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Originally Posted by Turo602

People talk sh*t about this movie only because they're too ignorant to understand it so they say it was a confusing movie.

Ha. Hahahaha.

Originally Posted by Spitfire

The Matrix was an action film, Inception is a character study. They're different kinds of film.

Inception was the worst character study ever then. It could have been a decent action film. Unfortunately an entire half of it is devoted to Leonardo DiCaprio's personal problems. Now, Leo's a great actor, and I agree with you that Reeves is terrible. But this should have been a Reeves-type role. Because for all the movie hammers DiCaprio's tragic backstory onto its audience, I can only tell you three things about his character:

1. He frowns a lot.
2. He bounces expository dialogue off of other characters a lot.
3. He waxes philosophical a lot.

Congratulations. I cannot care about what happens to this man at all.

Inception is a lot of things, depending on your taste. It might be a good action movie (in fact I strongly suspect it would have been if you took out the character elements). It might be pretty. It might be clever and well-constructed. I could agree with all those things. It is not, however, a deep or emotional movie, so let's take that off the table right now. And the fact that it spent so much of its time trying to be brought the entire experience down.

The Matrix is a good action movie. It doesn't ask me to care about Reeve's character, so I can get into its interesting concepts, visuals, and action. Aces. Hell, the Bourne movies are good action movies, but they don't pretend for one second that you're supposed to care more about Bourne's character than all the twists, conspiracies, and action.

2001 is a good thinking movie, or at least a good obtuse movie. It also doesn't ask me to care about Bowman's character. It only prompts you to get into its psychedelic otherwordliness.

There's a place for character drama, and that's in a character-driven film. Cohen brothers type stuff, for a big name example. Hell, even The Dark Knight did a decent job of balancing its action and characters, and pulled off all its thematically transparent melodrama. This wasn't the right movie for that kind of stuff. This was shoehorned and terrible. This was an attempt to pull audiences and it cheesed the whole thing up to a distracting level.

Originally Posted by Slap Happy

Let me just say that I hate Dark Knight bashers.

I love The Dark Knight, but am extremely underwhelmed by Inception. I don't dislike things because they're popular. I dislike them because they're not very good.

Originally Posted by Slap Happy

Inception is an exceptionally crafted film with good writing, acting, directing, etc.

No, yes for what they had to work with, yes. And yes for good concepts, even though they were wasted on this film.