I liked this film overall, but yeah there were a lot of open ends and a lot of things you really wouldn't want to look too closely at or you'd notice how thinly they'd been sewn together. This almost seems like the kind of thing a movie is too short for; even at 2 1/2 hours long it felt like they were too short on time to fully explain everything.
Which is a shame, but even if it was a bit too easy, I did enjoy myself :3
Yeah, I totally agree on the length thing. There wasn't enough time for everything to be explored properly, I didn't think it seemed like it was too long until they got to the snow level and then I felt like it Dragged like no man's business. And it wasn't just the endless killing men in the snow that got a bit boring, it was more the fact that the "snow army" was pretty intent on killing all of them, like, including Cillian. Which got me a bit 'Wait, aren't they meant to Protect that guy, not shoot him..?' so that lost a bit of logic for me.
I Really Liked the way they kept slicing in images of the van falling and that Joseph kid rigging the elevator, but I felt like it would have been a better montage if they had spliced it all together more quickly, instead of getting a quick shot of the van, a kind of long shot of the elevator and then a dragging moment of that guy killing people in the snow :/
I mean, I did like the movie, don't get me wrong, but.. yeah. Too Hollywood, maybe? :(
Oh and I get that the montage was probably spliced in a way that reflected the way time passed on each level, but visually, I would have found it better if it was all quicker, y'know?
I really liked the film. But I hadn't heard of it all that long before seeing it, so I wasn't comparing it to 10 months of hype. If you just compare it to other heist films, it's fucking amazing, maybe the best one ever.
If you compare it to similar sci-fi films it's still pretty good. I'm not sure if Nolan was really going for mindfuck. The spectacle resembles mindfuck. But the movie is a layering process rather than some Jungian dada smorgasbord (that movie is Paprika). Inception is a little more accurate to my experience of insanity, where one backs themselves into a specific view the world with too many rigid imperatives.
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Which is a shame, but even if it was a bit too easy, I did enjoy myself :3
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Yeah, I totally agree on the length thing. There wasn't enough time for everything to be explored properly, I didn't think it seemed like it was too long until they got to the snow level and then I felt like it Dragged like no man's business. And it wasn't just the endless killing men in the snow that got a bit boring, it was more the fact that the "snow army" was pretty intent on killing all of them, like, including Cillian. Which got me a bit 'Wait, aren't they meant to Protect that guy, not shoot him..?' so that lost a bit of logic for me.
I Really Liked the way they kept slicing in images of the van falling and that Joseph kid rigging the elevator, but I felt like it would have been a better montage if they had spliced it all together more quickly, instead of getting a quick shot of the van, a kind of long shot of the elevator and then a dragging moment of that guy killing people in the snow :/
I mean, I did like the movie, don't get me wrong, but.. yeah. Too Hollywood, maybe? :(
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Oh and I get that the montage was probably spliced in a way that reflected the way time passed on each level, but visually, I would have found it better if it was all quicker, y'know?
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If you compare it to similar sci-fi films it's still pretty good. I'm not sure if Nolan was really going for mindfuck. The spectacle resembles mindfuck. But the movie is a layering process rather than some Jungian dada smorgasbord (that movie is Paprika). Inception is a little more accurate to my experience of insanity, where one backs themselves into a specific view the world with too many rigid imperatives.
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