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Barmymoo:

--- Quote from: scarred on 18 Jul 2010, 12:17 ---i've never been in a packed theater where everyone collectively gasped and said "AWWWWW" as the film cut to black before.

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--- Quote from: tender on 20 Jul 2010, 22:38 ---I'm glad I walked into Inception without knowing anything about it.
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These two quotes sum up my experience of this film. I absolutely loved it, even though I can't stomach violence in films - it was good enough to offset that. There were no plot holes papered over, no stupid explanations that didn't fit the film's reality, and the ending was perfect.

Also, it was the first time in my entire life that I've ever seen a cinema full. We had to sit on the absolute front row because we arrived a little after the ads started and it was totally packed. Some friends tried to get in and had to pre-book tickets for the later showing instead because they were full.

KvP:
It wasn't even that violent! It was basically Ocean's Eleven in metaphysical space.

Barmymoo:
You misunderstand me: I felt ill watching the bird explode in Shrek. I cannot stomach ANY violence in films.

Yunior:
I saw this again tonight and I have to admit enjoying it so much more than I originally did (my first take on the film was something along the lines of, "It looked really good! I barely noticed it was sort of a dumb movie.") It absolutely has its flaws (should I expound on this or is this thread retired already?), and I am basically always bothered by the overly self-serious tone Nolan takes in all his work, but I don't think I gave it enough credit for being a 'smart' movie on the nature of filmmaking and reality. I went with a friend who thought the ending was a total gimmick and I wanted to smack him the face because it is totally thematically in sync with the rest of the movie. All the stuff about "telling yourself what you know, but what do you believe", that is totally the ending! Cobb's not a slave to reason anymore, he's taken a leap of faith and chosen a reality etc. etc.

Also, I think it's pretty easy to take a lot of these performances for granted, especially because of some of the astoundingly stupid dialogue, but I'm really impressed with how Marion Cotillard makes her pretty pretty face so hostile and threatening. Considering the handicaps of the role (a lot of her lines don't register in the first viewing, and she's less a character and more a construction of Cobb's memory), I think she was really quite terrific in this.

LTK:
I loved this moment, in Fischer's second dream:

Ariadne: Everyone suddenly started staring at us.
Arthur: I see. Quick, give me a kiss.
- They kiss -
Ariadne: They're still staring.
Arthur: Well, it was worth a try.
- Arthur walks away -

I almost missed it, if it weren't for the rest of the audience laughing. Anyway, what I thought was exceptionally well executed was the handwaving, in the sense that there was barely anything that needed to be handwaved. What completely made the suspension of disbelief in this one is all the assumptions that went in the basic premise. Think about it: They never mention how it is possible to enter someone else's dream. They never say what the buzzing machine in the metallic case does. Everything they explain about how the dream world works overshadows how they get into the dream world in the first place. The whole concept is so engraved in the film that there appears to be an entire college education dedicated to the science of dreams, which Ariadne came from.

As a whole I really enjoyed the movie, especially its theme of "You don't control your mind, your mind controls you", but in some places it was indeed a bit obvious how the dream-world rules existed to give you a pretty show. Needing a 'kick' to awake from the dream, what better excuse to make everything end with a big bang?

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