brilliant

Saw this last night. I already want to make a second trip to the theater.

Loved the score, but there's definitely some elements of Giacchino's Lost score in there, as well as There Will Be Blood. The slowing down is neat, though. Finally a good Hans Zimmer score again. It seems ages since Gladiator.

I could imagine it might well take a brief lifetime to fully analyze and interpret the bold and challenging technique employed in the making of this absolute triumph of cinema. I can barely wait to see it again… and again after that.

Yeah, it's clever, but we had that all figured out pre-release (trailer + mention of Piaf in marketing materials). Just like the spinning top (i.e. the top spins round and round, the team incepts by going round and round the idea, the guys fight round and round the spinning hallway, Ellen Page gets the job by making a maze one escapes by going around in a spiral, the nub in the mark's psyche is a pinwhell, the movie comes round to the second female character throwing herself out the window and, finally, the film goes round full circle to the shot of Cobb's two kids.) It's no Bergman, Robbe-Grillet, Bunuel or, closer to home, Lynch – but it's at least trying. Which is more than I can say for 99.99% of current American filmatism.

The "lyrics" of "Non, je ne regrette rien" are in the score so it's quite heavily signposted.

SirVincealot, You are a pretentious turd. Inception is every bit as good as anything you mentioned.

Brilliant. Notice that both songs are typical Hans Zimmer melodies as well – very similar to the Batman theme and the scarier Pirates themes.

SirVincealot: Just so you know for future reference, if you ever want to know why people hate your guts, the answer can be found within your post here. It is a given fact that no one likes a self righteous windbags who act like they know everything and are smarter than everyone else.

It's called Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Zimmer read it prior to scoring the film, and it's pretty clear it was big on Nolans reading list.

I remember reading about when Hans spoke about this. I also recall him and Nolan saying that the score was, for the most part, constructed based upon discussions they had, before he'd ever seen a frame of film. Talk about brilliant.

Thank god it's not Lynch. That guy makes terrible movies.

That's so much fun. Such a great movie for "open doors" discussions and group discoveries, not limited to hardcore film nerds. Pity there are a few elitist fuckbags floating around desperate to tell people how smart they are by pissing on the very thing that could be making them a bunch of much-needed connections with other human beings.

@SirVincealot, your post smacks of someone trying very hard to show some kind of film cred, so much so that I bet you likely searched imdb to get some obscure director names so you can sound intelligent in your post. Keep your self-righteousness to yourself. You're not impressing anyone here.

OH. MY. GODSSS

That's pretty cool; brilliant teamwork between Nolan and Zimmer.

This was something neat I never noticed (I'm still waiting on my Pretentious Scum Bag PHD in the mail, SirVincealot. Sorry for my ignorance), and I can honestly say it made me appreciate the score even more.

Wow, this movie never ceases to amaze me.

I don't get it.

Sigh. So horns slowed down become more droning? Here's a big secret: if you slow down voices they become a lot deeper. Also, many many films have used scores incredibly similar to Inception, but almost never so blow your ears out over the top.

at first I found inception to be good but over-hyped
It suddenly dawned on me, a few days later that Nolan certainly could have sold the technology used in the film more if he wanted to…
I mean come on, it fits in a briefcase and doesn't even connect to the brain as far as I could tell.

It was only a few days later I realised just how much Inception parallels our own dreaming. i.e internal logic of the dream doesn't stand up to real-world scrutiny when we wake up but makes perfect sense during the dream.

The whole thing is alot more layered than I gave it credit for, the clincher of course is the open-ending. Dreams don't have endings, dreams can only be interpreted. Couldn't be more fitting.
Pretty layered and pretty genius stuff.

And let's not forget the (stunt?) casting of Marion Cotillard who rose to fame, winning an Academy Award for playing Edith Piaf.

Devin, go ahead and write the new text. There is stilll much to talk.

This is the music they heard before they were supposed to wake up. So what the music is actually saying to the audience: wake up! wake up!
Which would make it even more obvious the movie is supposed to be a dream entirely.

@ SirVincealot

I know its hard not being the only one gagging on Christopher Nolan's dick. Keep your head up.

@SirVincealot I don't think people who loved Inception would necessarily get much enjoyment out of Bergman movies, since they were about characters and the dynamics between them. Inception is a showcase for storytelling mechanics told by well-dressed people. It's a movie about itself. People are impressed by its novelty and they will flame you if you try to take that sense of awe from them. And why wouldn't they.