Anyone seen Inception yet?

blueEbola · 2010-08-30T02:47:01

Has anyone seen it yet?I've just returned from my second viewing -- I am completely and utterly blown away.I have to admit that I am a Christopher Nolan fanboy.. I loved The Prestige, Memento is mindbendingly delicious, and The Dark Knight was one of the most riveting movies I've ever seen in a theater. This movie was a shoo-in for me, I knew I would wind up loving it. But I didn't expect that it would blow all of those other movies out of the water completely.I thought The Dark Knight was brilliant (though a bit flawed) and I didn't believe Christopher Nolan could top it, but he has really outdone himself with Inception. The film's plot starts out simple, but as things progress the complexity reveals itself. Things can become very confusing in the beginning, but that's OK: the director masterfully presents the story to us in a way that is so engaging that even though we aren't entirely sure what's going on -- we can't help but keep our eyes glued on the screen.I'm not going to even attempt to write a detailed synopsis of the plot, simply because I am unable to. All that I can say is that it involves dreams and dream infiltration -- a group of highly trained scientists using a "dream sharing" technology to facilitate corporate espionage and thievery. These scientists plant themselves in a subject's dream in order to extract information from them, or even incept the roots of an idea into their mind.It's so hard to describe, I just simply don't have the vocabulary for it, haha.Eventually, all of the pieces of the puzzle fall in place. Everything makes sense. The last 40 minutes of the movie were the most breathtaking moments I've ever experienced in a movie theater. Pure adrenaline rush. I had to actually gasp for air on numerous occasions because I had forgotten to breathe. I didn't want to blink. The editing, cinematography, special effects, acting, music .. everything was spot on.One of the best movies I've seen in years. The best sci-fi movie since The Matrix, possibly even since Blade Runner.GO SEE IT![Edited by - blueEbola on July 19, 2010 7:53:00 PM]

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Started by blueEbola July 19, 2010 12:01 AM

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owl

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August 10, 2010 07:40 AM

Well written. Well directed. Well photographed. Well acted. Well musicalized.

I couldn't ask much more from a movie. I've read some critics saying that this movie wasn't thought-provoking but seeing how many people didn't get it (even when it was tutorialed at the beginning and I was able to follow it without effort) I have to disagree.

[size="2"]I like the Walrus best.

Alch

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August 10, 2010 08:23 AM

i think the greatest thing about it is how it takes a surreal plot and while it doesn't make it fully understandable to everyone it at least makes it digestible to the average joe

from the movie synopsis i knew that it would have that ambiguous ending, but the fact that it managed to pass that to my mom who usually cant follow movies at all is just amazing

samster581

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August 10, 2010 04:01 PM

Quote:Original post by Yudhisthira
Quote:Original post by blueEbola
Quote:Original post by Yudhisthira
I saw it, it's a good movie. I think it has been a bit over-hyped in my opinion, it is worth a watch. It's one of those films that you'd want to watch twice as the storyline gets somewhat complex (didn't help that I had a late night before!). The ending implied there will be more movies to come. Overall a really unique storyline which is well executed.

The ending may seem to imply that, but I don't think it will happen. I've read that he's not very big on sequels -- he's only done it for the Batman series because, well, it's Batman.

I always thought if a movie does well enough at the box office they will make a sequel whether the original director/cast are on board or not, just from a purely financial perspective. Especially if the storyline lends itself to one.

Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't do sequels (see imdb), so they will have to bring in a totally new cast if they wanted to do it again.
But, I see plenty avenues for revenge plots here. It shouldn't be hard to make another.

MSW

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August 10, 2010 06:01 PM

Quote:Original post by noe
I can't believe so much people here loved that movie that much. For me it was The Thirteenth Floor / The Matrix poorly combined. Not to mention that Di Caprio just did almost same thing in Shutter Island few months back and better. By all means I am not trying to troll here and I assume I will be bashed ;) but really, didn't you feel while watching it that you've already seen it all? Why is so special about that movie? And please don't reply that I probably didn't understand it ;)

Um...short answer. Inception a movie that captured our attention and fueled our imagination. Everything else is debatable and subjectable. Just as it is for any movie for anyone.

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samster581

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August 10, 2010 08:08 PM

Quote:Original post by benryves
Quote:Original post by cowsarenotevil
I haven't seen the movie yet so I don't know how the music is, but I'm worried that Hans Zimmer is doing more and more "experimental" music that seems to lack emotion (not to mention other things like melody and harmony). Is this the same way?
I tend to find that a good score works with the picture, but this score makes use of a distracting foghorn blast that I've seen likened to the vuvuzela at the World Cup. The

">trailer may give you a good idea of what it's like.

No, a movie trailer's music does not necessarily give you any idea what the movie score is like. The trailer music doesn't even have
to come from the movie itself! I've seen trailer music ripped from 5 different pieces before, all edited seamlessly together.

As for Inception, you won't find this trailer music anywhere in the score. There's like 3 different trailers, and the last one wasn't
even created by Hans Zimmer. Music from trailer #3 is called "Mind Heist" by Zack Hemsey.

Hodgman

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August 10, 2010 11:09 PM

Quote:Original post by M2tM
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M2tM

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August 11, 2010 01:05 PM

Quote:Original post by Hodgman
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