I don’t have time for a long post as it is quite late.
Let me just say a few things.
Inception might the best movie I have seen in years.
It is probably the first movie in a decade that I would consider watching again in a theater.
The special effects really contribute to the story and you actually forget they are special effects. The are just part of the landscape.
The director, Christopher Nolan, gives you enough at the beginning that you sorta know where its going, but always leaves you wondering how you got there.
Movies about dreams or with heavy dream sequences are usually quick cutting and disjointed affairs. Inception’s dreams are neither.
The performances by the actors are simple and fit so well with the plot. The performances serve the story, not the other way around.
I boggle at the genius and creativity that can even envision such a thing as Inception.
This movie hurts my brain. I like that.
I loved this movie.
I hope I can sleep tonight.
July 28, 2010 at 12:50 pm
I couldn't sleep afterward, and when I did I dreamt about Inception. I thought this was the best movie I have ever seen in a theater. Nolan is a genius.
July 28, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Eh…it was good…not fantastic. The Matrix was better IMO. Best movie I've seen this year is still Toy Story 3.
July 28, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Will not see it as the two stars made sure to verbally trash everything about traditional conservative America. Why support the Hollywood machine that does everything to trash our values and Catholic beliefs?
July 28, 2010 at 7:21 pm
With all respect, I am no more willing to supplement the incomes of DiCaprio and Page, with their disordered world view than I am to see a film by Michael Moore.
The ingenuity in the film may be laudable on its own merits, but I can think of nothing which, for me, would override my determination not to support Hollywood in its delusions.
July 28, 2010 at 7:42 pm
There are only a few stars I will support by going to the theater or buying a DVD, and these individuals aren't on my list. However, your review has induced me to put this on my list to borrow from the library once it goes to DVD.
July 28, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Didn't you guys know? It's OK to bash Hollywood, the liberal agenda, actors' personal lifestyles and the moral decline in America…unless they all combine to make a really good movie. In which case we can just check our Catholic personae at the ticket counter and drone on and on about how great the movie was like psychophants.
Let's just wait until the euphoria wears off to become Catholic again. No, nothing hypocritical in that.
July 29, 2010 at 11:19 am
I saw the movie and have to agree it was good. I disagree that not watching the movie is a useful protest. But watching the movie and lauding the reasons you enjoyed it, ie. no sex scenes, minimal swearing, the inherent value of all people, even your enemies, the love of family, forgiveness, etc, is no hypocricy.
The movies I reject are those that present the disordered as ordered, and immoral as good.
I saw this movie with intrepidation, but was very surprised and pleased.
July 29, 2010 at 4:11 pm
The actors are tools to make a movie. Never pay attention to their comments. What is their intellectual reading matter? A movie script. They are clueless and brainless to real life and so their opinions are worthless and not taken seriously. Would you consider their medical opinion or child rearing opinions? Doubtful so why consider the political opinion of a bubble head.
August 12, 2010 at 9:58 pm
Early Riser comes off as a psychopath to me; people can't enjoy a movie because the actors/actresses in it have weird views? if that's the case, then every movie in history should not have been watched..
actors/actresses are all crazy, snobby, jerks, in their own way, who value all the wrong things. that's no secret.. but, that does NOT mean the movie itself is not worth watching. if the acting is good/great, then they deserve some money [granted they are overpaid, but still..] & i will pay for the movie.
why should their acting not be praised? why should Christopher Nolan not be praised? this movie & Memento are masterpieces of cinema; no sex-scenes/nudity in any of his films. [something very rare & noble in today's Hollywood.]
give credit where credit is due; you're as backward as the actors/actresses themselves if you choose to chastise a great film for the actors'/actresses' views – which have NOTHING to do with the movie in any way.
bash everyone you want to after you leave the theatre; nobody will deny you that right/freedom. but, how judgmental & psycho are you that you will refrain from watching one of the most fantastic films of the 2001-2010 decade because of how the actors'/actresses' feel when the camera is off?
grow up already..