Thread: Let's Talk Inception (Spoilers abound)

i had a dream last night that i was home and everything was really nice and then i opened a box and that little spinning top was spinning and spinning and spinning and i was like noooooooooooooo

(true)

i was impressed by (what i thought was) the originality of the idea, above all. as for the movie itself, i thought it was fairly typical chris nolan fare: well-thought-out and intricate plot, solid performances across the board (i fuckin love ellen page), great effects and action sequences that aren't shot spectacularly, a lot of suspense but less than the film seems to think, and not very much depth of character or emotional investment. i mean i didn't really care about the characters.

edit: what i mean about the action sequences is -- the effects are brilliant (the rotating hallway in arthur's dream-level looked spectacular) and all the sequences serve the story well, but they are shot (at best) without very much visual pop and sense of danger and (at worst) confusingly, without a crystal-clear idea of who and what is where and when. the best two examples of this are the snow dream-level in inception and the car chase in the dark knight.