Re: Inception

[emeraldembers]

[my mum took me, my sis, my l'il brother and herself to see it tonight at 8.50pm as a cheer-up surprise for us all :D, and for all that I'm up at 6am and planned on having an early night tonight, I REGRET NOTHING. Or, indeed, JE NE REGRETTE RIEN)

Dear Christopher Nolan,

You may not be my type, but right now I need you inside me.

(Also, damn Joseph Gordon-Levitt, I remember having a crush on you when I was little and you have grown up FINE. You may join in on the being inside me shenanigans. In fact, I encourage it.)

FILM. OF. THE. DECADE.

Guys, seriously, you know how everyone's going on about this film? If you haven't seen it, make time to. It's not world-changing cinema but good God it's the best crafted thing I've seen in years. There were moments where my jaw was literally hanging open. I am awed by how perfectly pulled off the film was. There are some brief moments of repetition but they work inside the dreamscape and the whole sequence revolving around Joseph G-L's character in the middle of the movie is absolutely stunning.

I refuse to say anything more about it because I walked into that movie not knowing the plot and having a movie that respects you as an audience without deliberately confusing you to the point of not knowing what's going on is a blessing everyone should enjoy. It was so, so, so good.

I won't be fandoming this one. It's just. It's in a class of its own.

ETA: Spoilers in the comments to this post.

Comments

[no-eight.livejournal.com]

GOD YES. EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS YES. JUST YES.

I don't think that Inception is going to change cinema forever or anything like that but I definitely believe that it's going to be one of those movies that just sticks with you in the back of your mind. It's one of those experiences of seeing a great film and ten to twenty years from now it's going to be one of those flicks that I think every generation should be able to enjoy as well. I haven’t said anything since Nolan’s last film TDK, but he is up there with my favorite directors/writers. So many of his films are so well thought out and have so much obvious effort put in to it, it's like you said, I just feel that Nolan genuinely respects his audience and the movie making process and there isn't many directors out there like that anymore. I seriously love this man. I’m so happy for you, that you got to go in without any prior knowledge. I wasn’t exactly spoiled for it but I think I would have loved my first time with it even more if I went in without hearing the tidbits of information that I got from the macros and such.

JGJ (REMEMBER WHEN HE WAS A TWIGGY LITTLE THING IN 3RD ROCK FROM THE SUN? OMG HE GREW) AND THE ROTATING FIGHT SCENE. ASDFGHJKL. THAT IS ALL. :GUH: (I'M LISTENING TO THE SOUNDTRACK RN TOO XD)

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that even for the movies of his I'm not so fond of - I find Memento really, really dull - Nolan's workmanship is marvellous. He just seems to love making movies and even when there are dud moments (cough, exposition guy in the tower at the end of Batman Begins, cough) it's easy to forgive them in the face of everything else. It's just so beautifully, beautifully crafted, I love it.

It was nail-bitingly tense and I jumped nearly every damned time Mal was on screen XD, and even my little brother going "Omg! Jack DID survive Titanic!" at the beginning of the movie didn't spoil it for me. And good lord, that score, it's incredible!

JGJ WAS ONE OF MY CRUSHES AS A L'IL GIRL AND HE'S ALL GROWN UP AND HOT LIKE WOAH AND THAT FIGHT MADE ME ORGASM LIKE NINE THOUSAND TIMES OH MY GOD.