Watching Inception for the First Time Since It Was In Theatres

Sterling Archer

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I was just joking homie, relax:russ: But, you got me thinking.

I never root for the law in heists movies, whether its the town or the oceans movies or the sting. But the difference in those movies and inception, is that they're normally preying on people or institutions that deserve it. Whether it's Benedict or Lonnegan, they're all a$$holes at their core and they're no better than the criminals they pretend to protest. In fact, the criminals are often good people who have a code whereas most of their marks don't.

What separates this crew from those crews though is the corporate espionage angle. Cilian Murphy's character isn't a bad guy, he isn't an idiotic mark who has it coming, he isn't a philanderer, or someone who's past is catching up to him. He's just a guy who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Like I said before, they ruined the one good relationship he had in his life and used his raw emotions about his mom and dad to manipulate him. That's different than Danny showing us how greedy and selfish Terry is or Henry and Johnny exposing Doyle for the douche he is and caring nothing about the people who work for him and for being a criminal.

And again, I'm just joking around I don't think these guys are the worst human beings on the planet lol but their actions are questionable simply because the normal heist movie trope isn't there. Even Dillinger spared innocent people and their money, purely aiming to take down the corrupt bank system that he knew could afford to take a hit
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Imma have to see it again with somebody. Saw it for the first time last year (own Blu Ray) and remember everyone saying how deep and confusing it was. Maybe I didn't catch the point. I found it to be just an entertaining movie with decent action and good cast. Nothing more.

the suicide part turned me off and it switched up on a sloppy tip toward the end with the wife and I remember something about hell.

Like lucky Number Sleven got huge raves, still haven't seen that yet either. Same with V for Vendetta.
 
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