Inception

And putting the team together is an obligatory sequence in a caper movie. Here, instead of needing a forger, a safe guy, etc., they need a chemist, an architect, etc.

Am I the only mythology geek in here who likes it that her name is Ariadne?

 

What I don't get is ......

....SPOILER.....



If it is all a dream as some suggests, then whose dream is it? Likely answer would be Cobb, but if that's the case, how do we have scenes of people interacting without Cobb, or that has nothing to do with Cobb?

 

I thought naming the girl Ariadne was a little ham-fisted, like naming the wife Mal.

 

Nolan's a crook.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/08/03/inceptions-plot-in-a-2004-uncle-scrooge-comic-book/

 

Ha!

Come to think of it, I bet he stole that whole Dark Knight bit from a comic book, too.

 

And the idea for 'Memento' was originally an Archie storyline!

 

Rotten Tomatoes:
Inception: 87 percent
Salt: 58 percent.
Not close.

 

Absolutely no interest in Salt. Do we really need to see another movie about some super-agent being chased by the government for reasons they can't explain? Didn't they already make three Jason Bourne movies?

 

Salt vs. Inception argument works only because of expectations.

Salt had little (in relation to Inception) and was surprisingly slick, well-made and entertaining.

Inception had unreachable expectations and, of course, fell short.

But Inception, in my opinion, is the better movie. And it is the better-reviewed movie.

 

If you see the movie you'll know that while the trailer presents that, it's not true.

 

If anything, this movie proved that Ellen Page should stick to doing shitty Cisco commercials. She—nor her character—had no business being in that movie whatsoever. A more talented, much hotter actress could've done wonders for that part, like Carrie Moss did in Matrix.

 

Loved the movie, but have some quibbles.

The good:

-- Nolan kept the pace up to keep you from dwelling on too much, at least until the credits rolled. He also did a great job of allowing the audience to see clues instead of highlighting them.
-- Marion Cotillard's performance. She took a fake character and gave it the depth of a real one. DiCaprio was good, too, but he was outdone by Cotillard in their scenes together and it doesn't rank with his Scorcese work.
-- The visuals, of course. Especially Gordon-Leavitt's gravity-shifting fight for the pistol. I gleefully giggled watching that.
-- An interesting premise that wasn't ruined by a lengthy explanation of origin.

The bad:
-- Too much gunplay, especially in the snow scene, the movie's only weak portion.
-- Flat characters except for the main couple. J G-L, Ken Watanabe, Michael Caine and Cillian Murphy could have done better with more.
-- Ellen Paige. Maybe she was supposed to be the breakout star (a la Ledger in "The Dark Knight") but she was just Juno in a thriller.