[It's back, it's in English, and it's high res. Check out the new Inception trailer here.]
Call it the anti-Avatar. Slick, intelligent science fiction that relies on concept rather than flash to engage the audience.
At an advance screening of Sherlock Holmes a couple nights ago I was treated to the new theatrical trailer for Christopher Nolan's Inception and came away much impressed. Yes, the voice over on this particular trailer is a bit over bearing but the imagery and concepts lurking all the talk are absolutely fantastic and - most impressive - was how much of this is being realized in-camera with CGI being used only when absolutely necessary. Such as when rolling up a city. It's a use of technology that stands in stark contrast to James Cameron's approach with Avatar. While Cameron created new technology to create artificial worlds, Nolan went the opposite direction and used existing technology to shoot the real world in a way that made it appear foreign and disorienting. Granted, I've not seen Avatar yet but guess which approach has me more excited?
Call it the anti-Avatar. Slick, intelligent science fiction that relies on concept rather than flash to engage the audience.
At an advance screening of Sherlock Holmes a couple nights ago I was treated to the new theatrical trailer for Christopher Nolan's Inception and came away much impressed. Yes, the voice over on this particular trailer is a bit over bearing but the imagery and concepts lurking all the talk are absolutely fantastic and - most impressive - was how much of this is being realized in-camera with CGI being used only when absolutely necessary. Such as when rolling up a city. It's a use of technology that stands in stark contrast to James Cameron's approach with Avatar. While Cameron created new technology to create artificial worlds, Nolan went the opposite direction and used existing technology to shoot the real world in a way that made it appear foreign and disorienting. Granted, I've not seen Avatar yet but guess which approach has me more excited?
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Holy shit balls! Folding city looks uber fantastic!
Stoked to the MAX!!!!
To be honest it seems pointless to compare "Inception" and "Avatar" beforehand, seeing as how they are two completely different beasts.
I mean, you might as well throw in "Primer" if you want to juxtapose budgets and intentions.
I like what I see of "Inception" but am already scheduling my second visit to the 3D-IMAX (and do not rule out a third...). What does that say about "Inception"? Not one damn thing. I just hope it will be as good as, say, "Dark City".
(ducks and runs for doing the exact same thing as Todd...)
I'm just using Avatar as a completely opposite approach to big event scifi. Cameron's focus - as with all of his films - is to show you things you've never seen before. Nolan's focus - arguably with pretty much all of his stuff as well - is to show you things that you see all the time but to show them in ways that make them appear alien.
this is what I am looking for in SciFi. Avatar is action for me.
Did you really just spend an entire paragraph bashing a movie you haven't even seen? Honestly, I expect a lot more from this site.
I won't bash Avatar - haven't seen it, not planning to - but I will say that trailer sent a chill up my spine in ways the Avatar trailer simply didn't. Yes, Cameron's shooting for a very, very different effect, but he is basically being hailed as the second coming for doing something I'm not convinced is anything other than technically out of this world. Like Todd says; that trailer, in contrast, feels alien
First Christopher Nolan film I've been excited about in a while, too! I'm not a huge fan of Batman on the big screen.
I wouldn't say it's a "fantastic" trailer by any means. First, it's in French, second, nothing is really shown? Are they in a pop up book? Don't get me wrong, I look forward to it, since Nolan is an amazing filmmaker, but as of right now, there seems to be nothing special about this movie. People get a very knee jerk reaction to any bit of visual stimuli from an anticipated filmmaker, or movie, like Avatar. The first trailer was very underwhelming, and everyone and their mom were coming out bashing it for whatever reason. I was hugely skeptical of the most expensive movie ever made, but after seeing it, in 3D: GODDAMN! Quite a hell of a movie that most filmmakers, with the exception of Spielberg, only dream they can make.
Funny, I don't recall bashing Avatar at all. Or making any qualitative statements about it at all in either direction. All I did was note that Nolan's approach is pretty much the polar opposite of Cameron's and that, in general, I prefer Nolan's approach to things. That in no way means I don't enjoy Cameron's films (which I do, in general) or that I'm not looking forward to hauling myself out to see Avatar (which I am). It just means that I think Cameron relies on a lot of flash and bang and basically uses technology to create a largely external film experience (which can be a lot of fun when done well) while Nolan uses technology to challenge how you look at the everyday world around you and, in the process, creates a more internal and unsettling experience.
I guess maybe Cameron shows you new things, he certainly did in Avatar, but he doesn't go nearly as deep as he could. Nolan has more profound and brainy tendencies, but he hasn't really gone that deep either. This one looks fantastically twisted though.
I agree with fhoom that Cameron could go deeper story-wise, but to state (as Kurt did) that he is "only interested in fireworks" and "doing stuff for 12 year old boys" is selling him short in my opinion. Frankly, that's a description I'd give someone like Michael Bay.
Anyway, I'm stoked to see "Inception" and I surely appreciate Nolan's work. When I look at this trailer I...
Hey, where is it gone?
Yes, the story in Avatar is not very new or intricate or mindbending, but it is a hell of a yarn. Well told in its simplicity, very moving. You have to take into account that the spectacle and discovery is part of the storytelling. He is way beyond Bay.
I kind of prefer Nolan's style too, playing with your mind more. But so far I think he has seemed more challenging than he has really been...but Inception could be it. Looks like a more surreal and intellectual Minority Report.
It looks like the trailer has been removed by WB.
First it was District 9 now Inception, how many "Anti-Avatars" are there and since when was Avatar the benchmark all sci fi flicks are judged against?
You are comparing a movie you haven't seen to a less than 2 minute trailer? Just when I bother to come back to this site I am reminded why don't frequent it as much as I used to. The pretentious for the hell of it attitude that permeates damn near all film blogs on the net didn't seem as strong on twitch. Or maybe its been here all along and I just haven't seen it.
That being said I am very interested in Nolans next film, but please stop taking pop shots at a movie you HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN just because it's the new hotness at this particular moment. Please.
You can still watch the trailer here: http://cineblog.blogs.sapo.pt/685900.html .
Avatar is Dance with Wolves with a bunch of blue ja jar binks. It's cliche, dull and by the numbers. We are talking about the man who wrote Titanic after all. Cameron's main skill used to be knowing how to shoot good action films. Nobody is going to remember Avatar in a couple of months, once a new "3d" film scifi gimmicky bullshit comes out.
As for this, i wish i could get excited since Nolan knows what he's doing, but Di Caprio in the lead....ugh.
Aw, are we really that bad suddenly blackula?
We may be just as pretentious as the rest, but at least we read the comments before we add our own out-of-date comments. Todd already said it wasn't meant as a pop shot to "Avatar".
Apparently even editors of twitch can't see through Nolan's BS.
Christopher Nolan's haters are amusing, and damn, they really loathe the man and his movies. I don't know why a director as harmless as him can inspire so much hate.
Definitely looking forward to this - I've enjoyed everything I've seen by Nolan so far (still need to check out the Insomnia remake though).
Avatar on the other hand - great visuals - beautiful in 3d (although I wonder after reading Ebert's review of "Up" last summer if we didn't lose out on some of the "brighter" color mixes using polarized glasses. I'll be picking it up on DVD eventually too...
That said, the story was crap in a hat. The most trite, cliched, anti-western garbage I've seen since "The Last Samurai". Seriously...meh! But oooh, the pretty colors ;p (at least it didn't have Tom Cruise playing the messiah).
4 dimensions.