Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Avatar and Aliens are the same movie

[innerSpaceman]

Loved Inception. Really capped a Bonita Effect weekend with some wonderful concepts and inspired great conversation afterwards, and contemplation that continues through today.

[MouseWife]

Yes! Long after the movie ended I would pop down to my sons room 'And what do you think about this....'

Great movie.

I finally saw Avatar. Nu uh. Not the same movie. I can't watch a lot of the scenes in Alien.

[Alex]

I'm trying to figure out this line from an early review of The Expendables:

Originally Posted by Genevieve Harrison in Empire

They are, however, “getting too old for this ****”. Clive James once described Arnie as looking like “a condom filled with walnuts” — now it’s the other way round.

The only way I can figure to read that is as saying that Arnie now looks like a walnut filled with condoms, which I think would just look like a walnut. In other words, rhetorical nonsense. Is there another way of interpreting that line I'm missing?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Ummmm....now Arnie thinks Clive James looks like a condom filled with walnuts?

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by JWBear

We just saw Despicable Me. Cute.

Seeing it in a theater with 20 million screaming kids? Not so cute.

Having now seen the movie, I know why the kids were screaming.

[Not Afraid]

Not a movie, but we were feeling like slugs last night and streamed the first 2 episodes of The Tudors. I'm liking it and wish I had more time to be a slug!

[Melonballer]

Just watched the trailer for Sucker Punch.

If the movie is just 2 hours of Burlesque Ninja Commandos vs Dragons, Cyborgs Nazis and Samurai with gatling guns, it will probably still be the funnest thing I have seen in a while.

Sucker Punch

[Alex]

Those who've seen Inception might find this interesting (it's about the music and score).

[innerSpaceman]

Yeah, that was cool. LSPE tweeted it yesterday.

I saw Inception again over the weekend, only to discover I didn't really miss anything the first time - even though I thought I had. I still like it a whole lot, though I never really connect with the characters on an emotional level (I think it's going to be a cold day in hell when Leo DiCaprio sells me on a performance).

That connection is not a necessary thing for me to like the film, though it's a component of most other films I like. This one's just so wonderful in so many ways. Oh, and even after seeing it a second time, and though many people beg to differ ...

Spoiler:

I'm convinced there's not a single moment of non-dream in the entire film. It doesn't matter whether the spinning totem falls or not after the cut-to-black at the end of the film; it's shown falling a couple of other times in what I believe are dream sequences.

Most of the "real world" stuff has the same crazy physical logic of the dreams. And at least one important plot point only makes sense if everything's a dream, i.e., why Cobb can't see his kids - which is his entire motivation and drives him to extremes. I note it doesn't drive him to buy two tickets for them to come to Paris, which would be perfectly reasonable in the real world if this was his real problem. It's only in dreams that obstacles have only one solution that makes no real sense.

Anyway, I prefer that interpretation to giant, gaping plot hole in a film that took 10 years to make. So I'm sticking with it.

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