Inception (with implanted spoilers)

boy keeps swingin'

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bear with me, almost done

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cheerful leo needs to find sad keanu and brighten his day

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http://xkcd.com/

shd've been on the ost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zMwGkY7z4

one of my friends just facebooked complaining that Mr. Nolan didn't need to make his movies "10 hours" long. Is 2 hours and 20 minutes really that long?

It REALLY didn't feel like a long 2 hrs 20 mins to me. I was flat out exhausted yet it kept my attention the whole time.

then again this friend is a contrarian idiot

― San Te, Sunday, July 18, 2010 7:30 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

saw and enjoyed this last night, got this far down the thread to remember that one of the previews was for 'the social network'. i nearly walked out there and then.

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the social network has to be so much better than this. so much better.

months later, there is nothing to take away from this movie.

eternal sunshine is my trademark movie to rag on
this is yours

Tape Store has a schedule printed in his Rolodex to hate on this movie

the social network has to be so much better than this. so much better.

months later, there is nothing to take away from this movie.

I do not believe these two sentences have anything to do with each other.

yea unless Social Network has like sweeping action sequences, which somehow I don't see happening

they have to go into Myspace and steal its secrets

hahahahahaha

I hope there are kung fu battles at least

btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2yD4yDsiP4

why is the picture inverted?

i discoverd something amazing so i made a vid about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV6ikJPVXho

whoa

You just got dark knighted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5EBvRjh63Y&feature=player_embedded

lots of fun for the office:
http://inception.davepedu.com/

They were playing the trailer music over the PA just before kick-off at the Bears v Redskins game on Sunday.

watched this again last night, and enjoyed it like 100x more? being able to ignore the plot made it a lot easier to appreciate the craft.

also, was struck by how much this seemed to be influenced by anime?? like down to the dialogue/tone and everything.

i just saw this, on a plane! it was kind of mind-blowing: the basic premise is astonishing, and so great to get into exploring, the central plot is really well handled considering how confusing it could have been, and it's a really strong ensemble of characters (loved ellen page and joseph gordon levitt is s0 hott). however! as much as i enjoyed it, i had two massive complaints about it.

- cobb/mal relationship is interesting to an extent - certainly in providing a back story to the "inception" concept, a warning of what can go wrong, and you really feel the horror of her madness. however it is not interesting enough to merit so many sentimental longueurs, especially towards the end of the film where they detracted from the tension of the fischer plotline. after a while i just wanted to scream when i saw those bloody children. and it makes you less interested in cobb - towards the end i didn't give a shit whether he was stuck in limbo or not. tiresome man!
- had been looking forward to seeing how the psychology of it worked - how the team would manipulate fischer into believing something inside his own dream. that started off well but ended a bit rushed and simplistic (due to the focus on cobb/mal). i would have liked to see the team talk to fischer more.

oh yeah and the ambivalent ending doesn't really work at all (though doesn't really detract from it either)

agree with all that, i think. The inception of fisher turned out a bit clunking. But premise and style make up for a lot.

those two main complaints you have are really pertinent - for me they were indicative of a wider disregard for the audience's intelligence though, allowing Nolan to take frightful liberties with characterisation and even the film's internal logic. plus I still don't know what the whole point of it was beyond 'this is really cool', which worked for The Big Sleep, but then that movie was written by Chandler/Faulkner and this one doesn't really have a credible script at all

also I have been told that the South Park parody of this is awesome

this ruled fuiud

oh it is, it really is

tho the movie didnt need any internal logic, it was all in one dude's head.

Plot = bollocks, but the good kind of bollocks
Setpieces = all the awesome in the world
Touchy feely dead wife stuff = who cares really?

costumes = mad baller

Ellen Page's role in the film is essentially to keep asking questions andh hand-hold you through all the confusing bits, right?

Setpieces = all the awesome in the world

Most of them were good but the climactic snow-station battle was astonishingly muddled and shit

yeah but that goes to shit fairly quickly iirc. Mainly she's the witness that makes us question if cobb's the mark, insane, or both

the setpieces like the no-gravity scenes and the folding paris up scene (why didn't ariadne reprise this later?? you'd think it'd have helped) were awesome. too many boring shoot-outs where you couldn't tell who was who that could've been from any action film though, one would have sufficed.

Needed a scene where the subject was having an unexpected sex dream and everyone was standing round awkwardly not knowing what was going to happen imo. Suspect the South Park parody has taken care of that one.

tho the movie didnt need any internal logic, it was all in one dude's head.

y'see this is the thing that makes me feel like the film didn't go far ENOUGH - the premise is almost too good in that it opens up the realm of possibility to literally anything. so despite the setpieces you felt like the dreams were too rooted in real life.

Needed a scene where the subject was having an unexpected sex dream and everyone was standing round awkwardly not knowing what was going to happen imo.

just joseph gordon levitt having a sex dream would have sufficed for me

too many boring shoot-outs where you couldn't tell who was who that could've been from any action film though, one would have sufficed.

yep

I get Nolan's mania about control and architecture but the best films about dreams have a much lighter touch and a greater sense of the surreal

Maybe Gondry should do Inception 2.

Gondry has not directed a good film about dreams iirc

What about that Chemical Brothers vid?

I totally 100% agree that what this film needed was fewer fight scenes and explosion and more twee shit with, I dunno, flying horses or something.

Have I mentioned that I think the Science of Sleep is pretty much the worst film ever made?