Inception.

[stuntmovie]

BTW, Wiggs .... I was on the Avatar set and it is amazing what those guys did to create the visuals for that movie. When I was there it was just a jumbled up mess of various sized green boxes in front of a green screen, but the final visuals were amazing.

Hollywood critters  can create anything now-a-days.

And everyone I'm met who is involved in that visual creation process appeared to be kids just out of high school coming to work in Levis and baseball hats.

There's a video somewhere on the net showing the details of how those visuals were created.

Amazing stuff!

[225for70]

Sunset Station, IMAX $17 a piece for me and my wife...Not including the drink and popcorn

I guess it more than doubled with the pop corn and drinks..

[stuntmovie]

Yea, popcorn and a drink will set  you back about $9 or so.

But did you realize that in many cases all of that movie ticket money goes back to the "movie company", while the theater itself only gets the profits from the 'snack-bar' sales.

Not positive here but I think that the original Star Wars movie initiated that policy.

But I have yet to hear if any "movie company" has also demanded a percentage of those snack-bar sales.

One of these days it will definitely happen though.

[newmom]

that's why I bring in my own snacks..It's ridiculous

[stuntmovie]

Wiggs, I gotta tell ya this too! Then just maybe ya won't hate me too very much for not liking Inception.

When I was in the Corps, I was the 'movie guy".

That meant that it was my job to pick that night's movie from the movie bank and go wherever I had to go to pick it up and deliver it to the other important guy we called the "projector guy".

Both of us were very important because movies in the military are very important past-times at O Clubs, Staff NCO Clubs, and the Enlisted guy's tents or shit house walls.

And if either of us fucked up just a little bit, we'd get a lot of shit the following day and that shit would continue until everyone was completely satisfied by the preceding evening's flicker on the O Club screen, or the Staff NCO wall, or the side of the enlisted men's shitter.

And I will state as a matter of fact that no-one ever complained while I was the 'movie guy'.

But on a few occasions we almost stoned the "projector guy" when the film would catch on fire (which was not a very rare occurance in tropical jurisdictions or while under hostile fire).

So I was pretty proud that no one gave me a ration of shit and one day I decided to expand my "movie guy's" duties and surprise everyone.

So I called Jack Webb's office  (look him up) and asked him to come and watch one of his movies with us. (The DI)

And then I called John Wayne's office to invite him to come along also while we showed one of his old films that was shot on some of the Camp Pendleton beaches ....."Sands of Iwo Jima"

In both cases I did receive a polite reply that Mr Wayne and Mr Webb  could not fly to the Orient as requested but in the case of Mr Wayne, I was invited to have a drink with him to toast the Corps at some favorite bar of his a bit north of Pendleton upon my return to the states. And in the case of Mr Webb, he did send us a copy of "The D.I" which we all enjoyed once again.

After my successful stint as the "movie guy", I somehow came in contact with Hollywood's top stunt guys and gals and was often an invited guest to many Hollywood studios and even met a couple of the owners of the Hollywood studios who gave us personal tours of whatever movie was being filmed on the lot that day with a personal introduction to the featured stars.

And I even held an Academy Award for a few brief moments when someone believed that it would be used as a weapon of destruction unless I held it tightly in my very own hands. (I even prepared a speech in my  own mind while holding that little, heavy, bald headed guy while two of the principals got into a very heated argument.)

And then my family got involved - but that's another story.

So I know something about this Hollywood business and the movies they make and I also realize that we all have our own individual tastes and opinions of what we conceive to be good or bad on that silver screen.

And I think I would have lost my noteworthy and prestigious 'movie guy' reputation if I had ever screened INCEPTION  on the O Club screen or the shit house wall where the real trooper movie critics sat. If they didn't like it, any left-over C-rations would hit the 'wall' .... Like shit hitting the fan or a shit-house wall, so to speak.

So as GH would probably and so aptly say.... Don't question my 'movie reviews'. I am the Wizard of Movies when it comes to judging what you see on the silver screen.

Sort of, but not always.

[noworries]

I love stuntmovie war stories.  He has a ton of them.  I bet Stunt is the highest ranking military person on Getbig.  He hates to brag but I love it

[BIG ACH]

Booked my ticket for tonight 

[stuntmovie]

Take a pillow, Ach.

Nah, I got a feeling you're gonna like it.

SO be somewhat gentle when you give me shit about feeling otherwise.

It might help to remember that 5 minutes is equal to one hour as Gracie so aptly states, but five minutes of that movie was more like 8 hours in a very bad place for me.

Let us know what ya think. And if you saw anything of intelligence in  it.

[clued-up]

Dreaming inside of a dream inside of a dream and then physically partaking as an active participant with others in that dream who are also sleeping and dreaming tended to put me to sleep too.

Jesus....

That does sound like an epic waste of time. Thanks for the heads up.

[GRACIE JIU-JITSU]

  I've been doing inception all my life.
  How to convince a girl to let you f*ck her in the ass?
  INCEPTION 

[Natural Man]

[saucetradomous]

twas good.. ending was unsatisfactory.

[webcake]

Hmm, maybe I should hold off spending $21.00 here in Sydney to see it.

where the fuck do you go to the movies?

Last time i paid like $12 i think.

[saucetradomous]

where the fuck do you go to the movies?

Last time i paid like $12 i think.

9.25$ awwww yea.

[BIG ACH]

Take a pillow, Ach.

Nah, I got a feeling you're gonna like it.

SO be somewhat gentle when you give me shit about feeling otherwise.

It might help to remember that 5 minutes is equal to one hour as Gracie so aptly states, but five minutes of that movie was more like 8 hours in a very bad place for me.

Let us know what ya think. And if you saw anything of intelligence in  it.

Just got back, I thought it was pretty bad ass..... BTW, for the record, in my family and group of friends.. I AM the "movie guy"  - I liked it, had good acting, excellent audio, awesome visuals, and pretty original idea (although, attempts of smilar contexts have been made in past movies).

Its ok if you didn't like it, we all have different tastes....  My only beef with it....  SPOILER ALERT BELOW....







I'm not the biggest fan of movies that "leave you guessing in the end" without a definite conclusion, I know writers like to say "we'll let you decide what really happened - or what this really means" but I prefer to have all questions answered and a solid conclusion.  Other than that, I loved it!

[WillGrant]

For all of you who are saying that "Inception" is the "Greatest movie ever", I have four words for you- "Big Top Pee Wee"

Didnt he get caught whacking off in a movie theatre to which the arresting cop said

#Now I know why he is called pee wee#

[GRACIE JIU-JITSU]

 The not-so-smart people will probably think the movie is ok or hate it. The smart people will understand it and love it.

 

 Perhaps the dumb people should choose despicable me.


 

[BayGBM]

Saw it this evening.  I give it 5 out of ten.  The script was went downhill early in the film and never recovered.  The "idea" of this film was well executed in the Matrix; it was poorly done here.  Sure, the effects were good, but nothing groundbreaking (as in the Matrix) and the script couldn't keep up with the effects.  You had to pay a lot of attention to this film for it to "make sense" but the effort was not worth the reward.  I can see a 14 year old loving this film (like Avatar), but not an adult.  I am a big fan of scifi/fantasy but this is a Netflix movie, at best.  

Ellen Page was miscast.

[WillGrant]

You need to watch films and make up your own mind ..listening to critics opinions is shit , that Shutter Island was touted as a great movie by film critics but was absolute horse shit.Do those guys get payed to write that crap ?

[GRACIE JIU-JITSU]

 Netflix movie? shutter island horse shit movie?



  Some people are not for the huge complex story lines they just want action, which is understandable because action is entertaining... for the mentally challenged people.
 

[JOHN MATRIX]

Yea, popcorn and a drink will set  you back about $9 or so.

But did you realize that in many cases all of that movie ticket money goes back to the "movie company", while the theater itself only gets the profits from the 'snack-bar' sales.

BLOFL, yeah last time a small popcorn and small soda cost TEN DOLLARS i actually was so shocked i asked them about it because it was so ridiculous, the snack bar people told me it was cause the theater actually makes all its profits from the snack bar and that they dont actually make money off ticket sales. Wtf? stupid as hell

[Emmortal]

where the fuck do you go to the movies?

Last time i paid like $12 i think.

Hoyts at Fox EQ.  It's like a 2 minute walk from the studio so that's really the only one I know of hah.  I'm staying in Kings Cross and the only show's on here are the drunken punters falling over themselves and crying in the gutter.

[Below Me]

Good concept movie, seen better ones though.

[noworries]

If you liked Inception, I recommend

Oh my god!  That was the worst movie in the history of movies.  I wouldn't tell anyone I worked on that movie,

And Bay, all movies end up being NetFlix movies

[BIG ACH]

Opinion is opinion, we're all different, we all have different taste, and we like different movies.....  I'm a huge movie buff (My home collection is 300+ maybe 400, of all genres action, comedy, drama, romance, kids, etc) but I never read or watch any movie reviews, aside from the fact that I just said we all have different tastes, movie critics always have incredibly strong opinions about movies, sometimes they're just plain bitter, and I hate hearing someone tell me what I will like or dislike, you're not me, go formulate your own opinion, don't skip a movie just because someone said its bad!