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Leonardo DiCaprio’s on the case in Christopher Nolan’s latest brain-tease. Joseph Gordon-Levitt in “Inception” Photo: Warner Bros. Are they handing out joints at the box office for “Inception”? That would make the movie considerably more fun. Christopher Nolan’s latest is a terrific-looking picture that bounds around the globe from Paris to Tangiers to Tokyo (among places that actually exist) in the wake of a freelance dream thief named Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio). Cobb’s specialty is infiltrating the dreams of corporate big shots and extracting their most valuable secrets. His latest assignment, however, is a little different — a Japanese industrialist named Saito (Ken Watanabe) has hired him to implant an idea in someone’s head that will allow Saito to take over a rival titan’s business empire. Cobb’s reward for achieving this goal: an end to his exile from the United States, where he’s currently a wanted man, and a yearned-for reunion with his two children. Right here you may wonder why anyone in search of secret information would break into someone’s dreams, which are so often distortions of waking life, rather than their memories, which could be more straightforward recollections. But Cobb is not a memory man, so … whatever. Gearing up for his mission, Cobb assembles an A-team of dream-work specialists. There’s an “architect” named Ariadne (Ellen Page), whose job is to structure dreams; a “forger” named Eames (Tom Hardy), who can pass for any other person in a dream world; and a “chemist” named Yusuf (Dileep Rao), whose drug concoctions allow penetration not only into dreams, or into dreams within dreams, but into dreams within dreams within dreams. There’s also a fixer named Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), whose purpose is to handle details and look sharp in skinny suits. As we see, the movie all but nudges us to notice that some of these characters’ names refer to celebrated figures outside the story. But this is sometimes cute to no purpose. Eames displays none of the talents of a famed architectural designer, and an industrial heir named Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy) offers no indication of a chess-master’s cunning. Then there’s Cobb’s estranged wife, Mal (Marion Cotillard), who haunts his dreams and does her best to screw up his every plan: as her name unnecessarily denotes, she be bad. And what about Dom Cobb himself? Is his unlikely moniker meant to suggest Dummkopf , the German word for a dope? That would seem counterintuitive. * Many of the movie’s effects and digital manipulations are spectacularly imaginative, especially a sequence of weightless action in a rotating hotel corridor, the unexpected arrival of a huge train in a scene without tracks, and the startling sight of a long boulevard peeling up off the ground and rising to double over on itself. These eye-popping amazements are much-appreciated in a story that goes on and on for two and a half hours, with Cobb and his team flashing back and forth disconnectedly from one dream level to another, occasionally touching down in reality (whatever that is). Each of the dream-invaders carries a “totem,” an everyday, real-world tchotchke that tips them off as to whether or not they are in fact in a dream, either their own or someone else’s. As the dream levels and their far-flung locales piled up and intermingled — a collapsing Japanese mansion, a bullet-pocked snowscape, an exploding Parisian street — I wished I had a totem myself to keep track of what was going on. Unlike Nolan’s exceedingly clever 2000 film, “Memento,” which was a devilishly complex mystery, “Inception” is basically a complicated heist flick — there is no mystery to ponder and penetrate. Cobb’s goal is clear from the beginning; we spend the rest of the movie attempting to parse its many confusions as he attains it. Nolan says he spent 10 years obsessing over this story (the script is only the second one he has written on his own), which may explain its central problem. Despite its technical brilliance, and its fine cast (Hardy is clearly a star, and DiCaprio brings an emotional depth to the tale that is nowhere else in evidence), the picture is a puzzle palace with far too many rooms. The director himself may have gotten lost in it. (* This paragraph has been amended to delete two errors. As a few readers have noted, the Ariadne of Greek mythology is associated with the tale of the Minotaur’s labyrinth, which makes her name an appropriate fit for the maze-making character played here by Ellen Page. This is a fact so well-known that even I know it, although only on some deep sub-basement level of my brain, clearly. Critic Kyle Smith also points out that the name Browning, which I mistook for a poetry reference, could relate to Brownian motion. After a necessary Google consultation, I see that this is plausible and possibly probable. Thanks to all more eagle-eyed than me.) Check out everything we’ve got on “Inception.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos ‘Inception’ Clips MTV Rough Cut: ‘Inception’ Related Photos Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, More Premiere ‘Inception’ In L.A. ‘Inception’ World Premiere
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Current owners and anyone who purchases an iPhone 4 before September 30 can apply for cases online starting next week. By Russ Frushtick Apple iPhone 4 Photo: Apple After weeks of controversy surrounding the iPhone 4’s antenna issues, Apple has responded by offering free cases to current owners and anyone who purchases an iPhone 4 before September 30. Rumblings of technical issues with the iPhone 4 antenna began on launch day, when users and tech blogs were reporting that, when touching the iPhone’s antenna in the lower left part of the phone, service would drop out substantially. It was found that having a case, such as Apple’s rubberized Bumper, would prevent direct contact with the antenna and thereby fix the issue. The Bumper sells for $29.99. Earlier this week, Consumer Reports announced that it couldn’t recommend the iPhone 4 until Apple offered a free solution to the antenna problem. Apple held a press conference Friday (July 16) to discuss the problem. Steve Jobs, the co-founder and CEO of Apple, spoke to a small crowd of media, saying the antenna problems on the iPhone 4 have been blown out of proportion. Jobs mentioned that “less than one half of 1 percent” of those contacting AppleCare were experiencing problems with the iPhone 4 antenna and that the rate of dropped calls is equal to that of the iPhone 3GS. Jobs continued, saying that “[smart] phones aren’t perfect … every phone has weak spots,” and he proceeded to show videos of other smart phones experiencing the same drop in reception when held in a certain way. But Jobs was quick to note that Apple is still concerned about the small percentage of users who are experiencing problems with their phones. He announced that any current iPhone 4 owner, or anyone who purchases the phone before September 30, 2010, will be able to submit a request online for a free case. Because Apple won’t be able to manufacture enough Bumper cases for everyone, the site will allow users to select from a range of third-party cases as well. Those who receive a free case will then have 30 days to decide whether they want to keep the phone or take it back to the store for a full refund. Apple will begin taking requests for free cases starting late next week. For more on the iPhone 4, head on over to Multiplayer.MTV.com .
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A cabal of critics isn’t lulled by the blockbuster dreamscape, with one deriding it for having ‘no soul, no sex and almost no joy.’ By Eric Ditzian Joseph Gordon-Levitt in “Inception” Photo: Warner Bros. It happened last winter with “Avatar” and it’s happening again with “Inception”: a hugely hyped, big-budget thrill-ride hits theaters, pretty much everyone loves it, yet there remain a few critics on the sideline defiantly shouting, “But it’s really not that good, people!” To those “Inception” haters, we might ask: Um, what exactly do you expect from a summer blockbuster? Because “Inception” is about as perfect as a summer blockbuster can be. Which is not to say it’s a perfect movie . No doubt, Christopher Nolan’s cinematic dreamscape has its fair share of flaws. But if you expect a ripping story line, whiz-bang special effects and the sense of being transported to another world, you will not be disappointed. In fact, you will be elated. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, the brains behind a crew of thieves — including Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page and Tom Hardy — with a peculiar specialty: They possess a machine that allows them to enter another person’s dreams and steal a secret. Their quest in “Inception” is to implant a memory, which requires them to create dreams worlds within dream worlds — and not get lost forever on the bewildering shores of their own subconscious. Will you be a fanatic or hater of “Inception”? There’s only one way to find out: Get thyself to the multiplex. And before you do, check out what the critics have to say. The Hype “The accomplishments of ‘Inception’ are mainly technical, which is faint praise only if you insist on expecting something more from commercial entertainment. That audiences do — and should — expect more is partly, I suspect, what has inspired some of the feverish early notices hailing ‘Inception’ as a masterpiece, just as the desire for a certifiably great superhero movie led to the wild overrating of ‘The Dark Knight.’ In both cases Mr. Nolan’s virtuosity as a conjurer of brilliant scenes and stunning set pieces, along with his ability to invest grandeur and novelty into conventional themes, have fostered the illusion that he is some kind of visionary.” — A.O. Scott, The New York Times The Dissenters “If you approach ‘Inception’ with lowered expectations it’s a pretty good time … For all the complexity, craftsmanship and color of ‘Inception,’ it’s yet another of [Nolan’s] ultra-serious schematic constructions with no soul, no sex and almost no joy, all about some tormented dude struggling with his ill-managed Freudian demons. That same guy sitting next to me cracked that Nolan needs to stop seeing a therapist; there’s not nearly enough sublimation in his movies.” — Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com The Complexities “Nolan, who also wrote the screenplay, lays out the rules of his world deftly. A ton of exposition is needed, yet it never feels like exposition. Things are explained plausibly, and in just enough detail for us to get it — the last thing Nolan wants to do is over-explain himself. The information is parceled out carefully, not all at once, but not in a way that’s maddening or cryptic, either. Again, I marvel at how many films with concepts far simpler than this one never make sense at all, or else only make sense because they repeat themselves clumsily.” — Eric Snider, Cinematical.com The Performances ” ‘Inception’ benefits immensely from a series of low-key and thoroughly credible performances. DiCaprio, in a kind of riff on his ‘Shutter Island’ performance, embodies both the steel and the putty of Cobb, a man who can do remarkable things and is at the same time deeply vulnerable. Gordon-Levitt, stylish and lean as a dagger, makes a fine and steady cohort, Page is utterly at home in the intellectual depths of her character, and Hardy has a seedy nobility that suggests a John le Carr
‘He’s getting hate mail and horrible messages online,’ ‘Idol’ runner-up tells the magazine. By Jocelyn Vena Crystal Bowersox Photo: FOX On the day of her big “American Idol” finale, Crystal Bowersox and her boyfriend, Tony Kusian, decided to end their relationship. And it seems that in the time since the breakup, fans have gotten the wrong idea about Kusian. Now Bowersox is making sure everyone knows that Kusian is not a bad guy. “I really want to clear up some misunderstood stuff about Tony’s and my breakup the night of the ‘Idol’ finale, and let people know how amazing he was through the whole process. I feel like he’s getting portrayed as this person who up and left me on the biggest day of my life, and that’s not the case at all. I mean, he’s getting hate mail and horrible messages online,” Bowersox told Redbook magazine. “So I want to make clear how amazing, kind, and generous a person he is, and that he truly considers my son his son and little Tony loves him,” she continued. “He’s been there since my son was about 3 months old. And in a lot of ways, he’s the perfect man; he really is. But ultimately, we both knew it wasn’t going to work out, considering the different lives we were leading. And it’s better to come to that realization than to have an unhappy relationship. Mommy and Daddy need to be happy in order for baby to be happy.” These days, Bowersox has enough other projects on her plate and is trying to balance it with raising her young son. “I like being busy; I like working hard. So in a lot of ways, everything that’s happening feels completely natural, like this is what was meant to be. This summer I’ll be all over the country on the American Idol tour , flying back and forth between that and Los Angeles. I think Tony will stay here with friends and family who are helping me look after him. But once it’s my own tour, he will definitely be with me,” she said. “And he’ll be able to see and have all these experiences, meet all these new and interesting people, do a lot of unique things a lot of kids don’t get to do. So it’s a lot of new stuff for both of us. I’m looking forward to it.” Once her hectic schedule settles down, she plans on settling down somewhere with her son. “Eventually I’d love to find us a more stable place. I’d like to be either here in L.A. or in New York, because that’s where Mommy can work,” she said. “But for now, Tony’s jet-setting, and he enjoys it. He loves going new places. And as cheesy as this is, home to me is where the heart is. I’m very at home in my skin. I’m at home when my son is with me.” Related Photos Crystal Bowersox’s ‘American Idol’ Experience
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Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe and Dileep Rao describe the scene that took ‘months, off and on’ to shoot. By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Kara Warner Cillian Murphy Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images “Inception” is one of those movies that’s impossible to talk about with people who haven’t seen it and desperately want to avoid spoilers. To discuss any given scene in this thriller about the world of dreams — no matter where it takes place in the story, no matter how minor it might seem on the surface — you have to reveal whole swaths of plot secrets. But the mere fact that we want to talk about “Inception” — however tricky it may be — speaks to just how mind-bending Christopher Nolan’s epic really is. Thus, when MTV News hit the red carpet premiere for “Inception” on Tuesday, we had to ask the stars to reveal the secrets behind some of our favorites scenes. Read on for some insight, but turn back now if you want to avoid some meaty spoilers! First some setup: In “Inception,” Leonardo DiCaprio heads a team that can enter another person’s dreams and either steal a secret or implant a memory without the person ever knowing. For their big mission, they create a series of three different dream worlds, each existing independently yet connected by a subconscious thread. In each successive dream level, time moves progressively slower, so that what only takes, say, five seconds on level one takes maybe 60 minutes on level three. Still with us? OK, that brings us to a wicked chase scene on level one. DiCaprio and his team hop in a van as they flee some nameless assassins. As they drive, they descend to the second dream level but continue to exist in the van, so during a few-minute chase sequence, hours and hours pass on dream levels two and three — leading up to a point where the van plunges off a bridge and takes about an hour to hit the water. The van’s descent in super-slow motion was a massive undertaking to film, the “Inception” stars told us at the premiere. “Months, off and on,” said Dileep Rao, whose character drives the rest of DiCaprio’s team in the van. “We’d shoot it one day, go off and shoot something else. Then shoot another piece of [the van]. It was so complex and there were so many locations and so many different moves I have to do. It’s the stuff that makes or breaks that last sequence.” To capture that last sequence of the van falling off the bridge, Rao said, “they shot [the van] out of a cannon.” The shots of the actors suspended within the van in slow motion took a “whole day shooting and seven times to take,” co-star Ken Watanabe recalled. Eventually, the van lands and sinks under water. “The underwater stuff was challenging because the default setting is to panic,” Cillian Murphy explained. “And when they ask you to act, it’s a bit of an ask .” The actors had to hold their breath for “four or five minutes” as they sucked air from scuba tanks, Murphy said. But they pulled off the sequences, and trust us when we tell you it is one the coolest things you’ve ever seen on the big screen. “[Nolan] was very precise with us, and we nailed it,” said Rao. “I think it was awesome.” Check out everything we’ve got on “Inception.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos ‘Inception’ Clips MTV Rough Cut: ‘Inception’ Related Photos Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, More Premiere ‘Inception’ In L.A.
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Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. – Henry Ford That quote describes how Current should be, but it‘s not. Instead, they boldly prance around while they flawlessly display how unfair they can be towards any poster–unless they are liberals. An article about a student that doesn’t get into a yearbook makes people upset. Why? Because the yearbook is that important? No, the yearbook is not that important. It never is. It just happens to be important because the person affected is gay. It wouldn’t even be a story if the student were anyone else. People dictate that something as small as a yearbook is far more important than floods in any part of the world and it’s so important to slander and post prejudice comments against Mississippi in spite. That’s important to mention because it’s a petty situation between a student and a school. Both are being ridiculous, but one is being unfair. Who’s being unfair? This depends on where you stand. Do people who peer in from the outside know what fair is? What if someone said that the student was unfair? How angry would that make you feel? How frustrated over their presumed ignorance would that have you? That opinion could rattle some. People use African American’s past strife to compare to the cushioned life of how homosexuals are treated. There are those that think the comparison is stupid and they scoff. I think it’s awesome and I’ll use this to jump to my point…. ….Current.com is the school and my situation is similar to how that student felt because she was treated unfair. I’m not going to cry about it (thought others might make post to dictate that as if that’s a clever thing to state—but who said they were clever, certainly not me) but I’m just as frustrated and annoyed. That story has so many comments dictating what is fair, but do those same people actually understand what fair is? See, how could it not be the same? If you’re new to this situation, you may catch up with: http://www.hollywooddump.com/2010/01/current-lowdown.html and http://dorkariffic.blogspot.com/2010/02/hail-current.html Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth. – Oscar Wilde Have you seen the nasty comments certain posters make? It’s not one side over the other, because both sides of the aisle do it. You’ll see some nasty replies here. You’ll never, ever, ever, ever find a post created by me that would even rival some of the nasty comments posted to me or about me. If that’s something you question then you need to click the link and see the Current Lowdown and read those comments. Those are nasty comments. What of the comment I made in Heil Current about JanforGore? That comment isn’t nasty. Jan is not a nice person. I don’t even think I could state she’s a good person. The moment you point to a post where she disagrees and she isn’t talking down to that person, then I might change my mind. However, until then, she is exactly how I stated. Why would Current allow people to post vile comments such as calling any woman the C word? They won’t let anyone call Obama the N word cause that would be racist. Well calling a woman the C word is sexist even if it comes from a woman. They hate their own sex. Why do the few not want me to return? They fear me. Why else? When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. – African Proverb Now for a mock conversation: “Come in and please share your viewpoints,” Current said. “I love Obama,” Liberal Poster fawned. “Obama bypassed branches of government to put a 6 month moratorium on drilling. He is also ignoring the border problem–even after Arizona Democrats told him how bad it is (even though they do so to keep votes). His approval ratings are terrible. How can you love him?” Conservative Poster said. “Shut up you Bush lover. All you’re doing is complaining and it’s not even logical. Stop hating on him. He’s doing the best he can with the situation he was given by stupid Bush and you’re a racist,” Liberal Poster shouted. “That’s a personal attack. It’s against Current’s rules,” said Conservative Poster. “No it’s not. Conservatives are racist. Please look at this video where we mock the Tea Party and your views. But please remember we care about all opinions–but boy those tea party members are a group of crazies,” said Current. “They are not racist. *post video showing minorities* And their views are based on concern for what people are allowing Obama to do,” said Conservative Poster. “Shut up, Party of NO! All Tea Baggers are stupid. Are you stupid? Palin’s stupid,” shouted Liberal Poster. “No one is speaking about Palin. We’re talking about Obama. Are you going to refute the comments?” Conservative Poster asked. “I only discuss politics with logical people that agree with what I have to say, not with homophobic losers like you,” said Liberal Poster. “Another violation,” said Conservative Poster. “Nah, Tea Baggers are haters. But please continue to share,” Current said. –Current pushes an agenda that leaks onto the website. If balance existed there would be an even amount (or close to) of conservatives and liberals. But because of how Current shows bias in who they ban and why, that’s not the case. It should be shown in any discussion like Gay Marriage, but it is clear that a question “Should gay marriage be legal?” has only one answer. The answer is a liberal one, because liberals are always right. It’s really a question for show. http://dorkariffic.blogspot.com/2010/06/current-mistake.html more at link—– added by: 42
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