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Johnny C:
oh my god here's a real headline from that page


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knives:
Anyone who doesn't get 'it' by the end of the first hour is simply dense. The entire first part of the movie seems tailored to show how the film works and hint at the later character stuff.
Spoilers: The thing I'm most impressed with in this movie is how the exposition is handled. This part of things could really get bogged down, but Page's character acting like how a scientist/architect would mixed with most of the exposition being shown really helped to keep up the pace. The movie on the whole reminded me of eXistenZ, especially with the ending. A lot of the film seems to be commenting on itself as a film. Ellipses being an important story element is just sort of an example. I also liked how Nolan seems to be going back on himself with DiCaprio's predicament being very similar to Lenny's. The highlight for me was the second section though which really managed to show Nolan's psychological side as expertly as ever.
Also the hallway battle is just some pure awe, as fun as can be that one.

RallyMonkey:
I thought this was great.

I also feel that if anyone came out of the movie confused, they were trying way too hard. The plot was extremely straight forward. It was very good, but it was no harder to understand than The Dark Knight or anything like it.

Also, that review above does get the plot incredibly wrong, which makes me feel that the reviewer either didn't watch the movie, or was far too dense to understand the relatively simple plot.

KvP:
Saw it! It was really good, with a great cast. I had heard a lot of "James Bond meets the Matrix" but it was really more "The Italian Job meets Existenz". It's a surprisingly conventional heist movie with an unusual premise and a lot of metaphysical gobbledygook used to expand the conventions of the genre. I really, really enjoyed the nesting-doll approach at the end, that was very very clever. I don't think that's really a spoiler.

I actually thought the two leads are the weakest part of the film despite their having the most backstory, but the movie is so fast-paced you don't stop to think that we know next to nothing about Joseph Gordon Levitt's character. Strong work by the supporting cast. And it's nice to see Ken Watanabe getting a juicier role after being wasted as a bait-and-switch in Batman Begins. Also who would have thought we'd see Tom Beringer in a big-tent movie again? I guess he finally cut away.

Dazed:
I saw it again tonight with the lady, and actually enjoyed it more on a 2nd viewing. There are some nifty subtleties to it that I missed the first time while I was digging on the general plot.

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