marvin
Headphoneus Supremus
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It's not that the characters are shallow, many movies feature characters so flat they might as well be made of cardboard and yet those characters still manage to engage the audience. Inception doesn't do that for me.
Yeah, I'm starting to hate it when people say that the characters were too shallow or something of the like...
C'mon guys, I don't think Inception was meant to be friggin' Magnolia...
The premise... the story... the whole concept... that's the point of the film. It's what makes you think and talk about it.
It's not that the characters are shallow, many movies feature characters so flat they might as well be made of cardboard and yet those characters still manage to engage the audience. Inception doesn't do that for me.
And aside from the novelty of seeing recursion as a major plot point (usually too difficult for audiences to follow), the premise didn't do enough to make up for the lack of involvement with the characters. Ergo, it worked best as a braindead action thriller with an indeterminate twist ending for me.
Sure you can go around in circles theorizing what really happened with Inception, but not many bonus points there as the same is true for any movie that features reality bending like dream states (Minority Report), memory manipulation (Memento), virtual reality (The Matrix), etc. as a plot point.
Sure you can go around in circles theorizing what really happened with Inception, but not many bonus points there as the same is true for any movie that features reality bending like dream states (Minority Report), memory manipulation (Memento), virtual reality (The Matrix), etc. as a plot point.