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Post by Jeff Messerman on Jul 15, 2010 21:27:47 GMT -5
Nighttime Beer = your humble admin at a midnight screening of Inception.
Morning Coffee = I'll let y'all know what I think!
'til tomorrow!
Jeff
(I may actually try one a' them thar energy drinks all you young youngsters suck on like spasmatic mosquitoes... I'm not built for these midnight movies anymore like I was in college... any recommendations? Red Bull? Monster???)
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Post by LF on Jul 15, 2010 23:42:56 GMT -5
I have drunk copious amounts of both. Monster typically keeps you awake longer than Redbull, maybe because of the size. Also, RedBull seems to be a bit of an acquired taste for some. But I suppose you only need energy until about 5 minutes into the movie. Mr. Nolan might keep you awake after that. Hopefully.
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Post by LF on Jul 15, 2010 23:43:50 GMT -5
Also, Happy Birthday MyBrainHurts! Maybe you will also celebrate with a little Inception?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2010 11:45:49 GMT -5
lf,
Thank you for the birthday wishes!
I am definitely going to try to get in a viewing this weekend. I am hearing great things about it so far. Any movie that you have to pay attention to from start to finish is my kind of movie.
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Post by songswithoutwords on Jul 28, 2010 18:17:00 GMT -5
Hi everyone,
Saw it last night, with my wife. We were both happy to see a movie which gives the same "aw, wow" feeling we got 11 years ago with The Matrix. Incidentally, it was very like The Matrix in quite a few ways.
Overall a great movie. From a screenwriting perspective, it's a reminder that we may break any rules we want as long as we keep the audience with us. For example:
1) Dream sequences. Dream within a dream. Within a dream.
2) Purely functional and expositional dialogue.
Aren't these supposed to be signs of a beginner?? And yet he's made them work just-fine-thank-you-very-much.
3) Complexity
When have you ever had a cut from a ski assault on a fortress, to a guy floating in zero G in an elevator shaft, to a van plumetting off a bridge, all within 10 seconds and thought to yourself "Exactly. All that makes sense".
It's brilliant because of how it makes you feel (roller coaster ride with an emotional hook), and because of how well it is executed.
I've read a number of online posts about how new and original it is, but I would not agree to that. It's not as original as Memento was at the time. It's a number of ideas we've seen before, cleaned up and delivered in a fresh package. And I love it.
... but it's still second place to my favourite, "The Usual Suspects". :-)
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