I enjoyed Inception.
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:27 (seven years ago) link
Up until the snow level
It's not even that the movies falls apart after that (though it kinda does)
It's that a guy wrote and made a movie that included a snow level
just because he wanted to have included a snow level
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
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― SFTGFOP (El Tomboto), Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link
Clicking on that is actually just you dropping to level 1
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link
I havent seen inception since my initial raves but I have no problems with it as a movie, I guess with Nolan I don't care about his seeming disinterest in making films that are driven by realistic human behavior rather than driven by his plots or by puzzles. Cold and intricate (or "intricate") and cerebral (or "cerebral") action movies are his particular "thing" and he's good at it imo.
However he's also wildly capable of not being good at it, as evidenced by The Dark Knight Rises which is a genuinely weak and ill-conceived and thin and boring movie. Unlike his others (well the ones I've seen, I skipped interstellar and the insomnia remake.)
Dunkirk, who knows. Maybe the stranded soldiers will discover they're actually stranded in a Dom Cobb dreamscape.
― nomar, Thursday, 16 March 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link
Inception has 'breathtaking set pieces' but isn't a movie, also the snow level is probably the worst action sequence ever filmed
TDKR is possibly my OPO worst movie ever
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Thursday, 16 March 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link
Thing is that after memento his puzzles kind of suck and his plots don't exist it's just puzzles
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 March 2017 17:44 (seven years ago) link
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 March 2017 17:45 (seven years ago) link
Glitch in the inception there
r u on a higher level cuz i only see one
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 16 March 2017 18:31 (seven years ago) link
I remind people that The Dark Knight is still really good. But it's now a one-off in his ouevre nearly.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 16 March 2017 18:42 (seven years ago) link
Still rep for The Prestige
― Gukbe, Thursday, 16 March 2017 23:44 (seven years ago) link
i think Batman Begins is my favorite Nolan film because it's the one that's most straightforward, shows he can make a smart and fun superhero flick minus any puzzle trickery. i guess The Dark Knight is similar, the trickery is pretty minimal and it comes from the Joker so it makes sense in the end. The Prestige, also good. Inception is the least of his "good" movies maybe bc it is a wholly original story and set of characters.
― nomar, Thursday, 16 March 2017 23:47 (seven years ago) link
Problem with batman begins is that al'ghul really is one of these villains that are completely laughable on film.
― brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Friday, 17 March 2017 00:07 (seven years ago) link
also all batman films have been superseded by lego batman
― SFTGFOP (El Tomboto), Friday, 17 March 2017 00:28 (seven years ago) link
i think i probably like the dark knight the most of all of his movies but (as i think i've said elsewhere on ilx) it's a thrilling ride which instantly falls apart as soon as you start thinking about it afterwards. i guess that's kind of a hallmark of his films too
― not even my mate ross king sniffed out this hot gossip (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 March 2017 11:11 (seven years ago) link
I did this and fwiw my unfortunate memories of this thread were confirmed - loads of effusive praise. but this movie sucked and was Nolan's first real failure imo. It's been all downhill ever since.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 March 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
oh man I was still on hiatus when this droppedI had the correct opinion immediately after the credits
― SFTGFOP (El Tomboto), Friday, 17 March 2017 19:12 (seven years ago) link
http://31.media.tumblr.com/76881c011e5b9541e6319e353a4cddc9/tumblr_n6vld3NGgj1sapo3yo1_500.gif
― nomar, Friday, 17 March 2017 19:16 (seven years ago) link
^^^ directer's cut
― Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Friday, 17 March 2017 19:20 (seven years ago) link
leo is an uninteresting actor
― marcos, Friday, 17 March 2017 19:23 (seven years ago) link
Leo's best performance was in The Wolf of Wall Street, like the one role where he felt like the 100% perfect fit
― nomar, Friday, 17 March 2017 19:25 (seven years ago) link
Well also What's Eating Gilbert Grape
― Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Friday, 17 March 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
both otm
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 March 2017 19:29 (seven years ago) link
otherwise he's only good for hate-watching: dooly appointed mah-shals, breakdancing etc.
I actually think he's a pretty reliable lead actor, insofar as you kinda know what you're going to get with him and he's not going to fuck it up too much. he gets a lot of these roles bc of that reliability, which sometimes means he's not really exciting. WOWS and Django were both kinda outliers in that regard and yeah Gilbert Grape too.
― nomar, Friday, 17 March 2017 19:33 (seven years ago) link
I would like to apologize for this
100% w/ Nolan on whatever crazy shit he comes up with at this point.― Simon H., Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:58 PM (seven years ago)
― Simon H., Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:58 PM (seven years ago)
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 17 March 2017 20:32 (seven years ago) link
most of his movies are boring
― marcos, Friday, 17 March 2017 20:47 (seven years ago) link
...my unfortunate memories of this thread were confirmed - loads of effusive praise. but this movie sucked and was Nolan's first real failure imo. It's been all downhill ever since.― Οὖτις, Friday, March 17, 2017 11:25 AM (two hours ago)
― Οὖτις, Friday, March 17, 2017 11:25 AM (two hours ago)
no praise from me. and nolan has been making awful movies since 2008.
― The sandwiches looked quite dank. (contenderizer), Friday, 17 March 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
his first two Batman movies are imo not boring but The Dark Knight missed a decent opportunity by having Harvey Dent be Two-Face for only about 7 minutes before he died. I think carrying that story over to the third film would have been a better idea, as much as I like to exit vehicles ahead of one of my friends, then turn back to them and say "No, they expect one of us in the wreckage, brother."
― nomar, Friday, 17 March 2017 20:59 (seven years ago) link
yeah there were some dissenters, amidst all the breathless hyperbole from ppl seeing multiple times in the theater
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 March 2017 21:03 (seven years ago) link
Lol remember 2010
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 10 February 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link
Tho i still stan 4 dis
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 10 February 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
OK, just watched this for the first time since the first time, whenever that opening weekend was, and ... it's fine. But for a movie about what it is about, and told the way it is told, there are just way too many machine guns and snowmobile chases. It's like he lacked the courage of his convictions and just cynically decided to throw in the ski chase from "The Spy Who Loved Me."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 June 2020 03:09 (three years ago) link
trying to watch this again after the first go round x years ago when I only made it up to the snow level scene. really trying to watch this objectively and understand what makes people like it but seriously...
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 31 August 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
I'm maybe missing the point or I should just accept it for what it is: a metaphysical James Bond movie that is all plot and no blood
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 31 August 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
but it's the central conceit of the film: dreams, and how little the dreams in this film relate to my own experience of dreaming - it actually makes me angry that someone would make a film like this. like, had Nolan ever even experienced dreams? does he know what a dream is?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 31 August 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
There's a widely circulated theory that it's actually about film making. I dig Inception fine as a metaphysical Bond film, but I agree much more could've been made of the brilliant central conceit.
― chap, Monday, 31 August 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
If it wanted to be more like real dreams, it could have used more snakes.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Dreamscapeposter.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 31 August 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
It's worth remembering the crew create the dreams for their targets, so they're not 'real' dreams.
― chap, Monday, 31 August 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
If I'm remembering correctly.
San Te planted it in yr head
― exit through the (Tape Store), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:24 AM bookmarkflaglink
in yr thread
― gato busca pleitos (Eazy), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:26 AM bookmarkflaglink
zombeh zombeh zombie-eh-eh
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― origami condom (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 September 2020 05:46 (three years ago) link