"Hey, if I have 'rules' instead of 'plot,' 'characters,' 'theme,' or 'anything resembling the human experience,' can I make sixty-three million dollars, opening weekend?"
Yes, yes, you can.
"Don't worry; it may sound like shitty writing, but actually, it's excused by the rules. (Or is it? (What is 'real,' anyway?))"
Seriously. Every single scene is either 'world-building exposition' or 'boring, incoherent action.' The Last Airbender is guilty of the same crimes, but most intelligent audiences understood that it was a punch-line...at the time.
Is it still a 'twist ending' if it's the most clichéd, parodied twist in the book? The twist is that they actually used that ending.
Without spoiling anything that the film doesn't spoil by existing, in the first place--I can state that by the end, nothing means anything. The film would be 'masturbatory,' but it doesn't give the impression that anyone had a nice time doing it.
Fuck Inception.
I absolutely agree with this. Though we may be the only two in the universe who disliked the sucker.
ReplyDeleteAndrew and his boyfriend are in our camp, too. And I have enough hatred to count as 'two people.'
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