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I would like to start this post early. Inception is being released this Friday and looks like it could be one of the best movies of the summer. The hype surrounding this movie is very high. Please reply and tell everyone what you thought.
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Not really my type of movie.
Looks like a special effects extravaganda.
Movies generally do that because they do not have a story and want to "wow" people into seeing it. It basically turns into a "My Boom is bigger than their Boom" contest. So, not interested. Though, I generally like movies that DiCaprio does. This movie, not so much.
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Christopher Nolan is one of my favorite directors. I love his films and his sense of cinematography. I'm a huge Batman fanboy and his Batman films were excellent. I loved The Prestige as well.
This movie has the looks to be something truly spectacular. The thing I like about Nolan's movies is that he doesn't half-ass his plots. He takes the time to tell a proper story rather than trying to sell a film with spectacle and CGI like 99% of modern 'blockbusters' seem to be. THAT is why I am very excited for Inception.
I'll be seeing this, hopefully in the cinema.
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Not really my type of movie.
Looks like a special effects extravaganda.
Movies generally do that because they do not have a story and want to "wow" people into seeing it. It basically turns into a "My Boom is bigger than their Boom" contest. So, not interested. Though, I generally like movies that DiCaprio does. This movie, not so much.
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The movie itself really didn't spark my interest, but I am becoming a fan of Nolan, because of that I'll probably check it out.
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Not really my type of movie.
Looks like a special effects extravaganda.
Movies generally do that because they do not have a story and want to "wow" people into seeing it. It basically turns into a "My Boom is bigger than their Boom" contest. So, not interested. Though, I generally like movies that DiCaprio does. This movie, not so much.
Trust me. This movie has a story. It's supposedly a pretty mind-bending story at that. The CGI is necessary.
You are looking at the preview and automatically lumping this in w/ crap by Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich.
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I've been impressed w/ every single Chrisopher Nolan movie.
Did everyone see The Prestige? I loved that one.
Memenot was great. His 2 Batman films are great.
I'd say the weakest was Insomnia, but it was still pretty good.
Can't wait to see Inception. Sunday morning matinee for me.
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I haven't seen it but as I understand it doesn't most of it take place in a kind of dream state where all things are possible and that is why the CGI will need to be used because it is not supposed to emulate reality, it's all about peoples mental imagination and dreams... I think it looks pretty cool.
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I've been avoiding most info on it. But yeah, I'm pretty sure all the bizarre stuff in the previews is from the dream state, hence why the CGI is vital to the story.
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It actually sounds pretty cool. Maybe it'll make up for the money I wasted seeing Iron Man 2.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception_(film)Synopsis Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible: inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming
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You can use your class action money from Classmates to go see it. 
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That's a "credit" ..... not money.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
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is this the movie about virgin sacrifices everyone was talking about in that thread?
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This and the Expendables, and Machete are the only movies on the horizon I have had any interest in seeing since Shutter Island this year. I think it will be great.
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Did you see Splice? I liked it. Creepy and fun. But it gets MESSED UP at the end.
I'm hearing bad things about Predators.
Definitely seeing The Expendables opening weekend.
Machete is already in the Netflix queue.
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Did you see Splice? I liked it. Creepy and fun. But it gets MESSED UP at the end.
I'm hearing bad things about Predators.
Definitely seeing The Expendables opening weekend.
Machete is already in the Netflix queue.
Splice was pretty good. Ending was a bit odd, but you could see it coming a mile away because of their earlier experiments.
Predators wasn't so bad. It tries really hard to be like the first Predator movie and succeeds in some aspects. It has the same "feel" as it. I rather liked it. I'm glad it isn't a "reboot" like so many films today.
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You know, Splice was a movie based on the first previews I wrote off immediately. Though it ending up getting better than expected reviews. Might have to give it a second look.
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My wife got a preview copy and I watched it last weekend. Better than I expected. It is a bit of a cgi extravaganza and best served in a big theatre probably but I enjoyed it. The "Juno" girl seemed like odd casting but she was ok. I will say this, Nolan likes his plot twists, which get a little hackneyed here. He's definitly out to blow yo mind but it still feels like a movie in the shadow of the matrix. Though I liked it anyway.
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FYI, RottenTomatoes.com currently has Inception at an 89% critic approval rating and a score of 8.4/10. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inception/I'm interested to see what Ebert thinks of the film; I hope he is doing well.
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I saw it on Friday. I give Inception a "B." It didn't blow my mind and it's not a CGI fest either. It's a corporate espionage/heist/mind scrambling movie. I need to see it again to figure out a few things, especially the ending. It's heavy on story and I did see two very remarkable things on film (Paris folding on itself and the entire gravity/no gravity dream in the hotel). See it if you want to have your mind messed with.
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Just saw it this morning. I give it a solid A. So out there, yet it made complete sense (most of the time), once you embrace the fact that they have this ridiculous technology.
I, too, need to rewatch it one more time and see if I can get a few details straight.
My only gripe, really, is that there is an Asian dude in it who I could barely ever understand.
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Saw it last night with bf. I went not knowing what it was about at all, but I love Leonardo so I was game.  When the movie started, my first impression was that I wasn't going to like it, but once the story got going I got into it - a lot of action...but also a really good storyline. I thought the idea was cool, going into 3 or 4 levels of the dream state. Very creative. Also, I thought the special effects were awesome. I'd like to see it again, I'm sure I missed some details that would help explain things. Overall I'd give it an A-
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He liked it . . .
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100714/REVIEWS/100719997/1001/reviews
Inception
BY ROGER EBERT / July 14, 2010
It's said that Christopher Nolan spent ten years writing his screenplay for "Inception." That must have involved prodigious concentration, like playing blindfold chess while walking a tight-wire. The film's hero tests a young architect by challenging her to create a maze, and Nolan tests us with his own dazzling maze. We have to trust him that he can lead us through, because much of the time we're lost and disoriented. Nolan must have rewritten this story time and again, finding that every change had a ripple effect down through the whole fabric.
The story can either be told in a few sentences, or not told at all. Here is a movie immune to spoilers: If you knew how it ended, that would tell you nothing unless you knew how it got there. And telling you how it got there would produce bafflement. The movie is all about process, about fighting our way through enveloping sheets of reality and dream, reality within dreams, dreams without reality. It's a breathtaking juggling act, and Nolan may have considered his "Memento" (2000) a warm-up; he apparently started this screenplay while filming that one. It was the story of a man with short-term memory loss, and the story was told backwards.
Like the hero of that film, the viewer of "Inception" is adrift in time and experience. We can never even be quite sure what the relationship between dream time and real time is. The hero explains that you can never remember the beginning of a dream, and that dreams that seem to cover hours may only last a short time. Yes, but you don't know that when you’re dreaming. And what if you're inside another man's dream? How does your dream time synch with his? What do you really know?
Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a corporate raider of the highest order. He infiltrates the minds of other men to steal their ideas. Now he is hired by a powerful billionaire to do the opposite: To introduce an idea into a rival's mind, and do it so well he believes it is his own. This has never been done before; our minds are as alert to foreign ideas as our immune system is to pathogens. The rich man, named Saito (Ken Watanabe), makes him an offer he can't refuse, an offer that would end Cobb's forced exile from home and family.
Cobb assembles a team, and here the movie relies on the well-established procedures of all heist movies. We meet the people he will need to work with: Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), his longtime associate; Eames (Tom Hardy), a master at deception; Yusuf (Dileep Rao), a master chemist. And there is a new recruit, Ariadne (Ellen Page), a brilliant young architect who is a prodigy at creating spaces. Cobb also goes to touch base with his father-in-law Miles (Michael Caine), who knows what he does and how he does it. These days Michael Caine need only appear on a screen and we assume he's wiser than any of the other characters. It's a gift.
But wait. Why does Cobb need an architect to create spaces in dreams? He explains to her. Dreams have a shifting architecture, as we all know; where we seem to be has a way of shifting. Cobb's assignment is the "inception" (or birth, or wellspring) of a new idea in the mind of another young billionaire, Robert Fischer Jr. (Cillian Murphy), heir to his father's empire. Saito wants him to initiate ideas that will lead to the surrender of his rival's corporation. Cobb needs Ariadne
to create a deceptive maze-space in Fischer's dreams so that (I think) new thoughts can slip in unperceived. Is it a coincidence that Ariadne is named for the woman in Greek mythology who helped Theseus escape from the Minotaur's labyrinth?
Cobb tutors Ariadne on the world of dream infiltration, the art of controlling dreams and navigating them. Nolan uses this as a device for tutoring us as well. And also as the occasion for some of the movie's astonishing special effects, which seemed senseless in the trailer but now fit right in. The most impressive to me takes place (or seems to) in Paris, where the city literally rolls back on itself like a roll of linoleum tile.
Protecting Fischer are any number of gun-wielding bodyguards, who may be working like the mental equivalent of antibodies; they seem alternatively real and figurative, but whichever they are, they lead to a great many gunfights, chase scenes and explosions, which is the way movies depict conflict these days. So skilled is Nolan that he actually got me involved in one of his chases, when I thought I was relatively immune to scenes that have become so standard. That was because I cared about who was chasing and being chased.
If you've seen any advertising at all for the film, you know that its architecture has a way of disregarding gravity. Buildings tilt. Streets coil. Characters float. This is all explained in the narrative. The movie is a perplexing labyrinth without a simple through-line, and is sure to inspire truly endless analysis on the web.
Nolan helps us with an emotional thread. The reason Cobb is motivated to risk the dangers of inception is because of grief and guilt involving his wife Mal (Marion Cotillard), and their two children. More I will not (in a way, cannot) say. Cotillard beautifully embodies the wife in an idealized way. Whether we are seeing Cobb's memories or his dreams is difficult to say--even, literally, in the last shot. But she makes Mal function as an emotional magnet, and the love between the two provides an emotional constant in Cobb's world, which is otherwise ceaselessly shifting.
"Inception" works for the viewer, in a way, like the world itself worked for Leonard, the hero of "Memento." We are always in the Now. We have made some notes while getting Here, but we are not quite sure where Here is. Yet matters of life, death and the heart are involved--oh, and those multi-national corporations, of course. And Nolan doesn't pause before using well-crafted scenes from spycraft or espionage, including a clever scheme on board a 747 (even explaining why it must be a 747).
The movies often seem to come from the recycling bin these days: Sequels, remakes, franchises. "Inception" does a difficult thing. It is wholly original, cut from new cloth, and yet structured with action movie basics so it feels like it makes more sense than (quite possibly) it does. I thought there was a hole in "Memento:" How does a man with short-term memory loss remember he has short-term memory loss? Maybe there's a hole in "Inception" too, but I can't find it. Christopher Nolan reinvented "Batman." This time he isn't reinventing anything. Yet few directors will attempt to recycle "Inception." I think when Nolan left the labyrinth, he threw away the map.
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Well after reading that I think I have to see it.
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I had eagerly been awaiting this movie for several months now because it had two of my favorite actors in it. So finally I was able to see it last Friday when I was able to get off early from work. I really really liked the movie and would categorize it as a cross between The Matrix and Momento, very neat. I thought the acting, storyline, and everything else was top notch, so I may go see it again with another person in the future. However, I must warn that some people may not like it because it may be too complex for them. You really have to pay heavy attention to what is going on or you could miss something.  I hope it wins best picture of the year!
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However, I must warn that some people may not like it because it may be too complex for them. You really have to pay heavy attention to what is going on or you could miss something.
Yep. I followed it pretty well but realized when I walked out into the parking lot that I had a decent sized headache going on.
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Thanks for sharing. I've been looking forward to this movie for some time now. Will be seeing it this weekend hopefully.
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I did see a movie kinda similar that starred Tim Couch, Doug Pederson,Brady Quinn and Derek Anderson..it was called "Interception"
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There's also a movie starring Carmen Policy, Chris Palmer, Butch Davis, George Kokinis, Romeo Crennel and Phil Savage called "Incompetence".
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Not to mention, the Jack Kevorkian story ...... "Injection". 
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You sure that wasn't "Incontinence"??? 
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