Uhh... cottard sucked. She didn't bring the emotion. Julianne Moore is all emotion, and that's what makes her special. I mean, even the emotion she brings to 30 Rock is incredible. Nevermind Magnolia! Goddamn.
That role demanded emotion. That girl with her weird accent didn't bring it. She brought the crazy, but the emotion was severely lacking.
What about Penelope Cruz? Have you guys seen Volver or Vicky Christina Barcelona? She brings the emotion. In Vicky Christina she fucking brought the crazy too. She might've been a little awkward for that role, but I think it would've been an improvement.
Keep it up. I'm one of the biggest Julianne Moore fans, but Cotillard was pitch perfect. The role didn't require her to play Mal--she had to play Cobbs projection of her, and it was amazing.
I couldn't give a fuck about The Social Network, True Grit, or 137 Days. I could not care less that it's Fincher, Coen Brothers, and Danny Boyle. A movie based on facebook, a remake, and a movie about a story that was covered to death are so unappealing to me. These movies just make me appreciate Nolan so much more for taking a risk and making something original that he wrote.
And this probably has a lot to do with why I enjoyed it so much. We need more original movies. It kind of makes me want to vomit every time I read about a new remake or sequel being made.
Also, I was wondering if they decided on the Édith Piaf song before or after they cast Cotillard? I just thought that was a neat coincidence.
Keep it up. I'm one of the biggest Julianne Moore fans, but Cotillard was pitch perfect. The role didn't require her to play Mal--she had to play Cobbs projection of her, and it was amazing.
I couldn't give a fuck about The Social Network, True Grit, or 137 Days. I could not care less that it's Fincher, Coen Brothers, and Danny Boyle. A movie based on facebook, a remake, and a movie about a story that was covered to death are so unappealing to me. These movies just make me appreciate Nolan so much more for taking a risk and making something original that he wrote.
Fuck that. A movie is either good or it isn't. I'll watch any good film - originality for the sake of being original and nothing else is pretty fucking overrated.
Sounds like Adjustment Bureau, except that Black Swan will be better. I've read AB's script and it's plain shit. No wonder why they delayed the movie to next March. :lol
I couldn't give a fuck about The Social Network, True Grit, or 137 Days. I could not care less that it's Fincher, Coen Brothers, and Danny Boyle. A movie based on facebook, a remake, and a movie about a story that was covered to death are so unappealing to me. These movies just make me appreciate Nolan so much more for taking a risk and making something original that he wrote.
Way to fucking deduce everything to the lowest common denominator without having seen a single frame of two of the films mentioned. So pathetic you would write something off so easily. :lol
Sounds like Adjustment Bureau, except that Black Swan will be better. I've read AB's script and it's plain shit. No wonder why they delayed the movie to next March. :lol
Both explored similar topics, but the Matrix relied more on action sequences and anime style hooks. The Matrix was also a fairly straightforward interpolation between video games/computer systems and the real world which places it squarely in the cyberpunk post-apocalyptic genre. In fact, when the world is revealed, the post-apocalypse of grinding hippies in zion wasn't what people wanted. The alter(nate) realities of inception deals with layers of reality and perception. It's not sci-fi so much as a giant puzzle.
The world of inception is much more involved, more interesting and the internal logic works.
far less involved to me. I'm honestly not even a little bit certain about what world it takes place in. The movie explains almost nothing about the world. All I know about it is the minimum necessary for the movie to play out. Inception didn't give itself enough space to create a world
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Of course, The Matrix had three movies to do it. Two of which were pretty damn long.
I'm also not sure the internal logic works.
The huge black box that is the machine really covers for a lot of the questions in a shroud of possible explanation, and the fact that they're dreams covers others. But really, the internal logic isn't based on reality, so the fact that it is so contrived hurts it imo. There are also weird things that happen that should result in some consequences, but don't (the van tumbling down a hill doesn't kick anyone).
Both explored similar topics, but the Matrix relied more on action sequences and anime style hooks. The Matrix was also a fairly straightforward interpolation between video games/computer systems and the real world which places it squarely in the cyberpunk post-apocalyptic genre. In fact, when the world is revealed, the post-apocalypse of grinding hippies in zion wasn't what people wanted. The alter(nate) realities of inception deals with layers of reality and perception. It's not sci-fi so much as a giant puzzle.
The world of inception is much more involved, more interesting and the internal logic works.
I agree, every time I watch Matrix I just fast forward the zion scenes including the the scenes with the octopus bots chase scenes. The post apocalyptic world in Matrix sucked balls. Inception doesnt suffer from such jarring and boring transitions. I dont know which scenes I'd skip through in Inception yet.
Way to fucking deduce everything to the lowest common denominator without having seen a single frame of two of the films mentioned. So pathetic you would write something off so easily. :lol
I have already seen True Grit. I see no reason for it to be made again. I am not going to give people money to just remake something for the sake of remaking it.
Also I do not care about a movie about facebook. No matter how much fake drama they write for it. The creator of facebook isn't involved in it in any way.
Sure, these could all be great movies, but they are incredibly unappealing to me.
I have already seen True Grit. I see no reason for it to be made again. I am not going to give people money to just remake something for the sake of remaking it.
Also I do not care about a movie about facebook. No matter how much fake drama they write for it. The creator of facebook isn't involved in it in any way.
Sure, these could all be great movies, but they are incredibly unappealing to me.
The first time I took my fiancee, and the second time I took my sisters. I had promised to see the movie with both of them but they couldn't go on the same night (work scheduling issues), so we split it up this way.
The movie WAS ok - that's a fact. But I wasn't going to not see it with my sisters because I didn't love it.
Alt response: rhino4evr is probably not too quick on the uptake
I enjoyed the movie. However, I couldn't get over the fact that
the people protecting Fischer's subconscious would all shoot at Earnes and miss, while Earnes would have no problem taking out three or four guys. It wasn't just that he killed them with ease, he killed them while skiing backwards.
2010 Wiki Synopsis
Mattie Ross, a 14-year-old girl, undertakes a quest to avenge her father's death at the hands of a drifter named Tom Chaney. Ross persuades an alcoholic marshal named Rooster Cogburn to join her in tracking down Chaney.
1969 Wiki plot
After Frank Ross (John Pickard) is murdered by his hired hand, Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey), Ross' daughter Mattie (Kim Darby), a headstrong 14-year-old girl, hires the aging, irascible and drunken U.S. Marshal Reuben "Rooster" J. Cogburn (John Wayne) to track down Chaney. To do so, the pair must head into Indian Territory. They are joined by a young Texas Ranger, La Boeuf (Glen Campbell), who also hopes to capture Chaney and collect a reward.
Excerpt from Ebert's review that completely nails it. He gave it four stars.
Roger Ebert said:
"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 multinational 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 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.
they were multiple levels deep, they couldn't be awoken by a kick in the van because they were still asleep in the hotel. They even feel it in the snowy level when the van rolls, I think one person remarks "That must have been the kick, we missed it." They need to be woken or die one level at a time, they can't jump levels. That's why dying when you are multiple levels deep puts you in limbo, not back to the original reality.
I think I just confused myself :lol
One issue I had with that part was that
Arthur should have been kicked out of the hotel and back into the van right away when it rolls. He wasn't asleep in the hotel so he should have kicked right out. But, of course, that would have prevented a fantastic fucking zero gravity scene, not to mention shattered their whole method of getting back to reality since Arthur wouldn't have been able to initiate the kick in the hotel.
FYI, just an interesting side note; Inception and Avatar's opening day are roughly the same in terms of attendance. Fox's 250M+ promotion budget + From the director of Titanic, Aliens, T2 = From the director of TDK + 100M promotion budget?
Mother of god. I guess Nolan just isn't my kind of director. This had me bored to tears. Didn't care about the characters outside of maybe Leo because the film told me jack fucking shit about any of them, didn't feel any intensity or danger because most of the action took place in the dreamstate,
the same dreamstate where they can get out of it by BEING SHOT IN THE FUCKING HEAD, the heist plot involving the boring corporationzzzzz was incredibly lame and it should have been more about being about the goddamn characters, which could have actually made this thing watchable.
Boring action, boring "plot," boring resolution, just some of the most yawn-inducing shit in a film like this I've ever encountered. I was liking it a lot for the first 40 minutes or so but once they brought in Cilian Murphy it went straight to shit and never recovered.
Last time I get on the Nolan hype train. You guys have fun. I know I'll get ripped for this. I know. But I'm not going to lie about it-- I thought it was a wreck. An expensive, pretty, well-made and creative wreck for the most part, but still a wreck.
Mother of god. I guess Nolan just isn't my kind of director. This had me bored to tears. Didn't care about the characters outside of maybe Leo because the film told me jack fucking shit about any of them, didn't feel any intensity or danger because most of the action took place in the dreamstate,
the same dreamstate where they can get out of it by BEING SHOT IN THE FUCKING HEAD, the heist plot involving the boring corporationzzzzz was incredibly lame and it should have been more about being about the goddamn characters, which could have actually made this thing watchable.
Boring action, boring "plot," boring resolution, just some of the most yawn-inducing shit in a film like this I've ever encountered. I was liking it a lot for the first 40 minutes or so but once they brought in Cilian Murphy it went straight to shit and never recovered.
Last time I get on the Nolan hype train. You guys have fun.
Mother of god. I guess Nolan just isn't my kind of director. This had me bored to tears. Didn't care about the characters outside of maybe Leo because the film told me jack fucking shit about any of them, didn't feel any intensity or danger because most of the action took place in the dreamstate,
the same dreamstate where they can get out of it by BEING SHOT IN THE FUCKING HEAD, the heist plot involving the boring corporationzzzzz was incredibly lame and it should have been more about being about the goddamn characters, which could have actually made this thing watchable.
Boring action, boring "plot," boring resolution, just some of the most yawn-inducing shit in a film like this I've ever encountered. I was liking it a lot for the first 40 minutes or so but once they brought in Cilian Murphy it went straight to shit and never recovered.
Last time I get on the Nolan hype train. You guys have fun. I know I'll get ripped for this. I know. But I'm not going to lie about it-- I thought it was a wreck. An expensive, pretty, well-made and creative wreck for the most part, but still a wreck.
Mother of god. I guess Nolan just isn't my kind of director. This had me bored to tears. Didn't care about the characters outside of maybe Leo because the film told me jack fucking shit about any of them, didn't feel any intensity or danger because most of the action took place in the dreamstate,
the same dreamstate where they can get out of it by BEING SHOT IN THE FUCKING HEAD, the heist plot involving the boring corporationzzzzz was incredibly lame and it should have been more about being about the goddamn characters, which could have actually made this thing watchable.
Boring action, boring "plot," boring resolution, just some of the most yawn-inducing shit in a film like this I've ever encountered. I was liking it a lot for the first 40 minutes or so but once they brought in Cilian Murphy it went straight to shit and never recovered.
Last time I get on the Nolan hype train. You guys have fun.
