case any beyond "sweet" are needed for films w/ actual substance?

pls 2 use only four syllable words to describe movie

I notice you Millennials love to use both "pretty dumb" and "great" to describe the same film

cuz u know, they're movies, just brain candy

anyways i want to militarize my dreamspace

u gonna bother to see this one morbs or just go on auto-complain mode for 400 posts

~~there is no difference between substance and surface~~

hey quick q who were they being chased by in that super-shaky-cam moombassa chase sequence?

spoilers
.
.

so, if it was all a dream at the end omg THEN his wife was right and she's now awake back in reality which leaves leo, well, where, snoring on the couch somewhere? oh god what.

xpost

the same dudes who the japanese guy gives the polyester architect to when theyre taking off in the heli, so, the powerful forces of the anti-extraction "maybe real world" ppl who have been attacked and robbed by leo et al? dont remember really if they are named...hmmm, good q.

when shit gets real though dude just can't direct a fast-paced action sequence to save his life.

― al-goreda (s1ocki), Friday, 16 July 2010 23:49 (Yesterday)

otfm. it's like the dude's afraid to use a long shot when people are fighting.