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Double review: Inception and The Kids Are All Right posted: 07/17/10 at 4:21 AM
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Inception: While this may be a Christopher Nolan film, I didn't really have high expectations from the trailers that I saw. It seemed to me like this was going to be a somewhat fancy action film and I wasn't too far off. The movie is about a guy who is able to extract or enter new ideas into a persons mind via their dreams. The film delves into question of what is reality and how powerful our subconscious can be.
Overall I give this film a 2.5/5. The script wasn't all that great and the characters were hardly developed. While this movie isn't realistic at all, it doesn't compare with Nolan's other fantasy films like Batman Begins. At least in Batman we got to see who Bruce Wayne really is, what drives the man behind the mask. This movie mostly focuses more on the action and special effects aspect. Not to mention its painstakingly long.
The Kids Are All Right: This is a surprisingly good movie. This movie is about a lesbian couple, their 2 kids and the sperm donor that all of a sudden enters their lives and takes an active interest in the kids. While it may seem like the film is trying to further an agenda or trying to attract a different type of audience, its really not. Its about a typical family with its typical problems. The film shows the work thats required to keep a marriage going and how to balance between giving your kids their own independence but at the same time trying to be involved in their lives. The fact that the married couple is gay really had nothing to with the movie.
I give this a 4.5/5. Could improve in quality but overall it had a great screenplay, great acting and raises key point about family life.
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"A life with love will have many thorns, but a life without love will have no roses." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life."
- Laurence Sterne
"Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough."
- Michel de Montaigne
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posted: 07/21/10 at 7:31 PM
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| I'm surprised Inception has been getting such good reviews. I guess anything better than average these days will get a nod from the critics. Its designed to be a mind-bending movie but I think there are much better movies of those types out there. Remember The Fountain? That was a real mindbending movie, Darren Aronofsky is a great writer and director.
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"A life with love will have many thorns, but a life without love will have no roses." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life."
- Laurence Sterne
"Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough."
- Michel de Montaigne
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posted: 07/22/10 at 8:38 PM
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Originally posted by luvme4me
what exactly happened at the end of inception??? i wasnt sitting thr like huhhhh?! lol please explain wat happened right when he woke up in the airplane at the end.
***Spoilers***
If you recall, Leo had to stay within the dream world because he had to get that Asian guy out(as seen in the scene with the old Japanese man). This was dangerous because he has gone so far down the abyss, he may stay in the dream world forever. When Leo wakes up in the plane the audience assumes he was successful because hes back to reality. However, when we see in the ending scene where the totem doesn't stop spinning, we realize that it was just his dream which he now thinks is reality. Its a very cliched ending like any other horror/psychological films, giving a spin in the end for perhaps a part 2.
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"A life with love will have many thorns, but a life without love will have no roses." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life."
- Laurence Sterne
"Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough."
- Michel de Montaigne
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posted: 07/25/10 at 4:26 AM
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Spoiler ALERT
I actually got to see this today. Im surprised, but I really liked it. I caught onto the thing with the beginning with the asian man immediately through what he said about the old man filled with regret in the movie. I thought it was an interesting movie and it definitely kept me gripped to my seat. I love dream fantasies. I do agree that the development of the characters wasnt as strong because it mainly focused on Cobb, which almost seems like a replica of Teddy Daniels from Shutter Island. Same character flaw and development. I also thought it was weird that they mentioned the one totem they carried to know when they were dreaming and when they were not, however you never really witnessed the using of everyone else's totem except Cobbs. Arthur had the red die and Ariadne had the chess piece. Why did they never use it and what happens when they do? Cobbs piece never stopped spinning...so I wonder what happened to the others.
I intepreted the ending differently though. It didnt stop spinning, however it was fluxuating like it COULD stop at any point. The same sounds a quarter makes as it is wavering. I think the ending was open ended to interpretation and it left it for you to think about it.
Besides that...the entire movie they indicated he could not see his children's face due to his guilt, he was "denied" the ability to see them personally. He finally could see them at the end of the movie, it wasnt a perpetual circle of guilt anymore. He broke the cycle with acceptance and was able to get both him and Saito out of limbo. I think he did come back to reality, but then again, that is what the ending was about. It was to make you question.
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Last edited by fair_is_fair on 07/25/10 at 6:27 AM
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HAHAHAHA. 
go me.
