Inception (with implanted spoilers)

Trailer for this was shown when I saw Iron Man 2 in IMAX yesterday and if nothing else it looked incredible on the big screen. Piece on Collider about it and some detail on shooting in 35mm, 65mm and Vistavision in order to obtain the highest possible quality:

http://www.collider.com/2010/03/25/director-christopher-nolan-and-producer-emma-thomas-interview-inception-they-talk-3d-what-kind-of-cameras-they-used-pre-viz-wb-and-a-lot-more

So this is basically "... and it was all a dream - THE MOVIE"

"The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a specialist in the new branch of corporate espionage -- he's a dream thief who plucks secrets from the minds of tycoons after pumping them full of drugs and hooking them up to a mysterious contraption."

He's checking to see if they literally become vikings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z75o-F6ja2I

Wish we would have had this trailer before IM2 instead of a really long one for that Adam Sandler/Kevin James piece of shit.

I wish good directors would stop making movies with Leonardo DeShithead

really psyched about this, not really bothered by Leo. tbh Nolan's more personal movies (yknow $200 mil personal) seem way more successful than his Batmovies; the're not constrained by so many external needs and the storytelling comes through clearer. Kinda want him to just hurry up and get the next Batman out of the way so he can move onto something else i'm into.

NYT interview with Nolan.

getting absurdly excited about this now. this might just be because i had forgotten about it until a week ago, and had up to now written off this summer as having absolutely no 'big' films i'm interested in seeing.

still can imagine it being a failure easier than i can a success (financially, especially, but very possibly creatively as well).

http://www.nme.com/news/the-cribs/51783

He's checking to see if they literally become vikings

So excited to finally get a definitive answer to this question.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/a-man-and-his-dream-christopher-nolan-and-inception/

This is going to be the big-budget live-action comedy to beat for the summer. Nolan's signature inability to comprehend verisimilar dialogue coupled the movie star who clumsily plays himself playing a character in every film will deliver the laughs in spades.

Not sure why they want to schedule a Leo film against a solid-looking blockbuster starring Nicolas Cage, the master of self-aware, deconstructionist acting.

lol

omg early reviews are in and they're all glowing

so psyched

a quick perusal of the early reviews is filling me with too much expectation. will see it opening day, obviously, but must remember that i don't really trust these reviewers all that much.

A friend saw it and was very positive. Definitely planning on hitting the local IMAX opening night; if nothing else Nolan knows how to use that approach more than most. (That said I could still easily see this ending up like litel indicates; if anything Nolan admitted as much in the NYT interview!)

Warner Bros just lifted the embargo on reviews and they are uniformly positive, with some being ecstatic. I am really looking forward to this.

Variety: http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117943 ... id=31&cs=1
Hollywood Reporter: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/fil ... 2197.story
Empire: http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/rev ... FID=136118
IndieWire: http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononho ... with_heart
CHUD: http://chud.com/articles/articles/24313 ... Page1.html
Awards Daily: http://www.awardsdaily.com/?p=23795
Cinematical: http://www.cinematical.com/2010/07/05/inception-review/
In Contention: http://incontention.com/?p=26044
Hit Fix: http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-m ... equal-ease
Film School Rejects: http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/review ... eption.php
Ain't It Cool: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45679
UGO: http://www.ugo.com/movies/inception-review-instareview
JoBlo: http://www.joblo.com/review-inception
Coming Soon: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/reviewsnews.php?id=67539
Wow Hollywood: http://wowhollywood.us/review-inception

can't help but wonder if they're looking at tracking for interest and going 'oh shit, let the reviews out'

sorry was not able to cut and the paste all those links in properly but google is your friend

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/jul/08/christopher-nolan-inception

cannot. wait. to. see. this.

:D

Tickets booked, starting to get pretty excited. I'm thinking the make-or-break point will be how well Nolan has handled the ensemble cast.

Yeah same I have mine for the Friday release date. This film is thing that dreams are made of.

is the thing that dreams are made of.

synecdoche new york 2: LOOK I HAVE A GUN

Will agree with any film review that starts out putting the boot into Aronofsky's Fountain

tbh I am completely stoked for this as well

there's no lineage with Avatar, as that interview above confirms, but I would like to see this, Enter The Void and SNY again in quick succession

All-positive reviews freak me out a little.

Also, sort of concerned that it seems to take place almost entirely in dreams but never crosses PG-13 territory.

What, all your dreams are R/X-rated gore sex fests?

They're all better than PG, lemmetellya

At least half of 'em are a "hard R." xp

not even kidding there was an orgy in my dream last night

posts very much in charactarrrrrrrrgggghhhhh

All of my dreams involving Marion Cotillard & Ellen Page earn an R...for strong language and smoking.

http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2010/07/Inception-Poster.jpg

I'm pretty excited about this one. I'm pretty fascinated by the topic of lucid dreaming in general and this movie will hopefully bend my mind a bit.

excited cuz the previews look cool (despite dicaprio), and i maintain faith that nolan will again someday make a movie i enjoy watching (despite everything since memento).

but i'm bummed by how bland the things shown in the preview are, if the movie takes place largely in dreams. when i saw the early previews, i couldn't tell whether it depicted a sci-fi scenario, hallucinations, the apocalypse, or what. now that we know it's the dreamworld, i'm a bit let down. dreams consist of bendy geography and matrix-fighting? and that's it? mine are a HELL of a lot weirder than that, even when they're PG-13.

suppose it's remotely possible that the film contains things not shown in the preview.

What is it about altering reality that makes one invest in a snappy wardrobe

movie is only 2 minutes 30 sec iirc so probably not

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All-positive reviews freak me out a little.

I'm sure Mr White will be along soon to burst that bubble.

REALLY wanna see what Nolan-naysayer David Thompson thinks of this

Tickets booked formfriday at 4.10pm.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/movies/04inception.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=movies

edelstein not feelin it - http://nymag.com/movies/reviews/67155/

Yay, a pan!

Finally a crack in the facade! I, for one, will be celebrating this film's artistic and hopefully financial failure by purchasing a ticket.

Me too! I just happen to think that if a few crits actually hate it there's a better chance it's actually an interesting movie that takes chances.

I'm serious! I'm actually going to to protest this movie by ironically purchasing a ticket.

I suffer from Meaningless Gesture Syndrome, which affects hundreds across the globe.

i guess this movie will be like the acid test for the nolan aesthetic: is it possible to make a film about dunkirk and somehow end up focusing more on plot structure than on the humans involved?

can youse guys tell me what makes this movie so bad bc i actually happen to really like it

but willing to read why its garbage without vehemently refuting, i guess i dont feel too strongly that it is really good

but i also liked interstellar and the batman series

shit dawg am i emotionally repressed

lay on a glasgow kiss on me so i can feel again

I enjoyed Inception.

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

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Clicking on that is actually just you dropping to level 1

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.

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

Thing is that after memento his puzzles kind of suck and his plots don't exist it's just puzzles

Thing is that after memento his puzzles kind of suck and his plots don't exist it's just puzzles

Glitch in the inception there

r u on a higher level cuz i only see one

I remind people that The Dark Knight is still really good. But it's now a one-off in his ouevre nearly.

Still rep for The Prestige

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.

Problem with batman begins is that al'ghul really is one of these villains that are completely laughable on film.

also all batman films have been superseded by lego batman

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

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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.

oh man I was still on hiatus when this dropped
I had the correct opinion immediately after the credits

http://31.media.tumblr.com/76881c011e5b9541e6319e353a4cddc9/tumblr_n6vld3NGgj1sapo3yo1_500.gif

^^^ directer's cut

leo is an uninteresting actor

Leo's best performance was in The Wolf of Wall Street, like the one role where he felt like the 100% perfect fit

Well also What's Eating Gilbert Grape

both otm

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.

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)

most of his movies are boring

...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)

no praise from me. and nolan has been making awful movies since 2008.

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."

no praise from me. and nolan has been making awful movies since 2008.

yeah there were some dissenters, amidst all the breathless hyperbole from ppl seeing multiple times in the theater

Lol remember 2010

Tho i still stan 4 dis

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."

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...

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

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?

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.

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

It's worth remembering the crew create the dreams for their targets, so they're not 'real' dreams.

If I'm remembering correctly.

San Te planted it in yr head

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