Inception

[sugarhigh]

Jul 17, 2010 11:23:28 GMT -4 bklynred said:

Oh yeah, the audience went AHHHH at the end. And clapped.

Ha, mine too. I was seriously sitting here reading this thread and the good reviews, picked up my stuff and went to see it. I just got back. lol

Amazing movie. So interesting and it gave me a lot to think about. The cast was fantastic and the direction superb. I'll definitely see this one again.

[Malle Babbe]

I just got back from the movie theatre, and my mind was totally blown. I really don't know where to start with what I liked...

What impressed me most, or at least what really got me into the dream sequences of the movie, was the fact that they had the same feel as dreams that I have. Lots of wandering around interesting places, spaces and distances being really malleable, and moments that are gravity optional. Maybe after seeing this, more sharp-suited men will start showing up. :-)

I really liked the device of <<cutting between the three dream layers, and the care to make the falling van dream veeerrrry slow, the hotel at regular speed, and the mountain fortress really frantic. It went a long way towards keeping things organized.>>

Making Ellen Page's character's name "Ariadne"? Cute.

Tom Hardy and JGL (*rowr*... When did he get hot?) had great chemistry, and I wish we saw more of that. This movie had lots of Philip K. Dick, and needed more Ocean's Eleven.

Still, I LOVE mental puzzle movies like this, and am SO getting the DVD... The audience clapped at the end in my theater as well.

[bklynred]

I've always had a massive crush on JGL. He rocked those suits like wow. I really recommend most of his movies: The Lookout, Mysterious Skin, Brick. I admit, the most confusing part for me was <<the architect>>...not sure how that worked without the subject knowing. I'm still pondering over how <<>>the kicks worked too. I'm about to pop in Memento because damn, Nolan is my director hero right now.

[neeley]

God I must be turning into a complete sap, because I just got kinda misty at a freaking Christopher Nolan film. In my defense, old couples holding hands! My kryptonite.

Maybe this is a stupid question, but why didn't Cobb do another inception on Mal (I still have a hard time believing a person would go by a name that literally translates to "evil" in her first language) once he realized that the first one had gone awry? He was able to convince her to leave limbo after she had accepted that as reality, so why couldn't he just go back in and be all "Yeah...listen to your husband on this one." Obviously then they're be no movie, but still..

My audience laughed at the end, not in a derisory way, but in a "Oh God, you did not just do that to us!" way.

[bklynred]

Good catch, neeley. I thought her name was Mol, short for Molly.

[magazinewhore]

I just got back from it and, man, I loved it. I loved the score, but that kind of chest-rattling rumble reminds me of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," so I guess it's a good movie memory.

I'm surprised that I was able to follow it as well as I did. I found it less confusing than "Memento," which is a good thing. Maybe I'm dense. I have to take awhile to process the film before I comment more. What I would like to see is how many of the scenes were shot. I thought some of it must have been filmed in an anti-gravity chamber. Anyone else?

[Malle Babbe]

I think they might have had sets that were set on gimbals that could rotate the room. If you stick the camera in one spot, it doesn't "see" the rotation, and you get the "scrambling up the walls and across the ceiling" effect.

That, and probably a lot of wire-fu.

[huggingotters]

Just got back from seeing this. Amazing! I still have to process everything but that DVD is mine once it's out. I didn't think a shot of spinning object could be so suspenseful.

[vegasusa555]

Okay, so do you guys think that the top fell at the end? I think it kept spinning and started to wobble showing that he was still dreaming but possibly closer to reality, but some people are saying now that you can hear the top fall after the screen goes black. Everyone in my theater freaked out and was reacting to the screen cutting off, so I wasn't able to listen and try to hear for a "clinking" noise, and honestly, it didn't even occur to me to listen for anything until people started posting about it online.

Man, I loved this movie! My dad and I were still discussing the theories we had after going to bed last night. I think we need more people like Christopher Nolan in Hollywood. He makes movies that are highly entertaining, but also make you think. He doesn't just automatically assume that the audience is dumb and "can't handle" material like this.

ETA: I would also like to shake Mr. Nolan's hand for introducing me to Tom Hardy. This is the first movie I have seen him in and got damn he's sexy! I think they should make a sequel that consists of Hardy and Joseph Gordon-Levitt walking around in someone's dream looking all sexy and dapper whilst wearing perfectly tailored suits.

[bklynred]

Damned if I know, vegas. Dom was all over the place mentally, so I'm not sure. Although we never saw <<him wake up in the van, which was one of the kicks,>> right? I actually thought his character was the weakest, but maybe that was the point. And I second the notion of a JGL/Hardy spin-off with expensive suits and sharp banter.

ETA: Oh wait, I forgot to add my giddy surprise when <<Lukas Haas showed up...He was in Brick with JGL too. For that matter, I wasn't expecting Berenger or Caine in it either.>> Clever clever.