Hardly anything is known about this movie, which makes it even more exciting. A big budget action-thriller (supposedly costing in the regions of $200,000,000 to make) that is set within the "architecture of the mind" it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as businessman Cobb, who is undertaking some rather dodgy practices in order to steal an "idea".

 

Also starring Joesph Gordon-Levitt, Marian Cotillard, Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy, Micheal Caine, Ken Watanabe and Tom Hardy the film is written and directed by Christopher Nolan and is due out worldwide on the 16th July (thanks Mikey).

 

See if you can work out what it is all about with the two trailers and poster;

 

Teaser Trailer

 

 

Trailer 1

 

 

Teaser Poster

 

http://www.moviehole.net/wp-content/uploads/inception.jpg

Edited December 30, 200915 yr by DanielMiles17

this is only gonna have post-dark knight success really, they really selling this on it,

 

imo they need to up the viral marketing with this not letting anything about it get known, they need to go cloverfield style to get people really interested that way.

 

oh and dark knight poster anyone?

 

http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2008/darkknight/the-dark-knight-joker-poster-500w.jpg

this is only gonna have post-dark knight success really, they really selling this on it,

 

imo they need to up the viral marketing with this not letting anything about it get known, they need to go cloverfield style to get people really interested that way.

 

oh and dark knight poster anyone?

 

http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2008/darkknight/the-dark-knight-joker-poster-500w.jpg

Yeah I agree, the trailers while good aren't generating the same hype as the Dark Knight trailers did. However that was a sequel to a very popular first film and was an eagerly awaited sequel with a very powerul villain to focus the marketing on.

 

This is a sci-fi original concept which doesn't sound very mainstream, which would be a hard sell no matter how good the marketing is and is made even harder by the secrecy and lack of a specific selling point (e.g. the Joker VS Batman). It won't set the world a light on it's opening weekend but if it is as good as it looks in the trailers then I think it will have legs.

 

Hopefully the viral marketing will start to kick in now that a second trailer and a new poster has just debuted. I think the movie won't need to try as hard as it will attract attention just because of the names working on it. Oh and the poster is clearly inspired by the Dark Knight poster of the Joker. I guess they are trying to set the same dark-epic tone.

Edited December 29, 200915 yr by DanielMiles17

Its a worldwide release, UK release Date: 16th July

It looks really good. The star and director pretty much sell the film itself, but I don't like the way it's been marketed really. Like Chris. says |Warner Bros are pretty much expecting this to be big because people will see the director and click with his name (a bit like James Cameron). It does look good though, and it has a pretty good cast as well...

A synopsis of the plot has been released and while there are no major spoilers, due to the intense secrecy surrounding the plot, I've put it in spoilers as some people may wish to remain in the dark about what the film is about.

 

 

“Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in an original sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the intimate and infinite world of dreams. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable.

 

“Cobb’s rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption.

 

“One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible — inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime.

 

“But, no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming. This summer, your mind is the scene of the crime.”

 

 

Here are two new posters, which I think are great and atmospheric, it seems like they are really banking on the star power of DeCaprio.

 

Official Poster

 

http://www.empireonline.com/images/image_index/hw800/41488.jpg

 

Imax Poster

 

http://www.empireonline.com/images/image_index/hw800/41597.jpg

 

And OH.MY.GOD at the third, and final, trailer. My mind has just been blown :o This was at first only available to people who played the online game, Mind Crime, and only if you made into a cinema in the virtual world. But now it has been released for the rest of us to see. I'm already loving the score :wub: Hopefully Hans Zimmer will match what he did with The Dark Knight.

 

Third Trailer (Link replaced with one that works)

 

Edited May 13, 201015 yr by Daniel Gleek

Sounds amazing tbh.. Plot seems very influenced by writers like Philip K Dick, Huxley, etc.. Certainly no bad thing, and good to see a more grown-up Sci-Fi film that'll make you think coming out....

Sounds amazing tbh.. Plot seems very influenced by writers like Philip K Dick, Huxley, etc.. Certainly no bad thing, and good to see a more grown-up Sci-Fi film that'll make you think coming out....

Exactly, and considering Nolan's previous record, and the fact that this is a movie he has wanted to make for years, I'm confident it will be this summer's best blockbuster, and probably one of the 2010's best films overall. Another thing I'm glad Nolan has avoided is using the 3-D gimmick, that every single film seems to be doing at the moment post-Avatar.

 

By the way, I've replaced the youtube link for trailer 3 with one that works.

 

 

 

Exactly, and considering Nolan's previous record, and the fact that this is a movie he has wanted to make for years, I'm confident it will be this summer's best blockbuster, and probably one of the 2010's best films overall. Another thing I'm glad Nolan has avoided is using the 3-D gimmick, that every single film seems to be doing at the moment post-Avatar.

 

By the way, I've replaced the youtube link for trailer 3 with one that works.

 

Although, ironically, this film would actually likely be enhanced by the 3D process as opposed to it being merely gimmicky...LOL...

 

Although, ironically, this film would actually likely be enhanced by the 3D process as opposed to it being merely gimmicky...LOL...

That's debatable, Nolan said the reason he didn't film in 3D is because the image is too dark, which is one of the biggest issues I have with it.

Billboard Posters

 

http://www.joblo.com/posters/images/full/inception-uk-banner1.jpg

 

http://www.joblo.com/posters/images/full/inception-uk-banner2.jpg

 

http://www.joblo.com/posters/images/full/inception-uk-banner3.jpg

 

http://www.joblo.com/posters/images/full/inception-uk-banner4.jpg

 

:wub:

Edited June 17, 201015 yr by Daniel Gleek

So bloody excited for this. Looks amaazzzinggg.

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http://www.joblo.com/posters/images/full/inception-quad-long1.jpg

 

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Also here's the Q&A that Nolan did for the Hero Complex film festivle, where he discusses Inception.

 

http://www.craveonline.com/entertainment/f...mplex-qa-104703

 

 

 

 

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I am incredibly excited for this. It looks pretty f***ed up and one of those that will play on your mind (like 'Shutter Island'). I just hope it doesn't disappoint, it's got alot going for it.

The first person to review the Dark Knight (Rolling Stone's Peter Travers) and as a result set off of a chain of sucessful reviews and heated anticipation, has been the first to write about Inception after being shown early by WB; he has given it 3.5 stars out of 4 (the same he gave for TDK). The full review is in the latest issue of Rolling Stone and will be online soon but here is an article about the extract.

 

"Can Christopher Nolan's Inception redeem this summer of awfulness? Maybe! Remember two summers ago when Rolling Stone's Peter Travers sent anticipation into high gear with the world's first review of The Dark Knight? His friends at Warner Bros. have shown him Inception early, too, and star-wise, at least, he liked it just as much (both movies got three and a half stars). But, as we've wondered before, will anyone understand the damn thing?

 

Says Travers:

 

The mind-blowing movie event of the summer arrives just in time to hold back the flow of Hollywood sputum that's been sliming the multiplex. Inception ... will be called many things, starting with James Bond Meets The Matrix. You can feel the vibe of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner in it, and Nolan's own Memento and The Dark Knight. But Inception glows with a blue-flame intensity all its own. Nolan creates a dream world that he wants us to fill with our own secrets. I can't think of a better goal for any filmmaker. Of course, trusting the intelligence of the audience can cost Nolan at the box office. We're so used to being treated like idiots. How to cope with a grand-scale epic, shot in six countries at a reported cost of $160 million, that turns your head around six ways from Sunday? Dive in and drive yourself crazy, that's how.

 

 

For what it's worth, MTV's Josh Horowitz saw the film last night and also seemed a little baffled, letting loose this embargo-flouting tweet (via Anne Thompson):

 

 

Okay, that film is going to take a while to process. It's not the second coming but there's a lot of awesome to chew on.

less than a minute ago via UberTwitter

Josh Horowitz

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So Inception sounds like something you'll need to see twice to completely appreciate. Should be no problem given all the money we've saved by skipping this summer's other tentpoles."

 

Obsessedwithfilm has given these three comments in response to the extract:

 

"1) Everyone understands the movie is James Bond meets The Matrix. This is not new. Back in January, Nolan himself called Inception ‘a fourth dimensional Bond movie’. Ah, but Travers is a poster-whore, who looks for pull-quote phrases. Shameful.

 

2) Everyone understands that Blade Runner is Nolan’s favourite movie growing up and certainly the one that most influenced him. You can feel the vibe of Ridley Scott’s classic in everything Nolan does, so this is an unnecessary comment.

 

3) The budget is more like $180-200 million, probably sans the mammoth advertising campaign. $160 million is short."

 

source: http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news...p#ixzz0sFeoJc9h

Edited June 29, 201015 yr by Daniel Gleek

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Showbiz feature on Inception

 

 

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Here is the excellent review from Empire.

 

"Plot

Corporate spy-for-hire Dom Cobb (DiCaprio) steals ideas in dreams, but then he's hired to achieve the impossible: "inception" - planting an idea in the mind of a target. If he succeeds, he can see his estranged children. If he fails, he'll be trapped forever.

 

Review

If you know nothing else about Inception, at least know this: it is not a trick. It is ingenious but not crafty, knotty but not duplicitous. It has neither Memento’s method conceit nor the smoke and mirrors of The Prestige. To contrast it with the latter, in particular (fine film though that is), is to appreciate the difference between stage-magic and a real miracle.

 

The director-as-magician analogy feels least tired when applied to Christopher Nolan, given his body of work, its formal and mental layers and precisely engineered reveals. At best, this approach can be exhilarating. At worst — as with the narrative drip-feed of Insomnia, his weakest picture — it is obfuscation masquerading as artistry, aka not half as bloody clever as it thinks it is. Given its setting is largely the subconscious, though, Inception can’t work with a rug-pull denouement. Every scene — let alone the movie — could be punctured with that postscript beloved of primary school story scribblers: “And I woke up and it was only a dream...” So, don’t brace for a “ta-dah!” moment — it will impede your enjoyment and waste your time. Instead, marvel at the effrontery of a filmmaker who asks you to emotionally invest in avowed mental constructs — and succeeds. In one sense, admittedly, this is what every filmmaker asks us to do: engross ourselves in their imagination. The movie, then, could be interpreted as being about craft and inspiration — one character even says, of constructing the architecture of dreams, “It’s just... pure creation.”

 

But there are bigger things in play here than simply Art, and Nolan isn’t given to self-referential indulgence. This is about life and death and what might be beyond and between. It is also about blazing gun battles, zero-gravity fist fights and stars you’d like to sleep with. Fret not, Batfans — Nolan hasn’t turned into Andrei Tarkovsky. The muscular action that distinguished his Bruce Wayne pictures is again in evidence, but whereas Gotham in the Nolanverse is bound by at least some constraints — you know, little things like physics — here all bets are off. It’s not that Inception doesn’t have rules: like any convincing science-fiction, it has rules and boundaries it will not break. But those boundaries are pretty broad — they are the limits of each character’s imagination. The images deserve to be untarnished by much explanation — you should see them for yourself and on the biggest screen you can (it’s coming to IMAX — book now) to best appreciate Wally Pfister’s excellent, expansive photography. Funny, though, how moments that make the memory boggle when you recall them pass naturally in the moment because you are rooted in the world Nolan has created, in the reality(s) of the characters. This is testament to the physical prowess of the production and thorough thought that’s created this world, but also to the actors.

 

Some rise to particularly fascinating challenges (hello, Tom Berenger) and some surprise — principally Cillian Murphy, who can do danger and insolence in his sleep, but here shows a tenderness and vulnerability crucial to the story. Others exert a personality and appeal on parts that on the page would have played very close to ‘types’ — particularly Ellen Page, exuding a prim sexiness as, really, Basil Exposition, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who somehow manages to appear both ambiguous and dependable as essentially a sidekick. The pair share one of the movie’s best comic beats, too, though most of the sly laughs come from Tom Hardy’s roguish Eames.

 

It will be fascinating to read the hypotheses that percolate about Inception after release and no doubt what characters are called will be explored. That Page is Ariadne — the name of a figure in Greek myth who guides a hero from a maze — has already been noted. Eames shares his name with seminal designers/architects Charles and Ray, who made a celebrated short film, Powers Of 10, about the magnitude of the universe. Marion Cotillard is Cobb’s wife, Mal — which means “bad”, but can also derive from the Hebrew for messenger or angel. Cobb itself comes from Jacob, who, when fleeing from his murderous brother in the biblical book Genesis, dreamt of a ladder to heaven...

 

Based on his previous behaviour, Nolan isn’t likely to explain what he thinks Inception is actually about, but it’s certainly possible to see it as a blockbuster allegory about grief, faith and the desire for an afterlife — to be reunited with those we love and have lost (those with even a passing knowledge of Catholicism may note an interesting use of the word ‘limbo’). You could argue it’s about suicide and the fears and hopes that can both power and prevent it (for in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?), just as was Soderbergh’s Solaris. Nolan, though, doesn’t muse; he motors. This is no sombre meditation. The themes are there to be explored (there will be more theories about this movie than about the killing of JFK), but you can just as well sit back and enjoy the spectacle.

 

And what a spectacle.

 

In terms of scale and style it is, as Nolan intended, comparable to Bond’s best excursions — yet filtered through a brain-frying, subconscious-spelunking, time-dilating structure that boldly frames action sequences around each other. So we get an explosive Arctic mountain vault-storming within a zero-gravity scramble within a vehicle-crunching chase. In effect, the set-pieces are simultaneous. Which is insane, but brilliant as, while he at times boggles through the necessarily complex editing, Nolan never corrupts his multiverse’s internal logic.

 

When you’re not basking in the visuals, you can always lean into DiCaprio and appreciate the emotion. He anchors everything. An actor who has long borne the blessing and the burden of being hailed a genius before he was even a man, he has never been less than good, but can appear either callow or try-hard, like a child dressing in daddy’s suit. Not here. He shows a depth of feeling rivalled only by his work in Shutter Island. To deliver two such turns in a career would be impressive. In a year, it’s just showing off. What makes it work, really, though, is how unfussy he is, how unselfish — there’s no showboating. Good as he is in The Departed or Gangs Of New York, you could sometimes feel the Weight of his Acting. Here, paradoxically, he appears effortless, even though he’s the beam on which the whole mighty edifice rests. It’s because you believe his journey, his heart, that you buy into Inception. If he failed, so would the movie. This isn’t the sort of performance that usually wins Oscars — it’s not ostentatious or superficially transformative, but by God it is brilliant. The strength of it is that you remain emotionally engaged, even if you’re not entirely sure what’s going on. The third act makes Memento seem about as complex as Bear In The Big Blue House. And while there is remarkable clarity given the complexity, you are pummelled with information and have to keep up — pay attention, figure it out.

 

Only repeat viewing will reveal if this comparison is truly justified, but it feels like Stanley Kubrick adapting the work of the great sci-fi author William Gibson (Neuromancer) — except Nolan appears to like people more than the 2001 auteur. So, you have a film that embraces intellect and emotion but also sheer entertainment — that can include a character staring at what looks like one of Francis Bacon’s tortured self-portraits, but also has the best EXPLODEY BUILDING sequence since Zabriskie Point. That film was a notorious bomb, ignored by audiences and pilloried by critics. And some, who may find Inception exposition-heavy and bewildering, will no doubt argue that, drunk on the freedom of The Dark Knight, Nolan has spent $170 million disappearing up his own arse. He hasn’t. On this form, wherever he goes next, be it Batman 3 or something else, we’ll be the first in line to follow.

 

Verdict

Like The Matrix mated with Synecdoche, New York — or a Charlie Kaufman 007. To paraphrase Casino Royale’s Vesper Lynd, it’s a meaningful pursuit in a summer of disposable entertainments. With physics-defying, thunderous action, heart-wringing emotion and an astonishing performance from DiCaprio, Nolan delivers another true original: welcome to an undiscovered country."

 

Source: http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/review....asp?FID=136118

 

It's also got a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes after six reviews.

Edited July 6, 201015 yr by Daniel Gleek

this is getting great reviews, i'm seeing the word 'masterpiece' being thrown about a bit, 100% on rotten tomatoes http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inception/, making me really want to see it tbh.

i've wanted to see this SO BAD since the first trailer, if only just for my bbgurl ellen page~ <3

 

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