07-30-2010, 04:59 PM
<!--quoteo(post=108914:date=Jul 30 2010, 02:46 PM:name=bz)-->QUOTE (bz @ Jul 30 2010, 02:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=108848:date=Jul 30 2010, 08:46 AM:name=Butcher)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Butcher @ Jul 30 2010, 08:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I saw it last night and I enjoyed it quite a bit. While visually, it was Nolan's most compelling film, I would actually rank it behind all of his other work -- but I have loved all of his movies, so that isn't a slam on Inception at all.
I'm not quite sure I understand your complaint with the ending, Bz.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW?
What's a Godzilla ending?
I'm also not sure I had as big of a problem with the dialogue that you did. Yeah -- the guy yelling, "Paradox" was pretty lame, but I can't think of any other instances. A fair amount of explanation was required for Ellen Page's character, and I thought it was fine. It didn't seem excessively ham-fisted to me.
I thought the side story with Leo and his wife was amazing -- and probably the best part of the movie. And once they enter the guy's dream on the airplane, it was a pure rollercoaster ride. But it was still interspersed with Leo and his wife and the nature of memory and subconscious -- so it wasn't *just* an action movie at that point.
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At the end of a Godzilla movie, he is killed and the movie ends with "THE END...?" It's corny. That's how this movie ended. Spoilers: Is he dreaming? Will the top stop spinning? Wow that's CRAZY! Not so much.
Look, I liked the movie, but it was this cerebral masterpiece that everyone has said it would be. It's not even close. But it is entertaining.
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SPOILERS
I don't think there's any ambiguity about the ending.
The top isn't going to stop spinning. That seemed pretty clear to me. He spun it, walked away, talked to Alfred Pennyworth, went outside to see his kids, *then* the camera cuts back to the top -- and it's still completely upright. Seems like enough time passed that the top would have stopped, but it's still going full-force. He's still in the dream. The fact that his kids were the same age/size as they were in his previous dreams/memories seems to cement this. When he talked to them on the phone, the girl's voice sounded older. In his memories (and at the end), she's still a toddler.
The movie isn't a big mindbender or anything that's going to blow anyone away. But there is a cerebral aspect to it. And it's entertaining as hell.
I'm not quite sure I understand your complaint with the ending, Bz.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW?
What's a Godzilla ending?
I'm also not sure I had as big of a problem with the dialogue that you did. Yeah -- the guy yelling, "Paradox" was pretty lame, but I can't think of any other instances. A fair amount of explanation was required for Ellen Page's character, and I thought it was fine. It didn't seem excessively ham-fisted to me.
I thought the side story with Leo and his wife was amazing -- and probably the best part of the movie. And once they enter the guy's dream on the airplane, it was a pure rollercoaster ride. But it was still interspersed with Leo and his wife and the nature of memory and subconscious -- so it wasn't *just* an action movie at that point.
4.25 out of 5 stars for me.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
At the end of a Godzilla movie, he is killed and the movie ends with "THE END...?" It's corny. That's how this movie ended. Spoilers: Is he dreaming? Will the top stop spinning? Wow that's CRAZY! Not so much.
Look, I liked the movie, but it was this cerebral masterpiece that everyone has said it would be. It's not even close. But it is entertaining.
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SPOILERS
I don't think there's any ambiguity about the ending.
The top isn't going to stop spinning. That seemed pretty clear to me. He spun it, walked away, talked to Alfred Pennyworth, went outside to see his kids, *then* the camera cuts back to the top -- and it's still completely upright. Seems like enough time passed that the top would have stopped, but it's still going full-force. He's still in the dream. The fact that his kids were the same age/size as they were in his previous dreams/memories seems to cement this. When he talked to them on the phone, the girl's voice sounded older. In his memories (and at the end), she's still a toddler.
The movie isn't a big mindbender or anything that's going to blow anyone away. But there is a cerebral aspect to it. And it's entertaining as hell.