Inception (with implanted spoilers)

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

― 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