Inception (spoilers!)

What would you give Inception?


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I can't see how this is different to THE MATRIX. I'm not saying it isn't different, I'm just saying I can't see the difference. So I'm just very lukewarm about it, but I do want to see it because I assume it will be rather good.

I'm just not... excited. A bit curious.

'cept for the music which I love.
 
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This doesn't come out here until the 22nd.

I am leaving this thread.
 
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I can't see how this is different to THE MATRIX. I'm not saying it isn't different, I'm just saying I can't see the difference. So I'm just very lukewarm about it, but I do want to see it because I assume it will be rather good.

I'm just not... excited. A bit curious.

My friend who I'm seeing it with feels the same way.

First bad review

It brought the Metascore down from 100 to 75.

There's always gotta be that one douche who gives it a bad rating.
 
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I give the soundtrack EIGHT THUMBS UP.

There are bits with Johnny Marr on guitar!
 
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Got mah midnight ticket! Also: It is on an Ultrascreen.
 
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Oh my god... I can't even fully gather my thoughts on this film. Suffice to say, I think it blows away anything he's done before. I'm trying to wrap my mind around it completely and in the process I keep losing focus, vision-wise... Holy ****ing ****.

I'll save the discussion of content until people have seen it. One non-spoiler thing is that the way time is played with in this picture solves Nolan's greatest issue in his previous films... You know how Batman Begins and The Dark Knight both feel a little too long, even after reflection when you realize that you wouldn't want anything cut from either film... There's still this feeling that they're about 20 minutes too long. Maybe it's just me. But anyways, this movie sailed by. It's so intricately constructed that it doesn't feel bloated, and its hard to believe you've been sitting there for 150 minutes.
 
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This was fantastic.

My entire theater roared once the credits rolled.
Seriously, that implication that the whole film was a dream was mean.
 
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This was fantastic.

My entire theater roared once the credits rolled.
Seriously, that implication that the whole film was a dream was mean.

I think that maybe-maybe-not suggestion was just meant to refer to the last scene(but of course, who knows).

I had a really good audience too. I don't think there was a single person in the theatre who didn't applaud at the end.
 
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Oh my god... I can't even fully gather my thoughts on this film. Suffice to say, I think it blows away anything he's done before. I'm trying to wrap my mind around it completely and in the process I keep losing focus, vision-wise... Holy ****ing ****.

Yep.

I'll save the discussion of content until people have seen it. One non-spoiler thing is that the way time is played with in this picture solves Nolan's greatest issue in his previous films... You know how Batman Begins and The Dark Knight both feel a little too long, even after reflection when you realize that you wouldn't want anything cut from either film... There's still this feeling that they're about 20 minutes too long. Maybe it's just me. But anyways, this movie sailed by. It's so intricately constructed that it doesn't feel bloated, and its hard to believe you've been sitting there for 150 minutes.

Fully agreed, 8000%. While I've definitely gotten used to the running length of Batman Begins I did initially find it to drag a bit. I certainly think The Dark Knight lumbers on a bit too long (particularly during the Joker's-boat-bomb-dilemma sequence).

I would tentatively regard this as being the greatest Christopher Nolan film ever made, at least from a creative, intellectual and engaging sense. It's arguably his greatest film in terms of questioning the human condition; although I think TDK might just barely trump it. There wasn't any real pioneering meat in terms of acting (compared to Bale in BB and Ledger in TDK), but DiCaprio was reliably superb. I also really enjoyed Tom Hardy's presence in the movie even if he didn't do anything particularly impressive. If Nolan ever does direct a Bond movie (and Daniel Craig is no longer involved), Tom Hardy would make a wonderful James Bond.

Hands down, Hans Zimmer deserves an Oscar for his work in this film. This was a film with a masterful musical score. Nolan certainly has a case for a Best Director nod as well
, primarily for creating one of (if not) the greatest fight scenes of cinema.

My entire theater roared once the credits rolled.
Seriously, that implication that the whole film was a dream was mean.

Meh.
The ambiguity of it was the perfect compromise between the two possibilities. I was also delighted that there was no secret scene, which would have utterly cheapened the film.


Wow, Rex Reed should really just stop having a career as a film reviewer.
 
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Coming now from a slightly more rational point of view, I can see the areas where I wish the film had accomplished more. Particularly when it comes with emotionally engaging us with his characters. I think this, generally, is an issue of Nolan's that's usually pushed aside because his films are so intellectually satisfying. This is absolutely one of those cases... You get a sense of Cobb as a man through the dissection of his mind rather than his expression of those moments. I can forgive this because it almost seems Nolan's style at this point. He's much more interested in breaking things down and showing us the pieces to make us think than really dragging us into raw emotional territories. To that extent, I would probably say The Prestige is the only Christopher Nolan film that has extreme emotional resonance, but its also one of the reasons that The Prestige is a lesser (although still damn good) film than the Batman films, Memento, or Inception. It's not his strongest suit as a director, so he works around it. I would say that this is a deliberate choice, but it's still interesting to look at.

The second thing isn't a critique of what's in the film, but rather, what isn't. I frankly expected more surreality, and less of a rigid rule structure for the dream states in the film. I'm kind of glad he handled it this way, because to pretend to have a real handle of how dreams work in a Lynchian nightmare sense would have destroyed any potential for there to be a real structure to the plot, let alone such an intricate labyrinth like the one Nolan constructed here. Many critics have been jumping on this point, having wanted this film to be Nolan's leap into something completely beyond his previous works, rather than a culmination of what he's been building to with his film career. I forgive it because its clearly him knowing what kind of movie he wanted this to be, which is a psychological thriller with an action bent, rather than him trying to make an art-film that's more about the nature of reality. This film doesn't have much to say about what dreams mean, they are basically just another level of the same reality, only more malleable. And it works with that elegantly.

I maintain my 10/10 scoring of the film, because it is exactly what it was trying to be and it succeeds on every level. If anything, he should be lauded for not trying to reach beyond his grasp. Ultimately, this is a heist film, and a wholly original psychological thriller, and it succeeds on that level in every regard.
 
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This film is nothing short of spectacular. There's just nothing bad I can say about it. It was amazing.
 
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I liked the way I didn't realize just how much I cared about the characters until the climax. Maybe that was just me, but it was a brilliant feeling I don't remember feeling before at a film.

Funny, that's actually how I felt about The Dark Knight.

I certainly agree in so far as
not realising just how much I wanted to see Cobb's childrens' faces until the very end of the movie
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