Hello! Just back this minute from seeing the film. I have a few comments to make which may involve SPOILERS.

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Hmmm.

The short review is - what a load of disappointing and quite frankly tedious crap.

Oh Nolan why are you getting worse with each film? Who honestly thinks LDC is an actor with enough charisma to hold a film like this? He really wasn't enough for this role. Why the fuck does Nolan insist on having that thuddingly monotonous soundtrack pounding over virtually every single scene of dialogue? Why not give the actors some space instead of making it feel rushed and forcing them into layering soundbites for only the sake of exposition? Why not make this about the performances rather than worship the god of pacing? (it certainly didn't feel like 148 minutes I'll give him that).

Sorry, that girl he hires? Where was that maze she designed? Oh fuck that, we want a shortcut now. And why is Leo's dad (Michael Caine again for some reason) offering up students to do dodgy work? And what was she studying? Extraction 101? What world is this that dreams can be hacked in this way? This is never explained. Should we expect to see the flying cars out the window? Has cancer been eradicated in this world? How many other people are doing this shit?

And Leo with a bad case of dead wife syndrome (DWS). You know if you want to keep pulling that trick you might want to make it better than it was in Memento. Which is hard to do. Mainly because Guy Pearce is a better actor who makes you feel something about his character. Sympathy, disgust, shock, whatever. Something. LDC is like balsa wood in comparison.

But maybe I'm being too hard on Leo. Maybe the problem is with the script. I was surprised to find I had no problems following what was supposed to be a twisty, layered plot. I didn't see multiple plots criss-crossing and tying my mind up in knots - you want that? Try a James Ellroy novel. I still find Memento a mind-bending watch. The dream within a dream scenario is as hard to imagine as a box within another box. And here that's all that Nolan is concerned about. He loves the techie aspects of this. How does box C behave in box B. Oh B is jiggling about so C is getting all shook up. And do we get to care much about the inception itself? Nope. I thought this was a big missed opportunity to play the complex mind-games required to crack the subject. But in between explosions there wasn't much time for that.

Nolan has become a slightly more sophisticated version of the recent fanboy directors. But he's still thoroughly crass and obvious and doesn't have the talent to explore the spaces between what initially seem like promising ideas. But dreams? Hell, I enjoyed the more straightforward japes of Dreamcape and that was a long time ago.

But I am surprised that so many love this - I'd ask that you think about the characters. State what was memorable about them and what made them interesting. What did this film actually say that was of substance? Strip away the artifice and what are you actually left with?

I saw Total Recall, again, a few days ago. It was better than this.

I think going to church should be more exciting. I attended a memorial mass yesterday for a friend who died last year. I may be an atheist but they really have to jazz things up.

I was sat next to a Sikh who found the whole thing puzzling but as a former Roman Catholic I knew the drill. Next time I'm going to count the number of times one has to stand up and sit down or play some other mind game to keep awake.

>> ^mxxcon:


actually, it's more like Mind Game or Paprika (strongly recommend to watch both)


Haven't seen Mind Game, but Paprika's great. I'll have to check it out

>> ^Gabe_b:

Haha, awesome. Made me think of Akira


actually, it's more like Mind Game or Paprika (strongly recommend to watch both)

I think any war movie or movie about prisons should just be excluded right away. That's just plain stupid. Of course there are few women in a pre-gulf war era movie, it just reflects the reality. Same goes for prison movies, Cool Hand Luke is one of the best movies ever and the only two women I can think of in the movie offhand are a tease who washes her car in a very sexy manner just to play mind games with the prisoners and Luke's mom. That doesn't make it a sexist movie.

Also, on the flip side, there ARE movies about women that don't pass the inverse test. Just face it, some movies are geared towards men, and some towards women. The only ones to be concerned about are those which are not obviously 'chick' or 'guy' flicks that show these problems.

Ya gwiz, it gives a whole new meaning to mind games as well.

The trial balloon thing is common. It's also common that the media blows an unfortunate turn of phrase out of proportion, and it could be that I'm wrong and they really weren't intentional. Intentional or not, I doubt the White House missed the feedback each "misinterpretation" generated.

But "mind games with the whole country" is not Obama sending mixed signals about the public option. Mind games with the whole country is spreading lies about death panels, socialism, rationing, and all sorts of other shit.

All I'm really saying is, Obama hasn't given up on the public option, we're still early in the process for this thing, and every draft out of every committee so far has contained the public option, so just chill, and wait and see how things turn out.

If Obama does, in the end, do something stupid like drop the public option in return for nothing but Republican votes, then yeah, we can be mad. Until then, there's more constructive things to do with your passion about health care, like pushing progressives to commit to killing bills without the public option.

^Only time will tell about who is closer to the truth on this, I suppose. I still find the practice of dropping trial balloons to be chickenshit, though I know it's something that both sides of the aisle do from time to time. Can't someone just say what they mean and mean they say?

I follow politics, but not as closely as I should, I'll admit. Maybe this is how shit commonly gets done. A lot of head faking might do the job, so to speak, on Capitol Hill. Doesn't mean that I have to like it. Don't play fucking mind games with the whole country, for fuck's sake. That shit can easily blow up in your face, because it can cause a lot of the faithful to, well, lose the faith. And if Obama keeps up with this shit, then sooner or later I have a feeling it will.

Lol, just throwing my 2p in there.

I have this brilliant method of dealing people. It's called the "dannym3141 have no ego or motive and be genuine with people" method.

What you do is, you drop all motives and ego, and you just be genuine with people. No mind games, no hard to get, no crap. If you're interested, show you're interested. If you're not, let them know and don't try to get anything out of it. If you do this for a long enough time, you get a very very finely tuned bullshit radar and you can spot someone trying to take you for a sap from 3 miles away.

So when you spot a woman doing any of these things, you see it, and you immediately realise that they don't care about you enough, and you can happily walk away. Sometimes they'll even start chasing you because they blew what they thought was a sure-thing.

Ha! I expected that! I'll just... wait... what's this? My power... NOOO!! ARGGHH!!! NOOOOoooooooo.....

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[shrugs]

In reply to this comment by Edeot:
You will not defeat me with mind games.

[shrugs]


In reply to this comment by Edeot:
You will not defeat me with mind games.

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In reply to this comment by Edeot:
That's right. I'm wise to your games. So go, run, hide - You won't escape.

You will not defeat me with mind games.

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That's right. I'm wise to your games. So go, run, hide - You won't escape.

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maybe they put the word there as some kind of mind game.

A religion based on dangerous but clever mind games...oh, and bullshit.