The Dark Knight Rises. There be SPOILERS here.

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The theme, text and subtext of 'Inception' was 'Spectacle = $.' As is the theme, text and subtext of the upcoming 'Batman.' It's also the motto painted on the street signs in Brentwood.

 

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You. Are. Insane.

 

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No shit. Inception rocked. And he made movies between Memento and Inception not to do with Batman.

Onto the TDKR:

Bane is going to break Bats. Everything hints at it. And this line from the trailer, spoken by Bane as he's crouched over a bloodied, mask-less Batman (or was it just regular Bruce Wayne?) is haunting and foreshadowing: "When Gotham is ashes, you have my permission to die."

 

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This is one of the very few (perhaps the only) franchises where I don't think three films is enough. That trailer made me sad this'll be his (supposedly) last venture into "Batman." Of course, if it does well enough, $$$ may lure Bale and Nolan back in a few years.

I just hope it ends on a high note. Though given Nolan's "Batman" track record, no reason to think it won't.

 

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One of my favorite post-movie experiences the last couple years was going online after watching "Inception" and finding critics who skewered it for the same issues I had with it.

Terrible fucking movie. Just terrible.

 

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Right. Awful.

I didn't read many criticisms of the movie, other than it was occasionally hard to follow. I understand it's a matter of taste, but Inception was one of the grand, sweeping, events of a movie that I have seen in years. I found it brilliant and occasionally literary. I am sorry you didn't share this experience.

 

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Was one of the "grand, sweeping" scenes when Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page dumped on-the-nose sci-fi exposition on us for 20 minutes early on?

Or when JGL floated around a hallway for no apparent purpose?

Or the 30-minute snow battle from "Empire Strikes Back"?

I am really shocked that "Inception" was as universally hailed as it was. I think a lot had to do with the name of the director. It crammed in lots of sci-fi mumbo jumbo and as much plot as the screen could handle, and a lot of people seem to mistake that for craft.

It might have been a movie I should have seen on the big screen instead of a small TV in my basement. That being said, being overwhelmed with spectacle would only patch over the glaring screenplay flaws. As a story, it was an unmitigated disaster.

But I digress.

 

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"Spectacle = $" first appeared in a mosaic in the lobby of the Colosseum; was later used as the motto on the $500,000 bill (under the picture of Michael Bay); and is tattooed on the inside of Brett Ratner's eyelids.

 

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How about we stick to The Dark Knight Rises?

 

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Why derail a good discussion? We have 2 minutes of footage of TDKR to discuss. Nothing wrong with letting the conversation flow.

That said, I loved "Inception" and didn't find it "overly complicated" in any way. In fact, it was pretty much a linear storyline. JGL certainly wasn't floating for no reason and it wasn't difficult to follow why he was floating.

 

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[Boom goes the dynamite.]

Say what?

[Exit. Pursued by a bear.]

 

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Terrence Malick, Steven Sodeberg, The Coen Brothers, Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu all shiiieeeeaaat on Christopher Nolan.

Like, big ol' donkey shit.

In my opinion.