Inception (with implanted spoilers)

If this movie was anything like Donnie Darko I would have set fire to the screen.

wow I expected some of the above arguments from Yahoo! Movies users....

so sad that people don't agree with me : (

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"hay guyz if Inception was like the reel dream world there'd be flying hot dogs and antelopes who sing german operas fuk dis i want my money bak also there was a pred ship in fischers dream"

had a dream last nite i ate amazing food for like a week straight, inception was nothing like that smh

"hay guyz if Inception was like the reel dream world there'd be flying hot dogs and antelopes who sing german operas fuk dis i want my money bak also there was a pred ship in fischers dream"

you're right, its wrong to suggest that we can do better than three mundane action movies happening concurrently with Shutter Island.

If Ridley Scott's Monopoly works out maybe Nolan can do Rubik's Cube: The Movie.

or maybe he can consolidate 6 sylvester stallone movies into pill form

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/ellen_pages_outfits_in_incepti.html

According to our very informal survey of grad students (er, our friends), neckerchiefs are not currently a staple of the PhD crowd, and yet she dons one in every single scene

except in the hotel and in the snow fortress...

guys shes a lesbian

I feel like a lot of the people that really hated this movie were predisposed to hating it before they even walked in to the theater.

i was only predisposed to the idea that it might not make sense.

I feel like a lot of the people that really liked this movie were predisposed to liking it before they even walked into the theater. HOW YA LIKE THEM APPLES?

i liked dark knight and i got up at 7am on a sunday so i could imax it before i left town because i was so excited about it. it's rubbish.

this feels like snes vs. mega drive all over again

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^^^ Buñuel should have given Fernando Rey a shotgun.

actually for both this and TDK, i was thinking they would both be great, amazing, huge cinematic experiences, and went on the first day of release for both, but they both left me a bit annoyed.

It's also kind of sad to see how Nolan is regarded as an "auteur" director of big budget films, when 20 years ago you had someone like Verhoeven whose films were 100% more intelligent and entertaining.

And his movies are long as hell.

so can we quit comparing this to Shutter Island simply because the events were surreal and Leonardo DiCaprio is in it? cuz I can't think of a more lazy comparison.

Okay I loved loved TDK and mostly liked Inception, but certainly don't out Nolan in the "auteur" category. He just makes summer blockbusters I happen to enjoy.

2 hrs 20 mins=epic

cuz I can't think of a more lazy comparison.

dude, both movies are about a guy who's bad at his job because he's haunted by guilty visions of his dead crazy wife. It's not just that "events were surreal."

I went in a Dark Knight fan who hoped the film would be entertaining enough to make up for the fact that dream movies can't really "add up". But for all my joshing about dream math vs. dream logic, I think caek best summed it up: if you're going to make a movie about the mind that is kind of centred around a relationship drama then that relationship should be one that faces real problems. use the very clever macguffin to explore human drama, not to explore the very clever macguffin. And if the movie's just about the trickery there's no reason to be so dour about it and not have more fun with your massive palette.

I haven't seen Shutter Island but DiCaprio's scrunchy faces can't be as intense as they are in Inception.

xpost and in both films the "job" itself may be (or is) a figment of his imagination inspired by the guilt

Honest question -- has he ever made a 'fun' movie to start with?

(He meaning Nolan.)

yea if you approach the movies from a very distant synopsis it becomes very easy to compare the two! also Robocop=Robot Jox because they feature cyborgs/robots in dystopian pics.

probably not. I don't go to Nolan movies for fun though -- I see plenty of fun movies daily/weekly and don't go to Nolan films saying "hmm I sure hope this is a rollicking romp". which I suspect was yr point!

also the events weren't a figment of Leo's imagination -- I still don't get how anybody could think the whole movie was a dream.

nolan is the blockbuster guy that makes people feel like theyre watching something smart.

Honest question -- has he ever made a 'fun' movie to start with?

He's tonally too heavy for "fun," and his thoughts can fit on the head of a pin.

and the thoughts don't dance either.

xpost ahh the ole "other people think the movie is smarter than it actually is so therefore I'm going to take it out on the director" approach.

Also – he can't stage or edit an action scene. He's like Michael Bay with Godard on the brain.

xpost ahh the ole "other people think the movie is smarter than it actually is so therefore I'm going to take it out on the director" approach

Well, it'd be unfair to take it out on his mother.

Also – he can't stage or edit an action scene.

Okay, can't disagree with this more. While I didn't like some of the action scenes in Inception, TDK has some fantastic action sequences.

xpost - no im sure the director thinks its much smarter than it is too. im not saying inception is a film for dummies, he does have cool, interesting, potentially inspiring concepts, he just has no idea of making them less heavy handed. actually, its as though he LIKES making them heavy handed so he can show to everyone just how clever he is. wears its intellectual pretensions on its sleeve a bit too proudly in other words.

I haven't seen Shutter Island but DiCaprio's scrunchy faces can't be as intense as they are in Inception.

Less to do with his face, but in IMAX his head looked like a hot-air balloon. I thought it was a product of the massive screen, but the rest were ok - just dear Leo = blimphead, again.

I thought The Dark Knight was pretty fun despite itself (I also found Memento and The Prestige a lot more amusing than this). And yeah, I don't think Nolan's action scenes are exceptionally incoherent for 2010 blockbusters at all.

"exceptionally incoherent for 2010 blockbusters at all"

blockbusters being too long vs blockbusters that dont like to make sense.

Did you see it? I know a lot of critics just went "Tom Cruise AIYEEE" but I enjoyed watching the guy battle his demons in a psychotic dreamworld.

― da croupier, Tuesday, July 20, 2010 1:50 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

of course i did bro

it was really awful

*shrugs* aside from general antipathy for Cruise (maybe Diaz too), I dunno what beef people would have with it.

it was really some of the worst storytelling i'd seen in a long long while... tho i guess the sort-of psychotic aspect of tom cruise being this grinning psychopathic killer who keeps drugging cameron diaz and dragging her around the world was kind of amusing in a weird way

I thought Cruise was no longer sort-of psychotic.

He's tonally too heavy for "fun," and his thoughts can fit on the head of a pin.

― Would love to hear Bam babble about this (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, July 20, 2010 1:58 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and the thoughts don't dance either.

― Would love to hear Bam babble about this (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, July 20, 2010 1:59 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

i was talking about the aspect haha

no they really do paint him as a murderous maniac in that movie... one of those things where he's wrongly accused of [something... stealing a battery i think] and so his fellow agents go after him and he gleefully slaughters them all

the storytelling didn't bother me, didn't seem egregious for an international cloak'n'dagger, Charade-on-steroids thing, and yeah, I thought keeping open the possibility that Tom Cruise is just a psycho freak was pretty great, though it would have been even greater if they'd gotten lead actors people actually want to watch bang. Clooney would have had his biggest hit yet with it.

And as I brought the movie up as being more "fun" than Inception, I'd say the opening airplane battle and landing was more entertaining than anything in Nolan's deal.