I found the parallels with 2001 very apposite
ie, a great sf film with a fucking stupid ending.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Sun 15 Feb 2015, 16:37,
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Yeah
The ending was such a let down. I appreciate the commercial prospects of a film without a Spielbergian resolution aren't exactly strong, but it could have been a brilliant film if he'd maybe invited in a bit more ambiguity/less clunky optimism.
Technically speaking the entire film blew me away though.
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I was fine with the bookcase bit
But everything after that on the space station and the stealing a spaceship should have been binned.
Nolan knows how to end a film properly - Inception showed that. Its just a shame that for his last two big ones (this and TDKR) he hasn't had the restraint to know when the film is over.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 15 Feb 2015, 17:17,
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Yeah, guess it's Heaven's Gate syndrome
Both The Dark Knight and Inception were very disciplined affairs, editorially speaking. Success has a funny of making artists lose that creative conservatism.
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