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Topic: Inception (Read 50201 times)
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Hawkbit
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Pseudo-solipsism? Looks interesting.
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HaemishM
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Oh yeah, I'll see that.
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UnSub
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Yep, I'll be watching that too.
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Engels
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Velorath
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Protip: When making threads in the movie sub-forum, arrange threads by subject making it easier to see if someone has already made a thread for the movie.
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Engels
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Oops. Good call.
Admins, please den.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Brogarn
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Abagadro
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Man, the reviews on this are really polarized. It's either one of the best movies in the last 5 years or an incomprehensible mess depending upon who your reading. Likely this means it is a challenging sci-fi movie that some people groove on and some don't, which is why I'm quite stoked for it.
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lamaros
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Man, the reviews on this are really polarized. It's either one of the best movies in the last 5 years or an incomprehensible mess depending upon who your reading. Likely this means it is a challenging sci-fi movie that some people groove on and some don't, which is why I'm quite stoked for it.
Reading the Salon.com review has made me think it's neither of these things and worse than both of them... :( It's basically "Mission: Impossible II" minus Tom Cruise and John Woo, plus "Ocean's Eleven" minus a sense of humor and Las Vegas, plus "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors," with Marion Cotillard standing in for Freddy Krueger. Except that I just made it sound a whole lot more fun than it really is. |
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Arthur_Parker
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I'm not that keen on DiCaprio, but Empire seemed really impressed by Inception. Like The Matrix mated with Synecdoche, New York — or a Charlie Kaufman 007. To paraphrase Casino Royale’s Vesper Lynd, it’s a meaningful pursuit in a summer of disposable entertainments. With physics-defying, thunderous action, heart-wringing emotion and an astonishing performance from DiCaprio, Nolan delivers another true original: welcome to an undiscovered country. |
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sickrubik
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inception's tracking pretty well, at 87% positive at RT. Contrarian negative reviews aside, it seems to be as divisive as Nolan (or any well made movie) movies tend to be.
I'm a big fan of Nolan's style and work, so I'm in.
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It's basically "Mission: Impossible II" minus Tom Cruise and John Woo Which makes it watchable! |
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LK
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All my friends are going  at it. Lots of high praise. |
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sickrubik
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I am not sure how to parse that.
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LK
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They're stupified by its awesomeness.
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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dusematic
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Saw it last night at the midnight showing. Was blown away. Also thought it was really sad. If I had a criticism it would be that some of the action scenes dragged on and seemed a little forced. But I understand they've got to sell tickets. Could have tightened it up a little, maybe shaved 20 minutes off the film. We probably didn't need 10 minutes of that guy tying up those people in the elevator shaft.
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Velorath
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Saw it last night at the midnight showing. Was blown away. Also thought it was really sad. If I had a criticism it would be that some of the action scenes dragged on and seemed a little forced. But I understand they've got to sell tickets. Could have tightened it up a little, maybe shaved 20 minutes off the film. We probably didn't need 10 minutes of that guy tying up those people in the elevator shaft.
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dusematic
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Totally, I'm not trying to bash the film, loved it, just don't want to sound like too much of a fanboy. And the movie was like 160 minutes. That's pretty long.
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Ozzu
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That was an amazing movie. It reminded me of how I felt walking out of the theater after seeing 'The Matrix' the first time.
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Vision
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This is probably my favorite Nolan movie.
Deeper than TDK but not so far out there that I never want to watch again.
So much to think about.
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Soulflame
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That was an amazing movie. It reminded me of how I felt walking out of the theater after seeing 'The Matrix' the first time.
Overall, I liked the movie. I thought it did drag a bit towards the end, but then it went into breakneck speed and I stopped minding. |
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« Last Edit: July 17, 2010, 01:13:33 PM by Soulflame »
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Engels
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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sickrubik
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Saw it this morning. Very, very good. It was some odd Kubrickian-Tartovksy thriller by way of Mann.
nolan's body of work is starting to really form up to be fantastic. This may be my favorite Nolan film as well. He... may be the closest modern director to Kubrick. While the filming styles are fairly different, the study of certain topics and general philosophy are very similar.
it's going to be interesting to look more into his themes, if not just in this film. It works on a very basic level, but there is definitely more to this film that a lot of people are not going to pay attention to. (Which is not a fault, criticism or concern.)
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pxib
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It's a heist movie. Buck standard heist movie. 100% generic heist movie plot. JUST ONE MORE JOB AND I CAN GET OUT! The guy in charge changes the rules. He wants to go along. ASSEMBLE YOUR TEAM! Except there are no real twists, no triple crosses, no surprises... other than that almost every aspect of the film's worlds is surprising. Nolan grabs something familiar by its internal organs and turns it inside out.
Then he spends a lot of time on fight scenes that are long and ultimately meaningless. The sense of risk never feels particularly intense, and is undermined as the movie goes on. I still loved it. It's great to enjoy a mindfuck I don't need to see again to understand. The comparison to the Matrix was apt.
Some film worlds inspire us to imagine that they continue beyond the film's own boundaries. I love films like that.
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Brogarn
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I rather liked it. Was a well done mindfuck. My wife thought it was better than Shutter Island, but having recently seen Shutter Island, it kept messing her up and she couldn't get into it as much as I could.
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bhodi
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I saw it last night, I liked it as well.
Did anyone else get some really wretched previews at the front? It was 4 terrible looking movies. I was really wondering if I was in the right theater. One with a guy who has to chose between his girlfriend and his dead ghost brother. One was a really dumb comedy about a dinner with crazy(?) people. There was another date movie and a really generic pseudo-action movie that was also sort of geared towards women. Every single one of them looked like Hollywood vomited on the screen and expected people to lap it up.
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Engels
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Did anyone else get some really wretched previews at the front? It was 4 terrible looking movies. I was really wondering if I was in the right theater. One with a guy who has to chose between his girlfriend and his dead ghost brother. One was a really dumb comedy about a dinner with crazy(?) people. There was another date movie and a really generic pseudo-action movie that was also sort of geared towards women. Every single one of them looked like Hollywood vomited on the screen and expected people to lap it up.
Ya, we got those previews as well. The one with the dead brother and the girlfriend looked like it had been filmed circa 1980. Just gobsmack, eye-watering bad. Dinner for Schmucks didn't look that bad, but I like Steve Carell. There was also a preview for some rather vanilla looking Exorcist film which we'll not be seeing. |
I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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naum
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Roger Ebert:Here is a movie immune to spoilers: If you knew how it ended, that would tell you nothing unless you knew how it got there. And telling you how it got there would produce bafflement. The movie is all about process, about fighting our way through enveloping sheets of reality and dream, reality within dreams, dreams without reality.
Saw last night, and thought it was excellent, though I agree that some of the action sequences could have been edited down. Very Matrix-esque, and Mrs. Naum struggled in comprehending the plot…
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naum
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Did anyone else get some really wretched previews at the front? It was 4 terrible looking movies. I was really wondering if I was in the right theater. One with a guy who has to chose between his girlfriend and his dead ghost brother. One was a really dumb comedy about a dinner with crazy(?) people. There was another date movie and a really generic pseudo-action movie that was also sort of geared towards women. Every single one of them looked like Hollywood vomited on the screen and expected people to lap it up.
I think one you reference is the screwball comedy with Steve Carell, Schmucks (rather prodigious amount of movies he's starred in within the past year…). That one I saw, but in our viewing, the movie previews were actually interesting, for a change — a George Clooney action flick, Gordon Gecko Wall Street sequel (the giant cell phone elicits a most hearty chuckle from the crowd), and another that I cannot recall now… |
"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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This movie is hands down one of the best movies I've ever seen. Jesus.
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