If you Twitter and follow the Trending Worldwide list you know that Inception has been on the list for more than a week!!! That in itself is pretty unusual, almost unheard of in this day of today you’re hot and tomorrow you’re yesterday’s news – however the unknown number of Tweets devoted to this science fiction fantasy designed to mind-fuck the viewer, has to be in the thousands. That kind of statistic should be enough to blow your mind never mind having to watch a movie that you’re never sure you’re watching anyway.
The Dream is REAL
Maybe I didn’t see it after all – it could have been a manufactured dream by Christopher Nolan or was I just a projectionist in Leo’s mind. Well if I didn’t see it, I hope I wake up soon-hey that was one of the best lines in the movie! “Wake me up, wake me up”!
A gazillion dollar mega-movie designed to capture the insipid and the imaginative summer movie goer’s mind. Well the timing couldn’t have been better. I ‘ll bet there were more people going to see this movie in the Northeast than anyplace else. Perfect formula: heat and humidity hovering in the 90’s for weeks, summer mind set as you wait for a two week vacation or regret that it’s already come and gone, supply several movie houses all icily air-conditioned and playing Inception and whammo, you’ve got a full house every day.
Let me share with you what some of the professional reviewers are saying:
Inception,” is an astonishment, an engineering feat, and, finally, a folly. Nolan has devoted his extraordinary talents not to some weighty, epic theme or terrific comic idea but to a science-fiction thriller that exploits dreams as a vehicle for doubling and redoubling action sequences. He has been contemplating the movie for ten years, and as movie technology changed he must have realized that he could do more and more complex things. He wound up overcooking the idea. Nolan gives us dreams within dreams (people dream that they’re dreaming); he also stages action within different levels of dreaming—deep, deeper, and deepest, with matching physical movements played out at each level—all of it cut together with trombone-heavy music by Hans Zimmer, which pounds us into near-deafness, if not quite submission. Now and then, you may discover that the effort to keep up with the multilevel tumult kills your pleasure in the movie. “Inception” is a stunning-looking film that gets lost in fabulous intricacies, a movie devoted to its own workings and to little else. Read more http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2010/07/26/100726crci_cinema_denby#ixzz0v5DYs7Fz
It is a fascinating visual feast, The Matrix with heart and soul, a roller coaster ride into layers of the subconscious mind that challenges our ability to keep up.
Are they handing out joints at the box office for this?
By convoluting the various planes of experience, by overlapping and obscuring ostensible realities and ostensible dreams, Mr. Nolan deprives us the opportunity of investing emotionally in any of it.
Top Critic
So there you have just a minute cross-sampling of what some of the best known critics are saying about this movie.
IF you saw it and loved and want to be amongst the like-minded, I say go to Twitter and add your Tweet to the multitude of adoring fans taking advantage of a public but not discriminating forum, where you too can add your two cents to to the swarming ant hill of comments – because in Twitter, your comments (and mine) are just as important as Christopher Nolan’s and Roger Ebert’s – well at least for a millisecond before “44 New Tweets have been added since your comment.”
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If you Twitter and follow the Trending Worldwide list you know that Inception has been on the list for more than a week!!! That in itself is pretty unusual, almost unheard of in this day of today you’re hot and tomorrow you’re yesterday’s news – however the unknown number of Tweets devoted to this science fiction fantasy designed to mind-fuck the viewer, has to be in the thousands. That kind of statistic should be enough to blow your mind never mind having to watch a movie that you’re never sure you’re watching anyway.
The Dream is REAL
Maybe I didn’t see it after all – it could have been a manufactured dream by Christopher Nolan or was I just a projectionist in Leo’s mind. Well if I didn’t see it, I hope I wake up soon-hey that was one of the best lines in the movie! “Wake me up, wake me up”!
A gazillion dollar mega-movie designed to capture the insipid and the imaginative summer movie goer’s mind. Well the timing couldn’t have been better. I ‘ll bet there were more people going to see this movie in the Northeast than anyplace else. Perfect formula: heat and humidity hovering in the 90’s for weeks, summer mind set as you wait for a two week vacation or regret that it’s already come and gone, supply several movie houses all icily air-conditioned and playing Inception and whammo, you’ve got a full house every day.
Let me share with you what some of the professional reviewers are saying:
Inception,” is an astonishment, an engineering feat, and, finally, a folly. Nolan has devoted his extraordinary talents not to some weighty, epic theme or terrific comic idea but to a science-fiction thriller that exploits dreams as a vehicle for doubling and redoubling action sequences. He has been contemplating the movie for ten years, and as movie technology changed he must have realized that he could do more and more complex things. He wound up overcooking the idea. Nolan gives us dreams within dreams (people dream that they’re dreaming); he also stages action within different levels of dreaming—deep, deeper, and deepest, with matching physical movements played out at each level—all of it cut together with trombone-heavy music by Hans Zimmer, which pounds us into near-deafness, if not quite submission. Now and then, you may discover that the effort to keep up with the multilevel tumult kills your pleasure in the movie. “Inception” is a stunning-looking film that gets lost in fabulous intricacies, a movie devoted to its own workings and to little else. Read more http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2010/07/26/100726crci_cinema_denby#ixzz0v5DYs7Fz
Are they handing out joints at the box office for this?
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