Sean_Rhodes
"A Dream You Don't Want to Wake Up From"
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Let me start by saying i don't watch many movies, I'm not a big sci fi buff, and as I'm getting older, maybe I'm just getting a little crotchety. I'm very aware that by coming out and being the ONLY one Lunch who is giving Inception a negative rating, I'm opening myself up to a lot of questioning and judgment... but that's okay because I know the community will respect my differing opinion and not ridicule me for expressing it. So here goes:
I didn't like the movie. I saw it in an IMAX theater so i was able to appreciate how visually stimulating it was and great (and loud) the sound was... which kept me interested and watching the whole thing. The characters were good, engaging and pretty well developed. I was even drawn in at points so much that i jumped in my seat a couple of times. So that was great. But my problem was with the story.
Don't get me wrong, i love a complicated tale with twists and turns where you are trying to figure it out the whole time, but Inception's entire premise of being a dream within a dream within a dream... and so on... and so on... and so on... gets so far away from reality it loses all credibility. Where any question you might have about the plot can be answered the same "that's because it was a dream"... just loses interest for me.
Vanilla Sky similarity. Anyone who knows me is aware that Vanilla Sky was one of my least favorite movies of all time and that film has significantly reduced the number of times you find me in a movie theater. My biggest complaint with it was that all the questions in the plot were explained by a glitch in the software which made the "dream" malfunction. I felt so cheated walking out of Vanilla Sky because i wasted 2 hours on a computer glitch? Inception was like Vanilla Sky on steroids due to the multiple dream levels. I was into it, staying with it... one level deeper.. then another... still going with it. But then the scene where Eames says "dream bigger" and conjures up a grenade launcher to blow up the bad guys when the automatic rifle was insufficient... i knew where this movie was going. At that point i knew that if i ever questioned anything about the holes or inconsistencies in the plot, then an Inception fan would answer my concern by saying... "but you don't get it man... it was a DREAM!!" Furthermore, part of the storyline was about how the main character, Cobb, constantly and without consequence breaks every rule that he creates and tries to enforce.
I guess I'm the kind of person who likes to hold film makers and storytellers to some accountability. I couldn't get into the TV show Lost because I didn't feel like they ever gave a good explanation of the monster in the trees in season one. Accordingly, I couldn't get into Inception because I didn't feel that there was any reality or truth throughout the film that grounded the story so that i could take it seriously... even to the final cut.
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Inception is a 2010 American science fiction film written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, and Michael Caine. DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a thief who extracts information from the subconscious mind of his victims while they dream. Unable to visit his children, Cobb is offered a chance to regain his old life in exchange for one last job: performing inception, the planting of an idea into the mind of his client's competitor.
Development began roughly nine years before Inception was released. In 2001, Nolan wrote an 80-page treatment about dream-stealers, presenting the idea to Warner Bros. The story was originally written as a heist film, inspired by concepts of lucid dreaming and dream incubation. Feeling he needed to have more experience with large-scale films, Nolan opted to work on Batman Begins, The Prestige and The Dark Knight. He spent six months polishing up the script for Inception before Warner Bros. purchased it in February 2009. Filming spanned six countries and four continents, beginning in Tokyo on June 19, 2009 and finishing in Canada in late November of the same year. Composer Hans Zimmer scored the film, using parts of Edith Piaf's song "Non, je ne regrette rien".
Inception was officially budgeted at $160 million, a cost that was split between Warner Bros. and Legendary ...
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Development began roughly nine years before Inception was released. In 2001, Nolan wrote an 80-page treatment about dream-stealers, presenting the idea to Warner Bros. The story was originally written as a heist film, inspired by concepts of lucid dreaming and dream incubation. Feeling he needed to have more experience with large-scale films, Nolan opted to work on Batman Begins, The Prestige and The Dark Knight. He spent six months polishing up the script for Inception before Warner Bros. purchased it in February 2009. Filming spanned six countries and four continents, beginning in Tokyo on June 19, 2009 and finishing in Canada in late November of the same year. Composer Hans Zimmer scored the film, using parts of Edith Piaf's song "Non, je ne regrette rien".
Inception was officially budgeted at $160 million, a cost that was split between Warner Bros. and Legendary ...
Cast:
Leonardo DiCaprio,
Marion Cotillard,
Lukas Haas,
Cillian Murphy,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Ken Watanabe,
Ellen Page,
Tom Berenger
Director:
Christopher Nolan
Genre:
Fantasy,
Sci-Fi
Release Date:
July 16, 2010
MPAA Rating:
PG-13
Screen Writer:
Christopher Nolan
Runtime:
148 minutes
Studio:
Warner Bros. Pictures,
Syncopy Films,
Legendary Pictures
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*And*... I just discovered he's a Vine Voice on Amazon in a completely unrelated moment.
James, does IMDB reeducation really exist? I might need a couple of lessons myself ;P
on my rating of the film: I actually woke up this morning feeling like my -3 might have been a bit harsh after i took a little time and evaluate it against all the movies i've ever seen. I'll me moving it up a spot or two.