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SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t seen it and want to see it, then leave this blog now!

I still think it’s one of the best movies I’ve seen. When you come away from a movie so energized and enthused and thinking about all the nuances and all, you know it’s a good movie. The first time I saw it had me all kinda fucked up. I went online to see what people were saying about it and about the ending and that put even more questions in my head – so much so that I almost the conclusion that the whole movie was a dream – or alternatively the part from when he gets to Paris right up to the last scene in the airplane was a dream; Notice no one said anything once the dreams were over and we never did see the top stop spinning at the end.

But upon seeing it again, a few things made a bit more sense:

  • the Pinwheel in the safe in the 3rd dream was the pinwheel in the photo that old man Fischer broke
  • I got more clarity on the training sessions with Ariadne
  • everytime Cobb finished a dream – he always spun the top but the only times we didn’t see it finish spinning was the time Saito found him in the bathroom in Mombasa (where it fell) and at the end where they pulled some Sopranos shit on us
  • I laughed about Arthur’s conning that kiss from Ariadne
  • drinking wine made the Chemist’s dream end up rainy because he wanted to pee lol
  • THE KICKER: The shoes on the kids were different at the end than in any of the previous memories/projections

Lotta comparisons with The Matrix because of the whole questioning of reality thing – and that almost always makes a good movie when done well. I particularly like it when there’s a good amount of a action in it too – like that fight scene in the lobby in The Matrix. So my conspiracy theories about the whole thing being a dream are disproven, I think. I figure they don’t talk at the end so they don’t arouse the suspicion of Fischer, but you did see Arthur look at Cobb and smile when he finally woke up. And them cutting off the movie after top spinning at the end was probably just for effect.

But still, some small things that I couldn’t reconcile:

  • the “Leap of faith” phrases that both Saito (proposing the Inception job, in the boardroom in limbo) and Mol (standing on the ledge before her suicide) used – purely coincidence?
  • how did Fischer not recognize Saito if indeed he was an industry rival?
  • why was the Dad waiting for him at the LA airport
  • when they missed the first kick how did Arthur know about timing the explosion the 2nd kick that everyone at the snow level was planning?
  • how did Cobb get to Saito’s limbo? And if Saito/Cobb left limbo with a gun shot how come the same thing didn’t happen to Fischer when he was shot? Was it because of the sedative? Or how come Fischer didn’t go into limbo when he was shot?
  • if they were waiting out the sedative after the van hit the water, was it the flight attendant that put away the dream machine? Surely she’d have to if Fischer were to wake up and see something attached to his arm

Any ideas?

But still, it was a great movie. In complete contrast to The Other Guys which I saw last night. Why do I give Will Ferrell movies a chance. I never find him funny. Never did on SNL and not with Marky Mark. He’s only funny to me when he’s with other people I find funny. Even Damon Wayans and Rob Riggle couldn’t save this piece of shit. And Eva Mendes, my future wife – even she. And there was a pretty clear flub with the wooden gun after the explosion. Just sloppy. How that crap got 80% on Rotten Tomatoes is beyond me. I would have had a better time lighting my $8 on fire. At least I didn’t spend money on their overpriced food.

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]]> http://myopiclunacy.com/2010/08/15/weekly-updates-for-2010-08-15/feed 0 Loved this description of Wisconsin sports fans by UK paper Daily Express – as read by Steve Curry on Sky Sports News http://myopiclunacy.com/2010/08/13/loved-this-description-of-wisconsin-sports-fans-by-uk-paper-daily-express-as-read-by-steve-curry-on-sky-sports-news#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://myopiclunacy.com/2010/08/13/loved-this-description-of-wisconsin-sports-fans-by-uk-paper-daily-express-as-read-by-steve-curry-on-sky-sports-news#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:51:14 +0000 webadmin http://myopiclunacy.com/2010/08/13/loved-this-description-of-wisconsin-sports-fans-by-uk-paper-daily-express-as-read-by-steve-curry-on-sky-sports-news
 

WISCONSIN, the backwater setting for the US PGA Championship, has a reputation for sporting eccentricity.

The fans of the Green Bay Packers, 47,000 of whom watched the state’s American  football team train one evening last week, take pride in wearing cheeses on their heads.

Meanwhile the Milwaukee Braves’ home baseball games are routinely interrupted by an It’s a Knockout-style sprint between five giant sausages.

So yesterday’s opening plot line for the season’s final golf Major at Whistling Straits would have appealed to the delighted, deranged locals.

via express.co.uk

lol@ “routinely interrupted” – some might say it’s the baseball game that routinely interrupts the sausage race!

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How the Google/Verizon proposal could kill the internet in 5 years
[image via TechDigest]

A burning vision of the internet in 2016
The public internet is basically overrun with 4Chan-like social networks that run very slowly and are drenched in advertising and spyware. You can watch some TV on the public internet, if you’re willing to wait through long “buffering” times and bad commercials. You can play casual games, especially if you want to fork over a few bucks. There’s webmail, though sometimes all your saved messages disappear – for “guaranteed backups” you need to subscribe to the special mail service via Googlezon. Plus, the only way to get to the public internet is with an unwieldy laptop, which sucks.

Most people go online with their mobiles. Anybody who wants to get access to games, movies, news, or other services online has to buy separate “special service” packages to make sure they run fast. Premium services guarantee you can watch movies on your Droid, or do your mail and calendaring on your Nexus SE234. An informal market in special service minutes springs up anywhere that people are too poor to get a mobile that does more than make phone calls.

Ironically, the public internet is the least public place online: It’s an antisocial space, a crumbling, unsupported legacy network, full of ads and graffiti. Googlezon has succeeded in creating a caste system in the online world, and the public is the lowest caste of all.

via io9.com

chilling!

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hilarious

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]]> http://myopiclunacy.com/2010/08/11/reality-distortion-field-remains-strong-with-steve-jobs-after-antennagate-iphone4-taiwan/feed 0 Android is the new Windows, or “Why the Verizon iPhone Is Already Too Late” http://myopiclunacy.com/2010/08/10/android-is-the-new-windows-or-why-the-verizon-iphone-is-already-too-late#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://myopiclunacy.com/2010/08/10/android-is-the-new-windows-or-why-the-verizon-iphone-is-already-too-late#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:33:14 +0000 webadmin http://myopiclunacy.com/2010/08/10/android-is-the-new-windows-or-why-the-verizon-iphone-is-already-too-late
 

The market research firm iSuppli just put out the most damning numbers: In terms of global smart phone market share, iPhones will peak at 15.9 percent in 2012, then fall to 15.3 percent two years later. Android will snatch 19.4 percent in two years, and keep on growing, hitting 22.8 percent in 2014. The firm’s stated reason for the limited Apple growth? “While Apple’s family of iPhone products continues to be the standard by which all other smart phones are measured, the proprietary nature of the iOS and Apple’s closed system business model will limit the number of smart phones with the operating system.” Meanwhile, “the flexibility Android offers for hardware designs and its appealing business model” is already luring in loads of eager hardware makers.

Deja vu

Sound familiar? Or maybe exactly like Windows vs. Mac, the decades-long personal computer battle? You know, the one that had one clear winner and one clear loser, at least in terms of market share? I’m hardly the first person to identify Android as the new Windows, and maybe that’s something we can talk about in depth at another time. What’s surprising to me is that Steve Jobs didn’t see this coming, didn’t see how too much control over the hardware supply might once again prevent him from grabbing the brass ring. A little control can be a good thing, but a chokehold, well, that’s strangulation, brutha.

I’m not asking for authorized iPhone clones. God knows, nobody wants to relive the StarMax years. But I am saying that when one phone platform is available on all four carriers in a variety of shapes, sizes, software configurations and monthly plans, and the other – fashionable, sure, but no longer a league above – is tied to just the one carrier with the one pricing structure, good people who exercise sound judgment will be forced to pick the former, despite the latter’s halo of awesomeness.

And when the halo of awesomeness starts shimmering less brightly, well, even people more susceptible to peer pressure and marketing will start looking elsewhere.

via gizmodo.com

good read. Apple had a good product, but all in all, the competition (Android, BBOS, WP7, webOS) has, is, and always will level the playing field … as well as self-inflicted hubris (e.g. “Hold it differently”).

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