[Stu]

The Social Network or True Grit for me. The latter based soley on how amazingly mesmerising Jeff Bridges is.

Have those voting Inception seen the other films on the list? Seriously it's not that good. Not for an award like this anyway. The Matrix is my favourite live action movie of all time but that wasn't best picture material either.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Stu

The Social Network or True Grit for me. The latter based soley on how amazingly mesmerising Jeff Bridges is.

Have those voting Inception seen the other films on the list? Seriously it's not that good. Not for an award like this anyway. The Matrix is my favourite live action movie of all time but that wasn't best picture material either.

I voted for Inception and I've seen :

Black Swan
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network

I voted for it because out of those films, I thought about it for the longest afterwards and couldn't wait to see it again.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I voted for Inception and I've seen :

Black Swan
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network

I voted for it because out of those films, I thought about it for the longest afterwards and couldn't wait to see it again.

That's the thing you see. From my perspective I just don't understand that at all. What is there to think about exactly? It was good Hollywood storytelling. Stunning and overbloated in equal amounts. But it wasn't exactly a crash course in metaphysics or psychology or anything like that. The film was basically an exchange. In exchange for buying into what extremely intelligent, on the edge blokes the makers of this film were they afforded you the chance to feel similarly intelligent and on the edge as you watched and discussed this 'out there' film. It was the cinematic version of what a cultural touchstone the Da Vinci code became where every two bit Living TV guzzling sap could be a 'codebreaker' or theologist.

But there is nothing to it, really. It's basic sleep and lucidity concepts wrapped in an attractive package and handed over for the price of a cinema ticket. I left that film with absoloutely nothing to discuss about it whatsoever. I didn't do that with say The Matrix where I left thinking what a wonderful metaphor this was for anything you could apply it to. Full of interesting symbolic language and existentialist themes.

I left Inception basically thinking that if you kick a chair out from Cillian Murphy you can wake him up and save his life.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Stu

That's the thing you see. From my perspective I just don't understand that at all. What is there to think about exactly? It was good Hollywood storytelling. Stunning and overbloated in equal amounts. But it wasn't exactly a crash course in metaphysics or psychology or anything like that. The film was basically an exchange. In exchange for buying into what extremely intelligent, on the edge blokes the makers of this film were they afforded you the chance to feel similarly intelligent and on the edge as you watched and discussed this 'out there' film. It was the cinematic version of what a cultural touchstone the Da Vinci code became where every two bit Living TV guzzling sap could be a 'codebreaker' or theologist.

But there is nothing to it, really. It's basic sleep and lucidity concepts wrapped in an attractive package and handed over for the price of a cinema ticket. I left that film with absoloutely nothing to discuss about it whatsoever. I didn't do that with say The Matrix where I left thinking what a wonderful metaphor this was for anything you could apply it to. Full of interesting symbolic language and existentialist themes.

I left Inception basically thinking that if you kick a chair out from Cillian Murphy you can wake him up and save his life.

might come in useful one day!

Well, that's your opinion on it which you're completely entitled to. What I meant by thinking about it, was the storyline, not some fantastic hidden message, I was thinking about whether or not the whole film was a dream, if the dream started and never ended mid way through the film or not, and if he actually really had woken up at the end. And this is why I couldn't wait to watch it again cos as with films like the Sixth sense for example, you kind of watch it with different eyes the second time round. I saw it as a bit of a mystery which I really enjoyed and this is what I base my favourite films on - my own personal enjoyment. I don't mean to be rude but whether you or anyone else enjoyed the film or not isn't going to change the fact that I loved it.