{"id":1671,"date":"2010-08-09T00:09:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T12:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2011-12-31T09:37:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:37:59","slug":"inception-usa-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"Inception (USA, 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/9\/91\/Inception_poster.jpg><\/p>\n<p>Inception is a big budget sci-fi film by Christopher Nolan who did The Dark Knight recently. It&#8217;s getting quite some acclaim. I saw it on Saturday with the other moose, the knifeman, and the enigmatic B. We spanned the whole range of opinions: one liked it, one didn&#8217;t like it, one thought it was okay, and one was unable to decide. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some bullet points.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was the one who liked it. I did. About halfway through I realized I was having a good time.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve had several conversations about <em>Neuromancer<\/em> in the last week. Inception felt like that &#8211; dense, global, informed by Noir, a heist story that turns on the specific nature and limitations of a distinctive technology.<\/li>\n<li>But not really that dense. It felt very straightforward to me &#8211; if you keep up with the technology explanations, then the whole thing runs with no real deviations or surprises.<\/li>\n<li>(If you keep up with the technology &#8211; and here let&#8217;s pause and acknowledge the most extreme case of infodumping I&#8217;ve seen in any medium for quite a long time. Characters keep stopping and explaining at length this or that aspect of the tech. Not even remotely elegant.)<\/li>\n<li>Some viewers have constructed elaborate theories about what was really going on, analysing looks between characters and specific cuts halfway through the film to argue this or that theory. That&#8217;s cool if you like that stuff, but I don&#8217;t think there was anything in the film that demands it. The straightforward explanation is never undermined or challenged. There&#8217;s no reason to think that it&#8217;s anything but exactly what it seems to be.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a heist movie with nearly the entire focus on the procedural aspects of the job. It was a bit like CSI crossed with the A-Team. I enjoyed it for that reason, I think.<\/li>\n<li>The zero-g stuff was wonderful.<\/li>\n<li>The psychology stuff &#8211; not so wonderful. Inception, the process of putting an idea into someone&#8217;s head so they think it&#8217;s their own? Far from being an ultimate, feared challenge requiring future!tech and extreme risk-taking by our band of outlaws, inception is performed on all of us every day by advertisers. Dude.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I liked it. Don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll watch it ever again, though. I&#8217;ll give it about a 3.5 out of 5, which is pretty good really, but not at all a classic.<\/p>\n<p>Enthusiasts might want to read <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/feature\/inception-comic.html\">the preview comic<\/a>, written by Chris Nolan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inception is a big budget sci-fi film by Christopher Nolan who did The Dark Knight recently. It&#8217;s getting quite some acclaim. I saw it on Saturday with the other moose, the knifeman, and the enigmatic B. 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