Comments on: Inception

By: blip

blip — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:01:03 +0000

“Cillian Murphy seemed like a good guy! WTF” Yes, he did. I sat through those ten thousand interminable hours of “Inception” (come on: the movie was at least three months long, wasn’t it?) wondering why we should be rooting for Leonardo Di Caprio and his gang of thugs. Then I thought: Oh, we’re supposed to be okay with them stampeding through Cillian Murphy’s brain and sticking fake ideas where they don’t belong because (a) Cillian Murphy is playing a really rich white guy, and it’s okay to hate those now JUST BECAUSE, and (b) they’re “helping” him to resolve his “daddy issues.” Oh, how sweet and kind of them! Then I thought this: Would Nolan’s minions have been rooting so hard for crackpot Cobb if Cillian Murphy had been the less-rich guy and he’d hired Cobb and his brain-molesters to take down uber-rich-guy Saito…? I’m thinking the bellows of “OH, NO! THAT’S HORRIBLE! THAT’S RACIST! YOU MONSTERS!”, etc., would still be ringing to the high heavens. Or maybe that’s just me. Anyway: Great review. Got a hell of a kick out of reading it!

By: Yours Truly

Yours Truly — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:03:18 +0000

YES! I love “aka the basement.” And like, we’re to believe that he and the french lady spent the equivalent of like 87 years in limbo “building their own world” but then all it is is gray-ass skyscrapers? Are they just the most boring people in the world?

I love how Inception is literally a window into Christopher Nolan’s own subconscious and what we find there is just sort of dull

By: B C

B C — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 02:38:18 +0000

I feel like I remember you talking about this in animated movies, but in a movie where they literally figured out how to make Paris look like origami, and spinning room fight sequence shit happen, isn’t it annoying that when you’re finally in DiCaprio’s dream-brain it’s still just the most corny representation of the subconscious as levels? “Let’s take the ol’ elevator down into his deepest darkest fear aka the basement.” What?

By: dalas v

dalas v — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:51:41 +0000

Did you read all the things about how the score is based on super slowed down and speeded up versions of that old french song? That part was maybe the only interesting part of the film for me.