Film: Inception
Aug. 4th, 2010 10:48 amPrejudices
First, to get the obvious observations out of the way. It has a bunch of action in a somewhat artistic way, and some interesting intellectual ideas. This leads some people, who have never seen cinematic action used to show an intellectual idea before, to proclaim "it doesn't make any sense, it sucks" or preferably "Wow, that's the most amazing cleverest thing I've ever seen". And it leads other people, who have seen one or more of the interesting ideas explored somewhere before, to panic, and think that if they say anything positive people will confuse them with fanboys, and hence proclaim "utter derivative trash! I knew everything that was going to happen from the first scene. it's just stupid"
In general, I like films that have action and heists, and also interesting ideas. I think that they come along every so often, and I like to encourage them. Of those films, I think this is a pretty good one. Far from the best, but it had an awful lot to like, and also many undeniable flaws. I basically expected it to fall into the "good but not best example of a genre I like a lot" based on people's reactions to it, and it pretty much did.
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First, to get the obvious observations out of the way. It has a bunch of action in a somewhat artistic way, and some interesting intellectual ideas. This leads some people, who have never seen cinematic action used to show an intellectual idea before, to proclaim "it doesn't make any sense, it sucks" or preferably "Wow, that's the most amazing cleverest thing I've ever seen". And it leads other people, who have seen one or more of the interesting ideas explored somewhere before, to panic, and think that if they say anything positive people will confuse them with fanboys, and hence proclaim "utter derivative trash! I knew everything that was going to happen from the first scene. it's just stupid"
In general, I like films that have action and heists, and also interesting ideas. I think that they come along every so often, and I like to encourage them. Of those films, I think this is a pretty good one. Far from the best, but it had an awful lot to like, and also many undeniable flaws. I basically expected it to fall into the "good but not best example of a genre I like a lot" based on people's reactions to it, and it pretty much did.
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