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Need further proof that Christopher Nolan has practically become a brand, in and of himself? His event picture Inception will cross the $700 million mark at the box office this week, a staggering achievement that puts the picture way above the figure of Batman Begins ($372 million). At the moment, the Leonardo DiCaprio-fronted picture is at $697 million, but that’ll likely change by Friday.
It’s one of the biggest hits of the summer, but also a triumph in word-of-mouth advertising. Inception is of a rare type of blockbuster – first of all, it’s actually good, which let’s face it, is a nice contrast to all the 90-minute flicks of cliched noise churned out today, but secondly it tackles its tricky concept with an aggressive sense of realism. Still, you know that – let’s all go back to wondering if it’s (SPOILER!) a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream.
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Fantastic film and wonderful to hear that it’s doing well, but does anyone wonder if we will get a sequel? Or not? :)
Unlikely, apart from the fact that Nolan doesn’t do the cheap sequel thing, the movie doesn’t lend itself well for a sequel. I mean the mere fact that people think about it shows they don’t understand the movie. It wasn’t about the special effects, it’s movie about characters, mourning, all wrapped up in a gorgeous science-fiction setting. It’s not like the Matrix, this was a story about Cobb and the acceptence of loss and the need for escapism. Really, the special effect were there to please the studio, to put them in the trailer, because they were never used after that exposition scene with Page. I even think we didn’t need the zero gravity scene(even though it looked amazing), the movie is so good, even without the special effects that were not involved in the story later on in the movie.
Funny thing though, I watched The Dark Knight the other again and I found myself utterly bored and frustrated with it. I liked it when I saw it first in 2008 but now, having seen Inception, it’s an inferior film to Nolan’s latest. The plotholes in The Dark Knight are huge, Ledger wasn’t as memorable as many claimed, the whole movie just feels empty. I feel like Batman Begins was better, a movie with more substance. Still though, his two Batman movies are so incredibly bleak and dark in subject matter(without having the punch that would require it), I just yearn more for Tim Burtons Batman. Really though, Batman The Animated Series is my favorite moving picture thing of the entire franchise. It’s perfect.
End rant.