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Inception (Nolan, 2010)- The Reviews Thread

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Old 07-26-10 | 02:37 PM
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Re: Inception (Nolan, 2010)- The Reviews Thread

Originally Posted by Osiris3657
I went to see The Killer Inside Me, and after I left the theater I was walking behind this old guy. We passed by a group of guys standing in front of an Inception poster and the old guy stops by them and says "don't see this confusing piece of shit, I just walked out"
The old guy was probably just confused from being stuck in limbo for two and a half hours (real time). You should have gave him the kick.
Old 07-27-10 | 11:20 AM
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Voted 4 stars, but I'd give this 4 1/2.

Excellent film, and easily the best thing Nolan has done since Memento. I think he's got an incredible knack for putting together an amazing emsemble of talented actors. Hell, he even got me to accept Ellen Page in this... and I loathe her acting with a passion. Maybe her lack of sarcastic retorts made her more easily digestible here, though. And JGL is a show stealer... I think he's simply astounding.

I'll need to see the film again before I can fully absorb everything that was thrown at me, but I'm a firm believer that in the end
Spoiler:
it's all a dream
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Old 07-27-10 | 11:22 AM
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4.5 stars sounds right for me. I had a few quibbles:
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  • Watanabe's old man makeup was awful.
  • The effect with DiCaprio and Page walking up the wall was awkward.
  • The snow level was pretty bland, and everybody looked alike so it was hard to follow the action.
Old 07-27-10 | 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Groucho
4.5 stars sounds right for me. I had a few quibbles:
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  • Watanabe's old man makeup was awful.
  • The effect with DiCaprio and Page walking up the wall was awkward.
  • The snow level was pretty bland, and everybody looked alike so it was hard to follow the action.
I agree with you on your first point...really, really bad. I thought the same thing about your third point as I was watching, however:

Spoiler:
When I think about it, the snow level is really like many of my dreams. Sometimes I can't really make out the faces of people, except persons I'm really focused on, like a love interest. I wonder if that was intentional.


Wait, we're using spoiler tags this far into the thread?
Old 07-27-10 | 01:10 PM
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Wait, we're using spoiler tags this far into the thread?
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Apparently...but I don't know why.
Old 07-27-10 | 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by JumpCutz
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Apparently...but I don't know why.
Lol!

I remember there were many, many spoilers in the earlier pages.
Old 07-27-10 | 01:43 PM
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Old 07-27-10 | 04:59 PM
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I just came back from seeing this. I really liked it. However, I need to see it a few more times to decide wether I liked it as much or more than The Prestige (my absolute favorite Nolan film). However, I think I did like it better.
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Originally Posted by Joe Buck
I greatly enjoyed the film, although it was a struggle to keep up what with all the annoying people around me. The action sequences in the hotel was really amazing. Unfortunately, I had to leave theater before the ending, so I need to go back and see what people are buzzing about.
Okay, planned on going back to see the film properly tonight. Got in my car to leave and my glasses broke, right on my face without me even touching them.

Seriously.

I think some kind of invisible force DOESN'T want me to see this film!
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I thought the scene with Marion talking with Ellen was interesting, Marion being drop dead gorgeous and Ellen looking like a child.
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That's not a bad idea.
Old 07-28-10 | 12:41 AM
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god dammit, i was gonna post that, but ya beat me to it
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Let's hear your thoughts on the casting of Marion Cotillard, who's most famous for winning an Academy Award for playing Piaf and if it has anything to do with the Edith Piaf music being used as their "wake-up" music (and it's slowed-down version being used as the score).
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She was good in the Edith Piaf movie.

She was good in Inception and the Edith Piaf music was fitting. Don't know what else to think. Nolan commented in the past that the Edith Piaf song was written into the script years ago.
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Spoiler:

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Old 07-28-10 | 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by RocShemp
That's not a bad idea.
Well, the internet is only here because of porn. Movies are largely made for the opportunity of sex. We can expect the guys who DO make the 'dream machine' to be in it for the sex.
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juno gets killed?
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Originally Posted by DonnachaOne
I was actually seriously crushing on Ellen Page during this movie.

So count me in for BRRRAAAAAWWWWMMM.
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Originally Posted by riotinmyskull
juno gets killed?
No.
Spoiler:
There's no one named Juno in this movie.
Spoiler:
And I think that they're mistakenly assuming that since Ariadne
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follows Cobb into limbo that she must've died to get there. But she didn't. She just
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followed him into a deeper dream state in order to find Robert Fischer, Jr. Of course that's where Cobb's
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projection of Mal stabs him and Ariadne falls from the building
whilst Cobb stays behind to find and retrieve Saito from limbo.
Old 07-28-10 | 04:32 PM
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No, it's just that Ariadne is "killrushing crushing building, and Mal, in her dream training. It's simpler than you assume

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Originally Posted by slop101
Let's hear your thoughts on the casting of Marion Cotillard, who's most famous for winning an Academy Award for playing Piaf and if it has anything to do with the Edith Piaf music being used as their "wake-up" music (and it's slowed-down version being used as the score).
Hans Zimmer and Johnny Marr talk about the sad romance of 'Inception'
Nolan's script, Zimmer said, offered clues as to how the musicians should dig beneath the surface of the characters. The charged symphonic brass of Piaf's "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" was targeted for use by Nolan yet almost dropped from the film when Marion Cotillard, who starred as Piaf in 2007 film "La Vie en rose," was cast as Cobb's wife, Mal. Zimmer, however, said he talked Nolan into keeping the song in the film, arguing that audiences would not be distracted by the connection. Pieces of Piaf's interpretation of the song were stretched, manipulated and woven into Zimmer's score.
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Originally Posted by RocShemp
No.
Spoiler:
There's no one named Juno in this movie.
Spoiler:
And I think that they're mistakenly assuming that since Ariadne
Spoiler:
follows Cobb into limbo that she must've died to get there. But she didn't. She just
Spoiler:
followed him into a deeper dream state in order to find Robert Fischer, Jr. Of course that's where Cobb's
Spoiler:
projection of Mal stabs him and Ariadne falls from the building
whilst Cobb stays behind to find and retrieve Saito from limbo.

I see what you did there.
Old 07-28-10 | 06:10 PM
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Originally Posted by RocShemp
Spoiler:
That thing is cool


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