Movie: Inception

Jul 30, 2010 23:21

Honestly? Meh.

It's OK in a vaguely James-Bondian, Matrix-ish, heist-movie way. It falls down trying to be too cerebral, though, I think.

Part of it may be that I have a bad case of Internet brain. Following five multiply-interacting plotlines and levels of artificial and/or metaphoric reality simultaneously isn't really all that much of a challenge. I've read webcomics which have twistier setups and payoffs.

I'm sure it's all very cutting-edge for the average cinema-goer, but it made me want to read fanfic which not only operates on at least seventeen realities, but has interacting realities, fractal realities, and realities which are partially or fully self-aware, as well as those which are some of all these states some times and not others, or drift between both the state vectors and being representations of their other selves in a kind of semi-recursive Escheresque metastructure.

reactions-meh, pop culture

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