I thought the concept was incredible and the score was just as good, but I thought the camera work was pretty average.
A friend made a comment that the movie made no attempt to explain how these people could read minds, etc., and she wanted to know more about it. I see that point but also thought it wasn’t meant to be explained.
I think the story got a little convoluted and some people in the audience were a bit confused about the “layers,” so I would say the movie could have done with having some “bookmarks” about what’s going on.
Marion Cotillard is BEAUTIFUL. The end where you find out his experience with “inception” was brilliant and very overwhelming; I knew it was coming, but when it finally did, you’re sitting there, wide-eyed and in disbelief.
Very good movie. I immediately thought: “This must’ve been the same director that did Memento.” I think my brother said that it was the same guy.
Although, I was a bit bummed about a similarity to Shutter Island…but I won’t get into that.
Oh, and Ellen Page pisses me off to no end. She was great in the movie, I just can’t stand her.
You’re one of those people that lives to shoot down what others are talking about, in an attempt to sound “intelligent,” right? We call those people pseudo-intellectuals. Charlatans.
Guys, just to clarify my original post, in case it wasn’t clear: I love the film. I thought it was fucking birlliant like Memento and Mulholland Drive.
I thought it had some GREAT special effects; the fight scene in the hotel was terrific, the “limbo” dream level, etc…
I keep reading that this is an “intelligent thinker” film. I really didn’t think so at all. The first 10 minutes or so it’s pretty confusing because you clearly don’t know what’s going on, but you figure it out rather quickly after that. I don’t know what people are writing about when they say you have to have a doctorate in physics to understand the movie. I was able to follow it all the way through and I’m an idiot.
The whole theater was all abuzz with chatter when the credits rolled. I think it’s safe to say that everyone else “got” the movie too, so this notion of it being an “intelligent” film is nonsense.
To me it was more of a love story than a “mindfuck”. I think people are trying too hard to get something more out of the movie. It was well done with great special effects and a story that keeps you interested all the way to the end, but “INTELLIGENT THINKING MAN’S MOVIE” it clearly isn’t.[/quote]
I don’t think anyone’s described the level of this movie to be out of reach for the ordinary man. But, as is obvious from this thread, some intelligence is required to really enjoy it.
You’re one of those people that lives to shoot down what others are talking about, in an attempt to sound “intelligent,” right? We call those people pseudo-intellectuals. Charlatans.
Guys, just to clarify my original post, in case it wasn’t clear: I love the film. I thought it was fucking birlliant like Memento and Mulholland Drive.[/quote]
[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
I definitely want to see this again. Oh, and speaking of Memento, I hope you guys read the short story. It’s really amazing.[/quote]
The directors brother wrote the short story. Guess talent runs in the family.
I too noticed the kids voices changed while on the phone. I had trouble figuring out what was going on there and don’t know what to believe.
Why didn’t the van tumbling serve as a kick? It rolled over in the air and crashed pretty hard. Would that not serve the same purpose? Or is it because JGL is able to accept the kick or not?[/quote]
[quote]MementoMori wrote:
You get kicks to pull you up 1 level (So a normal dreams needs a kick in real life.) It gets more complicated in later levels (3 or 4) because time moves progressively slower. So in order to have the kicks land simultaneously, the higher levels have to be given before the lower ones. The van kick is to get them out of hotel, the elveator out of snow, the defibrilator out of limbo. But if you did it in normal order they’d have years to wait for the final kick. (Hope that’s clear!)[/quote]
I really think it was just an inconsistency in the film to be honest. The whole sequence showing Ellen Page transition from one level to the next seemed very deliberate in portraying the way in which the kicks worked.
Since it was previously demonstrated that a kick pulls you up a level(towards real life…as in Arthur being knocked over in his chair in real life to wake him out of a dream), then there should have been no need for a kick in the snow base. Pulling someone up a level from the snow base should only have required a kick in the next highest level which was the hotel. Additionally, a kick should have been required in real life, on the plane, considering how kicks worked earlier in the movie. This wasn’t the case apparently.
Also, dying while sedated to get into limbo is fine. Dying while in limbo to escape limbo seems a bit ridiculous.
Marion Cotillard (Mal) actually played Edith Piaf, who sang “Non, je ne regrette rein” (song for the kick), in a 2007 film. They almost dropped the song…I’m glad they didn’t!
I really liked this movie a lot. I was entertained throughout, wasn’t dissapointed, and said aloud while the top spun at the end:
“Fall over Dammit!”
Nolan makes a great movie, and this movie is great. Anymore, there are really only two things you can bank on when it comes to movies, in my opinion.
Pixar Movies are good
Nolan Movies are good
From the costumes to the score to the performances of the actors. All of it was pure gold to me. There’s no part of me that’s saying “if they only would have done this” or “if they only would have spent more time in this scene…”
It was an ambitious, well protrayed, fimled, performed, and as close to perfect execution of a story idea that I’ve seen on screen in a long time, and I’m doubly thankful that there really isn’t anything to compare it to.
Damn the single layer comic book movies, damn the half layered video game movies, THIS is the type of movie I rank above the others.
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Damn the single layer comic book movies, damn the half layered video game movies, THIS is the type of movie I rank above the others.
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This quote makes it seem as if people generally hold video game movies in any kind of high regard.
Honestly, if anybody doesn’t rank most movies above video game movies, then…well…they probably don’t have much right ranking movies in the first place.
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Damn the single layer comic book movies, damn the half layered video game movies, THIS is the type of movie I rank above the others.
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This quote makes it seem as if people generally hold video game movies in any kind of high regard.
Honestly, if anybody doesn’t rank most movies above video game movies, then…well…they probably don’t have much right ranking movies in the first place.[/quote]
For the average consumer of movies, I agree with you. But for the studios? Different story. Resident Evil was filmed with James Camerons’ 3D cameras in anticipation of us the movie goer spending the money to go see it.
You’re one of those people that lives to shoot down what others are talking about, in an attempt to sound “intelligent,” right? We call those people pseudo-intellectuals. Charlatans.
Guys, just to clarify my original post, in case it wasn’t clear: I love the film. I thought it was fucking birlliant like Memento and Mulholland Drive.[/quote]
I’d rather be a pseudo-intellectual than a mindless meadhead who follows the herd.
Are you one of those people who get offended because other people hate on the movies that you love… someone who, due to lack of authenticity and creativity, attempts to somehow “create” an identity or image by means of works of “art” that somebody else has created because you lack the talent to create your own images? And because you identify yourself so dearly with what other people have created, somehow your intelligence gets offended because somebody else shoots down your favorite movie because somehow you feel as if it was YOU who was insulted?
ive got a question about when there is no gravity in the dreams. The people in the hotel dream start to float around when the car drives off the bridge and is falling, so how come given that they (in the hotel) are now in the air as with the dream above them, the people in the snow do not start to float around as well.
Sorry about that sounding a little criptic, im starting to confuse myself.
The wobble of the totem at the end could symbolise his mind/subconcious saying “I’m happy - it doesn’t matter if this is reality or not”
And the fact that he spins the totem and walks away from it without checking how it behaves shows that he just doesn’t care about dream/reality anymore but merely that he’s with his kids.
Perhaps the Fischer job WAS real, but his reward from Saito was actually to give him what he wanted (his kids) and Saito used his phonecall to arrange a lifelong stay in the dreamworld for Cobb instead of actually having him pardoned for the crime (surely he couldn’t arrange for this?)
I think to dwell on what’s possible and what’s not is counterproductive when it comes to the ending of this movie.
I couldn’t ask for anything more from a film than what it’s done already. People are going to say that it “saved the summer” or what have you. But, ultimately, if I ask myself “was I entertained???”