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It won't blow, it will be amazing. Nolan has not made a bad film. I have complete faith in him.
amazes me how people liked inception... worst movie from that whole genre. sucker punch shit all over it and that movie and sucker punch was pretty much awful. but at least the sucker punch's director gets that the more interesting thing about this genre is being creative with the worlds and charaters and didn't spend 50% of the screen time explaining the rules of the universe. they just copied the premise of dancers in the dark and then added giant robot samurais and dragons.
"Sucker Punch shit all over it" sheesh I disagree
I'll take Nolan over Zach Snyder any fucking day of the week, I think I remember you saying in the Inception thread that there wasnt enough cool creative dream shit and too much "GI Joe shooter stuff" or something along those lines. Of course films are subjective and who am I to try and convince you to like Inception. I just feel it doesnt have to adhere to some sort of rule for being in a specific "genre". It was an original film written and conceived by Nolan so why should it have to be compared to Fire Breathing Dragons and Zombie Nazi's like some 13yr olds dream movie, because it takes place in the "mind"?
And I agree with Miadaskate, Nolan has not made a bad film, Memento, The Prestige, Inception, all were great
If you hated Inception that much you must have really been looking for a different film.
fair enough, that might be the case. maybe i had the wrong kind of expectations but they were created by a trailer that framed the film as being a trippy dream sequence type of film, not a simple hiest film (which admittedly is a genre that i mostly don't like save reservoir dogs).
but even that shouldn't be enough to make me dislike a film and it wasn't that alone that made me dislike the film. things i hated:
- poor, forgetable charaters. i don't like ellen page as a lead, especially not in an action film. more importantly, where was the iconic villian? ok, then how about a memorable villian? i mean this is nollan right, the same guy who did batman and all we get is g.i. joe, nameless faceless bad guys? didn't get keanu but then casted a look alike with similar manerisms? i mean come on, og keanu sucks enough do we have to cast a poor mans keanu?
- way to much time spent explaining the rules. it was a simple premise, no need to spend 45 minutes of screen time talking about it. as you go deeper, time slows down exponentially. could have explained it in one scene but beat it to death.
- severe lack of creativity for the dream worlds. they bait you with the mc escher stuff and then deliever nothing. if you watched any of the scenes in isolation you'd have no idea what was the dream world and what wasn't because there was nothing special about them. i think that's a major creative missed opportunity and found it especially annoying after being baited by a trailer that hinted at something better. at least throw some psychologically trippy stuff in there or subtle stuff.
- "The butler did it." unlike memento which didn't have fantasy elements but had an interesting, original premise with a fun to follow non-linear plot puzzel to solve, this film tried way to hard and failed miserably at this. the premise had been done so many times and they didn't change it one bit. they couldn't have someone else be dreaming, it had to be the main charater yet again. not a single curve ball, just the same old with the addition of nested dream worlds and exponential time slow down. not exactly a fun to solve puzzel when the whole film you are waiting for them to reveal the clincher and you get same old, same old "it's the main charater who's really dreaming." this is the one that amazes me the most, i can't believe more people weren't dissappointed by the weakness of the puzzel aspect of the film especially considering that they went so light on charaters, dialogs, sets, etc...
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