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07-18-2010, 08:27 PM
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Saw it on friday at IMAX, best movie I've seen in a very long time. Well worth the price to see it in IMAX as well imo, I was literally amazed at many of the scenes, which doesn't happen often these days. I'd have to say I found Inception more visually impressive than even Avatar or any of the other 3D movies that have been coming out, and was impressed by the fact that the effects actually aided and enhanced the story line rather than just being eye-candy or filler.
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07-18-2010, 08:47 PM
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Looking at IMDB the movie scores a 9.4 out of 10, but when you read the bad reviews, it seems like the movie is really, really aweful. Reviews criticizing a movie are generally informative and honest, they are usually trying to help you from wasting time. reading both good and bad reviews on IMDB, it seems like the good reviews have nothing real to say about the movie, except that its was good (even in this thread, what was good about it besides the graphix), the bad reviews seem to go like this
"I'm trying very hard to be fair here. Given my high expectations and all the praise, it's hard not to bite back. So I'll temper my initial review ("Sitting through Inception was more disappointing and more frustrating than discovering my first girlfriend was cheating on me") with this one: "Inception buried everything that I might have loved about it 10 feet under things that were terrible." "This film is downright boring. I literally almost fell asleep at a noon showing. I also almost walked out 35 minutes before it ended; I simply did not care about any of these characters. The effects are neat, and look pretty great, but the story is so asinine that... wait, no, the story isn't asinine, its execution is." People generally say the execution of the move was terrible, the actors didn't act like real people, you didnt care about the characters (a trend in today's film's)(compare the original star wars to the later ones, watch these reviews if you havent seen it yet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZ...ayer_embedded#! The points thats this dude makes seems to ring true in every modern movie), the story was over complicated, the action scenes were cliche, etc. etc. Can anyone read through the negative reviews in IMDB or something, and try to convince me that this movie is not a waste of money??? : D
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07-18-2010, 10:37 PM
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utenan,
I'd argue that the negative reviews don't point to anything specific either, other than that they didn't like the movie. Quote:
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Anyway, in general I hate reading reviews before a film because I prefer to go in without any expectations and form my own opinion. Inception really benefits from a blank slate more than any other recent release and in fact the only movie I can think of that would benefit more from a clean perspective is Memento from the same director. With that said, I think a lot of the positive reviews for Inception are intentionally vague to avoid spoiling any details of the movie and taking away from someone's experience. I know that has been the case for me discussing it with people who haven't seen it. I can see however how it wouldn't be for everyone... it's a complex, non-conventional story that can be difficult to follow. Much like Memento you have to pay attention and keep track of the details as the plot progresses to see the whole picture when things come together (though Inception at least follows a linear timeline throughout the bulk of the film). Another thing I'm picking up on from reading some of the negative reviews on IMDb is that it seems the reviewers just weren't interested in the subject matter. I've always been fascinated by dreams, consciousness and how the human mind perceives reality, so I found Inception to be a very interesting film. Someone who wasn't interested in those subjects would probably not pick up on or care about some of Inception's deeper themes and for them it would likely just be a thriller with cool effects that they would either enjoy or not enjoy depending probably more on their mood than anything else. I guess as a conclusion then, if you didn't like Memento or if a thriller about dreams and human perception of reality sounds boring, don't go see it. Otherwise, go make up your own mind. | ||||
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07-18-2010, 11:30 PM
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Those two quotes were just the first chunk of a review, I didn't want to fill the entire page with reviews : D But I did find some very nice ones, people who were interested and had high hopes for the movie, and were completely let down
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/...=hate;start=10 4th one down and the first one You do make some good points though, especially about making up my own mind, but its been so long since i went and seen a movie that was good, I have a negative attitude towards the subject : D
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