Last movie you saw.

[max_cady]

Instead of watching Knight & Day(not really too exicted about this one) at the movies, I decided to stay home and watch a couple of movies on TV and it was good.

I watched The One on the Hollywood Channel.
Pretty cool stuff. I'm surprised how this James Wong production is pretty fun to watch.

And almost immediatly I saw American Pie 2 on MOV. Even after so many years, it's very entertaining and some of the jokes are still real gutbusters.

Sean William Scott is memorable and it's great to remember a time when Jason Biggs still had a carreer.
Still puzzled at how Jim when to Michelle and not Nadia, but who cares.
Watching it so many years later, it's sorta of a happy reminder of simpler times and while this is in no way a masterpiece of comedy, it's great fun.

[Barry the Nomad]

Saw Inception. Fucking awesome! I'm so proud of myself for completely understanding the movie. From the sound of reviews, it seemed like the movie was incomprehensible.

It was what the Matrix sequels should have been.

[max_cady]

I also saw Inception last Sunday.

Wow... Just... wow.

Deep, complex but doesn't patronize the audience either.

A great movie from DiCapprio.

[SOUP]

I also saw Inception last Sunday.

Wow... Just... wow.

Deep, complex but doesn't patronize the audience either.

A great movie from DiCapprio.

Hells yes. I've seen it 4 times, and believe me when I say that it holds up every time.

[MadeManG74]

Booking tickets to see Inception at THE WORLD'S BIGGEST SCREEN EVER this weekend.

Awww yerrr....

[SOUP]

Booking tickets to see Inception at THE WORLD'S BIGGEST SCREEN EVER this weekend.

Awww yerrr....

Good job sir, I'm very jealous.  One bummer to living in Northern Ontario is the complete lack of IMAX theaters anywhere nearby.

I just watched Beverly Hills Cop for the first time ever.  It was pretty good. Eddie Murphy was a lot less of a ham than I expected him to be throughout the whole thing.  The music was pretty great too.

[Barry the Nomad]

I saw The Dark Knight on a huuuuge IMAX screen, it was a blast! Bonus points because the tickets were free, I won them in a podcast contest.

Wish I saw Inception in IMAX though...

[MadeManG74]

I saw Inception yesterday...




I was dissapointed.

Don't get me wrong, it was good, and I enjoyed it but... I dunno it just didn't really impress me as much as I was expecting/hoping. Maybe it was too hyped up for me, but I dunno.

I think they just didn't push the boundries as much as I was hoping, considering it all took place in a dream it was rather tame I thought. Some spoilers follow
[spoiler:vaye79xk]When I saw the frieght train in the middle of the street, wrecking everything I thought this would be the signal that everything was about to kick into High Gear, but... it just didn't. There were bits and pieces of nice action scenes here and there, but it was all just regular guns and explosions. I was expecting a lot more 'only possible in a dream' type stuff, like jumbo jets doing kamikaze runs to stop them and 18 wheelers crashing through buildings etc as his sub-councious projections went bezerk.

I did appreciate the amazing images and effects of the different locales and especially some of the stuff in Limbo and when she creates the mazes at first but... why didn't we see more of that kinda thing mixed in with the action scenes? The zero gravity scenes are amazingly done I must admit.

Also I saw the ending coming a mile away, when he was talking to his kids on the phone early in the movie and it had those flashback moments, I thought 'this seems awful dream-like'.... and then it was confirmed when he got home and his kid's hadn't aged and were wearing the same clothes again.[/spoiler:vaye79xk]

Overall, I did enjoy it, but it just didn't impress me as much as I was expecting it too.

I found The Good The Bad and The Weird to be more impressive and enjoyable actually, which is the other movie I've seen recently. Even if you disagree with me about Inception in every way, you should check out TGTB&TW, it's brill! Here is the trailer.

[youtube:vaye79xk]OzNnCK5cd8Q[/youtube:vaye79xk]

[SOUP]

@MadeMang:

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly really is fantastic. The music in the graveyard really did it for me.

In regards to Inception, [spoiler:2byh2vs5]the main purpose of their going into the subject's dreams were to create a realistic world that they could control, and trick the subject into thinking the world was real.  I think this was the main reason that things weren't so off the wall crazy as you might have been expecting.  The only times crazy things happened were when things were not going according to plan, such as the train (Cobb's subconscious sneaking it's way into the dream), or the zero gravity sections (a result of the unexpected chase and van turbulence in the dream).  As far as the ending goes, I'm not really convinced that the whole thing was a dream.  I've seen it 4 times now, and the room itself has differences each time it's shown.  I think the children looking the same was done more as a cinematic pay-off type thing, to finally see the fronts of the heads that had been hidden ever time prior.  That's just my thinking though.
I think my favourite part of this movie has been all the discussions you can have afterward :D[/spoiler:2byh2vs5]

[MadeManG74]

@Soup:

[spoiler:27b23ie2]I understand what you mean, about how they needed to keep things as subtle as possible to stop the subject getting suspicious, but I guess when they revealed that the sub-concious was essentially 'weaponized' that they would have to change plans and just make a suicide run of sorts to get in and out, or if not, the subconcious would be going all out to stop them since they were 'trained' projections.

But yeah, I guess they left it ambigous at the end, since the top was getting shaky. The reasons I thought it was a dream was:
1) The top lasted longer than any previous scene it was shown in
2) The phone conversation he kept 'seeing' his kids in a flashback bit, and it was always that same memory. It just felt very dream-like to me. Also the bit where he is getting chased through Africa (?). When he squeezes through that narrow alley, it reminded me of the buildings morphing in his earlier dream, it was like the buildings were closing in on him.
3) Kid's didn't age
4) There are a few times when he suddenly changes locales very suddenly (like when he meets Michael Caine the first time), an example of that 'you can't remember or explain how you got here' thing.[/spoiler:27b23ie2]

[Barry the Nomad]

Just watched Terminator Salvation directors cut on blu-ray. loved it. I saw it in the theaters last year and enjoyed it, but I liked it much more at home. solid summer action flick that doesn't rely on ripping off martial arts movies.

[SOUP]

@MadeMang:

[spoiler:zy867ja1]I definitely get your points. There were a few ideas thrown around that the whole point of the movie was Ellen Page being the one performing Inception on Leo. All in a plan to get him to overcome the guilt over his wife, and come back to his children.  I read a pretty good interview with the guy that played Yusuf in the movie, giving his arguments against that too.

you can find it at this address:
http://http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/inceptions_dileep_rao_answers.html

I like to think that it's not a dream, but I'm the kind of guy that goes for the happy ending in Heavy Rain, so it may just be the optimist in me :).[/spoiler:zy867ja1]

@Barry: When they played the Guns N' Roses during the motorcycle bit, that movie had completely won me over. I'll have to check out the director's cut you mentioned.

[Barry the Nomad]

The directors cut doesn't add too much, but it does give you more blood, swears and tits which is always good. Also I think it gives a few lines that help push the "John is the chosen one" point.

I still am scarred by the PG-13 Die Hard 4. Seriously, John McClane ain't John McClane without "motherfucker".

[Sharky]

500 days of Summer.

Pretty good for a romantic comedy... 7/10.

[George]

I saw Inception before I went to Mexico, so it was a few weeks ago, not really the last movie I saw. The last movie I saw was probably White Noise on Mexican TV.

Here is a few things I did not get about Inception. Spoiler, so I will highlight it.

[spoiler:agkla32b]OK, Leo is trying to 'put' a idea into someone's head while they are sleeping. First of all, its hard as fuck to do and only 'he has done it' and the prize is that he can come to America again? Really?

I'm sorry, but isn't it easier to just sneak into the US? I'm no expert, but I was in Mexico for 3 weeks, for a couple of weddings and one of my cousins who lives in the US, does not have any license or visa or whatever to live in the US. He comes to Mexico every year and sneaks back. It should not be too hard to do, especially with someone with resources like Leo, who is trying to do the impossible.

Not to mention, couldn't he just have his Grandpa, who teaches in Europe, take the kids with him and his wife? You know, so they wouldn't live in America and his dad can drop by?

The only reason I think Leo wouldn't want that is cuz he is 'being hunted' by those guys in the movie, but then again, they would probably hunt him in America too.

As for the ending, if it was a dream, I think it probably was. I think the inception was being done on Leo and not the guy. The whole plot for the movie was to 'rest' Leo's demons. Regardless, good movie.

- I know the lead character is not called Leo.[/spoiler:agkla32b]