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

[feverbeats]

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.

[rhivolution]

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

[feverbeats]

*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.

[rhivolution]

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