Movie Inception

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Yes the most anticipated film of 2010 is just around the corner fellas. JULY 22nd also showing at IMAX around Australia.

I love the concept of the film and in a way I believe Nolan has been building toward this film throughout his career, judging by it's ambitious nature. When I saw the trailer for the first time, I thought of two words: MIND pr0n

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Feels like a top 10 film already. :eek:
 
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25 positive and 0 negative so far. The worst I've read gave it a 7/10 and was still mostly complimentary about it.

Nolan's done it again! Can't wait to see it.
 

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I'm counting the days. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes so far, granted its only had 8 reviews, but an average rating of 9 and with complinents such as "masterpiece", "miracle" and "the most entertaining film seen in years" I can't see it being anything short of spectacular.
 
I have a free double pass to give away. It is for the media screening in Sydney.

One double pass for you and a friend to see Inception at Event Cinemas at 505 George St, Sydney on Wednesday July 21st.
Please find attached your e-ticket to attend this special advanced screening.
Please remember to print off this e-ticket and bring a valid form of ID to the cinema entrance. Without either of these you will be refused entry.
The screening will commence at 6.30pm sharp so make sure you arrive early to claim a good seat

I will forward the email to the first person to pm me that can genuinely use the tickets. They cannot be resold as organisation will need your name and you will need id to get in.
 

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Don't make the same mistake i did and go on the IMDb board for it, some muppet had a seemingly MAJOR spoiler in the thread title.
 
Saw it today. Excellent movie. I think the people who are saying it's a confusing mindf*ck are way off the mark. Everything's pretty straight forward and explained so well which is what makes it great.

It reminds me a lot of Back To The Future part 2 where all the different timelines are happening simultaneously and what happens in one timeline affects the others. Except with Inception it's levels of consciousness instead of timelines. What happens in one place affects the others. Pretty straight forward. The narrative is very tight.

Nolan's getting better at shooting action sequences. He pulls the camera back and it's easier to see what's going on than in his previous films. Shoot outs are very reminiscent of Heat (actually the whole thing has a similar feel seeing as it's a heist movie). He's also a lot better with female characters and love story this time. I felt that with both Batman movies you could've removed the Rachel character and it wouldn't have made much difference to the story. Completely the opposite with Inception.

Tom Hardy is a superstar. Hopefully the new Mad Max turns out good because he's very cool in this.
 
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I enjoyed the start and end of this movie.




Old Dog's Mess Leonardo Di Caprio leads a crack team of people who go inside your dreams and mess around with them for a fee.




He needs an extra recruit so he gets the girl out of Juno. Last time she was playing a pregnant sixteen year old. Now she's playing a genius architecture undergraduate who looks about twelve years old, I felt like a paedo every time she came on screen.






Irishman Cillian Murphy is a humourless Aussie in this movie.




Michael Caine has a pointless cameo as Di Caprio's dad. He has maybe five lines. He could have youtubed his performance in, if he happened to live near an airport departure lounge & a lecture theatre, the locations of his two scenes.




I recognized most of the other actors but couldn't name them.






Her out of Juno is recruited to build architecture in dreams. Di Caprio's gang enter people's minds and nick industrial secrets by taking loads of drugs and wiring themselves up to machines.




Only on this mission, they have to enter Cillian Murphy's mind and make him divide up his late fathers business into many small parts, at the behest of a Japanese rival businessman. So the Japanese fella can win at business.




A bit like the boss of Coles persuading the boss of Woolworth/Safeway to divide up groceries and clothing and furnishings and stationary into different stores.




(I don't know why they need to enter his dreams to do this, I could have given it a decent shot with a PowerPoint session and a night at a lapdancing club.)




So the gang enters his dreams to persuade him to do so.




The very disappointing thing about all this, is that these subconscious noodlings just involve many sequences of Bruce Willis/007 action happenings. Lots of bang bang, shoot shoot , things crashing into things, things falling off things in industrial landscapes.




Because it's the subconscious some basic laws of physics are mildly affected - things happen more slowly and there's the odd fight in midair. Didn't we see that in 'The Matrix'?




But the filmmakers had the entire weight of Holywood CGI to create a dreamworld.




Where's the melting clocks?




Where's the slicing up eyeballs, uh uh ho ho?


In short, the dreamworld is just endless gun battles. Where's the fantasy element? N-one's dreams are endless gun battles, not even Jean Claude Van Damme's. Where's the surreality?


Old Juno-bake may be called Ariadne, but there's nothing here to compete with the terrifying genius fables the Greeks created 3,000 years ago, with their beautiful seductive white bulls and half-man, half-creatures and the nine-yearly sacrifice of virgins.




Just lots of explosions. Like, storming the fortress of someone's subconscious involves storming an actual fortress. It's a very literal dreamworld.




The denouement is better, where Di Caprio and Juno go into a collapsing dreamy city in the manner of Douglas Coupland's Girlfriend in a Coma to get to heart of the former's marital problems.




But overall, it's an opportunity missed.




6/10.

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Sorry, I'm a beginner at this movie review business. White text added, highlight to reveal.

I saw the movie here in Europe, one of the advantages I suppose.
 
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Sorry, I'm a beginner at this movie review business. White text added, highlight to reveal.

I saw the movie here in Europe, one of the advantages I suppose.
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Were you also drunk? That was the worst review of a movie I've ever read.

I saw it today and thought it was incredible. Admittedly it wasn't perfect, but the good far outweighed the bad.
 
Drunk? It is a very stupid movie pretending to be intelligent.

Jut cause you said I was drunk & my review was bad I am removing two points.

it's now a 4/10 movie instead of 6/10.
 
Saw this today at the big Vmax @ Knox...lovely.

Somebody mentioned this is bit like Back to the Future 2. With this film thats like comparing life and learning in a Primary School as opposed to a University. Both are in the Education system but one is so much more than the basics of Primary school.

Chris Nolan has taken what he had developed with Mememto and gone wayyyy deeper adding a more than a few layers and cross sections to a plot that leaves you scrambling to keep up much less try and take in so much so that when you arrive at the 2nd last scene you are suddenly jolted back to - O, yeah, I forgot about that, that you think back to what just happened and happened and I could go on.

It is only now thinking about the film that I get the opening sequence..(doh me)
The people rioting down the street heading to their location.

The special effects are stunning, the CGI brilliant. We have all seen that part where the City lifts up, brilliant.

I feel like I have traveled to a new world and the experience has left me exhausted. I'm not so sure I enjoyed it whilst I watching the movie but having time to reflect is sure an advantage.
 
Going to see it tonight, can't wait, my mate saw it today and sent me this text. "Inception was a bigger and better mind **** than Shutter Island, 9/10.".
 

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