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Just saw Inception
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Go see this goddamn movie!
Best thing I've seen in *years*, and it's no wonder it took Christopher Nolan upwards of 7-8 years to bang the logistical kinks out of it. Totally inspiring work. If it fails to win an oscar, I officially give up on mankind.
Edit: I went to IMDB to check out reviews, and it's amazing how many people gave it one star, then proceeded to call people that liked it "sheep". I'm not suggesting some people are hard to please, I'm just saying some people are going to shit on anything that has a wide agreement to being any good. This movie kicked total ass, I absorbed every minute of it.
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I loved the flick too.
it was a new and refreshing squeezed lemon.
Agreed Faxxer it was a very good movie.
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I hate to be a downer in your thread here but I didn't think Inception was the best thing since sliced bread met lesbian porn. From a personal stand point it was an ok movie. It just failed to grab me. I did like the low gravity bit where he ties them all together but other then that, nothing really stood out for me.
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I still need to see that movie, been planning to for ages.
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Yeh definitely the best movie I've seen this year, I would rate it as my third favourite behind davinci code and the matrix.
I'm fine by that, as long as you are not one of those non-conformists that has to say something sucks just because everyone else likes it. Personally, I thought it was once of the brightest mind-bending plots since Dark City. I absolutely love this kind of stuff, and it makes me feel stupid for never having seen Memento.
What totally got me was the rules of it all, the totems, getting a "kick" to get out of it, the various layers, the level design from one individual being seeded with projections from the target individual. Man that's some good shit... and the best part - no preachy messages or drawn-out character drama. Just a steady moving plot with a little bit of emotional depth from the key player. Plus a great cast, everyone shined in this one.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt totally took me by surprise as well. He went from 3rd Rock to this, and it's an amazing jump.
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One thing that keeps bugging me about that movie is that I have no idea how they actually facilitated the whole "sharing" of dreams. All I basically know is that they would sedate you with chemicals, and that's it.
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That much is left to speculate, but if you ask me, it may be because it's always possible and happens all the time. People are just not trained to be lucid within that state though, and thusly is why only those who don'r realise that they are dreaming are the only ones leaving projections of themselves, besides Leo when he starts losing it. Everyone that's "in on it" can go about their business, regardless of who'se dream they are in. Even the guy whose dream they entered that *was* trained had no idea he was dreaming until they pulled out the "Mr. Charles". At which point, he was just as lucid about it all as any of they were, except his projections were far more militant from the start from earlier training.
Though it does stand that someone has to host the world itself, but as said in the beginning of the movie, even the target dreamer can do that -but then it gives the projections the advantage of knowing the world's layout. It's why they asked the chick to draw a maze that "takes two minutes to make, and one to complete". They don't want the target (and his projections) to know it's way around the layout, so someone else hosts it.
What was really cool was how in each layer that someone else hosts a dream within the initial dream, they have to stay behind to keep that world from crashing. The plot had to be a continuity nightmare from the start, but I was able to get it all in a single run, so that says a lot about how much work had to be done in easing it all in.
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I agree the whole A dream within a dream within a dream thing was done very well showing the directors talent. Also the bit at the end with the spinning top......I saw that comming within 20 mins of the film [SPOILER I WORKED THAT OUT WHEN THE MAIN CHARECTER MET HIS UNCLE FOR HELP GETTING AN ARCHITECT]]. Netherless it was good.
Heh was embarresing tho when we went and booked the tickets tho as my father who knew very little about the movie [even its name] asked for 3 tickets to see incest
Poor guy was very embarresed about it and still hasant gotten over it.
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I'll probably wait for it go DVD and rent it.
A question, is it a movie that makes you think or is it just another mindless blockbuster? And I'm talking about a movie that doesn't pretend to be smart but actually makes you reflect once you have left.
I saw a lot of advertising for it, which turned me off initally, with every scene being some fantastical bullshit of special effects.
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Yea this one does make you think.
Another great example of Moore's Law. Give people access to that much space (developers and users alike) and they'll find uses for it that you can never imagine. "640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates 1981
It's not transformers.
I'd go into what the special effects in the trailers are really about, but it would ruin the surprise for you. Let me just say that all the great effects suit a form of 'cause and effect' in the film that totally works. They don't throw this stuff at you for no reason, and maaaan does it work.
IMO, it's going to be way better in theaters.
As for making you think, it's not like you'll be pondering some latent message afterwards, you'll most likely be going over the logistics of it all, and just relishing how much forethought went into the plot. It's just that good... at least in my perspective. Ending was visible from a mile away though, but the journey there is incredible.
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Inception is one of the best movies ever made. It is not one of those summer blockbuster movies with a lot of explosions. It is the very opposit to Transformers 2 for example.
Many people dont like it because you actually need to think and follow the movie at all times. I have tryed to explain the movie. Maybe something between Matrix, Casino Royale and French Connection!
Same here.
I mean, I didn't think it was bad... but it just didn't stand out to me. To me, it was about on the same level as The Book of Eli. It wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't a great movie either. It was just a movie. I enjoyed it and I'll probably watch it 2 or 3 more times on DVD, but I didn't think it was great.
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I guess I'll go check out The Book of Eli. Never got around to watching it because I felt they just used the star power of it's actors to draw the crowd. A few of my friends did watch it and they pretty much felt the same way I did about Inception.
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When I saw it it instantly got a position in my favorite movies ever list.
As for other recent movies, do see Scott Pilgrim, do not see The Expendables. The former is creative and original the former is a cheap cash-in.
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It makes you think but it's pointless to try and figure it all out. It's not a puzzle you can piece together and find the answer.
I think Nolan is one of the all-time great directors...I just couldn't get into Inception. The biggest rule of dream travel is broken in the first 15 minutes and overall it seems like he was trying a little too hard to make a smart movie. When taking a bullet to the head is inconsequential it gets really difficult to empathize with what the characters are going through.
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The shock of it wakes people up. What's so confusing about it?
Plus later on it's emphaisized that the amount of sedation involved would lock people into limbo if they die within the dream.
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I Loved the movie all the way until the end... didn't care for it. Great concept, great cast, great story and great CGI.
Its not confusing its a plot hole that ruined the immersion for me. They said later in the movie that falling is the surest kick to wake up from the deepest levels of sleep. (SPOILER) In that scene he had tied a rope to a chair and told his wife not to get up. Then he repelled down the building and while he was doing that, he fell down a few feet. But he didn't wake up.
(SPOILER) When his wife jumps out of the window its a tragic scene. But later on they decide to use falling as a kick because it's pretty much guaranteed to wake you up. With the possibility that the whole movie was a dream, you have to think that maybe her act of jumping was actually a positive thing for her. She had decided to go back to reality even if it meant leaving her husband behind.
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~but the "kick" only works if you are sleeping, or asleep within someone else's dream (the layering effect). If someone pushed Leo over in the real world he would have woken, or if someone did the same in the dream world he would have as well, like in the initial scene where he's in Watanabe's dream, within the architects dream that has a riot going on. The only plothole of that nature is where nobody wakes up when the van rolls over, but they do once the van hits the water. Though, that is explained as a link to the song being played in their ears simultaneously, as the apex is the queue they are waiting for, and prolly has everything to do with why they only woke during the crash into the river.
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I must agree and disagree with you all at onece. Scott Pilgrim was indeed a great surprise for me. I didn't think it was going to be as good as I found it to be. As for The Expendibles, I think it brought me back to the era of Stalone and Arnold when they did their action movies and the were good. I thoroughly enjoyed it as well but I was much more sure of what I was going into with that one.
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saw it a few days after it came out with my girlfriend.
freaking great movie, a bit long, but freaking great.
Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.