Maybe it's just the geek in me but after a couple of scenes with the bass rumbling like I've never felt before all I could think was "Geez I hope I don't piss off the neighbours when I watch Inception on Blu-ray". I gave it 4 out of 5.
Maybe it's just the geek in me but after a couple of scenes with the bass rumbling like I've never felt before all I could think was "Geez I hope I don't piss off the neighbours when I watch Inception on Blu-ray". I gave it 4 out of 5.
Yeah, at times I was wondering if they even bothered writing a new score, or if they just ported over the score from The Dark Knight.
Where did you read that? BoxOfficeMojo doesn't have those figures up yet.
If you follow giteshpandya on twitter, he usually has the numbers ready a few hours before BoxOfficeMojo. His website is boxofficeguru.com (which only gets updated a couple of times a week).
[Show spoiler]This would be a first day buy on blu-ray if the dream world him and his wife created looked even remotely interesting. What we get is an extremely bland dream world with black or grey buildings that all look alike. Boring! This would be a first day buy on blu-ray for me if there were a few scenes of a spectacular, colorful, dream world created by the couple or someone else.
That really hurt the movie IMO. Dont know if they were restricted by budget or whatever.
If you follow giteshpandya on twitter, he usually has the numbers ready a few hours before BoxOfficeMojo. His website is boxofficeguru.com (which only gets updated a couple of times a week).
He's right, it would seem $9.7 million is the early estimate waiting to be confirmed for Inception.
[Show spoiler]This would be a first day buy on blu-ray if the dream world him and his wife created looked even remotely interesting. What we get is an extremely bland dream world with black or grey buildings that all look alike. Boring! This would be a first day buy on blu-ray for me if there were a few scenes of a spectacular, colorful, dream world created by the couple or someone else.
That really hurt the movie IMO. Dont know if they were restricted by budget or whatever.
[Show spoiler]A colorful & dramatic dreamworld would both defeat the rules of dreaming as outlined from Cobb to Ariadne (the more you change & make out of the ordinary, the more defenses lead you to believe it's not real) and his wife's ability to believe that the dream was in fact the real world.
Therefore what you're looking for would be out of place and just done for the sake of spectacle. I think you'd rather have WHAT DREAMS MAY COME on blu-ray that used this kind of imagery well within the context of the story.
[Show spoiler]A colorful & dramatic dreamworld would both defeat the rules of dreaming as outlined from Cobb to Ariadne (the more you change & make out of the ordinary, the more defenses lead you to believe it's not real) and his wife's ability to believe that the dream was in fact the real world.
Therefore what you're looking for would be out of place and just done for the sake of spectacle. I think you'd rather have WHAT DREAMS MAY COME on blu-ray that used this kind of imagery well within the context of the story.
[Show spoiler]Not to mention those kinds of effects don't fit Nolan's style at all and so would look out of place in one of his movies.
[Show spoiler]This would be a first day buy on blu-ray if the dream world him and his wife created looked even remotely interesting. What we get is an extremely bland dream world with black or grey buildings that all look alike. Boring! This would be a first day buy on blu-ray for me if there were a few scenes of a spectacular, colorful, dream world created by the couple or someone else.
That really hurt the movie IMO. Dont know if they were restricted by budget or whatever.
I can't believe that THIS is your reason for only giving the film 3/5!
Man, some people have a whole nother level of OCD when it comes to films. If it doesn't fit the pattern already established by previous topical factors on screen, it has to be "boring?" Sheeeeesh!
And, for your information,
[Show spoiler]they were living their lives in that world. They weren't vacationing or attending a circus! I certainly wouldn't want to live in a world with tie-dye buildings, purple oceans, and 5 mile high cactus plants!
[Show spoiler]This would be a first day buy on blu-ray if the dream world him and his wife created looked even remotely interesting. What we get is an extremely bland dream world with black or grey buildings that all look alike. Boring! This would be a first day buy on blu-ray for me if there were a few scenes of a spectacular, colorful, dream world created by the couple or someone else.
That really hurt the movie IMO. Dont know if they were restricted by budget or whatever.
That's because while Inception is directed by Nolan, Nolan's dreams are directed by Michael Bay.
[Show spoiler]This would be a first day buy on blu-ray if the dream world him and his wife created looked even remotely interesting. What we get is an extremely bland dream world with black or grey buildings that all look alike. Boring! This would be a first day buy on blu-ray for me if there were a few scenes of a spectacular, colorful, dream world created by the couple or someone else.
That really hurt the movie IMO. Dont know if they were restricted by budget or whatever.
[Show spoiler]I had the impression that they were supposed to appear to have been made out of sand.
Not sure if this has been posted already, but Jim Emerson explained the disappointment I felt with the movie better than I could.
Inception: Has Christopher Nolan forgotten how to dream? By Jim Emerson "Boy, was I misinformed. I'd gotten the impression that Christopher Nolan's "Inception" was about dream states, but what this movie's facilely conceived CGI environments have to do with dreaming, as human beings experience dreams, I don't know. For what it's worth, Warner Bros. describes it as a "science fiction action film." But the movie's concept of dreams as architectural labyrinths -- stable and persistent science-fiction action-movie sets that can be blown up with explosives or shaken with earthquake-like tremors, but that are firmly resistant to shifting or morphing into anything else -- is mystifying to me.
As is the writer-director's conception of dream-time as something linear, scalable and reliably convertible with a calculator. (There's an app for that: Let's see, 5 minutes of real time equals -- what? -- one hour of dream time, equals a week of deeper dream time, equals ten years in limbo... Have you ever experienced seven consecutive days in the course of a single-setting dream?)
Objects and characters maintain their identities without randomly changing or melding, and nothing is ever more than one thing at a time (with the possible exception of a family home with a repetitive skyscraper view that's constructed like a Hannah-Barbera background loop). The emotional components of dreaming (not to mention the universal archetypes) are nowhere to be found. No shame, lust, embarrassment, exhilaration; no flying, nakedness in public, pop quizzes, "actor's nightmares," quicksand floors, teeth falling out... There are lots of guns, and even those aren't anything but... guns. Dream reality behaves predictably and reliably according to the rules of the experts who've figured out to a certainty exactly how The Human Subconscious works.
In an "Inception" dream, when something happens, it stays happened and the dream-narrative continues in a straight temporal line from there. Cause-and-effect is still in effect. Sure, there are video-game-like "levels," but all the same organizing principles still apply from one to another. There's a rainy traffic jam world (and the usual Nolan action sequence in which the audience can't tell where anything is in relation to anything else, although the characters in the scene can), a hotel supposedly inspired by M.C. Escher but actually more by "Royal Wedding" (and Kubrick's "2001"), a James Bond "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" snow fortress... Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) even has an elevator to take you from one level to another in his subconsciousness. It's all so neatly organized! In other words, not dreamlike at all. Just disappointingly flat, sterile, cold, rational. If a filmmaker is going to dream, the challenge is to dream big, to show us things in ways we haven't seen before, not to simply regurgitate indifferently executed cliches from action pictures and heist movies: car chases, kidnappings, gunfights, interrogations, elevators, ski chases ("Help!"), burglaries and vaults that simply open up when you reach them. (OK, I don't remember seing that last one before.)
As the philosopher and rhythm guitarist David St. Hubbins famously said, "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever." Nolan is clever, clever, clever. He is not stupid, but you can see stupid from where he is. (It's right over there, where characters in a dream consciously try to kill themselves so they'll wake up.) This was promising premise, and it's too bad the writer-director did so little out of the ordinary with it. Nolan makes crafty little puzzle boxes (and sometimes big ones), but they never quite get beyond merely clever. Like "Sleuth" or "The Usual Suspects," they're not about characters or emotions or ideas or human experience at all; they're just self-contained gadgets, amusing but mechanical."
I'm just going to say I thought it was pretty good since that's my gut reaction after seeing it. I was entertained and had sweaty palms for the most part, but didn't feel fully satisfied at the end. I wouldn't rush out day 1 to purchase it.
Liked - Originality, story, effects
Disliked - Dialogue, flat supporting characters, Ken Watanabe
The likes speak for themselves. As for the dislikes, I love dialogue driven films and honestly can't remember much that was said during this film. The visuals told most of the story. The supporting characters weren't layered like the dreams and for the most part undeveloped. I couldn't understand Watanabe most of the time and realize it's probably just me but it was a distraction. Oh, how hired gunmen can't shoot anyone while our dreamers can't miss (reminds me of Equilibrium).
I thought it was boring. My friends thought it was incredible but it just drug on for me. And no, it's not because I don't like long movies. Red Cliff kept me entertained and that was roughly 5 hours.
I'm just going to say I thought it was pretty good since that's my gut reaction after seeing it. I was entertained and had sweaty palms for the most part, but didn't feel fully satisfied at the end. I wouldn't rush out day 1 to purchase it.
Liked - Originality, story, effects
Disliked - Dialogue, flat supporting characters, Ken Watanabe
The likes speak for themselves. As for the dislikes, I love dialogue driven films and honestly can't remember much that was said during this film. The visuals told most of the story. The supporting characters weren't layered like the dreams and for the most part undeveloped. I couldn't understand Watanabe most of the time and realize it's probably just me but it was a distraction. Oh, how hired gunmen can't shoot anyone while our dreamers can't miss (reminds me of Equilibrium).
3.5/5 or a generous 3/4
Three machine guns on constant blaze for 5 minutes = no holes in the van.
Three machine guns on constant blaze for 5 minutes = no holes in the van.
Maybe it was
[Show spoiler]made from some of that bullet proof alien rhino hide
I agree though, that scene lasted way too long for
[Show spoiler]nobody to end up being shot. How many times did the driver duck?
Something else I wondered about...
[Show spoiler]how come the falling sensation from the bridge would have been able to kick them, but the falling down the hill didn't? Was it not a large enough fall or something?
[Show spoiler]made from some of that bullet proof alien rhino hide
I agree though, that scene lasted way too long for
[Show spoiler]nobody to end up being shot. How many times did the driver duck?
Something else I wondered about...
[Show spoiler]how come the falling sensation from the bridge would have been able to kick them, but the falling down the hill didn't? Was it not a large enough fall or something?
Was it
[Show spoiler]cos they didnt turn upside down? The van landed on it's 4 wheels, dont remember it ever turning over.. ??
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