Inception (with implanted spoilers)

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."

More depressing was the thirtysomething-looking guy at Best buy last week who actually jumped and down when he saw the movie in stock.

*up and down

he was trying to wake himself up, obv

One naturally followed the other.

tbh I think that if you can't be bothered to pay attention to a movie, you don't get to complain that you didn't understand it

"It didn't hold my attention" is a damning-enough complaint on its own; attempting to add on "It didn't make any sense" about something that is explained rather explicitly by the movie and that very few other people had problems following, regardless of whether they liked the movie or not, just makes you look stupid.

Eh, you can still say "It didn't make any sense" if the explanations sound stupid (which they did on more than occasion).

tbh I was confused by some of the limbo stuff at the end, but it didn't really impede my enjoyment of the movie

really stopped caring abt "looking stupid" to you guys many years ago

dreamlives being invaded by heavily armed corporate espionage agents, THAT'S either stupid or boring

Well I really liked the movie, BUT I am probably more excited for the eventual rifftrax of it because, ya know, it is an exposition-heavy deadly serious nerdfest and those lend themselves to being very good fodder for comedy.

^^^otm

really stopped caring abt "looking stupid" to you guys many years ago

we know, you never tired of telling us

maybe if you'd kept one screenname I'd be heartbroken, but again perhaps not

Why is there still all this arguing over Inception?

obviously it is the most important film of the century.

maybe if you'd kept one screenname I'd be heartbroken, but again perhaps not

What does this have to do with anything?

some of us don't watch shit until it's free, Nicole.

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i don't know if i said this upthread is that this a type of movie that I noticed becoming in vogue in the 90s, heavily front-loaded rife with plot/narrative-devices that almost require an immediate second-viewing. Not to say I didn't enjoy the film, but films like these definitely test my patience in the y2k10+.

This movie would have tested my patience in the 90s. Too long, too little payoff, and way way too much overacting.

from who? the only person that you could make an argument for is Leo IMO

Yeah sorry thought that was implied. The problem with everyone else's acting is the ridiculous dialogue they have to deliver.

If Nolan spend half the time building Fischer and Watanabe into at least semi-interesting characters whose dramas you might give a tiny shit about that he did wasting it on boring explanations to Ellen Page and Leo's lame wife-ly psychodrama then the movie would still be too damn long, but at least the central plot might not have been a huge gaping bore.

horrible movie