Watched Inception last night.
I love, love, love this movie. It is one of the most inventive and mind-bendingly excellent things to come out in quite some time. Of course its visual impact is somewhat diminished on a 24" 4:3 crt rather than projected onto a large screen, but really cranking the 5.1 sound helps make up for that. ;)
At the end of the film, I'm about 90% certain that what we just saw actually took place, but the remaining ten percent is remembering the little strange details and trying to come up with alternative explanations. lol
In addition to the sheer excellence of the ideas, one of the things I like about the movie is that the central problem of the story is character-based. As cool as the plot is, it would not exist without this aspect, and everything that happens is that much richer and more meaningful because of it. When I was young I vastly underestimated how important this actually is to storytelling, but now having occasionally engaged in writing myself it is all too easy to see when something fails to deliver any real depth. Fortunately, Inception has it in spades.
I've heard some kerfuffle about the PAL dvd being of horrible picture quality, filled with jaggies like other recent WB dvd releases, but the NTSC version seemed to be just fine. I saw only perhaps two instances of very minor aliasing, nothing at all like the horrific jaggies that plague The Dark Knight dvd. Now obviously it's much harder to see that on a small screen, but The Dark Knight is often at GOUT levels of aliasing or worse, while Inception looked just like a dvd is supposed to look as far as I could see. By all means get the Bluray if you can, but at least we seem to have been spared the blatant dvd-sabotage WB intermittently inflicts these days.
I really need to get adywan's version of ESB one of these days. I keep meaning to look for it, but I've been holding off watching any Star Wars films until dark_jedi's v3 GOUT project is ready, so I don't get burned out on them and can enjoy all three as films without worrying too much about the technical aspects. Still, I should really get on that . . .
