Inception ('10)

Now that it's been 15 years, does it still hold up?

Nolan's best film

Why is a movie about lucid dreaming so unimaginative

damn, we need to kill those dream guys and our guns aren't working

don't worry, we're in a dream so we can imagine our way out of this

*imagines a larger completely conventional gun*

It's fucking stupid on a second rewatch

It requires certain level of autism

Sucker punch was a better movie about dreams

15 years later

every movie trailer still uses the BWWWRRRRMMMMM

it's a good movie but not worth the price we've paid

Sucker Punch is complete trash

It didn't hold up when it came out, it just had good vfx.

f i l t e r e d

Absolutely fucking snore-inducing. One of the most boring and unimaginative films I've ever seen. Mostly just a ripoff of better films.

Existenz was made on a fraction of the budget and is campy to the point of not taking itself even remotely seriously, and yet it's magnitudes more terrifying at the same time.

It's 80% exposition explaining the rules than the next 20% is completely ignoring those rules.
For a movie about dreams the majority of the set pieces are pretty boring, the climax action scene is just a snowy mountain probably from an average bond movie.

But Nolan does make entertaining movies, and as gimicky as it is, the loud as bombastic score does hype things up pretty damned well. Playing that shit at max volume would make even the most mudane things intense as fuck.

Its the movie that most clearly illustrates why Nolan is a mid tier director.

No.
The fact that they had a dream machine within a dream was so stupid.

Still makes the midwits seethe I see.

Better than overrated arthouse slop like Existenz and Paprika.

it’s been 15 years

MAKE IT STOP

i dont seethe about nolan
but both inception and interstellar suffer from Nolan's "loud music action/emotional scene that goes on for a long time" syndrome

And his ideas are kinda interesting but half-baked

I've come across this thread multiple times today and everytime I see it, I keep thinking that pic's from The Departed

does it hold up

It's the other way around. Since the 70s, old movies only get better with time, as the industry sinks deeper and deeper into shit

First time I watched it I thought the visuals and ideas were cool and felt like I only sort of understood it when it finished.

Second time I watched it the visual effects seemed kind of tacky and I wasn't impressed, the ideas seemed more highschool tier and I realized i completely understood the film when it ended and overall felt it was good performances saving a tedious gimmick film.

The third time I tried to watch it I didn't even make it all the way through and turned it off and haven't thought about it since.

because Nolan is a logistical and technical genius, but not an artist.

as a dream movie it's shit
as a scifi movie it's shit
as a 2deep4u movie it's shit
as a james bond ocean eleven caper blockbuster it's kino

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ITS NOT FAIR BROS

she was already post-prime there; imagine if she trooned out when she was a peak waifu in the mid-00s, now that would've been brutal

This criticism is peak of lazy fimpseud analysis because one of the key rules of the film is that you can't make the dream too unrealistic because it wakes up the dreamers. It's told in blunt exposition. Beyond the plot reason there are obvious thematic reasons as well. But pseuds gonna pseud.

This has always been a legitimately bad movie since the day it was released. The Batman movies are good and Nolan has done other fine things but Inception is by far his worst. Never seen Tenet though.

"loud music action/emotional scene that goes on for a long time" syndrome

what a midwitt complaint

stuck in the matrix for decades

basically Minecraft creative mode on steroids

just builds rectangular high rise buildings over and over

what was Nolan thinking? Is he lazy and retarded?

Time would have taken its toll regardless. Nothing of value was actually lost.

you say that word as if midwits weren't his target audience

no it doesnt purely because of Ellen Paige and how she would later troon out. Makes it look weird watching again.

my english lit teacher would always say any story that rests it plot on "it was all just a dream" is dog shit. make of that what you will. looking back I think she had a fair point.

i don't know. i slept through most of it.

still one of the best movie of all time. There are a lots of movies afterward trying to replicate it but they all found wanting. Even Nolan tried it with Tenet but that movie felt like it was made too early. If Nolan gave it as much time as he did with Inception it would've been a masterpiece

I have 125 IQ and forgot they were on a plane on "reality", and in the end I thought the first dream level was "reality". Movie like only once reminds
"turbulence on plane?"

one of the best movie of all time.

LOL

No.

The dream is meant to fool the mark, if they constructed it to be gloopy and wacky like normal dreams the mark would realise they were in a dream. I hate this retarded criticism smartarses always make of this flick now, criticise the movie being entirely exposition dialogue if you want to rag on it.

Tenet is partly about moral relativism in geopolitical conflict, quite different to the filmmaking metaphor in Inception which I take to be about the construct of humans' experiential reality at its fundament more than anything else. It's interesting how much his themes of construct and especially constructed experience or constructed truth thru his career has in common with the late transexual pop artist SOPHIE, who was also British; especially as they also have both played extensively with the imaginary space of time in their respective mediums to achieve a disruptive experiential effect. I think for artists from very well-off backgrounds without the material worries of us proles occupying their day-to-day, Blakean motifs and themes of consciousness and its underlying chaos are more common preoccupations, someone cynical might put it as a symptom of 'too much time on their hands'.