kaliraksha
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Did anyone see Inception? What did you guys think?
I liked it, but it was a bit of an over hype to me. I remember it was trending like mad on Twitter for a few days and people were talking about seeing it more than twice on opening weekend. It was really well done, but I felt like the commercials portrayed it as being "cooler" than it really was. The craftiest thing for me was the way time was handled in the movie... loved the way each "dream layer" took longer. Too bad lucid dreaming is almost proven to not work that way.
Leonardo DiCaprio was great in it and I'm not a fan usually... but he plays tortured hero pretty well. I thought the love story he had was lovely and unorthodox, because it was just his memories of her. I thought Ellen Page was so pretty in it! Was a little shocked how much more grown up she seemed than in Juno. Joseph Gordon-Levitt in it was kind of a little throwback to the Matrix for me.
What I thought was awesome is that the director, Christopher Nolan, wrote this and he claims to have written the first ideas for it when he was 16. Though the dream thing wasn't completely new for entertainment, I remember that being touched on in the anime Paprika that came out a few years ago.
I like endings that kind of let you figure it out... it leaves more of an impact whether you like it or not. Do you guys think he was in realty or not in the end? My problem with that is that his children still had the same clothes and age/look as they did in his dream sequences.
My over all rating would probably be a 7.5/10, if you like to go to the movies often you shouldn't miss it. If you, like me, go to the movies less than maybe 4-5 times a year and the actors, director, general story don't interest you- you could probably wait until disc release.
I liked it, but it was a bit of an over hype to me. I remember it was trending like mad on Twitter for a few days and people were talking about seeing it more than twice on opening weekend. It was really well done, but I felt like the commercials portrayed it as being "cooler" than it really was. The craftiest thing for me was the way time was handled in the movie... loved the way each "dream layer" took longer. Too bad lucid dreaming is almost proven to not work that way.
Leonardo DiCaprio was great in it and I'm not a fan usually... but he plays tortured hero pretty well. I thought the love story he had was lovely and unorthodox, because it was just his memories of her. I thought Ellen Page was so pretty in it! Was a little shocked how much more grown up she seemed than in Juno. Joseph Gordon-Levitt in it was kind of a little throwback to the Matrix for me.
What I thought was awesome is that the director, Christopher Nolan, wrote this and he claims to have written the first ideas for it when he was 16. Though the dream thing wasn't completely new for entertainment, I remember that being touched on in the anime Paprika that came out a few years ago.
I like endings that kind of let you figure it out... it leaves more of an impact whether you like it or not. Do you guys think he was in realty or not in the end? My problem with that is that his children still had the same clothes and age/look as they did in his dream sequences.
My over all rating would probably be a 7.5/10, if you like to go to the movies often you shouldn't miss it. If you, like me, go to the movies less than maybe 4-5 times a year and the actors, director, general story don't interest you- you could probably wait until disc release.
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