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
All-positive reviews freak me out a little.
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
^
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!
― latebloomer, Monday, 12 July 2010 08:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Vote with with your wallet!
― latebloomer, Monday, 12 July 2010 08:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Should I burn it, or throw it?
― Aimless, Monday, 12 July 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
if you burn it, it will move to Miami to form one third of the foundation for a superwallet
― MOATY I'M HERE (HI DERE), Monday, 12 July 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Zeno, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
First time I've actually out and out enjoyed a movie by Chris Nolan, though this is as arrogantly conceived as Memento. Just better.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 14 July 2010 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Is it okay not to dislike Inception?
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:16 (thirteen years ago) link
grammar problems ahoy in Armond's take
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah where's the subbing
― colnagl (cozen), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
lol <3 u armond tho u big buffoon
But Nolan never critiques this as Neveldine/taylor did in Gamer.
― colnagl (cozen), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― ultimate worrier (goole), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
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's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
he is a man of the people
― just sayin, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
saw it last night at a preview and i liked it.
― hot dub grime machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Gamer is one of the most aggressively unpleasant movies I've ever seen.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
sitting through Gamer all i could think was how much academics could and would have a field day with it. awful stuff though.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
and finally A Prequel Comic
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Seeing it on Tuesday. Psyched!
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Green Manalishi (Viceroy), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
now that Slant has given it one and a half stars, I'm starting to think the early critical hype was bullshit. Still interesting that the divide between the positive and the negative seems to be so wide.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Oooh, I'm usually in agreement w/ N. Schager, so I'm actually a bit worried now. (Still, not gonna actually read it until after I see it.)
― Simon H., Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i've largely avoided actually reading these reviews (aside from skimming for gems from Armond), but i'm not so sure. thankfully i managed to temper my enthusiasm over past week so i'm not that bothered.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
The capitalization in that Armond review is weird.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
also, Slant writers have an annoying habit of sneaking spoilers into their reviews. xxp
― Simon H., Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
this is gonna rule who cares what a bunch of writer nerds say
― max, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the idea that Armond just furiously types out something in about 15 minutes, bypasses the subs, and just hits 'publish post'
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I am so not expecting the greatest thing ever or anything, I just want a reasonably good film. If I get that, great, and if it looks fantastic on IMAX, even better, and I have hopes for both.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:54 (thirteen 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
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
― 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