Official Thread of Inception: Best summer blockbuster since 2009!

[Cheebs]

Pretty damned good. Will likely be thinking about it all the way through the weekend.

Probably a lot longer than that. I am still buzzing about it, thinking of what elements were reality and dreams and so forth.

[The Fake Shemp]

Yes, but you're easily impressed.

[Cheebs]

Yes, but you're easily impressed.

I wans't impressed with transformers 

[The Fake Shemp]

Not what I remember, Mister. I Enjoyed The Teen Coming-of-Age Comedy Parts With Shia That Were No Doubt Produced By The Guiding Hand Of Spielberg.

[Cheebs]

Not what I remember, Mister. I Enjoyed The Teen Coming-of-Age Comedy Parts With Shia That Were No Doubt Produced By The Guiding Hand Of Spielberg.

Yep. I said all the non-shia coming-of-age comedy parts bored me. Transformers 2 suffered a lot because Spielberg was completely hands off because he was off filming Tintin in New Zealand at the time. Apparently he is a lot more hands on again for the third. At least that is what that Chud dude seems to have heard.

And I remember getting mocked for not being on the OMG BAY ACTION train when it came out.   :'(

[Great Rumbler]

$100 million

[Cheebs]

There was a Bay hype train for the first? you guys are disgusting.

http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=3418.0
http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=10412.0

 

[Great Rumbler]

People being hyped for Transformers 

[Cheebs]

Looks good. And stfu @ anyone questioning the plot.

[Great Rumbler]

Transformers 1 with more robots fighting and more city destruction actually would have been BETTER.

[The Fake Shemp]

Transformers

Inception

[cool breeze]

part of the reason people were hyping up Inception was because it wasn't just shallow like Transformers.  I think it was Mark Kermode that was hoping people would watch Inception to prove you don't need to make movies so dumb to find success ( ).

and The Godfather with transforming robots would be amazing.  Avatar proved that taking an old movies and adding CG would trick people into think it was original.

[Great Rumbler]

"I know it was you, Starscream. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!"

[cool breeze]

[youtube=560,345]UVkQ0C4qDvM[/youtube]

neat

[drohne]

best summer blockbuster since fuckin ever

[CajoleJuice]

Christopher Nolan

Bill Federman

[The Fake Shemp]

Internet fanboys

[chronovore]

Christ, I saw the movie, re-read the thread a bit -- I can confirm Willco is consciously and willfully (SWIDT?) trolling this thread. Jerkface has probably seen it  three times already, and is busy twittering fellatio offers to Nolan.

That music YouTube is funny; I never woulda thought. Of course, that leitmotif (is that the correct term?) is identical irrespective of the sequence, where it would theoretically need to be even slower to be truly representative. Still: very clever.

[chronovore]

Yeah, one of the things that has kept me wondering is who was hosting what at each stage, and who was supplying the content.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

The last dream is hosted by Cillian's character, but populated by Cobb's subconscious' Limbo reality he made with Moll/Mal. After kicking Ariadne and Cillian, Cobb journeys to Saito's dream somehow. Is Cillian still host? Is Cobb the host? Saito's subconscious content has to be playing. Also, in other dreams it was necessary to hook up the dreaming "equipment" to each participant, but in the Saito sequence there is nothing connecting Saito's corpse to the Limbo team of Ariadne, Cobb, and Cillian. Why does it work? I'm looking for story reasons other than it being just a dream -- clearly the in-dream electronics are a crutch, and ultimately maybe they are not ultimately needed?

[close]

[EmCeeGrammar]

I saw the movie tonight. I now know who that guy in linkzg's avatar is now.

[AdmiralViscen]

I enjoyed it. Glad I'm only reading this thread now.

Can't believe Willco is pulling the same box office troll as he did for Avatar. Time for new material

[cool breeze]

I saw the movie tonight. I now know who that guy in linkzg's avatar is now.

more people finding out about Tom Hardy

Inception

Yeah, one of the things that has kept me wondering is who was hosting what at each stage, and who was supplying the content.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

The last dream is hosted by Cillian's character, but populated by Cobb's subconscious' Limbo reality he made with Moll/Mal. After kicking Ariadne and Cillian, Cobb journeys to Saito's dream somehow. Is Cillian still host? Is Cobb the host? Saito's subconscious content has to be playing. Also, in other dreams it was necessary to hook up the dreaming "equipment" to each participant, but in the Saito sequence there is nothing connecting Saito's corpse to the Limbo team of Ariadne, Cobb, and Cillian. Why does it work? I'm looking for story reasons other than it being just a dream -- clearly the in-dream electronics are a crutch, and ultimately maybe they are not ultimately needed?

[close]

from what I could understand

spoiler (click to show/hide)

-first level is the van driver, Yusuf  (stock nerd scientist from Avatar)
-second level is Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
-third level is Eames (Tom Hardy, the guy in my avatar)

Fischer (Cillian) populated the dreams, but he wasn't the host.  Ariadne's (Ellen Page) job as architect is to design layouts for the levels and then teach them to the the dreamer.

As for limbo, it is the shared space between all the connected dreamers.  Saito was there without requiring is because he died in the dream (shot at level 1).  Normally dying in a dream would wake you up, but because they had to use strong sedatives to go three levels deep, dying meant you're mind would get lost in limbo.

[close]

there is a long thread on gaf and other places that are still exploring all this.

[CajoleJuice]

I enjoyed it. Glad I'm only reading this thread now.

Can't believe Willco is pulling the same box office troll as he did for Avatar. Time for new material

Only he legitimately didn't like Avatar.

[bagofeyes]

Saw it today. Pretty sweet.

[AdmiralViscen]

Yeah, one of the things that has kept me wondering is who was hosting what at each stage, and who was supplying the content.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

The last dream is hosted by Cillian's character, but populated by Cobb's subconscious' Limbo reality he made with Moll/Mal. After kicking Ariadne and Cillian, Cobb journeys to Saito's dream somehow. Is Cillian still host? Is Cobb the host? Saito's subconscious content has to be playing. Also, in other dreams it was necessary to hook up the dreaming "equipment" to each participant, but in the Saito sequence there is nothing connecting Saito's corpse to the Limbo team of Ariadne, Cobb, and Cillian. Why does it work? I'm looking for story reasons other than it being just a dream -- clearly the in-dream electronics are a crutch, and ultimately maybe they are not ultimately needed?

[close]

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Limbo isn't a dream though, it's something different. I got the impression that there was only one Limbo.

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[Cheebs]

I enjoyed it. Glad I'm only reading this thread now.

Can't believe Willco is pulling the same box office troll as he did for Avatar. Time for new material

Only he legitimately didn't like Avatar.

Yeah like just a week ago Willco was calling Nolan the best director doing big budget hollywood blockbusters and how he is the new Spielberg. I am guessing he enjoyed it.

[ch1nchilla]

I enjoyed it. Glad I'm only reading this thread now.

Can't believe Willco is pulling the same box office troll as he did for Avatar. Time for new material

Avatar actually sucked though. Inception did not. I'm gonna see it again.

[Great Rumbler]

Inception made more money on Friday than Salt did.

Inception

[chronovore]

I saw the movie tonight. I now know who that guy in linkzg's avatar is now.

more people finding out about Tom Hardy

Inception

Yeah, one of the things that has kept me wondering is who was hosting what at each stage, and who was supplying the content.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

The last dream is hosted by Cillian's character, but populated by Cobb's subconscious' Limbo reality he made with Moll/Mal. After kicking Ariadne and Cillian, Cobb journeys to Saito's dream somehow. Is Cillian still host? Is Cobb the host? Saito's subconscious content has to be playing. Also, in other dreams it was necessary to hook up the dreaming "equipment" to each participant, but in the Saito sequence there is nothing connecting Saito's corpse to the Limbo team of Ariadne, Cobb, and Cillian. Why does it work? I'm looking for story reasons other than it being just a dream -- clearly the in-dream electronics are a crutch, and ultimately maybe they are not ultimately needed?

[close]

from what I could understand

spoiler (click to show/hide)

-first level is the van driver, Yusuf  (stock nerd scientist from Avatar)
-second level is Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
-third level is Eames (Tom Hardy, the guy in my avatar)

Fischer (Cillian) populated the dreams, but he wasn't the host.  Ariadne's (Ellen Page) job as architect is to design layouts for the levels and then teach them to the the dreamer.

As for limbo, it is the shared space between all the connected dreamers.  Saito was there without requiring is because he died in the dream (shot at level 1).  Normally dying in a dream would wake you up, but because they had to use strong sedatives to go three levels deep, dying meant you're mind would get lost in limbo.

[close]

there is a long thread on gaf and other places that are still exploring all this.

OK, so because

spoiler (click to show/hide)

they are all sharing the same dream at the top level, they would all share the same Limbo?

[close]

[cool breeze]

I saw the movie tonight. I now know who that guy in linkzg's avatar is now.

more people finding out about Tom Hardy

Inception

Yeah, one of the things that has kept me wondering is who was hosting what at each stage, and who was supplying the content.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

The last dream is hosted by Cillian's character, but populated by Cobb's subconscious' Limbo reality he made with Moll/Mal. After kicking Ariadne and Cillian, Cobb journeys to Saito's dream somehow. Is Cillian still host? Is Cobb the host? Saito's subconscious content has to be playing. Also, in other dreams it was necessary to hook up the dreaming "equipment" to each participant, but in the Saito sequence there is nothing connecting Saito's corpse to the Limbo team of Ariadne, Cobb, and Cillian. Why does it work? I'm looking for story reasons other than it being just a dream -- clearly the in-dream electronics are a crutch, and ultimately maybe they are not ultimately needed?

[close]

from what I could understand

spoiler (click to show/hide)

-first level is the van driver, Yusuf  (stock nerd scientist from Avatar)
-second level is Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
-third level is Eames (Tom Hardy, the guy in my avatar)

Fischer (Cillian) populated the dreams, but he wasn't the host.  Ariadne's (Ellen Page) job as architect is to design layouts for the levels and then teach them to the the dreamer.

As for limbo, it is the shared space between all the connected dreamers.  Saito was there without requiring is because he died in the dream (shot at level 1).  Normally dying in a dream would wake you up, but because they had to use strong sedatives to go three levels deep, dying meant you're mind would get lost in limbo.

[close]

there is a long thread on gaf and other places that are still exploring all this.

OK, so because

spoiler (click to show/hide)

they are all sharing the same dream at the top level, they would all share the same Limbo?

[close]

yeah, I think so

[chronovore]

I'm going to be buying it immediately on release, unless they announce a special edition. I already want to watch it again.

[Great Rumbler]

So is Willco going to start trolling Salt now that it lost out to Inception's second weekend?

Also, Salt had a budget of $110 million? 

[Phoenix Dark]

Nolan fans trying to get me banned 
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=402188

[The Fake Shemp]

Of course not! Inception only grossed a thousand more dollars per theater; hardly the big leap over a film with half the marketing budget and $50 million cheaper than Nolan's overhyped snoozefest.

[Great Rumbler]

Of course not! Inception only grossed a thousand more dollars per theater; hardly the big leap over a film with half the marketing budget and $50 million cheaper than Nolan's overhyped snoozefest.

Audiences and critics have spoken.

[Great Rumbler]

Salt comes out next weekend. Jolie gonna whoop dat ass. Sorry, Nolan. Enjoy adapting Nickelodeon cartoons and shit from now on.

I won't be shocked if Salt has a better opening weekend, it was tracking higher than Inception I read on Jeff Wells blog.

Ehhhh, I just don't see Salt being some huge hit. It'll get more than $100 million, but probably not much more than that.

[The Fake Shemp]

I forgot to account for lost ticket sales due to vacations.

[Great Rumbler]

If you can't remember to factor in something that basic, then how will the Candyland movie franchise ever hope to succeed in Hollywood?

[The Fake Shemp]

Not my problem, I'm just the writer

[Great Rumbler]

That's what you think, but one day Ruport Murdoch is going to come looking for the guy that thought it was a good idea to release Candyland 2: Lord Licorice's Folly against Batman vs. Swamp Thing vs. Krypto's third weekend when all the kids in America are away at their mandatory week of Communist space camp and then where will you be?

[drew]

Of course not! Inception only grossed a thousand more dollars per theater; hardly the big leap over a film with half the marketing budget and $50 million cheaper than Nolan's overhyped snoozefest.

remove yourself from all the bullshit, internet or otherwise, its why you arent enjoying movies, this one included

[drew]

i had a fun time identifying each gun as they came up

best part was when he had that guy on top of the building pinned behind some electrical thing with an ACR, then another dude says something about dreaming bigger and whips out a grenade launcher

[Bloodwake]

Rewatching this awesome film tonight NOLAN

[CajoleJuice]

I hadn't even thought of it, but Nolan's best work is his original stuff.  They should drop him from Batman and let him run wild on something else.  They won't, because of money and fanboys, but it would be awesome.

How could you not have thought about that when you had Inception and Memento at the top of your Nolan list and I did?

[Great Rumbler]

I hadn't even thought of it, but Nolan's best work is his original stuff.  They should drop him from Batman and let him run wild on something else.  They won't, because of money and fanboys, but it would be awesome.

It was the success of Batman that allowed him to do Inception though.

[Ichirou]

I really dug The Dark Knight, Genghis.  I mean, I saw it in theaters three or four times and I'm not even a big Batman fan.

[TakingBackSunday]

Genghis, you're not wrong, but let's be honest here–even if they are his worst films, Nolan's comic book shit is still better than 95% of other comic book shit.  I'm glad he worked on Batman, because Begins set a pretty high bar for origin stories.

edit: oh your face is awful

[Ichirou]

I liked it as well, despite having some issues with it.  I just think Memento and Inception are better films.  Batman Begins was awful, The Prestige and Insomnia were boring as hell.

I thought Batman Begins was pretty good (better than all the Burton & Schumacher movies), and I loved The Prestige.  I agree with you about Insomnia, though.

[Great Rumbler]

Man, I hated Katie Holmes in BB. I mean, her performance is the single worst thing about the movie for me, easily. Even worse than the inscrutable nature of the fight scenes. Not that Maggie Gyllenhaal was much better in The Dark Knight though. 

[bagofeyes]

begins was pretty boring. dark knight was ok up until the last 30 mins or so which sucked ballz. I liked the prestige though.

[Ichirou]

I like Christian Bale.  Katie Holmes WAS terrible, though.  At least they got rid of her for the sequel.

[The Fake Shemp]

Why is Katie Holmes smirking the entire film?

[bagofeyes]

she should just show her tits and shut up

[Great Rumbler]

Why is Katie Holmes smirking the entire film?

THIS.

She smirks even when she's berating Bruce for trying to kill Joe Chill!

[The Fake Shemp]

No, she has like a half-smirk out of the corner of her mouth the entire movie!

[Ichirou]

No, she has like a half-smirk out of the corner of her mouth the entire movie!

She's deformed.

[Solo]

No, she has like a half-smirk out of the corner of her mouth the entire movie!

I think you mean "her entire life". She had that same smirk on her face the first time I flipped the channel onto the Dawson's Creek pilot.

[drew]

katie holmes has partied in my parents basement

here is the part where i brush my shoulders off over all a yall nig gas

[AdmiralViscen]

She's not.  She has a "stupid face." What was that movie maybe ten years ago where the two mentally handicapped people were trying to marry and the bride's family was against it?  Katie Holmes is like a real life version of that.

The Other Sister 

Hilarious movie

[bagofeyes]

drew must be from a broken family. poor guy.