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Comment by Mr. Robinson on April 16, 2012 at 1:42pm

My favorite fights were during the Worst of 2009 when Korey, Cyrus, and Carlyle were dog piling on Leon about Paranormal Activity and when Korey and Carlyle fought over Sydney White.

Comment by Joobless on April 16, 2012 at 1:38pm

Awesome remix :D

Comment by Virgil Tibbs on April 16, 2012 at 1:15pm

Cyrus and Cohost should read this:  

How to Argue With Your Girlfriend (Without Ruining Everything)

Comment by dr Daterape on April 16, 2012 at 1:00pm

they're just friends ; arguments like these are natural , yet just as entertaining

Comment by Detective Marlowe on April 16, 2012 at 12:58pm

I'm glad Co-Host and Cyrus are still cool with each other

Comment by Happy on April 16, 2012 at 12:54pm

@Andrewtfman: Yeah, that's basically how I see it. It's a good film. It's fairly fun, and very well made. There are some elements of it that are interesting to talk about but the film itself generally just uses them as simple plot points and nothing else. It essentially says, "Perception is murky, and it shapes our reality. That's pretty neat, huh?" And, yes, sure it's neat, but what of it? Although the film uses the notion as a backdrop, it never really looks at the greater implications. Although profound conversations could result from it, the film itself doesn't really say anything profound on the subject.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't think we should give films credit based the fact that they inspired deeper thought through simply touching on an issue. I mean, Sucker Punch touches (poorly) on feminism and has inspired a lot of conversations about the true nature of feminism... but no one is going to go calling Sucker Punch "deep" because it didn't actually have any profound insights of it's own (and it's stance on the subject was... questionable). Neither does Inception really have anything profound to say. It may have an arguably interesting question or two within it, and it may touch on an interesting idea, but it doesn't really say anything about them. It's tough to argue for profundity when all that is offered is questions which are barely addressed, and never even attempted to be answered.

And yes, I did sort of just compare Inception to Sucker Punch. =D

Beyond that, I didn't even really find the narrative very challenging to follow. I don't see how people suggest that you need to be paying very close attention to follow the film. There's more than enough exposition to follow it with ease, and we frequently see cause followed immediately by effect. I thought some of the interactions between dream levels were "neat" but in no way did I find them complex. Unless by: "You need to pay attention," people mean: "You need to not be asleep."

Comment by Mouse on April 16, 2012 at 12:52pm

I love how in "Lockout", Leon's reaction to the CoHost/Cyrus fight is to eat. LOL!

Comment by nkWhiteStar on April 16, 2012 at 12:19pm

@Leon - In the same way as reviews I read and heard for Chronicle and Cabin in the Woods, I enjoy hearing thoughts  from people who didn't quite like a film as much as i did. Your review for Inception gets included too, I find it very interesting to hear a movie discussed from a different perspective. I can go on enjoying the film, but understand some of the sticking point people may have with it. :)

Comment by Andrewtfman on April 16, 2012 at 12:14pm

@Happy: I agree with everything you said wholeheartedly. Inception works great as the sci-fi/action/heist film it is, and not on any sort of "deeper" level. The extent of interpretation that we can possibly make, exemplified by the final scene, boils down to, "Is it real, or is it a dream?" - boom! There's pretty much all the depth we're presented with, all one small sentence's worth of it. A cliffhanger ending hardly denotes any great level of depth or is indicative of any deeper ambiguity. I reckon the only reason people see it as such is simply because, unlike other big budget tent-pole, over-hyped, mass marketed ho-hum action movies, Inception actually required people to pay attention to the talkie parts, again, not because those scenes of exposition were any in way "deep," they were just needed so people could hope to understand the rules/context of the universe/story. Any themes of reality vs. fiction, psychology of the mind, psychology of dreams, etc, were dealt with quickly and simply, and we're more or less unrelated to the core story of a man coming to terms with his guilt and trying to get back to his kids...imho.

Comment by Scott_PJ on April 16, 2012 at 12:02pm

Indeed, Bellflower had a great fight between Cyrus and Co-Host (And even Leon, who stayed neutral but was really infuenced by the two arguing) 

To me, the most intense argument was the LEOG talking about the new Captain America Trailer, with angry ol' Fungusmonkey. I can laugh at it now because of how ridiculous it got, but when I first heard it, made me depressed that one man could get so mad over a silly costume. And it lasted for like, 15 minutes as Peter said (No! There's a difference between a stamped mark and an etched mark!) Oh, that anger. 

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