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     John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
We went to see this yesterday and it's quite exceptional - a genuinely clever science fiction big budget summer blockbuster that will satisfy everyone from the SF PKD obsessives to the knuckle-dragging explosion-loving Michael Bay fans. It stars Leonardo de Caprio (no really, and after Shutter Island I'm happy to watch anything with him in - he's developing a very nice second wind of playing seriously troubled star roles) as a man who can extract ideas from people's heads during their dreams. Along with his expert team he gets sent into the brain of Cillian Murphy to plant an idea that has to come across to Murphy as being his own. Cue an absolutely marvellous plot that involves dreams within dreams within dreams, all running at different speeds and needing to be timed exactly with each other, and with the prospect of a hideous limbo if everything goes wrong. The special effects are stunning, the casting and acting are perfect, the music's great and at two and a half hours writer-director Christopher (God Bless Him) Nolan proves it's impossible to have too much of something as good as this. Seriously - this does what The Matrix set out to do and, impossible though it might be to believe, manages to do it so much better. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.208.112.244 |
I'm planning on seeing this on Thursday, John. Now I'm looking forward to seeing it even more! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
I'll be interested to hear what you think Steve! | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.235.123 |
Can't wait to see it! | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.216.210 |
It's going to have to be very good indeed to compete with the much misunderstood and underappreciated last two films of The Matrix series. Nothing Christopher Nolan's done since Memento has interested me much. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
It's going to have to be very good indeed to compete with the much misunderstood and underappreciated last two films of The Matrix series. Well in a way you've answered your own question. I've always been a firm believer that the nature of genius is to make the inordinately complex understandable. I loved The Matrix but I thought the second and third Matrix films were very confusing and I know I'm not in the minority, so if those films did have concepts and ideas that were worthwhile that certainly didn't come through in their execution. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.216.210 |
"I've always been a firm believer that the nature of genius is to make the inordinately complex understandable." The second film was messy but had some layers to it that most people missed because it didn't have the simple us vs. them / mind vs. matter messages of the first film. But the third film is a joy and does contain much depth in its simple imagery. What I love about them is that they're all ridiculous (bordering on unintentionally funny) and profound. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
In that case I should revisit them all! | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.216.210 |
THE MATRIX REVISITED! The connector ports their backs are chakras, aren't they? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
"What I love about them is that they're all ridiculous (bordering on unintentionally funny) and profound." Are we sure it's unintentional? I thought Neo's interrogation by the men in sunglasses in the first film absolutely hilarious, but I do think it's meant to be (as well as menacing). On Nolan - well, I loved The Prestige, even more so second time around. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.216.210 |
"Are we sure it's unintentional?" I was thinking more of the profundity of a hail of bullets being stopped by a raised hand (which I find immensely moving in what it says about how we see life's problems) closely followed by Keanu kicking a baddie down the length of a corridor with a hilariously raised leg. Or Agent Smith's insane, protracted and utterly irrelevant evil laugh in the third film - a non-sequitur that cracked me up. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 93.186.23.170 |
The Prestige is superb. I love the novel, too. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.248.128 |
THE PRESTIGE is a great novel-feeling horror movie, and probably Nolan's best next to, or a close second to, BATMAN BEGINS. I've heard great things about INCEPTION, so I must not let the high-expectations ruin it for me.... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.182.226.237 |
I read the novel long before seeing the film, and was quite glad I'd done so. Even though (or possibly because) the top-and-tail wasn't carried from book to film, I'd say it's a reasonably complex story. | ||
| R.B. Russell (Tartarusrussell) Username: Tartarusrussell Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 86.141.78.18 |
I saw "Inception" yesterday and have to admit that I was slightly disappointed. Based on the reviews I'd seen/heard, I was expecting something rather more profound. It certainly doesn't raise such interesting questions as the first "Matrix" film. It is a thoroughly decent action movie, though. I was really pleased that it didn't insult my intelligence like say, the "Mission Impossible" films. It requires a little concentration, but isn't as clever as, say, "Memento". (I wonder if anyone else is annoyed by the ethical questions it raises about business competition, but fails to address?) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.91.114 |
Hey, are you the R B Russell who wrote Sardonicus?  | ||
| R.B. Russell (Tartarusrussell) Username: Tartarusrussell Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 86.141.78.18 |
Thanks for that Gary! Of course, I'll happily sign all your Ray Russell books for you... | ||
| John (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
I saw this on Friday night and enjoyed it as a high-tech heist movie. Good, solid cast (although DiCaprio's speech patterns sound more and more like Jack Nicholson's with every passing movie), and some exciting set-pieces. Didn't think there was anything especially profound or clever about it, though. I was hoping for a little more confusion around what was real and what was a dream, but the progression was surprisingly linear. I was also disappointed that there wasn't much in the way of flair in the 'dream' sequences. I appreciate that the idea was to convince the subject that the dream world was 'real', but it's a shame they didn't go a little further into the surreal. I also never got the feeling that there was much in the way of weight or consequence to the action. The Dark Knight had a similar problem in my opinion - Gotham seemed populated entirely by crooks and Batman's pals, and no one else of note. But, all in all, I had a good time, and enjoyed it a lot. Worth a watch. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.107.152 |
'I was also disappointed that there wasn't much in the way of flair in the 'dream' sequences' - Nolan says he did want people to be uncertain when the dreams were happening. It seems to me this movie is a cross between a Freddy film and a Bond Movie. See - it's easy being original. Dark Knight was a favourite film first time for me, second I could have turned it off in boredom.  | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
We liked Inception quite a lot. I came out thinking it wasn't as ambiguous as I'd hoped and immediately began to realise that it was, at the end. I'll say no more until everyone who wants to see it has done so. It did remind me a little of Satoshi Kon's remarkable Paprika. | ||
| R.B. Russell (Tartarusrussell) Username: Tartarusrussell Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 86.141.78.18 |
Hi Ramsey, I don't think this question will act as a spoiler... Do you think that the very slight wobble in the very last second was anything other than a sop to those of us who wanted ambiguity? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
That was one of the ambiguous elements, but I thought there were many more in the last few minutes. | ||
| R.B. Russell (Tartarusrussell) Username: Tartarusrussell Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 86.141.78.18 |
The very slight wobble was the only thing I noticed - I obviously wasn't watching close enough at that point :-) I thought that the film conveniently ignored the idea that the "inception" was commissioned by one big business trying to illegally get an advantage over another (albeit bigger) business rival. | ||
| John (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
Tony: "Nolan says he did want people to be uncertain when the dreams were happening." See, that's what I wanted. But the structure of the film made it very clear when we were in a dream and when we weren't. I was hoping to be fooled a lot more than I actually was. The wobble was a definite attempt to cultivate greater ambiguity than the film had offered prior to that. That said - there was another point about the ending that suggested there was a bit more going on. I'm loathe to mention it without giving away spoilers... something to do with the children... On a related note, Ramsey mentions Paprika above. I can't recommend this highly enough. Excellent film. The soundtrack is outstanding. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
POSSIBLE SPOILER.......... Lord P and I both kept expecting the children's faces to be hideous and monstrous when they finally turned around. | ||
| John (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
Same here, Kate. We were both dreading blank, featureless faces. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Spoiler - did anyone else think that the children were too young? He'd been off on the run for what we assume is a long time but the three year old was the same size as in the flashbacks... Fantastic film though, and the best audience reaction I've heard at the end of a film in a long long time. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Marc, that's one of the key ambiguities I was talking about. What was the audience reaction? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
There were oohs and ahs and ohs that shifted tones between happy he was safe to confused about whether he was or not - and as the end credits rolled, a round of applause. I've not heard anything uite like it in a cinema before. My previous favourite audience reaction was in Terminator 2 - when sarah's blasting away at Robert patric, he's in shreds, hanging over the boiling metal, only one more shot and he'll fall and she'll be safe... then - the gun clicks, she's out of ammo - and as one, 500 people in the audience breathed out and whispered "Oh shit!". | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
My favourite cinema audience reaction was during Day of the Dead. Half the auditorium sat in utter stunned silence; the rest of them screamed and moaned and cried out as if in pain. One woman vomited at some point and had to be escorted out in tears. It was bloody brilliant.  | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Two of mine: seeing The Birds in the immense auditorium of the Odeon Liverpool on the original release (it seems to me it seated nearly two thousand people, and the place was packed). At various points - when Tippi Hedren turns to look at the school playground, for instance - a concerted murmur of unease went through the entire audience. And when I first saw An Affair to Remember (at the Phoenix in Wallasey), at the point where Cary Grant finds the painting that's been sold, a sob passed through the whole audience (me included, certainly). | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.91.114 |
Mine: the first sight of Reynolds' moustache in Smokey and the Bandit. Unforgettable. Seriously, not sure: maybe the sledgehammer scene in Misery. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.231.77 |
Right after the screening of John Carpenter's The Thing, back in 1983. The audience seemed strangely subdued. Anxious glances darting around . . . I remember the round unblinking eyes and the complete silence (imagine!) as we filed out of the auditorium, stunned. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
First time I heard a scream in the cinema was Childs Play 2!!! when they're in the factory and Chucky drops on them from a conveyor belt | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
Three memorable audience moments: My parents took me to see the original Friday the 13th in the cinema (I was 9) and in the final confrontation with Mrs Voorhees, the black lady right behind us kept shouting "Bite 'er! Bite 'er!" I loved it!  I saw a press screening of Sleepwalkers when it came out in the States. No one in the audience had paid for their ticket, so it was a free ride and because it was such a silly film we all had the time of our lives. *Everyone* was shouting at the screen and laughing and it's one of my fondest memories of seeing a film in the cinema. (An American Werewolf in London at last year's FrightFest came close, but wasn't quite the same thing.) And last year during Antichrist the poor lady somewhere behind me (who obviously didn't see many scary movies) actually *screamed* during a couple of "shock" moments. I loved that too! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.107.152 |
I was watching the reissue of Alien a few years ago, at about ten at night, when halfway through the titles these young blokes came in talking really loudly. At the drop of a hat the whole audience told them to shut up. (It was fantastic seeing it at the cinema at last, btw) | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
I had some girls thrown out of the cinema for talking through the US version of The Grudge. When the guy in front of them asked them to be quiet they kept talking - I'm sure I heard the word wanker abiout the poor guy just after he asked them nicely to be quiet - so I popped out and got a steward to to order them out. I hope I never get anyone talking in the seat in front of me because I will inflict extreme pain on them if they give me cheek when I tell them to shut the fuck up. It's one of my biggest bugbears. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.75.238 |
A woman near the screen yelped when Abergast was murdered in PSYCHO and I recognised the yelp - it was the flatmate of a friend. When I saw ALIENS in the cinema, someone called Burke a bastard when he turned off the video screen that showed Ripley and Newt trapped with the facehugger. Same thing happened again the second time I saw it. I could feel the whole audience holding their breath throughout Soderberg's SOLARIS. They spontaneously applauded at the end. So did I. My brother saw TERMINATOR 2 like a Flash Gordon Saturday morning serial. They only had one working projector and had to take a break after every reel - every 15 minutes the house lights came on and people discussed the film. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
The audience I saw Inception let out a long groan when it cut to black at the end. My most recent memorable audience reaction was during The Orphanage. It was more of an art-house crowd, clearly unfamiliar with horror of that kind. They shrieked, leapt and cowered throughout the whole thing. Drag Me To Hell in the same cinema received a similar reaction. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.135.73 |
All the family went to see it and talked about it for ages later. I loved it. 'It stars Leonardo de Caprio (no really, and after Shutter Island I'm happy to watch anything with him in - he's developing a very nice second wind of playing seriously troubled star roles)' I agree Lord P. I was really impressed with him in Blood Diamond, too. Mmmm the wobble....anyone who saw it can you put spoilers on and will you give me your thoughts on the children etc...what might change the ending I've decided on? | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.135.73 |
'The audience I saw Inception with let out a long groan when it cut to black at the end.' I certainly did. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.135.73 |
The film also reminded me 'a little' of eXistenZ and there seemed to be a little tribute to that film in the central trigger device in the machine they used to put them under. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
EXistenz is great. BUT I just watched Inception and fell in love. I've taken on board some of the criticisms, but they are minor in comparison to the overall accomplishment. What a movie. My only hang-up about the movie would be a little less action replaced with more dialogue on the nature of the 'depths' of how far they are burrowing into the fabric of dream/fantasy/nightmare versus reality. Weber - I also wondered about the age of the children. At the beginning of the movie the daughter sounds much older than the one in the 'almost' juxtaposed flashback sequences at the beginning. Delicious fun. | ||
| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 58.165.59.126 |
---------------Spoiler-------------------------- Did anyone else think that it was Cobb who was being 'incepted'? Maybe that is why the kids haven't aged - they are the dreamers projections, based on how they saw them when designing the dream. Also, his totem (spinning top thingy)was part of the inception, thats why he didn't wait to see if it kept spinning - the dream was becoming vague. And why was his father in law at the airport to meet him, at the end? My head hurts  | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
Lincoln - which is all the more why I just swooned when this movie ended. It's that kind of lasting ambiguity which has me dancing round in delight at what was or might have been. My fiancee loved it also but wasn't too thrilled at the James Bond style action in the third level of the dream. I gave her my explanation of why I thought it was filmed this way (I won't bore people with my theory), which was again another joy of this movie. I'm so chuffed with Nolan. I have coveted his movies, every single one of them since 'Following'. I feel like a kid waiting for his movies to be released. I actually await his movies more excitedly than I do Scorcese or Cronenberg or Lynch. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
I meant to say more than I do the release of a Scorcese, Cronenberg or Lynch movie. | ||
| Johnny_mains (Johnny_mains) Username: Johnny_mains Registered: 04-2010 Posted From: 82.22.75.99 |
Greatest audience moment - dead baby crawling across the ceiling in Trainspotting and some lassie saying 'aw, that's gien me the pure bolk.' (gosh, that's making me feel rather sick) One of the most horrible scenes ever, and I giggle every time I see it now. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
One of the greatest audience moments for me was 'The Usual Suspects' when the penny finally drops as to what we've been hoodwinked into believing has happened. | ||
| Seanmcd (Seanmcd) Username: Seanmcd Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 217.35.243.192 |
We loved 'Inception'. Although my head hurt like hell afterwards going over all the ambiguous elements. One for arguing about over a pint or two in the pub. My favourite audience reaction of the past 20 years... The disbelieving whispers and 'well fuck me' comments all around when Andy escaped Shawshank and 'stole' that bastard warden's loot into the bargain. Double whammy! | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I'm going to see this tonight... looking forward to it but also a bit wary given all the hype. So I'm trying to keep expectations at bay! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Steve - don't worry about the hype. Just sit back and enjoy the film for what it's worth, which is more than the price of admission. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 86.142.147.219 |
We're going to see it for the second time tomorrow night. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
A mate is coming with me tonight to watch it for the third time!! Thing is, he's one of these diehard Christopher Nolan fans who considers him some kind of god among men, while I think he still has a lot to prove as a director. I was greatly impressed with 'The Following' & 'Memento' but, even with that, believe both were somewhat over-praised and not quite the works of unutterable genius they were made out to be. I absolutely loved 'Insomnia' and consider it by far the best thing he's done, easily one of the Top 10 films of last decade and the last time Al Pacino blew me away as an actor. But after that I found 'Batman Begins', 'The Prestige' & 'The Dark Knight' disappointing backward steps into cosy Hollywood conformity, for all their immense entertainment value. I want to love 'Inception' and I dearly want to see Nolan live up to the promise of his first three films... so here's hoping. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
I, hopefully, will be doing that this weekend. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
"disappointing backward steps into cosy Hollywood conformity," Or could it be that Hollywood has stepped forward trying to meet the challenge that Nolan has thrown down? maybe not... | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Steve - I feel you are only let down by Nolan because you have ascribed him (perhaps subconsciously?) a path of your own choosing. If we expected all directors to turn out works as representative as their first movies, we would never have had Scorcese doing New York, New York or Aronofosky doing 'The Wrestler'. 'Cosy Hollywood conformity'? I think those examples you gave showed exactly how he has rerouted the genre movie. They are only Hollywood in financial backing, not in their execution or creation. | ||
| Skip (Wolfnoma) Username: Wolfnoma Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 216.54.20.98 |
I saw Inception over the weekend, and while it was a good film and I actually thought DiCapprio did a decent job in it I was more concerned with a secondary characters plot line than I was DiCapprio's plot line. 3 out of 5 bannanas. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
For my thoughts on 'Inception' see the "Films of 2010 so far..." thread. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.137.29 |
Watched it for the second time last night and it probably won't be the last. My best film of 2010. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
It's by far my best genre film of 2010, Ally, and a close second overall behind Mike Leigh's 'Another Year'. In fact 'Inception' is so good it makes all Nolan's previous films look like warm-up projects imo. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Hopefully, Ally, I'll get this for Xmas. It's a great, great film. | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.176.34.112 |
I liked the cleverness and the precise images of it quite a bit, yet on the other hand it left me emotionally cold. Like a jigsaw puzzle, I don't particularly need to go through it again. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.225.41 |
I was also decidedly underwhelmed. Some of the psychological rules they had to follow were hilarious in their immutable neatness. Like, as if the brain can be tamed like that. But the film has emotional power, largely due to DiCaprio's performance. And the premise has a Dickian cleverness, and is genuinely thought-provoking. 8 rather than 9 out of 10. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
An 8 out of 10 rating doesn't say undewhelmed to me, mate... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Just watched "Inception" and thought it was bloody brilliant. It's the least typical Hollywood blockbuster I've ever seen. Clever, funny, exciting, absurd, scary and emotional. God bless Christopher Nolan, indeed, as Lord P says right at the top of this thread... | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.142.147.0 |
Good man Zed - I knew you'd love it | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.202.102 |
I'll see it again. I watched it on a plane after little sleep, using headphones and sitting next to a snoring Norwegian on his way to Thailand for the "cheap golf, not just to fuck women." | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
John - we adored it. Emily cried at the end, and I was simply stunned by the imaginative power of the whole thing. Yes, it has its flaws (mainly the psychological ones Gary mentions), but Nolan's such a brilliant director and the writing and acting are so bang-on that for the duration of the film you don't even notice them. GF - I think the film demands a second viewing. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.45.126 |
I loved Inception too - probably my favourite film of the year! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
A Serbian Film beats this into second place for me, but it was certainly the best English-language film of the year. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Who needs a dumb ol' movie? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2147181/Dream-come-true-Two-mad-scientis ts-create-sleep-mask-lets-people-CONTROL-dreams.html | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.46.195 |
Interesting, but this is just a rehash of the lucid dreaming technology (masks designed to tell you when you're entering the REM dreaming stage) that has been available for 20+ years. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Do they work, Huw? |