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Inception explained and other thoughts

01 Aug 2010 No Comments

by ryanin Cool!, Entertainment, movies Tags: inception, review

I think that in a couple of years this will become the accepted reading of the film, and differing interpretations will have to be skillfully argued to be even remotely considered. The film makes this clear, and it never holds back the truth from audiences. Some find this idea to be narratively repugnant

The above is an excerpt from a discussion of the film’s themes, and will completely give it away, so don’t read it if you haven’t seen the movie yet (link to full review at the bottom).

We had a similar discussion to this on the way back from the movie, which we thoroughly enjoyed. Otherwise, a good summary of the themes in the movie. Well worth your money to see in the theater; it was the first movie we’d gone to theaters to see in over a year and, despite every reason for why we don’t go to the theater anymore sitting or occurring in our theater, we enjoyed the hell out of Inception.

On a side note, the review of Inception by Rex Reed led me to the conclusion that he’s just become a professional troll recently. Yeah, I linked to it, but damn, if you have to resort to middle-school name calling or vibrator jokes when reviewing a movie with lesbian lead characters (seriously, in the first paragraph?), you’ve abdicated your Reviewer hat for page views as a Troll. How the mighty have fallen.

Anyway, check out the full Inception explanation (you too, Rex; obviously you need to have it explained to you) at chud.com.

My First Digital Movie

10 Dec 2008 No Comments

by ryanin Entertainment, movies Tags: downloads, DRM, iTunes, movie

With the release of The Dark Knight and my complete nerdiness over the movie, I purchased the 2-Disc edition when it was released yesterday. To my surprise, it included a free digital copy (ala iTunes) along with the DVD version. This is my first digital movie as, frankly, I didn’t see the point in buying digital-only movies. I hate watching movies on my computer, I don’t have a personal laptop that can play them, and I can’t watch them on my television (at least not if I buy from Apple). Yes, I lose geek points for not having that ability, but I’m not going to buy a movie through Microsoft that I can’t play on any other device, or substitute iTunes for Microsoft and have the same problem. (DRM is stupid.)

But, with The Dark Knight, I plopped in the disc, iTunes saw it and prompted me for the included code and, a couple minutes later, I happily have 1.7 GB of movie to transfer to my iTunes compatible devices. I wouldn’t have purchased the digital-only version, but it’s a cool incentive to get a up-sale version of a DVD I was going to buy anyway. I’ll keep my eyes peeled for stuff like this in the future.