Ten Unpopular Opinions About Inception

[rhivolution]

- 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.

Comments

[alchemy]

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.

spoilers ahoy!

[azuire]

- 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*

[feverbeats]

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.