Question about Inception...sort of

[MorningGlow]

So, like, I keep hearing about the brilliance of this movie Inception, with one of my least-favorite actors (yeah, I'm not a Leo fan--so sue me), and all that. I haven't seen it, but I've been reading reviews and blogs and magazine articles about it, and one reference is glaring in its absence.

How come nobody, and I mean NOBODY, not even all-knowing movie reviewers who love to cross-reference new movies with old, has mentioned Dreamscape? Anybody remember that movie? 1980s, Dennis Quaid--a dude who could enter other people's dreams...? Anyone? Anyone? (Am I that goddamned old?)

I dunno--seems to me that the movies are remarkably similar, and yet it's almost like there's some sort of blackout, some sort of directive--"Thou shalt never mention Dreamscape when discussing Inception..."

Humph. Maybe I'm just a stickler for giving props to forebears, thems who did it first, and maybe I just have a strong memory of Dreamscape because they showed it nonstop (alternating with Eddie and the Cruisers) on HBO in the mid-80s, so I practically had it memorized.

But does anybody else find this blackout of referencing Dreamscape odd? :shrug:

[MorningGlow]

1. It IS a conspiracy!

This post sank like a stone! PROOF! :P
:rofl:

[HipChick]

2. No.. I mentioned the other day that Inception had already been done before..and the movie was more

hype than actual substance...

[MorningGlow]

3. Oh sorry--missed it

Gee, another movie with an overbearing hype machine. Imagine. :P

[HipChick]

4. I didn't care for Inception at all

They had maybe 1, 2 good special effects sequence..but that was it...I could have waited for it to hit BlueRay to be honest...

[slay]

5. I thought Inception was great

well worth the price of admission - and there are very few movies I can say that about these days. I'm going to see it again for sure.

[pink-o]

6. Don't get why everyone loves this film.

It's like a cross between the Matrix and Minority Report, only VERY long, lumbering, and ultimately boring and predictable. Personally I despise this precious SciFi that's so clique-ey it makes a normal viewer feel like an outsider. You need to be in on the culture to get it, and I just wanted to see a fun movie.

Also, Christopher Nolan directed a great, interesting movie in Memento, but hasn't measured up since. The amount of time it took for things to get happening in Inception had us literally looking at our watches. The characters' explanations felt like afterthoughts, edited in to validate the director's vision.

And the ending with the kids. Saw it coming from a million miles, yet still had to sit through a million more minutes of pointlessness!

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. I called that pathetic ending way early in the movie. I could tell. "Gonna end uncreatively" I said.

And I was right.

So many things were predictable.

"They're gonna go to level 4. They've talked way too many times about how impossible level 3 is. They'll take it to 4." I said that, too, well before they went to level 4.

Lazy writing. Especially the dialogue for Leo's character. Holy crap - it was like they had a different writer just to do his lines to ensure that they were cliche and clunky. It looked like Leo was suffering because of their badness. "You really want me to say this? The other characters just said a bunch of cool stuff, and then I say this stilted 1950s B-Movie shit? You sure?"

:eyes:

[HipChick]

8. Pretty much summed it up

Predictable..and unfortunately bet there will be an Inception 2