rhivolution | Ten Unpopular Opinions About Inception

- As I have said before: it's not all a bloody dream. That'd be cheap on the part of the screenwriter/director/DP.
- I don't see any sexual tension in canon Arthur and Eames interaction, and yes, I do wear slash goggles. I'd buy their dislike as a plot device towards either Arthur breaking his linear thinking or Eames becoming fully a team player (or, less happily, towards one of them turning traitor). Not fucking.
- Now, Ariadne and Cobb have some hot tension, or maybe that's just me being UST and mentor/student shipper for life.
- I don't like Eames as a character. I find him overwhelmingly dull in his nonconformity.
- I hate myself for falling into Nolan's trap of loathing Mal, when I should know better.
- I'm really interested in seeing an expansion of the verse. I mean, Cobb's team is clearly not the only group out there, as Yusuf's work indicates. I'm picturing a worldwide underground with a diverse array of methodologies and ideas, but we only get teased with that. ALL ABOUT THE WHITE DUDES.
- There's so much other world stuff I want to know. Can't I get more of that? Is anyone writing that?
- Casting the same three people in every fucking movie is not good filmmaking. Just ask Tim Burton. I am sort of sick of Cillian Murphy.
- There is no fucking emotional resonance in this film. I like it purely on a cerebral level. This is another Nolan Problem.
- Ariadne is not so enamoured with the team and dreamscapes that she'd be a lifer in the job. Sorry. Part of what makes her interesting is the fact that she can walk away.

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I agree with almost all of this. But then, I often feel like I ought to come with a disclaimer that I hated this film. The emotional resonance point was especially apt.

I didn't hate it, but it didn't make me feel anything in my gut, and I need at least some small feeling to classify a film as really good. Probably a flaw of mine as a reviewer.

I mostly am fond of the universe, really, and so I try to participate in fandom but find myself in MASSIVE disagreement with much of what I perceive as the dominant paradigm.

I don't think it can be classified as your flaw when we're talking about the basic principles of storytelling. If you're not making your audience feel something, what's the point? Even the "exciting" parts bored me.

I do think the world has a lot of potential, if you're into that sort of thing. As I've mentioned before, I can't get past it because of the way I personally dream, but I can recognize the possibilities there. Yet another reason the film pisses me off. Squandered opportunity is a big peeve of mine.

- director's preferred ending is that it wasn't a dream.
- I can see Arthur/Cobb, but not Arthur/Eames.
- I misheard it as "Maul" and wondered why anyone would want to name their daughter that.
- let me bully some of my friends into helping me write Inception'verse fic.

Yusuf needs more love! *g*

Wheee, Inception fic, do want. I think I'd like Yusuf more if I heard more about him, but no one (especially canon) is providing that. SAD.

I heard it as 'Moll', and thought it was short for something, until I saw the credits. I'm not sure why any French parent would name his/her kid 'Bad'.

Mal is badly, not bad. Hence... they named their child Badly! Oh, a meta-pun! *eyeroll*

Why can't it be cheap, though? Also, whether or not it's the case (apparently Nolan thinks it's not), that's the only was to excuse the movie's gaping flaws and plot holes.

idk, a lot of the things your talking about here are just things that make it a bad movie, and things I pretty much agree with. But that hasn't stopped me caring about it fannishly. I think there are probably plenty of people who care fannishly and agree with you that it's not great as source material.

Much as I hate authorial intent, Nolan as a screenwriter isn't cheap; he vastly prefers to complicate things (leading to plot holes), and I think a cheap answer sort of ruins the effort.

Other people's mileage may, of course, vary.

I do care fannishly, but I don't like the characters, to be honest, for the most part. So that feels...alienating.

I'm just not sure that complicated and cheap are mutually exclusive. There are plenty of films that are both, and tbh, I think Nolan goes that route plenty of times (as in The Prestige, I'd say). I really don't have all that much respect for him as a director or screenwriter. I love some of his movies, but I don't think they're necessarily good movies.

Ah, but The Prestige wasn't his story! Which is probably why I liked it a lot better (emotional resonance).

Hmm, I don't know.

a) It's wildly different from the book. It's essentially his story. b) He still chose to make a film of it. idk! I just think most people give him way too much credit, but that could just be my bitterness of The Dark Knight speaking.

Ah, I didn't like The Dark Knight. Vastly overrated. He's still got a pass from Memento, I'm afraid. Hence my defence.

*nod* Memento is an excellent film. Although! Also not his story! So if you're not going to blame him for the flaws in The Prestige you can't credit him for the successes of Memento.

I totally forgot about that! For some reason I thought he was co-writer.

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