Inception (with implanted spoilers)

nolan needed to chill into dreamscape more and i hope you told him so during your argument

calling it 'an action movie' is just obtuse

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.

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, July 20, 2010 1:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

not really sure when we're meant to use 'auteur'. kind of feel it's actually meant for directors of mainstream movies? so nolan does get to be one (like hawks, hitchcock, sirk).

because obviously being fun is the main criterion, right?

I never said fun was the main criteria, but with Hi Dere pushing that the film is just "entertainment" and few people arguing the film rewards on an emotional level, I think it's not wtf to note I found it less entertaining than all the summer mainstream stuff I bothered to see that wasn't set in DREAMS.

Lots of guns, shoot'em ups, quick editing, pulpy dialogue = action movie.

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

― Would love to hear Bam babble about this (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, July 20, 2010 2:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

true of batman begins, but you have no idea what you're talking about here

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again you just sound dim. there's a lot more going on than that. plus, the dialogue wasn't remotely pulpy (it was over-expository).

Aside from the Dream Math and the moral that Leonardo DiCaprio still needs to let go if his guilt, I have to ask...

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shitted up by retards

macgruber rocked

Retards who can't understand the complexity of Christopher Nolan's vision.

that auteur -- like Hawks and Hitchcock are auteurs.

i felt like this movie, not that it was exciting, but that it had a good feeling of excitement to it

What if I liked Macgruber and Inception?

then u r cool with me

But not if you only wanted fun, Nicole.

wanted: fun + scrunchyface

I didn't even hate Inception, I just found it a lot less rewarding than most other films I've seen lately (only movie I've seen and hated of late was Dogtooth).

think it could have been better

this movie got real tedious reeeal fast.

Scrunchyface, New York

hahaha i just caught up on this thread, it gave me lots of LOLs. I love you weirdos. Anyway, to the poster who said the dissenters must have gone into the theatre already hating it, I went in wanting to LOVE IT. AND I WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED. Also, I think JGL is kinda cute but he is a bean pole. Maybe Juno ruined this for me, too.

Also the score got a little too intense and full of itself there at the end.

Lame things to complain about, but what can I say. It just didn't move me. It was better than Shutter Island, though, that was total shit.

i remember the score seeming ott the entire film!

I love it because it is so melodramatically cheesy!

JGL was so fun to watch in this movie.

starting to think paige and JGL were cast just to make leo look more adult.

"i just hate how Leo is so deadly serious in nearly all his films, nearly all the time (of the films i've seen at least)."

id say he was pretty perfect in catch me if you can and not so serious back then. the ultra seriousness/earnestness seems to have come in his more recent roles. plus nolan seems to like that in his actors so its not entirely his fault. and even then, hes not quite on the level of bale in TDK.

I enjoyed the hell out of this. Way better than TDK.

The people on skies and snow mobiles was staggeringly boring. And the floating around the hotel room. And the uneventful car chase.

Anyway, with the Arab's cellar full of dreamers seemed like a direct reference to Robert Irwin's rather good book The Arabian Nightmare, about the manipulation of dreams within dreams. That is all.

And the floating around the hotel room.

wrong on sooooooo many levels

Well what was it then? Looked like floating around a hotel room to me.

I mean you're wrong that it was boring. Before you say "it's my opinion", I have proof that it isn't.

Including charts, graphs, and a powerpoint.

San Te planted it in yr head

in yr thread

zombeh zombeh zombie-eh-eh

To elaborate, slightly reluctantly, the imagination going into the structure (which was not exactly groundbreaking, not that it matters) did not seemed to be matched by an imagination of aesthetic (explosions, sky scrapers, three piece suits, and that bloody James Bond ski chase).

can I just say that I think avoiding a Cell-like totally surreal dreamscape is one of the good things about this movie.

haha HI DERE

@Gukbe -- agreed, I've seen way too many of those movies and they get old fast. the structure is what held it together. Plus ad nauseaum repeat IT WAS DREAMS MADE BY ARCHITECTS!1!1!!!

Okay I do like this 'cast pic':

http://www-deadline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/inception-cast.jpg

all that use of the word "Architect" reminded me too much of the Matrix sequels. why couldn't they just say "designey people"?

I think you answered your own question.

"We need an interior decorator...OF THE MIND."

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good thing they picked Juno over this lady or else dude's brain would have been painted orange and had twigs stapled to it

'we need a design geek.'

instead of a heist movie they should have made it about trying to make cilian murphy's brains look fabulous

xpost -- "We need...LATEBLOOMER"

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"are you ready to see what your dream looks like? OPEN YOUR EYES"

irl lol

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/07/16/inception-review-eye-candy-or-mind-candy/

the reviewer here obv really wanted to like the film but its maybe the most accurate, reasonable review ive read of it so far.

idk about eye "candy", maybe eye "pudding" is a more accurate term

"eye pudding"

--latebloomer