36, loved the movie, "got" it.
Inception: Like vs. Age
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Good popcorn?
Hey, I take offense to that. I saw it at the drive-ins with my girlfriend and neither of us were texting or talking!
She had her mouth full.
Good popcorn?
30, got it, liked it. My 38 year old sister, 58 year old mother and 82 year old grandmother also got it (for the most part) and liked it.
Is anyone gonna admit that they didn't get it?
Also, there are so many theories out there that I've read that it seems it's possible that 99% of the people actually "didn't" get it, if some of the far reaching ones turn out to be accurate. Though they actually think they did. And I could very well be one of them.
Writer Steven Grant over on CBR makes a VERY compelling argument that everything in the movie, save the very final scene, was a dream, and the movie was about Leo incepting himself! It makes sense, and if that is true, then most people didn't get it. But if he's wrong, does that mean he didn't get it? See how this is an odd poll to answer?
Also, there are so many theories out there that I've read that it seems it's possible that 99% of the people actually "didn't" get it, if some of the far reaching ones turn out to be accurate. Though they actually think they did. And I could very well be one of them.
Writer Steven Grant over on CBR makes a VERY compelling argument that everything in the movie, save the very final scene, was a dream, and the movie was about Leo incepting himself! It makes sense, and if that is true, then most people didn't get it. But if he's wrong, does that mean he didn't get it? See how this is an odd poll to answer?
Oh, and I'm 31, "think" I got the movie (within the rules that seemed to be presented), and didn't care for it. Didn't hate it, but wouldn't see it again. Once was almost more than enough.
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This reminds me of a conversation I had with a coworker when the first Matrix came out. He was in his late 20s and told me that while he loved The Matrix he advised that you probably had to see it two or three times before you get it. Ah, no. I was over 40 when I saw the film and I got it right off without one bit of confusion. Nothing deep about it. I'm interested to see Inception and I suspect I'll have the same experience.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with a coworker when the first Matrix came out. He was in his late 20s and told me that while he loved The Matrix he advised that you probably had to see it two or three times before you get it. Ah, no. I was over 40 when I saw the film and I got it right off without one bit of confusion. Nothing deep about it. I'm interested to see Inception and I suspect I'll have the same experience.
I think this indeed happens often though not universally.
If you're 35, you're in limbo.
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the bit about gamers grasping the different 'levels' of the dreams is kind of interesting. have no idea whether that's true or not.
the bit about gamers grasping the different 'levels' of the dreams is kind of interesting. have no idea whether that's true or not.
Let's pick "35 and under," and be young men again.
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Thread over.
Kids just don't have cultural context to understand when they're seeing bullshit.
For me, though, the video game elements were kinda cute. I'd written off the movie as anything but good-looking nonsense before they got to that part. The really damning part was when Tom Hardy said "you need to dream bigger" and pulled out a bigger gun. How debased and narrow is Nolan's imagination if he equates having a broad imagination with a bigger gun?
Or was that a dig at his audience - I know the theater is filled with sheep, so here's a scene your tiny little minds can comprehend. I can't shake the grumpy feeling that Nolan was actually condescending to his audience throughout the movie and is cackling in his cornflakes reading all the fawning reviews (not that they've all been fawning in the least) that he's duped the chumps so thoroughly.
Bingo.
Thread over.Yep. This hooplah reminds me of The Matrix - which I didn't think was profound or original in the least (because I'd seen/read the stuff they ripped off to make the movie - otherwise, I might have been conned just like everyone else).
Kids just don't have cultural context to understand when they're seeing bullshit.
I don't play video games but who isn't familiar with the concept of video game levels? That was easy enough to understand. Whether you think that garbage like that belongs in a movie - and whether your estimation of a movie drops like a rock when you see it lifting elements from video games - is of course another matter.
For me, though, the video game elements were kinda cute. I'd written off the movie as anything but good-looking nonsense before they got to that part. The really damning part was when Tom Hardy said "you need to dream bigger" and pulled out a bigger gun. How debased and narrow is Nolan's imagination if he equates having a broad imagination with a bigger gun?
Or was that a dig at his audience - I know the theater is filled with sheep, so here's a scene your tiny little minds can comprehend. I can't shake the grumpy feeling that Nolan was actually condescending to his audience throughout the movie and is cackling in his cornflakes reading all the fawning reviews (not that they've all been fawning in the least) that he's duped the chumps so thoroughly.
That movie isn't hard to "get." 
The real question is whether you are widely read enough (and also have seen enough truly great movies) to see through all the faux profound babble to realize that it's nothing more than another disposable summer flick. Sure, it's not as completely brainless, say, as the Transformers movies, but that's not exactly high praise.
In reading reviews, it's important to separate Some Clown With a Blog from reviewers who have the professional standing to earn credibility. David Denby from The New Yorker, for instance.
But I didn't go into the movie with expectations of anything but popcorn fun and I got what I was after. I'm astonished by the number of people who have managed to delude themselves that it's anything more than that.
The real question is whether you are widely read enough (and also have seen enough truly great movies) to see through all the faux profound babble to realize that it's nothing more than another disposable summer flick. Sure, it's not as completely brainless, say, as the Transformers movies, but that's not exactly high praise.In reading reviews, it's important to separate Some Clown With a Blog from reviewers who have the professional standing to earn credibility. David Denby from The New Yorker, for instance.
That's the sort of review you'll get from someone who has spent years watching all sorts of movies - great, terrible, from all over the world and who has the silly expectation that a movie about "dreams" should draw upon the psychological depths that dreams can reveal, instead of just giving us one brainless shoot-em-up/car chase scene after another, and that it might be nice if it were about something in the end other than parting you from your ten bucks.
But I didn't go into the movie with expectations of anything but popcorn fun and I got what I was after. I'm astonished by the number of people who have managed to delude themselves that it's anything more than that.
Why can't it be a really well-done, indisposable summer action flick? I don't think it is in any way profound, but I still thought it was exceptionally well-made and very entertaining. Just because an action movie happens in the summertime doesn't automatically make it disposable.
Just for the record, I've taken Trekker's opening post and the responses from his other thread and moved them here. Sorry if that means some of you accidentally replied twice.
David Denby said:
Bullshit.Temis_the_Vorta said:
Ironic, isn't it? Or does it in fact make total sense - that someone who eternally consumes/watches all sorts of movies is actually, in the end, not necessarily paying attention?
Then again, we can't all be Some Clown With a Job.
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