So this is basically "... and it was all a dream - THE MOVIE"
― the big pink suede panda bear hurts (ledge), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 08:43 (thirteen years ago) link
"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
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z75o-F6ja2I
― Number None, Monday, 10 May 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Wish we would have had this trailer before IM2 instead of a really long one for that Adam Sandler/Kevin James piece of shit.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I wish good directors would stop making movies with Leonardo DeShithead
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 May 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Monday, 10 May 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
NYT interview with Nolan.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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).
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nme.com/news/the-cribs/51783
― oscar, Thursday, 1 July 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
So excited to finally get a definitive answer to this question.
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 July 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/a-man-and-his-dream-christopher-nolan-and-inception/
― oscar, Thursday, 1 July 2010 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― litel, Thursday, 1 July 2010 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― Implied Nazarene (latebloomer), Thursday, 1 July 2010 09:46 (thirteen years ago) link
omg early reviews are in and they're all glowing
so psyched
― exit through the (Tape Store), Monday, 5 July 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Monday, 5 July 2010 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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!)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 July 2010 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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=1Hollywood Reporter: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/fil ... 2197.storyEmpire: http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/rev ... FID=136118IndieWire: http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononho ... with_heartCHUD: http://chud.com/articles/articles/24313 ... Page1.htmlAwards Daily: http://www.awardsdaily.com/?p=23795Cinematical: http://www.cinematical.com/2010/07/05/inception-review/In Contention: http://incontention.com/?p=26044Hit Fix: http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-m ... equal-easeFilm School Rejects: http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/review ... eption.phpAin't It Cool: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45679UGO: http://www.ugo.com/movies/inception-review-instareviewJoBlo: http://www.joblo.com/review-inceptionComing Soon: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/reviewsnews.php?id=67539Wow Hollywood: http://wowhollywood.us/review-inception
― oscar, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
can't help but wonder if they're looking at tracking for interest and going 'oh shit, let the reviews out'
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry was not able to cut and the paste all those links in properly but google is your friend
― oscar, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/jul/08/christopher-nolan-inception
cannot. wait. to. see. this.
:D
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 8 July 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 July 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah same I have mine for the Friday release date. This film is thing that dreams are made of.
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 8 July 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
is the thing that dreams are made of.
synecdoche new york 2: LOOK I HAVE A GUN
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Will agree with any film review that starts out putting the boot into Aronofsky's Fountain
― lowwave (S-), Thursday, 8 July 2010 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh I am completely stoked for this as well
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
What, all your dreams are R/X-rated gore sex fests?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
They're all better than PG, lemmetellya
― ,,,,,,eeeeleon (darraghmac), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
At least half of 'em are a "hard R." xp
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
not even kidding there was an orgy in my dream last night
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
posts very much in charactarrrrrrrrgggghhhhh
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
All of my dreams involving Marion Cotillard & Ellen Page earn an R...for strong language and smoking.
― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2010/07/Inception-Poster.jpg
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Saturday, 10 July 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Green Manalishi (Viceroy), Saturday, 10 July 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Saturday, 10 July 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
What is it about altering reality that makes one invest in a snappy wardrobe
― da croupier, Saturday, 10 July 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
movie is only 2 minutes 30 sec iirc so probably not
xpost
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Saturday, 10 July 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm sure Mr White will be along soon to burst that bubble.
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Saturday, 10 July 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
REALLY wanna see what Nolan-naysayer David Thompson thinks of this
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Saturday, 10 July 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Tickets booked formfriday at 4.10pm.
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 10 July 2010 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/movies/04inception.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=movies
― Mordy, Saturday, 10 July 2010 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
edelstein not feelin it - http://nymag.com/movies/reviews/67155/
― just sayin, Monday, 12 July 2010 08:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Yay, a pan!
― Simon H., Monday, 12 July 2010 08:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Finally a crack in the facade! I, for one, will be celebrating this film's artistic and hopefully financial failure by purchasing a ticket.
― latebloomer, Monday, 12 July 2010 08:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Simon H., Monday, 12 July 2010 08:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm serious! I'm actually going to to protest this movie by ironically purchasing a ticket.
― latebloomer, Monday, 12 July 2010 08:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I suffer from Meaningless Gesture Syndrome, which affects hundreds across the globe.
― latebloomer, Monday, 12 July 2010 08:47 (thirteen years ago) link
In addition to MGS I'm also sadly afflicted with Custosa Nervosa, which causes my eyelids to produce milk-secreting glands.
― latebloomer, Monday, 12 July 2010 08:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:22 (seven years ago) link
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
― he does NOT have the training (HI DERE), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:27 AM bookmarkflaglink
― origami condom (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 September 2020 05:46 (three years ago) link