INCEPTION Review Thread (SPOILERS!!)

[Diesel]

Leonardo DiCaprio Says Inception “Didn’t Make Sense to Many of Us When We Were Doing It”

[casablanca3]

Haha that is awesome though! It is like Lost haha

[KilloWertz]

Originally Posted by Diesel

No one wants to know what the movie is about.

But everyone wants to see it.


We are a strange bunch.

Yes you are, but this has been recently added to my radar thanks to the ridiculously deep cast and Nolan.

[Diesel]

New Inception Tidbits: Plot Details Confirmed, Running Time and Conception




Its "about" 2 hours long and Nolan came up with the idea when he was 16


Didn't read the rest.

[Q?]

Originally Posted by Diesel

New Inception Tidbits: Plot Details Confirmed, Running Time and Conception




Its "about" 2 hours long and Nolan came up with the idea when he was 16


Didn't read the rest.

Thanks for that info D.

I don't want to read the rest either

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Q!

Thanks for that info D.

I don't want to read the rest either

Me too

[Idioteque...]

I hope it's better than the Prestige and gives Gremal crazy theories to figure out lol.

[ivanb06]

just saw the trailer.
can't wait for this one.

[GreenScar]

"Inception."

Even saying it out loud makes me want to do my lame vocal attempt of the honking/bending metal sound for the trailers featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page and Joseph Gordon Levitt in a sudden splash of stimulating images including bending cities and some water imagery that feels sinister on some subconscious level I haven't translated yet.

Inception will likely be awesome. Why? It's Christopher Nolan or Memento, The Prestige and The Dark Knight going back to complex thrillers that will narratively assault us and leave us feeling all gooey inside.

The latter part of that explanation (the narrative part) is based on what Leonardo DiCaprio uttered doing Shutter Island press with Empire Magazine:

"It is complicated. It's a complicated story-structure, but it's sprung from the great filmmaker Christopher Nolan's mind, and he's been able to take highly complex jigsaw puzzles in a narrative and put them together like we've never seen."

"This is a plot-structure that's working on multiple layers simultaneously - and quite literally when I say simultaneously, I do mean multiple narratives simultaneously. So everyone's going to be in for a treat when they see it, including me."

Sure, the "even I'll be surprised" ending is a little much, but otherwise this news is almost completely something we should all be psyched about. Not that we WEREN'T expecting Nolan to try something narratively daring, but it's nice to know that there is a confident hand on the wheel, even if the car is pulling hair-pin plot turns at top speed.

Inception will hit theaters July 16th state-side and in the UK.

HooooooNNNKTHump!

Not sure if this in new to what he's already stated.

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by GreenScar

Not sure if this in new to what he's already stated.

Well he knows how to build up a film

I think those two paragraphs got me more excited than the actually trailers

[GreenScar]

Before this afternoon's Warner Bros. presentation at ShoWest I asked Christopher Nolan how much he was about to reveal about Inception, and he replied "Not much." And while the selected footage he showed off revealed very little about the story, and exactly what's causing all the amazing visuals and fight scenes, it was all stunning. Almost too much to process, really-- the minute I started scrawling notes about people falling down snowy mountains, it was on to a scene of Joseph Gordon-Levitt floating in zero gravity and tying up a bunch of corpses.

Perhaps the biggest plot detail revealed is that Leonardo DiCaprio's investigator character isn't just using technology to jump into peoples' minds, but into their dreams-- as he sees it there are people who would use this dream-investigation technology for evil, and it's up to him and partner Joseph Gordon-Levitt to stop them. One of the few dialogue scenes involves the two of them explaining their job to Ken Wantanabe's character, though it's unclear exactly who he is and if he's on their side during the action scenes we see later. And despite initial speculation that Gordon-Levitt may be a villain character, he and DiCaprio seems to be partners-- though DiCaprio does let him have it in one scene, which might mean a rift develops between them that makes Gordon-Levitt the villain in the end.

We finally get to see Michael Caine in the film, seemingly some kind of recruitment officer for the agency that employs DiCaprio, convincing Ellen Page to join his time. "Like job placement?" Page asks, making both of them chuckle. Will Michael Caine's character basically be DiCaprio's equivalent of Alfred? We can only hope so.

There was a lot more Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the footage, which convinced me he's more of a lead role than I previously believed, but there was also intriguingly little of Marion Cotillard-- we see her holding a gun a few times, but mostly she's shown crying or smiling or hugging DiCaprio. Her character may very well be the most mysterious of them all.

It's hard to describe much of the scenery featured in the movie, from the elevator opening into a room without gravity to the city folding up and falling into the ocean and Ken Wantanabe's gorgeous office. Because so much of the movie apparently takes place in dreams, much of the imagery follows no rules of logic-- just beauty. I'm not sure how much of the Inception footage screened today will ever make it into a trailer or online-- Nolan seemed mostly to want to throw a bone to the exhibitors who will be showing his crazy esoteric movie-- but it made me all the more excited for what Inception had to offer. In the midst of a really impressive WB presentation, Inception was probably the most exciting of all.

[Foggy]

Everything is flooding out of this film at the moment, better be careful

[Blu-Malibu2009]

Quote from Nolan:

"We're making a film that is a grand-scale action film," Nolan said. " 'Inception' is about the world of dreams and the interior of the human mind. It's about a guy played by Leonardo DiCaprio, who has a team of people who have access to a technology that allows them to enter people's minds through their dreams. That allowed us to craft a film with no limits, a film that could take you anywhere and raise all different kinds of action scenarios, different realities, really play with the fabric of what constitutes a grand-scale summer movie. We certainly tried to fuse some of the more intimate things I find fascinating about human beings and about human interaction and character with the grand-scale filmmaking we were doing on 'The Dark Knight' and 'Batman Begins,' " he added.

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/artic...05/story.jhtml

[Grubert]

Big Nolan interview

[CYMBOL]

I am already waiting in line. . .

[Diesel]

Stick with the 65mm and IMAX filming Mr. Nolan

Let everyone else play with their 3D.




I didn't know he was shooting some of Inception in 65mm

[Q?]

Originally Posted by Diesel

Stick with the 65mm and IMAX filming Mr. Nolan

Let everyone else play with their 3D.




I didn't know he was shooting some of Inception in 65mm

Oh sweet jesus!
That is freaking fantastic, this is now definitely my most anticipated release this year!

[SquidPuppet]

You know whats cool about Nolan? He looks as sly as he writes and directs.

[SquidPuppet]

Interviewer: Where did this idea of stealing an idea come from?

Nolan: Well, I stole it.


LOL....the guy has a sense of humor!!

[tommyboy81]

did i miss it? is there a release date now?