Inception (with implanted spoilers)

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.

freescat viewer

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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

I recommended it to a friend as "porn for architects." He is an architect.

the "we need an architect" stuff is the biggest lol in this really quite funny film

my central problem w/ this type of film, insofar as it has antecedents in the '50s and '60s, is that it is done w/ such goddamn solemnity. (I'm assuming by "quite funny" you mean unintentionally)

The iphone app of this film is kinda fun though!

It is! It's from the rjdj team and is a pretty good prepackaged version of their technology.

My problem with the movie: you cast Scrunchy, JGL, and Tom Hardy as members of a gang yet give them not a single bit of memorable dialogue, not a single moment that distinguishes them. JGL could have been Hardy, Hardy could have been Ellen Page. I'll say this for Scrunchy though: he's ponderous in almost any movie in which he has to solve some kind of mystery.

dunno if you've seen it Dr Morbius but the funny bits are rubbish

Oh, Scrunchy. I was joking with a friend a couple nights ago that I finally watched Shutter Island and Scrunchy's Bostonian accent was even sillier than in The Departed. Having more experience with Boston, he made the point it was probably more accurate, as Boston accents sound fake in person, too.

JGL tricks ariadne into kissing him at one point, tom hardy kicks JGL chair from beneath him at one point, the sedative guy says "did you see that??" to a van full of sedated people at one point. can't remember any others. ken watanabe reveals he's bought the airline at one point but I don't know if that's supposed to be funny. probably there are lots of other bits that are supposed to be funny and to which you're supposed to go ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh-ha-ha but I've forgotten them now.

the draw me a maze in one minute that takes two minutes to solve stuff on the roof was pretty lol tho

Nolan's shit at jokes. I still like this film, I have a soft spot for ludicrous sci-fi that takes itself really seriously.

I like ludicrous sci-fi that plays like Saturday matinee stuff (eg Fantastic Voyage, vastly simpler and far more entertaining)

I have a soft spot for ludicrous sci-fi that takes itself really seriously.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Monday, January 10, 2011 7:14 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah, see, i do too. but only when it has some sense of grand, visionary imagination. or at least some cool ideas about what can be done with its basic concept. this was just long, plodding, narratively awkward and dull as dirt. it's hard to believe that one could create a less imaginative & wonder-inducing movie set in the world of dreams. just pointless fuddling complication on top of relentlessly overexplained complication, and that hardly = interesting sci-fi world building. only moments i genuinely enjoyed were those so heavily featured in the commercials, when leo was giving the architect (yeah, lol) the grand tour: the city curling up on itself and all that guff.

Can we get off the banality of the dreams? Dreams are a red herring in this movie, you lot of undergrads.