Official Thread of Inception: Best summer blockbuster since 2009!

[Don Flamenco]

I'm fucking hyped for Inception, but I wouldn't mind seeing another lower budget Nolan film with a cool, simple premise like Following or Memento.  and if you guys haven't seen Following, go watch it.  I think it's still up on netflix streaming.

[Great Rumbler]

I've seen all of Nolan's feature-length films. 

[EvilBoris]

 Good to see the hype finally being moderated by actual readable critics. I can see this movie now.

[brawndolicious]

Good to see the hype finally being moderated by actual readable critics. I can see this movie now.

yeah, that's right.  I hated TDK so I know I could have an issue with whatever 90% of critics think.

[EvilBoris]

 
eh the lofty film comparisons, 'bravura' 'masterpiece' non-reviews from moviepromo sites and the building hype from that section's word was the principal annoyance. Arguably a good portion of those make up the rottentomatoes gallery; but i'm not necessarily taking any shots at Nolan or all circles of film criticism here.

[Great Rumbler]

Some more reviews:

In this wildly ingenious chess game, grandmaster Nolan plants ideas in our heads that disturb and dazzle. The result is a knockout. But be warned: Inception dreams big.

At first, Inception left me cold, feeling as if I’d just eavesdropped on somebody’s bad acid trip. Now I find I can’t get the film out of my mind, which is really the whole point of it, isn’t it?

One of the year's best films, one that will surely get even better upon repeated viewings.

As engrossing and logic-resistant as the state of dreaming it seeks to replicate, Christopher Nolan's audacious new creation demands further study to fully absorb the multiple, simultaneous stories Nolan finagles into one narrative experience.

With 32 reviews, Inception is 97% positive with a 9.2/10 average rating.

I'm gonna go see Inception this Saturday with some of my friends on one of Cinemark's XD screens.

[Ichirou]

Good to see the hype finally being moderated by actual readable critics. I can see this movie now.

yeah, that's right.  I hated TDK so I know I could have an issue with whatever 90% of critics think.

...but your mind doesn't work like a normal human's does.

[Smooth Groove]

Some more reviews:

In this wildly ingenious chess game, grandmaster Nolan plants ideas in our heads that disturb and dazzle. The result is a knockout. But be warned: Inception dreams big.

At first, Inception left me cold, feeling as if I’d just eavesdropped on somebody’s bad acid trip. Now I find I can’t get the film out of my mind, which is really the whole point of it, isn’t it?

One of the year's best films, one that will surely get even better upon repeated viewings.

As engrossing and logic-resistant as the state of dreaming it seeks to replicate, Christopher Nolan's audacious new creation demands further study to fully absorb the multiple, simultaneous stories Nolan finagles into one narrative experience.

With 32 reviews, Inception is 97% positive with a 9.2/10 average rating.

I'm gonna go see Inception this Saturday with some of my friends on one of Cinemark's XD screens.

Wow, Hipster-Bore is guaranteed to hate this. 

[Robo]

You mean, guaranteed to pretend to hate it, but eventually admit to liking it after they get all the other suckers on board the hate-train.

[Boogie]

You mean, guaranteed to pretend to hate it, but eventually admit to liking it after they get all the other suckers on board the hate-train.

 

[Ichirou]

Just like Willco ended up liking Avatar.

[chronovore]

I love how people bitch about the WotW ending without knowing anything about the source material.

I've read the book. I know how it ends and why it ends.

My problem with the movie ending is that the guy and his daughter make their way to his parents house and it's all practically pristine, no damage anywhere and his parents are just hanging out and waiting for him to show up so they can have a party. And then, to top it all off, his idiot son, who charged head first into a battle between tripods and the army suddenly appears at exactly the same time as they do, unharmed and ready to accept his father's love. 

Yeah, I was fond of the ending in the book, even though it provides a safe finish for mankind. Wells was apparently writing about invasion of foreign lands, how his empire was wreaking havoc and destroying ways-of-life, and he was speculating what it would be like for the race to be on the receiving end of that. His ending is quite convenient (though similar to the fate of many people who sought to expand the British Empire -- ending in death by new illness), but Spielberg's ending takes it from being a last minute save by fate, to having most of the difficulties faced during the story entirely negated: Cruise family is intact! We can continue from where we left off.

[Diunx]

Movie is not opening here until august 26 :'(

[Great Rumbler]

Movie is not opening here until august 26 :'(

That's really lame. 

[CajoleJuice]

So many commercials during the ASG, including that extended sneak peak with the characters and stuff. Which I avoided this whole time, but once it started on TV, I couldn't turn it off.

[Flannel Boy]

http://www.nypress.com/article-21420-despicable-inception.html

Christopher Nolan doesn’t have a born filmmaker’s natural gift for detail, composition and movement, but on the evidence of his fussily constructed mind-game movies Following, Memento, Insomnia and the new Inception, he’s definitely a born con artist. Who else could rook Warner Bros. out of $200 million to make Hollywood’s most elaborate video-game movie and slap on a puzzling, unappealing title?

[Ichirou]

His trolling is getting boring and predictable by this point.

EDIT: Holy shit, this is fillllled with typos.

[Barry Egan]

[Flannel Boy]

His trolling is getting boring and predictable by this point.

Looks like someone has been conned by Nolan.

[Smooth Groove]

Armond White has always been a shit writer who tries to cover his deficiencies with verbosious verbosity. 

[TakingBackSunday]

he's no Michael Bay

[Ichirou]

His trolling is getting boring and predictable by this point.

Looks like someone has been conned by Nolan.

Only Armond White sees the truth.

[Great Rumbler]

http://www.nypress.com/article-21420-despicable-inception.html

Christopher Nolan doesn’t have a born filmmaker’s natural gift for detail, composition and movement, but on the evidence of his fussily constructed mind-game movies Following, Memento, Insomnia and the new Inception, he’s definitely a born con artist. Who else could rook Warner Bros. out of $200 million to make Hollywood’s most elaborate video-game movie and slap on a puzzling, unappealing title?

[Great Rumbler]

I honestly think that Armond wrote that review in about two minutes and then just threw it up on NY Press's website without even spell checking it or anything. It's like...he hates the movie so much that he can't even think straight.

[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.nypress.com/article-21420-despicable-inception.html

Christopher Nolan doesn’t have a born filmmaker’s natural gift for detail, composition and movement, but on the evidence of his fussily constructed mind-game movies Following, Memento, Insomnia and the new Inception, he’s definitely a born con artist. Who else could rook Warner Bros. out of $200 million to make Hollywood’s most elaborate video-game movie and slap on a puzzling, unappealing title?

I want an Arnold White review generator. Stick a title in, get a masterfully trolled paragraph

[Smooth Groove]

Nolan finally has the budget to work with his look-alike (leo’s an irresistible movie star), yet fails to write him a good role. Cobb suffers the same marital nightmares leo had in Shutter Island; this isn’t depth, it’s morbidity and the confusion is all over the screen.

It's not just the spelling.  His syntax is just like an internet poster as well.

Maybe I too should be putting up my reviews online just to make some extra bucks. 

[The Fake Shemp]

Just like Willco ended up liking Avatar.

I still hate that movie.

... I wish Shake and Cheebs would post how Armond White is a scholar of film and that anyone that says differently is a peon.

[Cheebs]

I do think anyone who gets upset about a review from a no-name paper that is given out for free and mostly focused on sex advice are idiot fanboys who should be ashamed of themselves. Armond White as a writer is pretty terrible though. That element was WYL hyperbole to piss off the gullible gaf rejects. I find it fascinating how fantastic his pre-blockbuster taste in film is though compared to his modern tastes.

[Great Rumbler]

I'm gonna try to figure out a way to insert "baroque fantasia" into my every day conversations.

[GilloD]

I saw a commercial drunk tonight and Iw as like wooooooooooooooooooah

[Flannel Boy]

http://www.nypress.com/article-21420-despicable-inception.html

Christopher Nolan doesn’t have a born filmmaker’s natural gift for detail, composition and movement, but on the evidence of his fussily constructed mind-game movies Following, Memento, Insomnia and the new Inception, he’s definitely a born con artist. Who else could rook Warner Bros. out of $200 million to make Hollywood’s most elaborate video-game movie and slap on a puzzling, unappealing title?

I want an Arnold White review generator. Stick a title in, get a masterfully trolled paragraph

You're just angry that he stole your gig.

[Great Rumbler]

He also liked Avatar

[CajoleJuice]

Ebert

AV Club > Ebert

(They gave Inception an A-)

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And Avatar a C

[close]

[Great Rumbler]

AV Club

[Cheebs]

Ever since his stroke or whatever happened to him Ebert likes basically anything halfway entertaining. AV Club is amazing though.

[The Fake Shemp]

I'm not going to see it.

[CajoleJuice]

Because you already did and you loved it.

pretty much

[Phoenix Dark]

I must admit the prospect of trolling Nolan fantards is almost more appealing than actually seeing the film, which I know I'll like

[Great Rumbler]

I must admit the prospect of trolling Nolan fantards is almost more appealing than actually seeing the film, which I know I'll like

You gotta see it before you can troll it, unless you wanna pull a Willco.

[Phoenix Dark]

I successfully trolled Avatar long before seeing the film. But yea, once I saw the film I realized while it was alright (and certainly a fun summer movie to see at the theater), it was even easier to lampoon.

[Barry Egan]

I want to make Jibril cry. 

[Barry Egan]

He's pretty much already started writing Inception fanfic.

[Phoenix Dark]

"if I wanted to see Ellen Page give hammy monologues I'd watch Juno. Oh wait, I wouldn't watch that or Inception"

*puts in file of potential Inception trolls*

[BlueTsunami]

Oh man, Ellen Page monologues? I knew she would be a stain on the awesomeness that is DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

[Flannel Boy]

 

[Barry Egan]

I used to exchange glances with Ellen Page all the time in Halifax.

Or have I already mentioned that?

[Great Rumbler]

Oh man, Ellen Page monologues? I knew she would be a stain on the awesomeness that is DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

SMH, BlueTsunami already falling for PD's trolls.

[TakingBackSunday]

I used to exchange glances with Ellen Page all the time in Halifax.

Or have I already mentioned that?

are you sure it wasn't a 13 year old boy

[Flannel Boy]

edit: beaten

[The Fake Shemp]

I actually saw Avatar the week after it came out. I didn't want to see it opening weekend, but I got one of those free passes. If I had to pay for it, I would have thrown a massive fit.

[BlueTsunami]

Oh man, Ellen Page monologues? I knew she would be a stain on the awesomeness that is DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

SMH, BlueTsunami already falling for PD's trolls.

:'(

I haven't seen the movie yet so I don't know what to believeeeee

[Phoenix Dark]

 

[Cheebs]

I successfully trolled Avatar long before seeing the film. But yea, once I saw the film I realized while it was alright (and certainly a fun summer movie to see at the theater), it was even easier to lampoon.

Avatar was a Christmas season movie THUS YOU FAILED

[chronovore]

I'm not going to see it.

Why not?

[The Fake Shemp]

Because I can go see real cinema instead

[CajoleJuice]

Willco is turning into Shake

[chronovore]

Willco is turning into Shake

OH SNAP.

[The Fake Shemp]

Willco is turning into Shake

More like Shake is turning into Willco!

[Great Rumbler]

Because I can go see real cinema instead

olololol

[Ichirou]

Willco is turning into Shake

More like Shake is turning into Willco!

Willco IS Shake.  Shake IS Willco.