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RE: "The Prestige" - Great Movies You May Have Missed - #1
Big fan of this movie. The script unwinds like the magic tricks on display. Nolan showed real growth as a film-maker between Memento (which I don't like) and this. He hit his peak with Dark Knight and has become insufferably self-important since then.
The script for Inception was half-finished. The minor characters didn't have strong enough arcs to make the movie a classic, which it should have been. This film has that and more.
I, too, felt a bit let down by Inception. However, I did not see it until I had heard about how it was the "best thing since sliced bread" for nearly a year. That can have a powerful psychological effect and warp one's expectations. I'm not sure that was the problem for me in this case though, or at least in the "pie chart of all problems with the movie", it was a relatively small sliver. I found some of the plot off-shoots a bit half-baked.
It did make for a good South Park episode, though!
I'm a huge Philip K Dick fan (was so well before he became fashionable) and Inception, like a lot of films is an attempt to capture his book Ubik in some way... the waking world vs. the dream world... etc. But Nolan's take is too logical, too technical.
So many film-makers have read that book and so few of them actually get it. It's a shame that they've ruined it for the audience because now it can't be made on its own. Michel Gondry came to that conclusion two years ago.
Gondry...haven't heard that name in a couple years. Used to love some of his music videos: Star Guitar, Hardest Button to Button. Great stuff, maybe I'll highlight some of those in a post.