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Inception
I just watched it. A bit late, but hey.
Holy hell, that film's long. And exposition-y. I mean, it sort of had to be, considering the amount of intricate plot that they had to get across. And they did it fairly well, considering. Still. I kept glancing at the time line and going HOW AM I NOT EVEN HALF-WAY THROUGH THIS FILM YET.
It was good, though. Or . . . decent. It was decent. It was smart, and it had moments of being clever. It also had moments of being ridiculously stupid, though. One, where Cobb ties a rope to the chair Mal is sitting in and then abseils out the window. What the hell. Who would do that? Even if I trusted the person sitting in the chair, I would still not do that. Too many eventualities, and it's not like Mal is a particularly large and heavy person. And doing it when you don't trust that person sitting in the chair . . . is just absolutely ridiculous. There's showing characters' relationships through actions, and then there's being ridiculous.
And two, that scene where Arthur tries to take out the snipers and Eames comes in and blows them away with a grenade launcher or whatever that was. That moment felt just . . . completely out of place, in a movie that was trying so hard to be subtle and intellectual. It felt like a moment that the writer/director knew he shouldn't put in there, but did because he liked it. Kill your darlings, sir.
I don't know if I liked the ending. I mean, yeah, artistic, intellectual film can't go with an unambiguous ending, but. It felt a bit anti-climactic and put upon. Or maybe that was just me. (If I'd had to make that decision, I would have probably gone with the same ending, simply because, well. The film needed it. But it was a bit of a cop-out.)
Well, overall, good film. Long film. I can't get over how long that film was. Much better than Memento, though, definitely. Just, you know. In the interest of comparing it with past Nolan work. And it was co-produced by a female producer! Win. *waves little more-women-in-the-media-field-please flag*
ETA: I just found this. It does in six panels what the movie did in 2.5 hours.
xkcd should sue Nolan y/y/ice cream?
Holy hell, that film's long. And exposition-y. I mean, it sort of had to be, considering the amount of intricate plot that they had to get across. And they did it fairly well, considering. Still. I kept glancing at the time line and going HOW AM I NOT EVEN HALF-WAY THROUGH THIS FILM YET.
It was good, though. Or . . . decent. It was decent. It was smart, and it had moments of being clever. It also had moments of being ridiculously stupid, though. One, where Cobb ties a rope to the chair Mal is sitting in and then abseils out the window. What the hell. Who would do that? Even if I trusted the person sitting in the chair, I would still not do that. Too many eventualities, and it's not like Mal is a particularly large and heavy person. And doing it when you don't trust that person sitting in the chair . . . is just absolutely ridiculous. There's showing characters' relationships through actions, and then there's being ridiculous.
And two, that scene where Arthur tries to take out the snipers and Eames comes in and blows them away with a grenade launcher or whatever that was. That moment felt just . . . completely out of place, in a movie that was trying so hard to be subtle and intellectual. It felt like a moment that the writer/director knew he shouldn't put in there, but did because he liked it. Kill your darlings, sir.
I don't know if I liked the ending. I mean, yeah, artistic, intellectual film can't go with an unambiguous ending, but. It felt a bit anti-climactic and put upon. Or maybe that was just me. (If I'd had to make that decision, I would have probably gone with the same ending, simply because, well. The film needed it. But it was a bit of a cop-out.)
Well, overall, good film. Long film. I can't get over how long that film was. Much better than Memento, though, definitely. Just, you know. In the interest of comparing it with past Nolan work. And it was co-produced by a female producer! Win. *waves little more-women-in-the-media-field-please flag*
ETA: I just found this. It does in six panels what the movie did in 2.5 hours.
xkcd should sue Nolan y/y/ice cream?