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I just had the opportunity to see this movie. I would really like to say that I thought it was a great movie. It was a good movie, but unfortunately not a great one. My biggest complaint is that while it lived in an interesting concept, I don’t think it was imaginative enough to take it as far as it could go.
And that means the dreams – they didn’t feel like real dreams. Sure they were cool and the effects were neat-o-keen-o and Nolan did plenty to clue us into the fact that they were dreams but they just didn’t have a dream-like quality.
The story was fairly weak and really didn’t leave me cheering along Leonardo. As mentioned above, the pivotal scene – when he leaves his children – had zero emotional impact. If any character gets our support it’s the Ellen Page character who tries to actively deal with her encounter with the dreams of a mad man.
Overall I was a bit disappointed in this movie, I was expecting a bit more from it. Like another review I read said, Shutter Island deals with this subject better. To me this just seemed like a rehash of Mission Impossible.
HUGE disappointment. The trailer sent shivers down my spine..then you find out it's just a training scene where they tell you not to do that!
Gutted.
The rest of the film could have been out-takes from the Matrix and Casino Royale.
Still the only film I've seen at the Cinema this year though, I think...which tells its own story.
I recently watched Inception for the second time. It didn't hold up nearly as well as I had hoped. I still thought it was an overly expository adventure, but still entertaining. Did anyone find Ariadne's training much more thrilling than the actual dreams?
E.D.
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So much hate for Inception, I can't believe all these posts.
It was never supposed to be an art house film, Christopher Nolan is never going to make Memento again. You need to take it as it is, a summer blockbuster for the mindless masses, Transformers 3 or Avatar only what Nolan brings to the table is a script that does not make me want to cut my own head off while watching it.
It is the most important film of the year just for that reason, It is an example that a huge money making spectacular can have some interest on an intellectual level, maybe still a low level, but it does try and it did made a fortune. Hopefully Studio's will start taking note.
Yes it has flaws, yes there are real problems with emotional engagement (The Dark Knight is no better) but if I am going to go and watch my yearly big blockbuster then I am always going to go and watch a Nolan film.
It was fun and I enjoyed it without having to become stupid to do so. Ain't that enough for you people???
I pretty much second everything Murph said although I'd like to think that Nolan will make more small, personal, character based film in the future. Or has he alluded to the contrary in interviews?
Obviously, he's a major player now (will be even bigger after The Dark Night Rises since that'll make money no matter what he shoots) so he'll have the leeway to realise those pet projects which may not have big box office potential. In other words, do a Coppola!
I'd like to think that Nolan will make more small, personal, character based film in the future. Or has he alluded to the contrary in interviews? !
No, I have not heard him say otherwise, and I am with you, I really hope he does.
But I just feel he has got the keys to the castle now, He could call up the head of WB at 3am and ask for $200m to make a film about cutting grass and be given it. It would be very difficult to spend a year working on a pet project in that situation. I would say until he makes a bomb (which might yet come) WB will not let him. They are no doubt already lining up a new Nolan Franchise for when the Batman III is completed.
I guess it will boil down to what kind of guy he is, what motivates him, and we will probably see that in his moves after Batman.
I would love him to take on the Arthur C Clarke Rama trilogy that Morgan Freeman and David Fincher appear to have given up getting made after 15 years of trying. That would be perfect for his style.
So much hate for Inception, I can't believe all these posts.
It was never supposed to be an art house film, Christopher Nolan is never going to make Memento again. You need to take it as it is, a summer blockbuster for the mindless masses, Transformers 3 or Avatar only what Nolan brings to the table is a script that does not make me want to cut my own head off while watching it.
It is the most important film of the year just for that reason, It is an example that a huge money making spectacular can have some interest on an intellectual level, maybe still a low level, but it does try and it did made a fortune. Hopefully Studio's will start taking note.
Yes it has flaws, yes there are real problems with emotional engagement (The Dark Knight is no better) but if I am going to go and watch my yearly big blockbuster then I am always going to go and watch a Nolan film.
It was fun and I enjoyed it without having to become stupid to do so. Ain't that enough for you people???
It was very boring, what can I say?
The mindless fun argument only works if you're having fun.
It really was a disappointing flick. Such a huge budget, so many super talented people involved, and such a weak, dull, and completely unrealistic finished product.
Just finished watching Inception. Not sure what I think, yet. Loved the intricacies and the depth (although, it may actually have over-complicated things from a watch-a-bility perspective.)
The *idea* itself actually isn't all that new. Playing with what's reality vs. what's a dream has been done tons of times in movies. As has love, loss and guilt.
But it is interesting how they were put together here. My verdict's kind of out on this one right now. (So far, the only thing I raved about this year is Black Swan. Now that was amazing, yet relatively simple.)
I have a feeling that I'd have to see Inception a second time to really form an opinion. Not sure if I want to do that, though....
Completely agreed Bert. Like you I had no emotional connection with anyone in the film and couldn't care less about their attempts to fix the world for a callous mobster. I didn't remember a single character's name from the film either.
It got all the difficult stuff right, but unfortunately, the basics just weren't there.
It was a great idea, but I agree, it just wasn't told well enough.
I agree with you. I'd like to watch this movie again, and I think it would have benefited from a woman's touch. Please excuse me if I'm wrong and a woman is the writer. I never checked that out.
And there are also many men with a sensitive touch; so I understand that and it's not a hard and fast rule, but...
(Oh if you guys only knew what I was thinking of right now. It starts with "P" and rhymes with "so". ...
But the point is:
This movie would have benefited from some more sensitivity. It jumped around a lot, but had an empty quality to it. Perhaps that was what they were going for Sounds like life sometimes.
Still, I am not that quick of a judge and I'd like to see this movie again because I think it's probably loaded and was just too fast for poor lilly me.
Something that's cool, you might be interested, or not--
I had a dream the other night and I knew I was in a dream. And I really wanted to GET THE HELL OUT. The old "pinch yourself" came to my mind and I started squeezing my face and ultimately, I changed my dream. I was still in a dream, but it changed.
There's another interesting movie called The Speed of Thought that I didn't get to watch without interruption, but you might be interested in.
As far as Inception goes, I will watch it again. And it just might be...
One of those movies you need to see several times to appreciate.