Agreed! To consider hanks one of the best actors of the 00s is just asinine!(I love using that word). I'm not saying he isn't a great actor, he is and he is for sure one of my fav's... But saying he is one of the best actors of the 00's is slightly insane. He's great but there is MUCH better now.
DiCaprio on the other hand, I could see people calling HIM the best actor of the 00's. I would have to disagree with that though. Again like hanks I've basically loved the guy as an actor since Catch Me If You Can, but I believe Depp is a MUCH better actor overall. Depp can take totally crap roles with no good dialog and turn it to gold. I don't think he's EVER been the same(way he moves/talks/acts) in two different movies. The way he plays the characters that he takes on are completely unique in every movie he's done from Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, to Blow, to Pirates Of The Caribbean, to Alice In Wonderland. Even when the movie has sucked Depp's acting has always been amazing regardless.(hell, I even think he did a great job as Sweeny Todd, even though I hated the movie because I watched it not knowing it was a musical ).
Am I saying Leo or Hanks sucks? Hell no they are both amazing actors in their own right. However in my opinion neither of them are as good as Depp is, and if you are going to be talking about best actors of the 00's, one would have to be insane not to include Depp in the list.
one thing I noticed I think
The chase scene with the white van when it leaves the warehouse the right side (left as it leaves the building) mirror is folded in. then when they get on the street the left side mirror is folded in when the van is driving at the camera but from the inside person to person action the mirror is out.
am I the only one who noticed this?
Am I just crazy?
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Yeah, I'm bumping this, but only because the girlfriend and I finally went and seen it. Awesome movie! Nolan is a genius. I love his directing style . . . it leaves you breathless. I especially loved the ending, and the very last scene. Very rarely do movies end "perfectly," but I think it applies here. Nolan doesn't wrap the story up neat and tidy; instead, he leaves us with a question, and not a question that means something only in the context of this movie's world, but one that he presses us to ask ourselves about our own supposed reality.
The only thing I wasn't crazy for was Ellen Page. To me, she seemed a bit miscast. Maybe it's that she looks as if she's 13 and I find it hard to take her seriously. I don't know. Not a bad actress, but I would have preferred someone that embodied a little more wisdom.
Ah well. It was still a hell of a movie, and an obvious Oscar contender.
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one thing I noticed I think
The chase scene with the white van when it leaves the warehouse the right side (left as it leaves the building) mirror is folded in. then when they get on the street the left side mirror is folded in when the van is driving at the camera but from the inside person to person action the mirror is out.
am I the only one who noticed this?
Am I just crazy?
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something that was pointed out to me that can give away the meaning of the ending so read at your own risk...
I havent seen it since this was said to me so I can't verify it, but the kids are wearing the same clothes in every vision he has of them INCLUDING when he sees them at the end.....take it for what it's worth. I was surprised I didn't notice it if true.
The final utterance happens near the end of the film, in Limbo, as Cobb finds the aging Saito. This time, Saito begins the exchange: “I’m an old man,” he says. “Filled with regret,” Cobb replies. There’s something specially poignant about this scene, coming as it does on the heels of Cobb having told the shadow of his wife Mal (Marion Cotillard) that they did grow old together in their dream together on Limbo, many years ago, and that he has to let her go.
This may well be the real “inception.” Cobb’s character has been consumed by regret — regret at what he’s done to his wife, regret at having abandoned his children, regret at not being able to return home. In his dreams he’s built an elevator (literally!) that stops at floors, each defined by a moment he regrets and that (as Cobb himself explains to Ariadne) he has to “change.” This elevator, and its forbidden Basement floor, which opens to the hotel room where his wife leaped to her death, could be seen as the vault in which Cobb keeps his innermost thoughts, much like the hospital/hangar where Fischer imagines his father’s deathbed, or the safe in Saito’s dream-fortress from the earlier scenes of the film. Interestingly, in Nolan’s first film, Following, one of the characters is a thief named Cobb who breaks into people’s homes and likes to say, “Everybody has their box,” referring to a box into which people always place seemingly random objects that are of sentimental value to them. In Inception, too, everybody has their box — be it a safe, a fortified hangar surrounded by armed guards on skis, or a stop on an elevator on which no one is allowed. In other words, the hotel room where Cobb last saw his wife, which is the forbidden floor on his Dream Elevator of Regret, is his “box.”
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something that was pointed out to me that can give away the meaning of the ending so read at your own risk...
I havent seen it since this was said to me so I can't verify it, but the kids are wearing the same clothes in every vision he has of them INCLUDING when he sees them at the end.....take it for what it's worth. I was surprised I didn't notice it if true.
putting it in white because it also is sort of a spoiler...
I thought that as well, but IMDB has the kids as being played by different people. It has a Phillipa age 3, and age 5, James 20 months, and age 3
interesting...wonder if that was done on purpose. I did think the score sounded similar to the TDK's score. It was the same director and composer (Hans Zimmer) so it wasn't really much of a surprise though.
interesting...wonder if that was done on purpose. I did think the score sounded similar to the TDK's score. It was the same director and composer (Hans Zimmer) so it wasn't really much of a surprise though.
I would imagine that it was done on purpose. Remember than in dream time things slow down. So, it makes sense that the music countdown would also be slowed within the dream. At least, that's how I interpreted it.
Saw it on the weekend. I really enjoyed the film. The concept was outstanding and I think it for the most part deserves all the reviews that it is getting.
I thought it was a great movie, above average for sure, but I don't think I thought it was the little miracle many others seemed to think it was.
I'd give it a solid four out of five rating, I still think Memento is Nolans best work.
A few interesting comments on HP's post...
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Yeah, I'm bumping this, but only because the girlfriend and I finally went and seen it. Awesome movie! Nolan is a genius. I love his directing style . . . it leaves you breathless. I especially loved the ending, and the very last scene. Very rarely do movies end "perfectly," but I think it applies here. Nolan doesn't wrap the story up neat and tidy; instead, he leaves us with a question, and not a question that means something only in the context of this movie's world, but one that he presses us to ask ourselves about our own supposed reality.
I do agree the ending was perfect for the movie. But it's hardly the first movie (or the best at it) to present that question to ourselves about our own reality. The dream/reality question, or the fate/determinism question, or the what is reality question, have all been done in equally clever ways by many predecessors.
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The only thing I wasn't crazy for was Ellen Page. To me, she seemed a bit miscast. Maybe it's that she looks as if she's 13 and I find it hard to take her seriously. I don't know. Not a bad actress, but I would have preferred someone that embodied a little more wisdom.
Ah well. It was still a hell of a movie, and an obvious Oscar contender.
Also have to agree with the Ellen Page comment. She seemed like the weak link in the movie. I was excited to see her in a different role, only to find that maybe she's not suited to an action type role yet. As well, I thought the whole story for her character was a little weak. I mean she's built up to be this big important part of the team, of the puzzle, and then she doesn't do much. I was hoping she'd be building and shifting worlds as they were moving around inside them. Like her first training exercise.
As for the obvious Oscar contender comment, well I'm not so sure. I'd say, it sure isn't obvious anyway. In fact, I'd be surprised if it was, doesn't seem like the Academy's type of movie. Then again, neither did Inglorious Basterds. I wouldn't be disappointed if it was, it was a very good movie. But I might be surprised if it was. At least if you mean Best Pic. It'll pick up some other awards I'm sure. Sound Editing, Visual Effects, that sort of thing.
Lastly, though Cowpersons comment about age was interesting. Not because it doesn't make sense to me, cause it does. But because I took my mom to see the movie, and she has been raving about it non stop. Liked it more than I did. And she's 58.
Oh, one more comment in white regarding the above spoiler comments: I noticed the kids clothes too, and mentioned it as we left the theater. I guess I'll have to read more about it on the web to see if that was planned or not.
I love using that word). I'm not saying he isn't a great actor, he is and he is for sure one of my fav's... But saying he is one of the best actors of the 00's is slightly insane. He's great but there is MUCH better now.
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