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THE DISEASE NOBODY TALKS ABOUT
Aug. 2nd, 2010 12:09 am
This was in the days before we had blogs, of course.
And yes, if I was Mara Corday, I’d be annoyed with that headline being put next to my picture too.
Halfway to crazy,
This is dF
Aug. 2nd, 2010
This was in the days before we had blogs, of course.
And yes, if I was Mara Corday, I’d be annoyed with that headline being put next to my picture too.
Halfway to crazy,
This is dF
DREAMING IS FREE
Aug. 2nd, 2010 06:42 pmAnd so I went to the cinemas this weekend, and we are all movie critics thanks to the Internets, so ...
Inception
If you’ve seen/heard the marketing hype, you know the concept: the ability to steal secrets from someone’s mind by entering their dreams. And protagonist Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is hired to do something supposedly imposible: plant an idea in someone’s head to get them to do what you want.
And with Christoper Nolan at the helm – the guy who gave you mind-bending films like Memento and The Prestige (and yes, the New Improved Batman) – you know it’s not going to be all that straightforward.
And I have to say, the hype may or may not be justified, but Inception is an amazing film anyway. It does require some serious suspension of disbelief, and the ability to accept Nolan’s ground rules on how the dream world works – the idea, for example, that if yr asleep in a falling vehicle, yr dream world feels the effects of the fall (though who can complain with the nifty zero-G punch-up that results?). And like Nolan’s best work you really have to pay attention to keep up with both the basic story and the dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream complexities.
But it’s worth the effort, and makes for great post-viewing arguments at the pub. It might not be Nolan’s greatest achievement (and to be fair, Memento is hard for anyone to top), but despite a few flaws here and there, Inception proves you can still make a high-concept intellectual blockbuster. Sure, you can say DreamScape did something like this before, but that’s like saying there’s no point in making films about time travel or bank robberies gone wrong, because hey, that’s already been done.
Don’t dream it’s over,
This is dF
Inception
If you’ve seen/heard the marketing hype, you know the concept: the ability to steal secrets from someone’s mind by entering their dreams. And protagonist Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is hired to do something supposedly imposible: plant an idea in someone’s head to get them to do what you want.
And with Christoper Nolan at the helm – the guy who gave you mind-bending films like Memento and The Prestige (and yes, the New Improved Batman) – you know it’s not going to be all that straightforward.
And I have to say, the hype may or may not be justified, but Inception is an amazing film anyway. It does require some serious suspension of disbelief, and the ability to accept Nolan’s ground rules on how the dream world works – the idea, for example, that if yr asleep in a falling vehicle, yr dream world feels the effects of the fall (though who can complain with the nifty zero-G punch-up that results?). And like Nolan’s best work you really have to pay attention to keep up with both the basic story and the dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream complexities.
But it’s worth the effort, and makes for great post-viewing arguments at the pub. It might not be Nolan’s greatest achievement (and to be fair, Memento is hard for anyone to top), but despite a few flaws here and there, Inception proves you can still make a high-concept intellectual blockbuster. Sure, you can say DreamScape did something like this before, but that’s like saying there’s no point in making films about time travel or bank robberies gone wrong, because hey, that’s already been done.
Don’t dream it’s over,
This is dF