Inception

[Majuna]

Anyone else seen it yet? Sooooo goood!

[Qaedain]

Mind-bending, clever and compelling. Would see again.

[Hasbinbad]

5/5

[Kraftwerk]

The last 45 minutes are pure unadultered enjoyment, I will probably go see it again soon.

[Omnimorph]

It was good, better than good infact. But i don't think i'll watch it again for at least a year :p

Spoiler alert

The ending made me lol.

[Shrubwise]

Have not seen it yet, but like the above posts, all I have heard is good things.
Paying $10.25 for a movie is always offsetting, but I may just fork it over to see such a well-regarded movie.

[Majuna]

I am definitely going to see it again in the theater... just not the same at home considering my tv is NOT a 47" with surround sound. They have it playing an imax near me... twice the price but I bet it would be amazing.

[azeth]

our entire theatre lol'd at the end

[mitic]

is it downloadable already?

[Kambris]

I haven't seen it yet, but after the travesty that was The Last Airbender (sob sob sob I loved the cartoon), I think I could go for a non-half-assed film right about now. The concept really piques my interest.

[Majuna]

our entire theatre lol'd at the end






so did mine, haha

[Kraftwerk]

*SPOILER ALERT*



















It fell over.





























































































Or did it?

[uraniumrooster]

Saw it on friday at IMAX, best movie I've seen in a very long time. Well worth the price to see it in IMAX as well imo, I was literally amazed at many of the scenes, which doesn't happen often these days. I'd have to say I found Inception more visually impressive than even Avatar or any of the other 3D movies that have been coming out, and was impressed by the fact that the effects actually aided and enhanced the story line rather than just being eye-candy or filler.

[Waedawen]

Fuck Ya'all

Go watch a movie and Q_Q at the end of Toy Story 3

[Waedawen]

real movie* lulz

[utenan]

Looking at IMDB the movie scores a 9.4 out of 10, but when you read the bad reviews, it seems like the movie is really, really aweful. Reviews criticizing a movie are generally informative and honest, they are usually trying to help you from wasting time. reading both good and bad reviews on IMDB, it seems like the good reviews have nothing real to say about the movie, except that its was good (even in this thread, what was good about it besides the graphix), the bad reviews seem to go like this

"I'm trying very hard to be fair here. Given my high expectations and all the praise, it's hard not to bite back. So I'll temper my initial review ("Sitting through Inception was more disappointing and more frustrating than discovering my first girlfriend was cheating on me") with this one: "Inception buried everything that I might have loved about it 10 feet under things that were terrible."

"This film is downright boring. I literally almost fell asleep at a noon showing. I also almost walked out 35 minutes before it ended; I simply did not care about any of these characters. The effects are neat, and look pretty great, but the story is so asinine that... wait, no, the story isn't asinine, its execution is."

People generally say the execution of the move was terrible, the actors didn't act like real people, you didnt care about the characters (a trend in today's film's)(compare the original star wars to the later ones, watch these reviews if you havent seen it yet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI&feature=player_embedded#! The points thats this dude makes seems to ring true in every modern movie), the story was over complicated, the action scenes were cliche, etc. etc.

Can anyone read through the negative reviews in IMDB or something, and try to convince me that this movie is not a waste of money??? : D

[uraniumrooster]

utenan,

I'd argue that the negative reviews don't point to anything specific either, other than that they didn't like the movie.

"I'm trying very hard to be fair here. Given my high expectations and all the praise, it's hard not to bite back. So I'll temper my initial review ("Sitting through Inception was more disappointing and more frustrating than discovering my first girlfriend was cheating on me") with this one: "Inception buried everything that I might have loved about it 10 feet under things that were terrible."

Says nothing about the movie apart from that this guy didn't like it, and he's probably a boring dude to begin with if he couldn't keep his girlfriend content enough not to cheat on him.

"This film is downright boring. I literally almost fell asleep at a noon showing. I also almost walked out 35 minutes before it ended; I simply did not care about any of these characters. The effects are neat, and look pretty great, but the story is so asinine that... wait, no, the story isn't asinine, its execution is."

A little better, but still no specifics here. He expresses his opinion well enough but doesn't support it with anything.

Anyway, in general I hate reading reviews before a film because I prefer to go in without any expectations and form my own opinion. Inception really benefits from a blank slate more than any other recent release and in fact the only movie I can think of that would benefit more from a clean perspective is Memento from the same director.

With that said, I think a lot of the positive reviews for Inception are intentionally vague to avoid spoiling any details of the movie and taking away from someone's experience. I know that has been the case for me discussing it with people who haven't seen it. I can see however how it wouldn't be for everyone... it's a complex, non-conventional story that can be difficult to follow. Much like Memento you have to pay attention and keep track of the details as the plot progresses to see the whole picture when things come together (though Inception at least follows a linear timeline throughout the bulk of the film).

Another thing I'm picking up on from reading some of the negative reviews on IMDb is that it seems the reviewers just weren't interested in the subject matter. I've always been fascinated by dreams, consciousness and how the human mind perceives reality, so I found Inception to be a very interesting film. Someone who wasn't interested in those subjects would probably not pick up on or care about some of Inception's deeper themes and for them it would likely just be a thriller with cool effects that they would either enjoy or not enjoy depending probably more on their mood than anything else.

I guess as a conclusion then, if you didn't like Memento or if a thriller about dreams and human perception of reality sounds boring, don't go see it. Otherwise, go make up your own mind.

[utenan]

Those two quotes were just the first chunk of a review, I didn't want to fill the entire page with reviews : D But I did find some very nice ones, people who were interested and had high hopes for the movie, and were completely let down
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/usercomments?filter=hate;start=10

4th one down and the first one

You do make some good points though, especially about making up my own mind, but its been so long since i went and seen a movie that was good, I have a negative attitude towards the subject : D

[StinkyGreenBud]

so did mine, haha... it somewhat reminded me of shutter island


fucking spoiler alert next time goddamnit.

[Majuna]

fucking spoiler alert next time goddamnit.

Very very sorry, took that out.. didn't even think about it at the time. :(

[Majuna]

***** SPOILER ALERT****




















fucking spoiler alert next time goddamnit.

Sorry again, but just wanted to say, there are a lot of ways this can be interpreted. I just mean in a way that they both make you think, which I love when any movie does. Still very worth seeing.

[Overcast]

Oh dang, I forgot that came out this weekend. I'll have to see if it's on the IMAX here.

Glad to know it was good, but I won't return to this thread until after I've seen it, lol

[Taxi]

Im hearing good things about this movie, gonna go check it at 11am today!

[Walabaego]

Dude this movie is 100% worth it. Saw it in Imax last weekend. Leo can be a bit dramatic for my tastes, but I give it the official thumbs up. All around, cool story, gets you pretty involved and you'll be into it, some discrepancies in how it all works if you wanna nerd out :P And of course Imax/Surround Sound just makes it look/feel epic. Yes, good movie, need to see again.

[Taxi]

I was way too high for this movie. It was pretty spectacular though. I understood the gist of the movie but want to take a second look at it to digest the tech within the movie and if it stands up to scrutiny. Nice ride anyhow, was worth my 8 bucks.

[Flicka]

Looking at IMDB the movie scores a 9.4 out of 10, but when you read the bad reviews, it seems like the movie is really, really aweful. Reviews criticizing a movie are generally informative and honest, they are usually trying to help you from wasting time. reading both good and bad reviews on IMDB, it seems like the good reviews have nothing real to say about the movie, except that its was good (even in this thread, what was good about it besides the graphix), the bad reviews seem to go like this

"I'm trying very hard to be fair here. Given my high expectations and all the praise, it's hard not to bite back. So I'll temper my initial review ("Sitting through Inception was more disappointing and more frustrating than discovering my first girlfriend was cheating on me") with this one: "Inception buried everything that I might have loved about it 10 feet under things that were terrible."

"This film is downright boring. I literally almost fell asleep at a noon showing. I also almost walked out 35 minutes before it ended; I simply did not care about any of these characters. The effects are neat, and look pretty great, but the story is so asinine that... wait, no, the story isn't asinine, its execution is."

People generally say the execution of the move was terrible, the actors didn't act like real people, you didnt care about the characters (a trend in today's film's)(compare the original star wars to the later ones, watch these reviews if you havent seen it yet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI&feature=player_embedded#! The points thats this dude makes seems to ring true in every modern movie), the story was over complicated, the action scenes were cliche, etc. etc.

Can anyone read through the negative reviews in IMDB or something, and try to convince me that this movie is not a waste of money??? : DIMHO for those that hated it it was either

a)completely not your personal movie style
b)they just don't have the imagination to suspend their beliefs & fall head first into the "what if" kinda place this movie will take you
c) they just didn't GET it, the twists and turns were too complicated for them to grasp

Have a friend I went & saw it with, who has friends who have already seen it 5x trying to figure it out. Um.

But yeah, it rocked on many levels. The characters were as believable as they could get given we've only got what 2 hours to get to know them?

Generally I won't go by ANYTHING a professional "reviewer" says. Some of my fav movies are ones that supposedly everyone would hate & SURPRISE! almost everyone who saw it loved it.

5 stars here.

[rioisk]

IMHO for those that hated it it was either

a)completely not your personal movie style
b)they just don't have the imagination to suspend their beliefs & fall head first into the "what if" kinda place this movie will take you
c) they just didn't GET it, the twists and turns were too complicated for them to grasp

Have a friend I went & saw it with, who has friends who have already seen it 5x trying to figure it out. Um.

But yeah, it rocked on many levels. The characters were as believable as they could get given we've only got what 2 hours to get to know them?

Generally I won't go by ANYTHING a professional "reviewer" says. Some of my fav movies are ones that supposedly everyone would hate & SURPRISE! almost everyone who saw it loved it.

5 stars here.

Thank you for defining reasons for why people didn't like the movie as if it were required that people knew these things. I thought the movie was okay - some of the reasons you mentioned - but mostly because the movie tried to be more serious/emotional then it really was. The music, now Nolan knows how to incorporate sound.

[Slayde]

Just saw it today. I thought it was fantastic. Hard to find a movie these days that isn't just a rehash of a rehash of an old idea. I do however see how some of the more simple minded individuals would say it was overly complicated and hard to follow. There are a lot of things going on in the movie, usually all at the same time. But I had no trouble whatsoever keep up. As for unbelievable characters, I totally disagree. At some points I found myself really caught up in the suspense directly due to the characters involved. I am not much of a reviewer, but I thought it was definitely worth the admission price.

[Swiftsong_Lorekeeper]

During the movie I was like

http://i967.photobucket.com/albums/ae152/cassidjc/Surprised/dinosaurs_lasers.jpg

and then at the end I was like

http://i967.photobucket.com/albums/ae152/cassidjc/Surprised/surprised-monkey.jpg

Which turned into

http://i967.photobucket.com/albums/ae152/cassidjc/Surprised/wtf-.jpg

And the final vote is

http://i967.photobucket.com/albums/ae152/cassidjc/Surprised/chucknorris.jpg

[Kraftwerk]

http://i967.photobucket.com/albums/ae152/cassidjc/Surprised/dinosaurs_lasers.jpg

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Oh Dino-riders, what a big part of my childhood you were.

[rioisk]

Just saw it today. I thought it was fantastic. Hard to find a movie these days that isn't just a rehash of a rehash of an old idea. I do however see how some of the more simple minded individuals would say it was overly complicated and hard to follow. There are a lot of things going on in the movie, usually all at the same time. But I had no trouble whatsoever keep up. As for unbelievable characters, I totally disagree. At some points I found myself really caught up in the suspense directly due to the characters involved. I am not much of a reviewer, but I thought it was definitely worth the admission price.

I won't argue that it wasn't worth the admission price but I really don't understand the fuss. I guess movies are pretty bad these days so it is a relief to see something with at least a spark of originality but come on, Ellen Page? She makes you want to burst out laughing she's so unbelievable.

[Swiftsong_Lorekeeper]

We all know that movies have been going on since the first video camera was invented. The first narrative film was "The Great Train Robbery" in 1903 so obviously film making is 107 years old even though it may not be the same style we are used to now. It's also obvious that movie makers ran out of ideas years ago and basically every movie is a rehash of another movie or idea, either that or a sequel. Sometimes they may even take an idea from 5 movies and put them into one. It is hard to be original but they try their best. Sure I can sit down in a theater and pick apart each movie and tell you what is wrong with it. I choose not to be that way, I did used to do that with movies and I never watched too many movies that I liked. The way that I ended up dealing with it was I started to go to the movies with a clear head and expect absolutely nothing from the movie. I also quit reading anything about a movie and would ignore others opinions and just form my own. Even if someone told me it was the worst movie they had seen in there entire lives I would go in and expect nothing and just try to get enveloped in the movie and I might come out thinking it was one of the best I have ever seen. In one sentence what Im trying to say is.... The less you expect the more you receive when it comes to movies (in my opinion).

[azeth]

We all know that movies have been going on since the first video camera was invented. The first narrative film was "The Great Train Robbery" in 1903 so obviously film making is 107 years old even though it may not be the same style we are used to now. It's also obvious that movie makers ran out of ideas years ago and basically every movie is a rehash of another movie or idea, either that or a sequel. Sometimes they may even take an idea from 5 movies and put them into one. It is hard to be original but they try their best. Sure I can sit down in a theater and pick apart each movie and tell you what is wrong with it. I choose not to be that way, I did used to do that with movies and I never watched too many movies that I liked. The way that I ended up dealing with it was I started to go to the movies with a clear head and expect absolutely nothing from the movie. I also quit reading anything about a movie and would ignore others opinions and just form my own. Even if someone told me it was the worst movie they had seen in there entire lives I would go in and expect nothing and just try to get enveloped in the movie and I might come out thinking it was one of the best I have ever seen. In one sentence what Im trying to say is.... The less you expect the more you receive when it comes to movies (in my opinion).


Example of the usefulness of this mindset is the movie "Excalibur"

Watch it by yourself and (if its your genre/close to it) i guarantee it'll rate as top 5 fantasy movies you've ever seen.

Read reviews however and it sounds like absolute garbage horse sh*t that you'd never waste 2 hours of your life on.

[Overcast]

Example of the usefulness of this mindset is the movie "Excalibur"

Watch it by yourself and (if its your genre/close to it) i guarantee it'll rate as top 5 fantasy movies you've ever seen.

Read reviews however and it sounds like absolute garbage horse sh*t that you'd never waste 2 hours of your life on.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082348/

7.4 outta 10 on IMDB - I think I *may* have seen that a while ago... hmm

I wanna see something this weekend - I might go check out Inception - anything else out good now? :)

[azeth]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082348/

7.4 outta 10 on IMDB - I think I *may* have seen that a while ago... hmm

I wanna see something this weekend - I might go check out Inception - anything else out good now? :)

bad thread to plug this type of movie, but "Dinner for Idiots" (maybe Morons?) came out today.

[Slayde]

but come on, Ellen Page? She makes you want to burst out laughing she's so unbelievable.

lol okay I give you that one

[Dantes]

Bumping because I just saw the movie, wanted to avoid the thread. I would have to agree with the Ellen Page comment. She looks about 12 years old, and in a role like that where she's having a heartfelt conversation with a guy who's wife died I just don't buy it. An older looking actress might have pulled it off better.

Loved the movie though, but it reminds me of the The Matrix and Vanilla Sky.

[Taxi]

Loved the movie though, but it reminds me of the The Matrix and Vanilla Sky.

Pretty much everything is derivative in Scifi, its because once someone has got an original idea, it becomes public domain so to speak. The Matrix comes straight from the scifi of William Gibson (In the book Neuromancer he even calls the internet The Matrix, thats a 1984 book), from the Sprawl trilogy. Gibson is derivative of Phillip K. Dick and on and on.

Its like when people first started writing about spaceships, its accepted that the idea can be passed around to various sauces. Its the same with the concept of humans accessing a virtual reality with the brain. In this case accessing the mind of humans with technology.

[Majuna]

Thank you for defining reasons for why people didn't like the movie as if it were required that people knew these things. I thought the movie was okay - some of the reasons you mentioned - but mostly because the movie tried to be more serious/emotional then it really was. The music, now Nolan knows how to incorporate sound.

Music/sound was for sure one of my favorite aspects of the movie.