that's an obvious point and a good one.

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It still amazes me how many people don't get this movie. What is it, did they watch an abridged version or something?

Personally, I thought this was absolutely brilliant. Then again, I'm easy to please.  

Anyhow, let's poke some more fun at Rob:

Now, that's funny

Btw. something that amazes me even more is the fact that the script has yet to find its way to the internet. What the fuck is this? Somebody leak it already

Quoted from sniper It still amazes me how many people don't get this movie. What is it, did they watch an abridged version or something?

Every movie has plot holes unless it’s a) agonizingly simplistic, or b) insanely incoherent. It doesn’t mean the movie is bad and, no, it doesn’t mean people who point them out just don’t get it. Christopher Nolan is great. I love his work. Nobody’s work is beyond reproach though.

Z, that’s funny. I didn’t know anyone was poking fun at Rob though. I certainly wasn’t.


Breanne

Quoted from Breanne Mattson Every movie has plot holes [...] it doesn’t mean people who point them out just don’t get it.

I don't disagree with you, Bre...except when people make up plotholes that don't exist (at least not in my mind - I felt the movie explained that).

I got a pitch from a guy a long time ago and it had THREE of the elements that Inception used. It's a very different story however. When Inception was released, after a hard gulp and a glass of Merlot later, I decided to go see it. I loved it. Nominations about in re fx etc. But to watch these actors SURROUND themselves WITHIN the role. And notice how LITTLE dialog there really was when you get right down to it. I did think about 7 minutes could come off here and there to 'tighten' it's grip on me, but what do I know. I know this; the script was kicking around in various forms in Nolan's dresser drawer and head for oh, around ten years. Film making truly is an art that is hurry up and wait; but worth it? I think so. BB (PS and I am still shopping my 'similar' script because IT'S SUPERB! What a ride!)

Dream Man - I thought it was similar as well.

Yeah, I read an interview with Nolan about how the story changed over the years from horror to thriller and how Guy Pearce's performance in Memento finally nailed it for Nolan on how to complete the story for Inception - interesting stuff.

Babz,

You wouldn't  by any chance have a copy of Nolan's script lying around, would you? I just need to read that script. I wanna get inside Nolan's head and stay there for a while.

Quoted from sniper You wouldn't  by any chance have a copy of Nolan's script lying around, would you? I just need to read that script. I wanna get inside Nolan's head and stay there for a while.

If you're really desperate, you can buy it...

http://www.amazon.com/Inceptio.....281472841&sr=8-1

Apparently there are storyboards, schematics of that dream-sharing device, and other neat things included, too.

Quoted from JonnyBoy If you're really desperate, you can buy it...

Yeah, but that's the shooting script. I want the script that sold Warner Bros to the idea.

Quoted from sniper Yeah, but that's the shooting script. I want the script that sold Warner Bros to the idea.

To be fair, it was probably not so much the script as it was, "Hi, I'm Chris Nolan, I just made you $1bn with TDK...can I have some money?"

I'm sure the 1bn didn't hurt

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.  

I agree with you, Cornetto. The lack of creativity in the dream scenes were what weakened the film considerably for me. Only two moments stood out, with the most obvious one having been already spoiled by the trailer (when the city folds into itself).

The dreams felt like half-assed excuses to cram as many overblown action scenes into the film as possible without having to fall back on any sort of logic. 'Cause, like...they're, like, dreams, you know...

It was a very good movie, but it simply had no creativity (or at the VERY least, not enough of it) as far as the dreams were concerned.

The ending was great though, I felt.

--Julio