Just walked out of "Inception"

[Capybara]

Horrible. Save your money!

Completely ridiculous premise, compounded by the fact that it's completely impossible to follow. What a joke.

I don't give a fukk about effects when the story is ridiculous. If you want me to buy into all this baloney, you have to explain to me why I should believe it... Don't just throw me into the middle of all this crap without any reason to buy any of it! And why would I care about any of the characters anyway if you didn't take even a second to develop any of them?

Wow, what a waste of 100 gazillion dollars or whatever they spend making this.

But of course people will probably eat it up, and then Hollywood will spend more gazillions making similarly ridiculous movies that are similarly impossible to follow.

[Brock Landers]

One of the better movies i've seen in years.

[Masu485]

I guarantee most people probably don't like it either, but no one will admit it. Everyone wants to seem like they understood the 'artistic value' of it so they seem more learned and elite.

[OmgUrMom]

haven't watched it yet. how are overall reviews on it?

[Jimmy0607]

You need a brain to watch this movie..

[flyingillini]

I did the same thing with Avatar. I thought that movie was horrible. I can't comprehend why that movie got all the hype.

[Brock Landers]

the movie is Excellent

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inception/

84% positive tells you all you really need to know

4 stars from Urbana's own Roger Ebert

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100714/REVIEWS/100719997

[OmgUrMom]

i'll definetely watch it, i expect i'll like it as well

[Deuce]

Going to view this tomorrow.

[Jimmy0607]

Would JJ be able to fukk someone in hiss 4th dream?

[JuicedUp]

you have to be on a mind altering drug to enjoy this. Mushrooms or at least a nice Sativa strain and you will love this flick.

[stealthyburrito]

on a scale of 1-10 what would you give it capster?

[2daBank]

wow i was actually looking forward to seeing this......Brock, is it a rubber band that i will like it? that gives me about a 60% chance (i like them odds,i dont believe 74%)......

[fightingwarrior]

i liked inception it was a bad ass movie

[Brock Landers]

wow i was actually looking forward to seeing this......Brock, is it a rubber band that i will like it? that gives me about a 60% chance (i like them odds,i dont believe 74%)......

if you like movies that don't spoon feed you, and leave it up to you to figure out what the fuk happened, you'll love it. Its no Comedy, thats for sure. Probably one of the only movies i've ever seen where NO ONE got up out of their seat to go to the bathroom or whatever because to miss a scene would fuk you up. It was a Rubberband flick for sure.

[Nismo]

You're an idiot. Go watch a Larry the Cable guy movie.

[Capybara]

on a scale of 1-10 what would you give it capster?

Well, I loathed it, so I guess I'd give it a 1.

Like a lot of films, there will be people who love it, and they will tell you "Oh, you just didn't GET it, you're too dumb, it's a very intellectual movie, yada yada yada."...

To that I say, Sorry, I think I'm a pretty intelligent movie-goer, and this is just pretentious nonsense!

I can't even begin to list all the things I didn't like about this movie, but Number One is the zillion flaws in logic of the whole thing. I'm fine with sci-fi and fantasy when they're executed well -- when they JUSTIFY your suspended disbelief. This in no way does that, so it's just a pointless experience. Or it was to me.

[Brock Landers]

It's said that Christopher Nolan spent ten years writing his screenplay for "Inception." That must have involved prodigious concentration, like playing blindfold chess while walking a tight-wire. The film's hero tests a young architect by challenging her to create a maze, and Nolan tests us with his own dazzling maze. We have to trust him that he can lead us through, because much of the time we're lost and disoriented. Nolan must have rewritten this story time and again, finding that every change had a ripple effect down through the whole fabric.
The story can either be told in a few sentences, or not told at all. Here is a movie immune to spoilers: If you knew how it ended, that would tell you nothing unless you knew how it got there. And telling you how it got there would produce bafflement. The movie is all about process, about fighting our way through enveloping sheets of reality and dream, reality within dreams, dreams without reality. It's a breathtaking juggling act, and Nolan may have considered his "Memento" (2000) a warm-up; he apparently started this screenplay while filming that one. It was the story of a man with short-term memory loss, and the story was told backwards.

Like the hero of that film, the viewer of "Inception" is adrift in time and experience. We can never even be quite sure what the relationship between dream time and real time is. The hero explains that you can never remember the beginning of a dream, and that dreams that seem to cover hours may only last a short time. Yes, but you don't know that when you’re dreaming. And what if you're inside another man's dream? How does your dream time synch with his? What do you really know?

Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a corporate raider of the highest order. He infiltrates the minds of other men to steal their ideas. Now he is hired by a powerful billionaire to do the opposite: To introduce an idea into a rival's mind, and do it so well he believes it is his own. This has never been done before; our minds are as alert to foreign ideas as our immune system is to pathogens. The rich man, named Saito (Ken Watanabe), makes him an offer he can't refuse, an offer that would end Cobb's forced exile from home and family.

Cobb assembles a team, and here the movie relies on the well-established procedures of all heist movies. We meet the people he will need to work with: Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), his longtime associate; Eames (Tom Hardy), a master at deception; Yusuf (Dileep Rao), a master chemist. And there is a new recruit, Ariadne (Ellen Page), a brilliant young architect who is a prodigy at creating spaces. Cobb also goes to touch base with his father-in-law Miles (Michael Caine), who knows what he does and how he does it. These days Michael Caine need only appear on a screen and we assume he's wiser than any of the other characters. It's a gift.

But wait. Why does Cobb need an architect to create spaces in dreams? He explains to her. Dreams have a shifting architecture, as we all know; where we seem to be has a way of shifting. Cobb's assignment is the "inception" (or birth, or wellspring) of a new idea in the mind of another young billionaire, Robert Fischer Jr. (Cillian Murphy), heir to his father's empire. Saito wants him to initiate ideas that will lead to the surrender of his rival's corporation. Cobb needs Ariadne
to create a deceptive maze-space in Fischer's dreams so that (I think) new thoughts can slip in unperceived. Is it a coincidence that Ariadne is named for the woman in Greek mythology who helped Theseus escape from the Minotaur's labyrinth?

Cobb tutors Ariadne on the world of dream infiltration, the art of controlling dreams and navigating them. Nolan uses this as a device for tutoring us as well. And also as the occasion for some of the movie's astonishing special effects, which seemed senseless in the trailer but now fit right in. The most impressive to me takes place (or seems to) in Paris, where the city literally rolls back on itself like a roll of linoleum tile.

Protecting Fischer are any number of gun-wielding bodyguards, who may be working like the mental equivalent of antibodies; they seem alternatively real and figurative, but whichever they are, they lead to a great many gunfights, chase scenes and explosions, which is the way movies depict conflict these days. So skilled is Nolan that he actually got me involved in one of his chases, when I thought I was relatively immune to scenes that have become so standard. That was because I cared about who was chasing and being chased.

If you've seen any advertising at all for the film, you know that its architecture has a way of disregarding gravity. Buildings tilt. Streets coil. Characters float. This is all explained in the narrative. The movie is a perplexing labyrinth without a simple through-line, and is sure to inspire truly endless analysis on the web.

Nolan helps us with an emotional thread. The reason Cobb is motivated to risk the dangers of inception is because of grief and guilt involving his wife Mal (Marion Cotillard), and their two children. More I will not (in a way, cannot) say. Cotillard beautifully embodies the wife in an idealized way. Whether we are seeing Cobb's memories or his dreams is difficult to say--even, literally, in the last shot. But she makes Mal function as an emotional magnet, and the love between the two provides an emotional constant in Cobb's world, which is otherwise ceaselessly shifting.

"Inception" works for the viewer, in a way, like the world itself worked for Leonard, the hero of "Memento." We are always in the Now. We have made some notes while getting Here, but we are not quite sure where Here is. Yet matters of life, death and the heart are involved--oh, and those multi-national corporations, of course. And Nolan doesn't pause before using well-crafted scenes from spycraft or espionage, including a clever scheme on board a 747 (even explaining why it must be a 747).

The movies often seem to come from the recycling bin these days: Sequels, remakes, franchises. "Inception" does a difficult thing. It is wholly original, cut from new cloth, and yet structured with action movie basics so it feels like it makes more sense than (quite possibly) it does. I thought there was a hole in "Memento:" How does a man with short-term memory loss remember he has short-term memory loss? Maybe there's a hole in "Inception" too, but I can't find it. Christopher Nolan reinvented "Batman." This time he isn't reinventing anything. Yet few directors will attempt to recycle "Inception." I think when Nolan left the labyrinth, he threw away the map.

[Capybara]

if you like movies that don't spoon feed you, and leave it up to you to figure out what the fuk happened, you'll love it. Its no Comedy, thats for sure. Probably one of the only movies i've ever seen where NO ONE got up out of their seat to go to the bathroom or whatever because to miss a scene would fuk you up. It was a Rubberband flick for sure.

People always say this horseshit!!!!

Hey, this just in, a movie not spoon-feeding you, a movie being confusing, this does not make a movie A GOOD MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!! I swear, people eat this shit up! As soon as a movie is a complete jumble, they come out of the woodwork to say Hey, Look, this is the greatest movie ever! Gimme a break.

You know what? It takes more than that to make a good movie!

However, movies CAN be confusing or be puzzles and be great movies... For instance:

The Usual Suspects -- GREAT fukkin movie.

Memento (made by the same guy as Inception before he completely lost his way) -- Great movie.

[2daBank]

if you like movies that don't spoon feed you, and leave it up to you to figure out what the fuk happened, you'll love it. Its no Comedy, thats for sure. Probably one of the only movies i've ever seen where NO ONE got up out of their seat to go to the bathroom or whatever because to miss a scene would fuk you up. It was a Rubberband flick for sure.

sounds really good bro....i didnt expect it to be a comedy (were you trying to insult me?)..........ill see it by end of weekend and let you know if i agree (should i make a vid of me smoking in the theater? green of coarse).......little upset i didnt get a shout out in your Wrigley thread, even though i told you it was staying under.....Salud

[2daBank]

People always say this horseshit!!!!

Hey, this just in, a movie not spoon-feeding you, a movie being confusing, this does not make a movie A GOOD MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!! I swear, people eat this shit up! As soon as a movie is a complete jumble, they come out of the woodwork to say Hey, Look, this is the greatest movie ever! Gimme a break.

You know what? It takes more than that to make a good movie!

However, movies CAN be confusing or be puzzles and be great movies... For instance:

The Usual Suspects -- GREAT fukkin movie.

Memento (made by the same guy as Inception before he completely lost his way) -- Great movie.

capy i trust you more now.....great fukkin movie

[Capybara]

Can Someone Please Explain Inception to Me?








By Rex Reed
July 13, 2010 | 8:08 p.m

At the movies, incomprehensible gibberish has become a way of life, but it usually takes time before it's clear that a movie really stinks. Inception, Christopher Nolan's latest assault on rational coherence, wastes no time. It cuts straight to the chase that leads to the junkpile without passing go, although before it drags its sorry butt to a merciful finale, you'll be desperately in need of a "Get Out of Jail Free" card.
Writer-director Nolan is an elegant Hollywood hack from London whose movies are a colossal waste of time, money and I.Q. points. "Elegant" because his work always has a crisp use of color, shading and shadows, and "hack" because he always takes an expensive germ of an idea, reduces it to a series of cheap gimmicks and shreds it through a Cuisinart until it looks and sounds like every other incoherent empty B-movie made by people who haven't got a clue about plot, character development or narrative trajectory......

[Capybara]

Reviews || by Stephanie Zacharek || 07 14 2010 12:20 PM
REVIEW: Is Inception This Year’s Masterpiece? Dream On



If the career of Christopher Nolan is any indication, we’ve entered an era in which movies can no longer be great. They can only be awesome, which isn’t nearly the same thing.
In Inception, Nolan does the impossible, the unthinkable, the stupendous: He folds a mirror version of Paris back upon itself; he stages a fight sequence in a gravity-free hotel room; he sends a train plowing through a busy city street. Whatever you can dream, Nolan does it in Inception. Then he nestles those little dreams into even bigger dreams, and those bigger dreams into gargantuan dreams, going on into infinity, cubed. He stretches the boundaries of filmmaking so that it’s, like, not even filmmaking anymore, it’s just pure “OMG I gotta text my BFF right now” sensation.
Wouldn’t it have been easier just to make a movie?
But that urgent simplicity, that directness of focus, is beyond Nolan: Everything he does is forced and overthought, and Inception, far from being his ticket into hall-of-fame greatness, is a very expensive-looking, elephantine film whose myriad so-called complexities — of both the emotional and intellectual sort — add up to a kind of ADD tedium. This may be a movie about dreams, but there’s nothing dreamlike or evocative about it: Nolan doesn’t build or sustain a mood; all he does is twist the plot, under, over, and back upon itself, relying on Hans Zimmer’s sonic boom of a score to remind us when we should be excited or anxious or moved. It’s less directing than directing traffic.
Nolan’s aim, perhaps, is to keep us so confused we won’t dare question his genius. The movie opens with Leonardo DiCaprio being washed up on a beach somewhere — mysteriously, there are two little blond children cavorting around, though we can’t see their faces. Then some Japanese soldiers drag him into a menacing-looking seaside castle nearby. Then he sits down at a table, opposite some mysterious old guy, and proceeds to eat some gruel. What, you might ask, is going on here, as bits of runny porridge drip from the haggard-looking DiCaprio’s lips? You’re supposed to be perplexed — it’s all part of the movie’s puzzly-wuzzly structure.
Before long we learn that DiCaprio’s character is an “extractor,” meaning he’s a skilled craftsman who can enter others’ dreams to draw out valuable information, useful, particularly, in corporate espionage. His name is Dom Cobb — which is, I guess, better than being called Com Dobb — and not only does he have the ability to enter others’ dreams; he actually builds those dreams, with the help of his number-two man, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), plus an architect, who had better know what he or she is doing. The architect working for Cobb at the beginning of the movie (he’s played, all too briefly, by Lukas Haas) meets a bad end after installing the wrong kind of shag carpeting in an important dream. Perhaps these dreams need interior decorators, too, to prevent future faux pas, but let’s not get off-track.
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Not gonna post this whole review, but I totally agree with that bold paragraph.

[Brock Landers]

Seriously.... people are still trying to figure out what happened in 12 monkeys.
It'll be 10 years before we even grasp whats going on here because Nolan made it so goddamn complex.

[Brock Landers]

sounds really good bro....i didnt expect it to be a comedy (were you trying to insult me?)..........ill see it by end of weekend and let you know if i agree (should i make a vid of me smoking in the theater? green of coarse).......little upset i didnt get a shout out in your Wrigley thread, even though i told you it was staying under.....Salud

i didn't edit it, Cougar Bait did, so blame him, i did many shout outs LOL

[2daBank]

i didn't edit it, Cougar Bait did, so blame him, i did many shout outs LOL

see that shit might hold water w/someone else but im willing to bet my name wasnt mentioned when you were giving shout outs.........you get mad a nina for snitching yet you just sold coug out (lying your ass off of coarse).....

[stealthyburrito]

Well, I loathed it, so I guess I'd give it a 1.

Like a lot of films, there will be people who love it, and they will tell you "Oh, you just didn't GET it, you're too dumb, it's a very intellectual movie, yada yada yada."...

To that I say, Sorry, I think I'm a pretty intelligent movie-goer, and this is just pretentious nonsense!

I can't even begin to list all the things I didn't like about this movie, but Number One is the zillion flaws in logic of the whole thing. I'm fine with sci-fi and fantasy when they're executed well -- when they JUSTIFY your suspended disbelief. This in no way does that, so it's just a pointless experience. Or it was to me.

I trust your judgment capster, will wait for the redbox release of this movie to see it.

yeah i hate the same shit you hate, very rarely can movies pull this off especially hollywood blockbusters (the dark knight is one of the few blockbuster comes to mind).

[eidolon]

cap...rate kickass on a scale 1-10 please.

[Naz18]

It's alright...7/10

[richyrich8478]

ur like the only one that doesn't get it or like it.. and u bought into it that why u went to see it

[minet123]

Seriously.... people are still trying to figure out what happened in 12 monkeys.
It'll be 10 years before we even grasp whats going on here because Nolan made it so goddamn complex.

12 monkeys was easy for me to get just about 40% of the locations they used where dope corners I used to frequent

[sharper2]

don't watch this ripped, i doubt many people will understand this straight, no one will get it ripped. avator was the type of movie you could watch ripped, but this movie is just fukking confusing. the theater laughed whenever they showed the van falling for like 8 different shots. was the ending vague so that they could make a sequel?

[2daBank]

12 monkeys was easy for me to get just about 40% of the locations they used where dope corners I used to frequent

[krk1030]

It looks pretty good.

[mikejamm]

Wow that bad huh? If Rex Reed doesn't get it, nobody will!