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Saw it today and TBH slightly dissapointed.

I think the crazy IMDB ratings is nothing more than pack mentality just like the Dark Knight.

On to the film.... I went in expecting Blade Runner and 30 minutes in thats what I thought I was getting. Cinema photography was excellent but the biggest fault for me was time. It's such a deep thinking film that 110 minutes in I was honestly getting exhausted and the whole snow scene just took far too long. Inception just like Dark Knight could of shaved 40 minutes off the film, I'm not sure why Nolan persists with such long films when they clearly don't need to be. For me the subject matter became repetitive and nothing new was happening, which really caused the film to dwindle away. Although some of the visionary craft is out of this world, Inception for me was well over written.

I watched it with one of my old film school mates and we both had the same opinion.

7/10
 
Huge mind ****. I pretty much had no idea what was going on for 3/4 of that movie and it's a real mental challenge keeping up with the plot. Only at the end of the movie did all the beginning make sense.

Some of the twisting the laws of physics was pretty good, but there's a good solid hour of this movie jumping from explosions and dodging bullets - which is far too long. And what's with this genius architect being 14 years old.. wtf? Thought the movie was turning a corner with the introduction of Michael Caine, but he lasted what, 5 minutes?

Anyway, it's worth checking out, but not seeing twice. If you have to go to the toilet half way through this movie it will be a complete waste of time watching.
 
dr nick said:
Huge mind ****. I pretty much had no idea what was going on for 3/4 of that movie and it's a real mental challenge keeping up with the plot. Only at the end of the movie did all the beginning make sense.

Some of the twisting the laws of physics was pretty good, but there's a good solid hour of this movie jumping from explosions and dodging bullets - which is far too long. And what's with this genius architect being 14 years old.. wtf? Thought the movie was turning a corner with the introduction of Michael Caine, but he lasted what, 5 minutes?

Anyway, it's worth checking out, but not seeing twice. If you have to go to the toilet half way through this movie it will be a chttp://www.bigfooty.com/forum/images/icons/icon14.gifomplete waste of time watching.
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:thumbsu: I HATED the snow scene. It was completely pointless. Like, nice visuals for the first five minutes, but cmon it's a dream. I want more.
 
bresker said:
:thumbsu: I HATED the snow scene. It was completely pointless. Like, nice visuals for the first five minutes, but cmon it's a dream. I want more.
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I loved it. The score during the whole snow section was phenomenal. In fact the score during the whole movie was as good as any I've heard in a while.

I really don't know what to think about it on the whole. Some parts were brilliant, others were just confusing. Technically it was awesome and the acting was great but I think I'm going to have to see it again.
 

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The snow scene was just frustrating. Watching bullets zip past and planting explosives for an entire 20 minutes. I guess it simulated the 3 seconds of real time for the van to hit the water.

The score isn't really something I pay attention to whilst watching these types of movies tbh.
 
Nolan tried to make an action block buster out of a script and concept that didn't really need it.

good flick but some more character exploration would have been nice. Gordon-Levitt is just the guy who's there, who didn't want to do it in the first place, was given an option to leave but doesn't for no reason what so ever. Page wants out but decides not too, suddenly is hugely concern for Di Caprio and learns a **** load abound inception and extraction in an incredibly short period of time between scenes.

It would have been nice to learn something about these characters during the movie, because during the "tense" and "suspenseful" scenes I didn't give a flying if anyone lived or died as I had no way of relating to them what so ever
 
I thought of a film to compare it to: as an attempt to lead you down blind alleys & f**k with your conception:

The Usual Suspects.

It's not half as good as that masterpiece.
 
bresker said:
I thought of a film to compare it to: as an attempt to lead you down blind alleys & f**k with your conception:

The Usual Suspects.

It's not half as good as that masterpiece.
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yeah thought of usual suspects a bit, and for some reason fight club as well

but the scenes where juno was in training were freaking unbelievable

i saw it at imax and that 5 min scene looked unbelievable, not sure how it would of looked at a normal cinema
 
Loved the movie. Review here.

RustyHawk said:
Saw this today at the big Vmax @ Knox...lovely.
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I saw it at Knox City VMax too! Did you find the sound mix to be a little weird? I mentioned it in my review, but the score kept overwhelming the dialog to a pretty extreme degree.
 
RustyHawk said:
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.
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Watched it last night, agree with your summary. I liked Memento too.

Cast is perfect.

8/10
 
bresker said:
I thought of a film to compare it to: as an attempt to lead you down blind alleys & f**k with your conception:

The Usual Suspects.

It's not half as good as that masterpiece.
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That mind**** only comes at the end of the movie. I didn't spend 3/4 of that thinking wtf is going on?!?! :eek:

Crash is another movie where they leave the plot near the end.
 

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Watched it at IMAX last night and some of the scenes left me gobsmacked. Unbelievable film, Christopher Nolan is a genius. It wasn't that much of a mind**** as well, pretty easy to follow because it was well explained.

Very tempted to go see it again! :thumbsu:
 
Outstanding movie. The plot was complex but I managed to follow it all the way through and the payoff was well worth it.

I'll admit to being a little bit excited everytime Cillian Murphy was on screen too.
 
Now I've recovered from the mindf**k, I'll try and post a more eloquent, spoiler free, review.

Outstanding movie. It's a movie where you definitely need to be paying attention all the time as everything is moving the plot forward in some way. Even things that appear to be pure character development come up later on, sometimes in a big way. If you can keep up though it's a gripping story, even made me drop my bag of M&Ms at one point. It avoids the cliche of twists and turns, but it just keeps taking you places you don't expect it to, and even when you do expect it, it still feels like something fresh.

Leo continues his reign of dominating quality cinema with yet another outstanding performance. Seriously, is there anything this bloke can't do? Have a look at the movies his company's been producing. The guy's a god.

Rest of the cast is outstanding, as you'd expect. Real surprise for me, having not seen (500) Days of Summer, was Joseph Gordon-Levitt. For so long I would've just thought of him as "that guy from 3rd Rock". But here's he's fantastic. He's definitely made my List (the list of actors who I'll go see a film purely because they're in it). Others like Ken Watanabe and Marion Cotillard put in the great performances you'd expect. Ellen Page carries on with her rise, very solid here. And I've already admitted that anytime Cillian Murphy was onscreen, I just watched him.

Visual effects are fantastic, but not in a "oh look how good the special effects are" kind of way. Obviously being a movie about dreams there's a lot of crazy stuff happening at times, but an interesting fact is this movie actually has LESS visual effect shots than Batman Begins, Nolan prefers doing as much physically as he can, which really helps not distract from the reality of the story.

Overall, I only had one disappointment about the film. Too much action. It feels like he put in too many action sequences when the story and the characters would've been more than enough. Particularly in the final 20 minutes or so. I would've been much happier if it's just played out with some more character driven stuff, especially with Cillian Murphy's and Leo's characters. One can't help but feel Cillian was under utilised in the final 20 minutes of the film.

Apart from that though, the movie's fantastic. Very Chris Nolan. Now watch it not win a single Oscar.
 

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Agreed re. Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Highlight to reveal ---> The scene's towards the end where he was stuck in no-gravity were fantastic, and he pulled that shiny vest off :p
 
It was OK. Nothing special or ground breaking in my opinion, but not bad for what it was. The acting was very good, which probably saved it I feel.

I do have one question though, so don't highlight the following if you want to avoid spoilers. It's probably an obvious thing that I missed, but anyway....

How did DiCaprio and Page find Murphy's character at the end? He was killed, so went to limbo. And then DiCaprio and Page went to find him and bring him back.

But they did that by entering a fourth dream level, not by entering limbo itself. What they entered was just DiCaprio's version of limbo, based on his memories of before. So wouldn't the version of Murphy's character that they found have just been a projection/memory, like the dead wife was?

Because in order to find the Japanese guy, DiCaprio did actually die and entered the real limbo. Which is what should have happened in order to find Murphy I would have thought...

That's it for spoilers. :)
 
Murphy's character didn't die. He just went into another dream level. So Cobb and Ariadne go to get him, and she throws him off the building to give him the "kick" he needs to wake up in the snow dream. Cobb then stays behind, dies in that dream, so he can go to limbo, get Saito (Wantanabe's character) and then go all the way back up with him so he doesn't die.

That's how I figure it at least. Knowing Nolan though, I wouldn't hold your breath for an explanation though.
 
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