Comments on: Rex Reed Demolishes Inception

By: Jason Apuzzo

Jason Apuzzo — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:36:38 +0000

Some might disagree. I find Reed’s reaction quite refreshing, although he’s a bit kinder toward Nolan than I would’ve been.

By: Thound

Thound — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:16:03 +0000

Please.

Rex Reed is as he has always been…. bitter and irrelevant.

Reed can’t carry the film-making jock of those such as Nolan, so he resorts to using nothing but smarmy insults in a pitiful and pathetic display of projective neurosis.

The act is old Rex. Time to retire.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:37:04 +0000

Jeff P.
You’re an absolute moron. Go watch Twilight with your love Rex Reed and stay don’t ever criticize the best director in Hollywood (Nolan) ever again.

By: kishke

kishke — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:50:02 +0000

Stephen, I too wondered where he came off calling Charlie Kaufman a bottom-feeder after Eternal Sunshine, which was wonderful. Then I remembered the half-hour or so I spent looking at Synechdoche, that gloomy, sorry excuse of a wretched film. But still, bottom-feeder is too harsh.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:54:04 +0000

I have seen Inception, and I thought it was amazing. Rex Reed is an idiot. This is especially evidenced by his belief that Charlie Kaufman is a “bottom-feeder” when he is really one of the most brilliant and original screenwriters ever. His review is a smack-down that makes no arguments, simply states that it’s bad. He considers it incoherent when in fact it is incredibly intricate and involving. I generally like this site, but this unrelenting criticism of a movie you have yet to see is beginning to get quite irritating. Fine, you don’t think it looks very good, but the campaign of hate is just pointless and immature.

By: johngaltjkt

johngaltjkt — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:07:49 +0000

A fun slap down review from Rex Reed that’s for sure but I can’t take him seriously. In my opinion, Rex Reed’s reviews are always more about him than serious film criticism. Sadly it appears that the fix is in on this movie from Hollywood’s latest golden boy, Nolan. It’ll get more than it’s share of good/fan boy reviews to push it over the top. But I guarantee that the average movie fan will leave scratching their heads saying “I was told to like this movie but I don’t get it and I wish it could get that two and half hours of life back!”

By: shinsnake

shinsnake — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:21:40 +0000

I agree, that was a hilarious evisceration. The only problem is that most of the movies he mentioned that sucked, I completely loved (Memento, Batman Begins and especially The Dark Knight). I’ll admit that there are things about each of the movies that aren’t “great” but I still think each of those movies are great as a whole. Especially The Dark Knight, of which, the only times I disliked the movie were when the two SWAT members were transporting Harvey Dent and the one of them decided to give a play by play of the action and when Gordon, Dent, and Batman were on the roof and for some reason, Nolan decided to circle the scene incessantly. So if this guy hates those films and Inception, that actually raises my expectations for it since we seem to be polar opposites on these films.

By: Jeff P.

Jeff P. — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:20:08 +0000

This was very funny. Brutal, but funny. There’s nothing like seeing an old-school critic take apart a poseur director.

By: kishke

kishke — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:54:23 +0000

Rex Reed wrote this review using a flamethrower. Totally scorched earth.

By: SilverySurfer

SilverySurfer — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:02:29 +0000

Can DiCaprio carry a film – that is the pivotal question. He still looks 16 to me.