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Inception
BankHoldUp:
I'll admit, I went in with low expectations. I'm not sure if it was because I've become pretty jaded with Hollywood productions or because the trailers really didn't provide me with a concrete reason to see this flick. My friends had to practically drag me out of the house to see it.
Maybe that's why I enjoyed it as much as I did. Not only was I pleasantly surprised by a piece of great story-telling that didn't need over-the-top CG to redeem a piss-poor plot, but it was a movie that required my conscious attention. I rarely go to see a movie a second time in theaters but I will definitely be back for this. What's more, Hans Zimmer did the score for Inception and I have to say that I'm a big fan of his.
RallyMonkey:
One important thing about this movie, I feel, is how little CG it used. Sure, there was CG, but anytime they could, they used physical sets. Some of the things they built for this film were crazy.
jimbunny:
--- Quote from: knives on 18 Jul 2010, 19:13 ---That ending is really the only way it could have have gone. Nothing else would've been dramatically sufficient or cause the audience to audibly gasp. It definitely helps to drag up discussion, sort of like eXistenZ or Videodrome.
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SPOILERS:
No, that's exactly it. Even if it is a dramatic and well done moment, it doesn't inspire discussion, precisely because it's the same knee-jerk, "OMG it's like not real!" play that you get in almost every movie of this sort. Elsewhere in the movie, it's clever because it works. (I loved most of the movie, by the way - just not this part.) However, there's absolutely no reason given the internal logic of the film (that I could tell, anyway) that the ending scene should not be in "real life." I don't think anything that happened up to that point left that possibility open. So it ends up feeling like a cheap parting shot from the director, who's saying something like "No, it doesn't actually have to be this way...because I'm the director and I say so. So, nyeh!" In fact, I think the uncertainty in the last scene undermines discussion, because it gives you a free, "well whatever, doesn't matter anyway, it's just his dream" pass from the moral reality of the film. And this is a film that relies on its moral cruxes.
scarred:
i think you are discussing it right now actually
Lines:
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Considering the top was spinning, but it wasn't a smooth spin and it was jolting like it was going to fall over soon, I do not think it was a dream. However, giving a perfectly happy ending would not match up with the rest of the film and I like the slight unsettled feeling at the end that there is a slight possibility that it could not be real. Like they say in the movie, sometimes it becomes hard to tell what is actually real. If it's a dream, that dream has become his reality. I like open ended endings because it gives me the chance to imagine what happens after the story ends.
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