Inception (with implanted spoilers)

if the dialog was all about things to consider while reading the upcoming subtitles and then there was 15 minutes of movie and it was over i probably would complain. about something.

i dunno, i always seem to feel the need to vent about this movie because i thought it was a very cool premise that was 100% wasted. but that's just me. i think it would have worked better as a tv series.

I'm with Whiney. Having a few exposition-heavy scenes took nothing away from the excitement of the film for me. In fact, in a way, they contributed to it -- I felt like, "Oooh, now we get to find out the rules!"

think it would have worked better as a tv series.

"Hoping each time that his next inception ... will be the inception home!"

I'm with Whiney. Having a few exposition-heavy scenes took nothing away from the excitement of the film for me. In fact, in a way, they contributed to it -- I felt like, "Oooh, now we get to find out the rules!"

― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Sunday, December 26, 2010 5:55 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yeah, exactly... those scenes laying down the ground rules were fun!

Glad to know that the fact that I like this movie means I'm a dumb retard, and complicit in the downfall of western civilization. ILX is always so classy.

So you were our representative who —- bought -- it as the year's intellectual blockbuster? b/c I was wondering who signed us up for that.

vast majority of ilx opinion itt is favourable iirc, i wouldn't sweat it either way

So you were our representative who —- bought -- it as the year's intellectual blockbuster?

Nah, but it was fun to watch both times I saw it.

Karina Longworth OTM:

However, I do sort of wonder if the massive success of Inception is a sign that we're getting stupider. Sold — and bought — as the year's most "intelligent" blockbuster while actually baldly insulting its audience's intelligence (to quote Andrew O'Hehir's Salon.com review, "Every time the story gets puzzling the characters call a time-out and explain it"), Inception both conquered the 2010 zeitgeist and helped define it.

― ok (Tape Store), Thursday, December 23, 2010 9:02 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

congratulations

Tape Store, do you enjoy being completely po-faced and precious about movies?

Tape Store gets a commission for every person at Borders who puts down a copy of Inception and picks up Battle of Algiers instead....

also, food for thought, a movie can be smart without being intellectual.

also- hates fun, for free xp

speculation as to which movie Tape Store will endorse to hate in 2011?

I hear it's a strong ticket

need to see which harmless yet snappy yet dumb movie is beloved by enough people first imo

TS bitching about Inception >>>> TS endorsing Paper Heart

Glad to know that the fact that I like this movie means I'm a dumb retard, and complicit in the downfall of western civilization. ILX is always so classy.

Don't worry I actually, and quite literally, bought this movie on Blu-Ray. So I'm a dumb fucking retard that is too stupid to watch movies right with you.

Solidarity, dumb-bro!

lol

I got this on blu-ray for Christmas and watched it a couple days ago at high volume. I still liked it quite a bit.

I also was eating pizza at the bar last night with a friend and chatted with a young guy who seemed fairly on top of things who was waiting to pick up a to-go order. He thought it had merited some thought and could use a second watching. So, average guy in the bar finds it comprehensible but worthy of rewatch.

think it would have worked better as a tv series.

"Hoping each time that his next inception ... will be the inception home!"

― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Sunday, 26 December 2010 22:56 (2 days ago) Permalink

I lol'd at this one

I saw this twice in the cinema and once on the DVD I bought the day it came out. Colour me retarded.

Watched this again last night, "again" being the second time. I thought it might suffer from having seen it previously, but it was better. Love how, near the end, when Cobb tells Mal that they did grow old together, Nolan avoids showing any faces and just shows the elderly couple from behind walking hand in hand, and the clasped hands as they lay together on the train tracks.

Kids are def. older and wearing different -- but VERY similar -- clothes at the end.

This was everything asinine about contemporary, grandiose popcorn movies distilled into eight crisp hours.

ahh yay, morbs finally sees a movie that came out six months ago and is ready to contribute to the discussion

there's no shelf life, esp for shit like this.

lol how can you say that a month after tron: legacy came out

My friend weighed in with a funny insight: "Inception is like a Hideo Kojima game without the gameplay. I'm totally right and that's why that movie was stupid."

He also joked/truth bombed that the movies' scenes had the aura of videogame levels, with the hotel scenes where people were floating in the air being the "well there goes any internal logic" equivalent of a video game's difficult "water level."

"Every time the story gets puzzling the characters call a time-out and explain it"

hasn't this been happening since, you know, the bible and the start of story telling?

yeah, that's not actually a bad thing as long as it's an interesting explanation - and it is!

no, it hasn't and no, the 4 dozen labored adolescent-nerd bullshit "explanations" weren't.

more like a Goichi Suda game imo

also I musta missed the explanation of JG-L's tied-up hogpile of floating people.

He sure did look fine in that suit, prob the only reason I made it through the film.

nah gimme Tom Hardy any day of the week.

Explaining the Maguffin isn't really the problem I have with this, it's making the Maguffin entertaining enough that the movie works on its own terms. I don't object to the dreamworld not being strange and thrilling enough on the grounds of realism but on the grounds of this is an expensive film with a semi-great cast and what Nolan chooses to do with that is just uptight and lacking and not enough of anything imo

fun movie, ur probably a jerkoff if u didnt like it tbh

don't think my being a jerkoff is in question but honest this film is not nearly fun enough

with nv on this one. Fault was in the pacing more than the treatment of exposition

hasn't this been happening since, you know, the bible and the start of story telling?

dude the bible OPENS with plot holes. Light is just THERE.

also I musta missed the explanation of JG-L's tied-up hogpile of floating people.

Not sure if you're referring to the fact that they didn't verbally explain this, or that the movie didn't eventually make it clear what he was doing. It's pretty obvious once he gets them in the elevator, imo.

if you say so; I had checked out long before.

you cant check out without usin the elevator that's crazy talk

I cane straight from "Limbo"

(distressingly unCatholic limbo, btw)

movie set in catholic limbo starring leo would be worth a pitch

He did explain it: "How do I drop them when there's no gravity?"

Then he basically propelled the elevator through the shaft using explosives.

imo not that hard to follow

I think you could argue that a lot of dicaprio movies take place in limbo

hence the hall-of-mirrors head effect?

dead wife limbo

you see, he vowed in titanic that he would never let his true love go

and now she's in his dreams

dead wife limbo

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 10:35 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

Think that's called "bimbo."