Thanks, I'll check it out. I'd like to find a cleaner snippet than the one in Mind Heist if possible.
Planning to hit the midnight showing in Cypress tonight... if I can stay awake, I am an old man y'know..
Let me just say that this movie is so good, it's worth watching multiple times in theaters. I need some time to mull over what I just watched... but it was indeed a masterpiece. Glad I watched it.
That movie was AMAZING! 10/10 but quick question. At the end was that like the 6th level of a dream or did Leo find a way out?
Um I saw the movie, please add spoiler tags to your post before you ruin it for others. Also, yes the movie was amazing.
If he hadn't already made Memento, this would be Nolan's masterpiece. It's Synecdoche, NY / Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets the Bourne trilogy. Awesome. Anyone remember Joseph Gordon Levitt's opening monologue for SNL, when he performed Donald O'Connor's "Make 'Em Laugh" dance / acrobat flips? Dude stepped it up, in one of the greatest Spoiler fight scenes of all time, inspired from one of cinema's golden achievements in choreography: Spoiler <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y8n7WQIXQDs&hl=en_US&start=165&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y8n7WQIXQDs&hl=en_US&start=165&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> Epic.
Looking forward to this very much. Memento seemed more like a film school project (an excellent one.) But with Memento, if you separate out the gimmick and put the little sections in the right order... you get a pretty boring movie. The actual plot in the actual sequence is just kind of meh. But Inception looks like something completely different.
Saw the midnight showing last night. I will give my spoileriffic review below, but here is a safe review for those who have yet to see it: This is a 'heist movie'. Think The Sting. Think Ocean's Eleven. First and foremost, that is what this movie is. Now, if you liked The Matrix, if you liked Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and even, yes, Shutter Island, then imagine a mash-up of the above Heist Movies combined with the brain-twisting permutations, convolutions and jigsaw-puzzle-like structure of the latter movies, you STILL will not be prepared for this movie. Do not read below if you do not want to be spoiled! Spoiler I'll start with the 1% of this movie which annoyed me, and believe me, it is a nit-pick. Near the beginning of the movie, an important scene where we enter the dream-within-a-dream, with Lukas Haas in his brief appearance, there is vital exposition which happens, but is nearly unintelligible because of mumbling characters or low-volume speaking. Made it far too easy to miss. All I am saying is, pay very close attention in the first ten minutes or so, and after that, the problem disappears. That's it. That's the only criticism I can come up with of this movie. It's that good. This is a movie for grownups. It doesn't hold your hand, and it doesn't bend over backwards to make sure you understand everything. It gives us, the audience, credit for being smart enough to be able to follow it through all the hoops and mazes it traverses. I won't recap the movie here, because if you are reading this, you have already seen it anyway. Instead, this is a spot to address the question the movie ultimately asks: What did we actually just see? The implication of the final scene - the little metal top spinning, the camera going to black before we know if it stopped or not - is that we are left to decide for ourselves whether Cobb's happy ending is reality, or is he still living in a dream. I will go ahead and say it (and bear in mind, this is after only one late-night viewing. Definitely plan to see this again asap to look for things I surely missed the first time, so my opinion is subject to change): He is still dreaming. The top is still spinning. The clues are there - the lack of awareness of how he came to be back into his 'reality', the other characters (projections) all making eye contact with him, the too-neat-and-happy ending, and the fact that his childrens' faces finally being revealed in pretty much the exact position and state he last remembered them, and apparently not having aged. And yet. The implication of the beginning of the movie, and how it seems to loop back upon itself at the end.. this could mean that the entirety of events in the movie are all simply happening within his dream. In other words, not only did he not escape at the end, but nothing we saw was real at ALL. This is possible as well. It's definitely head-spinning stuff. And while I can see how the ambiguity of the film's ending will allow for easy entry to make a sequel, making a sequel would also necessarily answer the above questions, which I am not sure would be a good thing. It's like the ending of Basic Instinct - that movie leaves the question open forever: Did she or didn't she? You have to decide for yourself. Had they made a true sequel and simply answered the question for us, it would have greatly diminished the first film. Well, leaving that for a moment.. Every character in this film gets a chance to shine. But taking the role that ten years ago would have gone to Keanu Reeves, Gordon-Levitt absolutely stole this film. I cannot even begin to imagine how difficult and challenging his work had to have been. This movie will cement him as a bonafide action star. But everyone nails their part, in the best tradition of ensemble heist movies. And what an amazing thing it must be to be Christopher Nolan. To be able to create such worlds-within-worlds in his mind, and the brilliance of the 'stretching time' idea further and further as you go levels deeper into the dreams.. just absolutely brilliant. And all of the movie crashing toward an inevitable climax with the van slowwwwwwwly plummeting backwards off the bridge... to Gordon-Levitt's desperate-but-precise gymnastics in the building and elevator shaft.. and on and on... every bit, just amazing. Holy heck, what will Nolan do next? Wow. Anyway, so what do you all think about the big questions the film asks? Did he escape? Was he dreaming the whole time? Did his wife escape a dream when she stepped off the balcony, or was his guilt at having planted the idea in her mind justified? I love when a movie gets into your head and makes you want to talk with other people about it.
Just saw it... really good! Still debating if this is better than TDK. Sure did leave a whole lot of questions tho like Nero said above. Spoiler My speculation of the ending: I think Dom was dreaming. His kids didn't age a bit (like Nero stated), they were wearing the same clothes, sitting and playing at the same spot. However if he was dreaming, what does that mean? Did Dom's dad architect it all? and was Saito's promise that life would become normal again for Dom mean that he could only stretch Dom's dream a little further meaning he could finally see his children's faces and interact with them? hmm... So about the layers of the dream. Saito died. Did he go into his own dream world or enter the world Dom and Mal created together? The reason I asked is because Dom said he's "here" somewhere when the city was being destroyed, yet when he landed on the beach to meet old Saito, it looked like he died and just arrived there. This movie is so full of mazes. Just like the "took 2 minutes to make, but 1 minute to solve puzzle". It'll take us a while. oh and yes, Gordon Levitt was a total kick ass! Best character in the movie by far. I'm going to watch it again some time just for the tilting building and anti gravity fight.
if its on equal ground as the TDK. then ill be happy. not sure if i have seen a movie i like as much as TDK since it came out. dont think so and thats been about 2 years i think.
Going to see it tonight in IMAX, so excited! I already bought tickets online, but I'm going to the 7:00 showing so I'm expecting that there will be a big crowd and it will sell out. I'm guessing I need to get in line by 6:00 in order to get a decent seat?
This is a different good than TDK. TDK was just badass in every way. This one had mazes and a very original concept. Do yourself a favor and don't be around people who are talking about this, even if there aren't any real spoilers. It is BEST to go in the movie WITHOUT knowing the PLOT. I repeat. Best going in the movie without knowing the plot.
It sucks that IMAX movies don't have captions. Oh well. Going to see it end of the month. Excited to see it!!!!!
Brilliant film. Incredibly entertaining, amazing performances by each actor (Joseph Gordon-Levitt solidified himself as one of the best actors in hollywood), deep and complex (me and my friends just sat down and discussed it for a while, we could have went on for hours), yet it makes sense, and it works as an action film too. Truly great. Can't wait to see it again. Maybe tomorrow.
Something I'm noticing Leo DiCaprio does a lot in movies is saying "ah..?" after sentences. At least he did that in this movie and a whole LOT in Blood Diamond. They had the perfect cast in this movie. Even Juno was good. For a better effect, watch night's Avatar right before this. You'd fall off your seat.
