I have found Nolan a whole lot more enjoyable and intelligible (a precondition for enjoyability I guess :-) ). So ekkuththappA edhirpAkkurEn.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
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I have found Nolan a whole lot more enjoyable and intelligible (a precondition for enjoyability I guess :-) ). So ekkuththappA edhirpAkkurEn.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
http://beta.rottentomatoes.com/m/inception/ - Fantastic initial reviews. Will quite easily be the best film of the year. Looking forward is an understatement.
Because, of course, you're not really looking
http://twitpic.com/23nrm3/full
"I'm not a huge fan of 3-D."
The director of "The Dark Knight" added that, after doing 3-D tests, his new film "Inception" will not be released in the trendy stereoscopic format because "we didn't have time to do it to the standards that I would be happy with."
"The truth is, I think it's a misnomer to call it 3-D versus 2-D. The whole point of cinematic imagery is it's three-dimensional. ... You know, 95% of our depth cues come from occlusion, resolution, color and so forth, so the idea of calling a 2-D movie a '2-D movie' is a little misleading."
"The truth of it is when you watch a film in here, you're looking at 16 foot-lamberts, When you watch through any of the conventional 3-D processes you're giving up three foot-lamberts. A massive difference. You're not that aware of it because once you're 'in that world,' your eye compensates, but having struggled for years to get theaters get up to the proper brightness, we're not sticking polarized filters in everything."
"Well, let me put it this way: There is no question if audiences want to watch films in stereoscopic imaging, that's what the studios will be doing, and that's what I'll be doing."
"We did tests on 'Inception' with the different post-conversion processes, and they all went very well. It's quite easy to do, in fact. But it takes a little time, and we didn't have time to do it to the standards that I would be happy with."
"It's all based on all the visual-effects technology, you know, that we're currently most engaged in with match moving, so forth, and rendering 2-D imagery into a 3-D space. ... On a technical level, it's fascinating, but on an experiential level, I find the dimness of the image extremely alienating."
"There are a lot of problems with it ... the idea of shooting a whole film through a massive beam-splitter and so forth -- there are enormous compromises. Post-conversion technologies probably, for me, are definitely the future, but really it is up to the audiences what they want to see and how they want to watch their films."
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"I'm certainly quite pleased with 'Inception' as presented -- it's very bright and very clear, so as the technology improves, those differences may change, and that is what I hope for."
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/hero...hollywood.html
Shortened 6 minute footage of Nolan's research for Inception:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEItJ...layer_embedded
(Rudimentary, but watch if you want to)..
Can't wait to see inception that too after dark knight and getting good reviews :)
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Originally Posted by Sanjeevi
17 fresh rating out of 17 so far in rotten tomatoes..
5 Days more
Good, Inception is releasing in chennai this week :)
Whoa, now thats what you call great NEWS! You made my day saar!!Quote:
Originally Posted by great
that too with tamil dubbed version 'Kanavu Vettai' :)Quote:
Originally Posted by great
even rajeev masand has tweeted saying the film challenges the audience to move an eyeball away from it...bravo...Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
thas wat he said :2thumbsup:
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Originally Posted by raghavendran
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video...nardo-dicaprio
Living the dream with the cast of Inception
Xan Brooks meets Leonardo DiCaprio and other stars of Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller to find out how they unravelled the mysteries of the year's brainiest blockbuster
ille namme oorlayum oruthan paathuttan...adhan sonnen..mathapadi andhe aalukku mariyadhaiyellam kedayadhu :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bala (Karthik)
5 rotten reviews on RT already. TDK has a total of 18 rotten reviews. Anybody watching this on Thursday? I think there's a Wednesday midnight show as well. I might watch it Friday night.
Friday night show here as well. :)
Predict Inception opening weekend in
US&Canada as Domestic
40 - 60 Million
60 - 80 Million
80 - 100 Million
100 - 130 Million
130 - 160 Million
> 160 Million
Previous Records(3-Day Weekend)
TDK - 158.4
SpiderMan 3 - 151
New Moon - 142.9
POTC - Dead Man's Chest - 135.6
Iron Man 2 - 128.1
Also Opening Day including Midnight screening
20 - 30 Million
30 - 40 Million
40 - 50 Million
50 - 60 Million
60 - 73 Million
> 73 Million
Previous Records
New Moon - 72.7
Eclipse - 68.5
TDK - 67.1
Transformers 2 - 62
Spider Man 3 - 59
kid-glove, what would be an example of "seeming more profound than it actually is".
Friday night sathyam :D cant freakin wait! :D
Ah, waited for your reply in Twitter. :)
I did admit to be equally guilty in the following tweet. Although it's more in line with Ebert's review. From all the reviews (both positive and negative) suggests very mechanical breakdown of 'dream' concept, and much subside(s) personal blarneys of Nolan's work. The artifices (of repressed memory, magical illusion, and now <gulps> reality within dreams) aren't represented in profound medium-worthy manner (as I speculate in my largely rhetorical post :lol2:), but rather function as 'devices', effective 'artifacts' (and not 'gimmicks' that's conveniently charged against him) in a less nuanced manner. Nolan's USP is tightly-knit plot(s) and IMVHO, fails to delineate dense themes through the "human experience" (that likes of Bergman, Woody Allen ruminate with fitting characters, much unlike Nolan's Polarized world). Nolan doesn't actually enrich these 'artifacts', that might however make his films more 'watchable'. Still to make up for it, we get 'verbal exposition' in mechanical ways, the artifice of magic by Caine in The Prestige (here the whole editing pattern is to beat our head with it, the film is book-ended with over-expository epilogue), philosophical musing about memory by Pearce in Memento (again the ending, actually the 'beginning' of Johnny.G hunt presents Pearce's character to narrate his mindset and why his existence needs this), and quite possibly in Inception, the reality within each layers of 'dream' by Di Caprio to Ellen Page. But I will reserve all this negativity by saying that I derive pleasures just from the narratives of his films and effective dramatic construction. Perhaps if given revisit, all these films might reveal more.Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
And of course, still got to watch Inception first-hand, and confirm how Nolan brings out 'dreams' through visual paradigm, and if he's able to do it in interesting, profound manner..
If some reviews seem to find Nolan falling short of cinematic vision of Kubrick and Hitchcock, I'm belittling the thematic and ruminative aspects in comparison to Bergman and Woody Allen. This isn't fair by any count. Especially because Nolan is doing different kind of films. But we live in a world of excess in both praise and disdain. :lol2:
pArthaach. Innoru thabaa pArkkaNum. pArkkalAm.
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Originally Posted by complicateur
elaboration please :D
Booked for 7.15 pm show... :D
so most of the hubbers 'first night' show itself :D ...iyaam 6:30'nga...Quote:
Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
In PVR they show english movies with subtitles..
Didn't get the 'editing pattern' part, but agree about the over-expository epilogue, which is what kinda put me off in the end. Plus, having guessed the twist ahead, was another issue. Its only of late that I am able to see that it is a much better film than my initial reaction suggested.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
Which I thought was not out of place.Quote:
philosophical musing about memory by Pearce in Memento (again the ending, actually the 'beginning' of Johnny.G hunt presents Pearce's character to narrate his mindset and why his existence needs this),
Any attempt to visually suggest and leave it to be inferred would have been extremely risky. One of the most poignant moment is the v-o where Guy Pearce saying: he has no sense of time.
Normally, I would say, that is the kind of thing we should figure out by ourselve and poignate (!) about. But the 'feel' of the film is not moody and slow, one is always thinking/guessing and the dialogue is spoken in one of the few scenes that are like an oasis where the viewer can relax and catch up with his breath.
I thought it was extremely clever for the writer/director to recognize the need to pause the challenge a bit, give a line of dialogue that 'due to all the perma-alert frame of mind' the viewer may not have figured out by himself.
My ego resents being 'told' but it is true that I didn't figure it till I was told. :-) Now I can't think of that film except as the agony of a man who has 'no sense of time'.
That is the kind of understanding of the viewer and catering to him that I like about Nolan. I tend to like this immensely more than makers whose (presumable) stance is: "I make my movies, it is up to you to climb up and reward yourself."
I'm just the opposite. If the film absolutely requires exposition, well and good. But a film like Memento would fare better IMO. Honestly, not a film that I look forward to revisit with its over elaboration. Despite its convoluted non-chronological narrative technique, the acting and events themselves 'pictures' his mindset while we're always emotionally manipulated by the dramatic construction through interactive dialogue and acting. For the most part, the v-o narration functions unfavorably, just as to spoon-feed Leonard's momentary pause and swift action - which brings out his 'motive' on its own - "I can't create new memories, I'll add faulty ones through snapshots with footnotes & tattoos, and perpetuate through this ridiculous existence."Quote:
Originally Posted by P_R
Besides, the film plays out in reverse for good reason, it masks the derangement factor. The irony of playing end at first is that the audience are ambivalent about Leonard killing Teddy. And the whole narrative is to reassess how it panned out this way. Without memories, there's a loss of identity. The Man in the end is != Man in the beginning, or rather, there are various fragments of this man, mostly through his own misguidance. It brings out self-guilt in our part of Leonard's action(s), although he himself is uninhibited by this - that's where the poignancy resides. But when you keep hearing the v-o flesh out the motive (plus the musings about memory were pretentious enough), there's a presence of a 'singular' identity. That didn't sit well with me.
Aha ! Those were my fav. parts of the film.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
is a line that set the context for the movie. That elevated the movie from a thriller with a clever gimmick to something more ...er... deepQuote:
I have to believe my actions still have meaning even if I can't remember them
Is the lines that made me sit up and take notice of Chris Nolan.Quote:
How can I heal if I can't feel time
It felt like a single but 'troubled' identity, grappling with the problems of his non-singularity and being acutely and helplessly aware of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
Yeah, 'distorted' identity more like it. And maybe the word pretentious is too strong and disservicing it, perhaps one too much exposition that gave too much credence to his motives,
I dint expect this many negative reviews from the critics. Let me tone down my expectations :shaking:
Compli, pArthAchulle, sattuputtunu review ezhudhunga.
TS3-kku subs illaiye :huh:Quote:
Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
Inception is exceptional...
Thinking such a complex story itself is a difficult task. Bringing that on screen is something unimaginable. Making the audience sync with it calls for supreme intelligence and unmatched skills. Nolan has done all the 3 with finesse..
@Nerd,
Just forget those critics.. Go watch the movie and i am sure u'l be left speechless. Ungalukku puriyura maadhiri sollanumna, Avatarellam chumma jujoobi.... :wink:
Guys,
Empty your bladder before you step into the hall. If you leave the hall in the middle, you'l have to see the movie again.. :-)
Take a bow, Mr.Nolan and Mr. Zimmer.
paathaachu...aga aga aga!!!
Mr. Nolan :notworthy: (ukkaanthum nadanthum 'thoongiyum :D ' yosippaangalo!)...having a revisit on sunday itself...
@ajay :clap: they played the subtitles here too...
@nerdji, expectations highaave irukkattum...am sure ur 'movie of the year' choice will change after watching this!
Went to the theatre,didnt get the tickets :cry2:
Jinju :thumbsup:
Jinju,
Good that theatres are now showing movies with subtitles. Much better than watching them dubbed in tamil... :-)
On the film front, neenga sonna maadhiri 'Eppadithaan yosikkaraangalo?'.
'' The film has received positive reviews. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 85% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 141 reviews, with an average score of 8.2/10. The critical consensus is: Smart, innovative, and thrilling, Inception is that rare summer blockbuster that succeeds viscerally as well as intellectually. Review aggregate Metacritic assigned the film an average score of 76 out of 100 based on 37 reviews from mainstream critics. ''
For more info about film's release and reception visit Inception at wikipedia. Also Imdb has given a whooping 9.3 / 10 based on 5,123 votes. There is a review on Rediff.com which says the film is a sure fire blockbuster with 4 / 5 rating. Since i feel it would be a spoiler i won't post it here.
Inception is a puzzle, rendered both predictably and unpredictably that you'd expect from a mind-tease, and overall registers and pans-out in a fashion that we come to expect from Nolan. I will still attest the film is never a bore and merits a revisit or two to figure out the deceit. While it might not reek of cinematic mastery, and Nolan much less a visionary, it's still the most entertaining film this year and Nolan proves to be a solid mainstream filmmaker in big budget Studio system.