Inception (with implanted spoilers)

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.

In addition to MGS I'm also sadly afflicted with Custosa Nervosa, which causes my eyelids to produce milk-secreting glands.

^

just a flavor of the mind-warping dream imagery you'll be missing out on by going to see the non-milklid-containing Inception. SAY NO TO NEUTERED DREAM MOVIES!

Vote with with your wallet!

Should I burn it, or throw it?

if you burn it, it will move to Miami to form one third of the foundation for a superwallet

went down from a perfect "100" to "77" in Metacritic, mainly because time out (80) and New York Magazine (40).

the trailer looks meh, but if it's fun as Memento was, i'm ok with it.

First time I've actually out and out enjoyed a movie by Chris Nolan, though this is as arrogantly conceived as Memento. Just better.

Is it okay not to dislike Inception?

who refused to accept that a negative view of the movie could be motivated by anything other than a perverse contrarian impulse or a desire to drive up hits on their individual websites.

What might give anyone the idea that Armond White gives negative reviews just to drive up hits on the NY Press website?

grammar problems ahoy in Armond's take

yeah where's the subbing

lol <3 u armond tho u big buffoon

But Nolan never critiques this as Neveldine/taylor did in Gamer.

like Grand Theft Auto’s quasi-cinematic extension of noir and action-flick plots, Inception manipulates the digital audience’s delectation for relentless subterfuge.

what

i know, i know

It isn't so much that he hates so many movies, its the ones he holds up as examples of what is done right. I mean, Gamer? Really?

he is a man of the people

saw it last night at a preview and i liked it.

Gamer is one of the most aggressively unpleasant movies I've ever seen.

sitting through Gamer all i could think was how much academics could and would have a field day with it. awful stuff though.

That blog post Gukbe linked to is way too long but I like what it's saying. I can't stand these whiny fanboys who get pissed off when a critic shits on their latest crush, especially as they appear so dim that they equate a proper, opinionated critic like David Edelstein or Stephanie Zacharek with a contrarian dick like Armond.

and finally A Prequel Comic

Seeing it on Tuesday. Psyched!

I'm glad there's "relentless subterfuge." That sounds like there's a lot of subplot pile-up and "but I knew that you'd see my gun!" "But I knew you'd know I knew!" I love that kinda shit.

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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in yr thread

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