lyssie | sff: Inception

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So. I enjoyed the concept of the dreamscapes, and some of the world-building, but, fuck, was the motivation for the lead stupid and trite. YET ANOTHER SUICIDAL, CRAZY AND DEAD WIFE AS MOTIVATION. Good job, Hollywood, you're not repeating yourselves or anything.

Coupled with the fact that diCaprio sucked the life out of every scene he was in, this movie is far too long and too boring to be re-watched. (every scene, people. He was so flat and wooden that I just kept thinking about taking naps and wishing I'd brought my laptop to get through the boring bits--which there were a lot of, because his Manpain was SO TOTALLY SPECIAL and all and not like ten billion other fucking movies, nope, not at all)

I will pretend it was really all about Ariadne and Mal trying to wake loser-boy from his catatonia, and that he'd been the one to really kill himself in real life. (shocking, I know, that I picked up on the only two women and decided they were plotting--incidentally, the movie manages to pass the Bechdel Test by a hair)

The rest of the cast was perfectly fine, in fact, anytime diCaprio wasn't on-screen, the movie soared and was interesting and wonderful. I could have watched an hour of Arthur and Ariadne and Eames building dreamscapes and card tricks and shit. Unfortunately, he was the lead.

So, yes. If you ever want to torture the fuck out of me, force me to watch Inception again, and if you want to pile on more diCaprio, I'll probably break before the fifth hour out of sheer desperation for something decent to watch.

eta: Not to mention the part where I want to punch the writer in the face: that I'm supposed to feel sorry for this man who MIND-RAPED HIS WIFE so she wouldn't leave HIS FANTASY WORLD. Fuck that fucking bullshit.

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Christopher Nolan made an overrated, sexist as fuck movie? I'M SHOCKED. Look, this is how shocked I am:

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*struggles not to snort out loud at work and invite awkward questions*

*does not hurt* LOL, you're free to like it! Keep in mind this is at least his fourth movie with girlfriend-fridging, or I'd be a little nicer. *g*

Someone else has noticed this? I thought I was alone in the wilderness on not worshiping Nolan.

HAHAHAHAH. I should have known better, I know. BUT I HAD HOPE, NICOLE. Leverage and Moff!Who have suckered me into believing in things again.

I actually really liked DiCaprio in this. I liked his reserved intensity.

However, I do agree with you on many other points. There's only two women in the whole movie, and one of them is a construct of a male character's subconscious. And as my other half said sarcastically, "Well, at least they didn't fridge his wife...oh, wait."

I think this could have been much more successful if the wife-construct had been less vindictive and more like someone who was trying to rescue her husband from a dream state. In that case, we really WOULD be wondering if he were awake or asleep.

YES. It would all have been less fail if the ending had been his wife being real while he wasn't. Or something like that.

I think part of DiCaprio's issues (for me) was his dialogue, sadly. He had good bits, when he was talking to his kids and when he wasn't Focused and Angsty about his dead wife (or talking about her). And his scenes with Mal were pretty good (she helped, by sparking off of him, I think)

And the opening con was very well done.

THANK YOU FOR THIS! You've taken away any teensy desire I may've had to see this movie. For starters, I can't STAND DiCaprio. Have avoided all of his movies whenever possible. But I do like most of the other actors and everyone's been raving about how great the movie is...But I have a feeling DiCaprio + wife-fridging = something I don't ever need to see. So again...THANK YOU.

I think the concept about shared dreams/reality is a very interesting one, but, yeah. Not the best vehicle to bring that all out in the open. Hell, Ghost in the Shell does "real or not real" better, with less fail.

YET ANOTHER SUICIDAL, CRAZY AND DEAD WIFE AS MOTIVATION.
I though it was more about his guilt for driving her crazy being the motivation, which is a pretty good motivation since he actually did that and should feel bad about it. I just don't understand why we had to suffer for it. You are right that there was way too much of it. With every moment spent on his Manpain I cared less and less. I thought he should just go get some therapy instead of going for self destruction and dragging everyone else with him. He was sabotaging his own missions. Arthur should've dump him long ago.

I could have watched an hour of Arthur and Ariadne and Eames building dreamscapes and card tricks and shit.
I agree so much. Ariadne, Arthur and Eames would make an awesome team and I wish movie was more about them too.

I liked "Momento" when it first came out (the concept, anyway), and even enjoyed "Prestige?" But when "Dark Knight" connected all the refrigeration dots for me, I was happy to skip this one. Like, this is pretty much the ONLY motivation his heroes have. *hates so much*

I need to write a long piece of meta about how much better the movie would have been from Ariadne's point of view.

I actually really liked it, but I also didn't care much about DiCaprio's character compared with the rest of the cast.

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