Inception (2010)

[Steve-O]

anyone see it?

I hated it. Now, I don't hate new movies because "they don't make them like they used to" or other excuses old farts make. I just like good movies and this ain't one.

I like Christopher Nolan... Dark Knight was good (over-rated but good) and his films before that were fine as well. Inception is lousy.

I was bored and confused through most of it. The philosophy was simple (but the audience seemed to think it was deep). The effects were done better elsewhere (hell The Matrix and Dark City did these effects better 15 years ago -- not to mention the same philosophical points were raised). The movie ends

Spoiler:

with a Roger Moore ski gun battle

for crying out loud.

I was thinking about the cast and I really like all the actors too...

Leonardo DiCaprio: I think he's a real movie star. This role is just too damned close to Shutter Island though.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Fine in the teenaged noirs Brick and The Lookout. His role as a world-weary tough guy was laughable in Inception. He was born in 1981. My socks have more life experiences than him - and they could beat him in a fight.

Ellen Page: The pixie-sized actress is just fine in Juno and Whip It. I think she's the new Sally Fields. Again, she's too young and inexperienced to be giving Leo life lessons (especially since he, in the movie,

Spoiler:

has lived decades longer than her

)

Tom Hardy: Someone reminded me he plays Bronson in the outrageous film Bronson. A disturbing movie that I highly recommend.

Ken Watanabe (the excellent Japanese actor), Michael Caine, Tom Berenger and Pete Postlethwaite are always good.

Marion Cotillard plays the French love interest. She's just as about as interesting as she was in Public Enemies -- which is not very. That mole on her forehead emotes better.

The movie -- about high tech con men/thieves -- is just plain boring.

[Hard-Boiled-Rick]

Inception (Nolan 2010)

Doc Erwin Riedenschneider + James Bond + The Matrix + Batman + Salvador Dali + $100 million marketing budget = the usual vapid summer blockbuster.

The dream rules are more complicated than a Green Bay Packer playbook. Formula chase scenes are boring. The film is full of distracting special effects. When special effects are done for the sake of dazzling the audience, and do not add to plot or characterization, special effects are distracting. It's just technical show off.

Although it garners good ratings in the mass market, and is an interesting noirish plot concept, I won’t pay another $10 to sort through this pot of entangled spaghetti . I’ll wait until it hits cable TV to see it again.

Is confusion, marketed as a 'thinker's' film, Hollywood’s latest sales angle?

[Steve-O]

also, the dreams are so grounded. Remember Brazil and other trippy dream-like movies? These dreams are not dreams.

[Haggai]

Different strokes, I guess...I loved it.

also, the dreams are so grounded. Remember Brazil and other trippy dream-like movies? These dreams are not dreams.

I can't see this as a valid criticism--now there are rules for what dream sequences in movies are supposed to look like? Christopher Nolan's concept of dreams doesn't jive with yours, so...they're not really dreams? That doesn't make sense.

You've listed plenty of reasons you disliked the movie, most of which (as is usual with movies, of course) are in the eye of the beholder and just come down to one's opinion. You thought it was boring, confusing, OK. But why is it inherently invalid for a movie to riff on the idea that dreams are often difficult to tell from reality?

[Steve-O]

Yeah... it's my personal taste for sure. The majority of folks like the movie.

I get that dreams are hard to tell from reality when you're in them... but no matter how crazy a dream is you think it's real. I just think the dreams were flat -- guy in a hotel bar drinking and talking about work. Ski spies.

I just found them bland. I guess I was expecting mind bending or something surreal or even sexual.

I guess my point is Nolan's concept of dreams just isn't all that cinematic or interesting to me.

[Davidmk]

wow , very surprised to read this ..... i have not seen it yet , but have heard a lot of great things on this film , i did see the Previews in Imax & it looked really great in that .....Interesting