Inception
You can play with this jack at the website…
And you can watch the trailer here…
(Edit – 10:57p, switching to Yahoo! embed)
May 19, 2024
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
$200 million. Looks interesting… But $200 million?
200 million?!? 200 million what? Cost or gross? Either way, sorry but the answer is no.
And what’s with the Matrix color palette? Fights with characters climbing the walls wasn’t enough to evoke the feeling?
Whoa what’s with the SUB-PAR SQUACK?
Ellen Page and Cotillard? Nothing against Juno, and Cotillard was hot and awesome in Public Enemies, but this is looking like a 3 at best (out of 10) on the newly created LEXIAN BONE-O-METER.
Nolan is great but he’s getting to Spielberg, Mann, Cameron levels of ZERO SEXINESS in his movies, the only exception being Johansson and PIPER PERABONER in Prestige.
I go to movies to see Chicks I Want to Bang, so with a model-banging LEGEND like DiCaprio in the house, I expect hotter trim.
IMDB says it cost $200 million. Also:
http://www.filmshaft.com/chris-nolans-inception-budgeted-200-million/
Lex, is squack all you think about?
Does Nolan still have time to edit in a new scene with MELANIE LAURENT?
MELANIE LAURENT needs to do a BUDDY COP MOVIE with MEGAN FOX where they play lesbian bikini cops in high heels who live in a cramped studio apartment painting each other’s toenails in between trying to bring down a drug empire headed by Jean-Claude Van Damme and then they get some help from Jason Statham who bangs them while SIX UNDERGROUND plays on the soundtrack and LOU FROM CADDYSHACK and LEXG have a supporting cameo where we sell them guns and a giant truck like Michael J. Pollard in TANGO AND CASH.
BEST IDEA EVER, someone write that script and give me a STORY BY credit so I get into WGA.
Sounds better than INCEPTION.
Gee, it’s so great to have you back.
Jack? I thought it was a dreidel. Snicker.
Lex: Ellen Page is tiny lady hotness.
That aside, Nolan has earned 200m dollars to make that crazy awesome looking shit. Sign me up.. right now. Nolan is the motherfucking man.
i’ll agree with io for once in a blue moon and say i’m looking forward to it, nolan has a good eye
Yahoo! Movies does have an embed available.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5809841/15201197
Took all of about ten seconds to find. And yet, 2/3 of the online community gripes about how Yahoo! sucks for never allowing you to embed their exclusives.
I know it’s bad form to mention the OTHER movie blog that shall not be named over here, but Wells went all kinds of batshit over this trailer. First, he went on a long rant about dreidels and tried to explain why he didn’t know what they were and, in another post, indulged in a long exegis about how Ellen Page is too short to play scenes opposite someone of Leo DiCaprio’s stature, invoking midgets and Peter Dinklange along the way. Entertaining stuff.
Drew… glad you found it so easy to find. But movies.yahoo.com does NOT have the embed. Has a plain link… but no embed. You went to videos.yahoo.com, which is good to know and I will try to remember, but this is not brain surgery and I am not The Dark Knight.
And if 2/3 of the online community can’t find it, why isn’t Yahoo! fixing the problem instead of keeping it going by not offering the link where so many of us find the trailers?
Looks pretty good for a teaser. That music could crush bones if it was turned up to 11.
200 million is just ludicrous. Anyone spending that kind of money these days isn’t right in the head.
I could care less. I love Nolan and have no horse in this race. Batman Begins made 200 million domestic which turned into 60 million for the Prestige which was marketed heavily under Nolan’s name. By that logic, The Dark Knight made 500 million which would put Inception at 150 million domestic. That sounds about right. So take Leo’s international b.o. appeal. 300-400 million worldwide? And that’s probably a best case scenario.
for high quality embeds, I’ve started using Movie-List. They were always the best trailer collection online, but they recently started having and allowing embeds. http://www.movie-list.com/
Just when I was a li’l worried about Lex, he shows up to remind me that I wasn’t missing him…
The only SUPERHERO MOVIE that LEO should be in would be called BANGINGMODELSMAN, where we follow Leo around as he BANGS MODELS and HAS SEX WITH THEM then MORE MODELS come in and scissor each other and it’s lit by Wally Pfister and all creamy Nolan flesh tones with the cold steelish blue backgrounds just slightly racked out of 2.35:1 focus, then LEO gets a new sidekick called LEXMAN and together we go after a megavillainess called SQUACKGIRL played by like Megan Fox or Melanie Laurent or Scar-Jo and we take turns banging her and high-fiving, then all of her evil SUPER SEX POWERS come out in some blinding blue laser that goes WHOOSH and transfers over to the Model Agency and on the last shot, me and Leo are like, “Are you ready dude?” “FUCK YEAH” then we head off like DOC AND EARP at the OK CORRAL about to go in and have sex with 600 Eurasian and firecrotch models.
BETTER IDEA.
Oh yeah, and PIVEN should be in there too as some amped-up, chatterbox bargain-basement rival who’s trying to corner the model-banging business and steal Leo’s thunder. And FRED DURST or KID ROCK or LINKIN PARK should do the soundtrack and in some part where I’m banging a chick, they should be playing that HERE COMES THE BOOM/HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW! kinda Nu Metal rap-rock shit from like P.O.D. or something.
IT WRITES ITSELF. Why am I not in the WGA?
Christian, fear not, my recent absence is probably going to continue on and off… and I’m probably leaving L.A. for good in the months ahead.
I’m moving to TOKYO where I’ll be more appreciated.
And Michael Caine? Wow. Sir Michael is becoming the Walter Brennan to Nolan’s Howard Hawks. Or something like that.
Instead of Ellen Page, Nolan should have put VANESSA HUDGENS IN THIS with her GLOWING PINK SNEAKERS, HOT AS HELL. GIANT BOOOOOOOOONER.
I HAVE A BONER. A couple weeks back I went to a strip club with the Pussy Posse and I have a pair of pants that still smells like VAG.
Christ, if I had Leo money and fame I’d order 19 models and actresses up per day and line them up and go down the line like some awesome ROCCO SIFFREDI or something.
LIFE IS PASSING US BY ONE SECOND AT A TIME and if YOU and I don’t get to TAXING SOME CELEBRITY VAG, soon it will be too late.
And then what will our lives have meant?
Absolutely NOTHING.
But, oh, yeah, let’s talk about a movie trailer.
First it was Godzilla. Then Mothra. Now LexG. Tokyo can’t catch a break.
(LexG: You know I keed, right?)
Those Mothra bee twins (or, more likely, their granddaughters) need to BE PREPARED because I’m coming to town with my JAPANESE FOR DUMMIES language book and a whole headful of stereotypical preconceived notions based entirely on my enjoyment of JAPANESE CHICKS SPITTING IN EACH OTHERS’ MOUTHS videos on YouTube.
HERE COMES THE BOOM HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW!
Sayonara!
OT, but I just watched a clip for All About Steve and it reminded me of how funny Keith David can be. It was almost 20 years that he was in the underrated gem Men at Work and he doesn’t look a year older in Steve and has the same comedic timing.
the clip:
http://alturl.com/uugi
Keith David is awesome but nevertheless I always shudder when I see him after Requiem for a Dream.
lex has returned. we can go back to suffering fools. but i’ll be damned if i do it gladly.
Anghus, come on, dude, be for real.
I had at least TWO world-class hilarious lines today that anyone being honest would give props over: That shit above about Japanese chicks and Mothra, and that line about Saran Wrap in the other thread. No shit, after I posted those I sat there laughing like Max Cady with tears coming out of my eyes for 10 minutes they were so funny. If that’s not funny to you, I give up. Because it’s fucking hilarious, I’m awesome, I’m a GENIUS, and Hollywood and the FILM INDUSTRY IN GENERAL are poorer places for not employing me in a writing or on-camera capacity.
I am absolutely serious when I say I am the WORLD’S greatest undiscovered talent. And maybe the smartest person in the universe.
I AM GOD.
He was provoking me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxurvUiTy7M
GOD doesn’t have THE GOODS…
Speaking of that, does anyone know where I can get a T-SHIRT with JEREMY PIVEN’S FACE ON IT with the words THIS GUY IS AWESOME underneath his mug?
THAT WOULD BE THE GREATEST SHIRT EVER.
If I went to a shirt-making place with a PIVEN PICTURE and asked the dude to make me a PIVEN SHIRT, would I get laughed at?
If I knew that Keith David actually had a substantial role, I might actually see All About Steve at some point. Still, I have to admit, that scene would have been even funnier had David used his ‘Goliath’ voice. I made a joke about this elsewhere awhile back, but David and Tony Todd really ought to do some kind of live reading of Green Eggs and Ham for charity.
How do you feel that you are AN INFERIOR HUMAN BEING to Leo DiCaprio?
At least I admit it, god damn it. Your lives are WORTHLESS.
YOU ARE HUMAN GARBAGE.
Honestly, Lex, “BangingModelsMan” may be your goddamn masterpiece.
CUT TO BLACK.
GOOD ENDING.
This is the second Leo trailer after SHUTTER ISLAND for a movie with a world-class cast where he’s still the only one credited. I understand it’s probably contractual, but it bothers me.
Liked the look of this. At least the trailer will put to rest the small but insistent rumor that Inception is actually the Dark Knight sequel filming under an assumed name, like Return of the Jedi / Blue Harvest.
For a second there, Martin, I thought you were posting a link of “Japanese chicks spitting into each other’s mouths.”
re: Keith David Goliath – Wasn’t there a live action version of Gargoyles in the works? That’d be a dream project to write.