Foreign Jackass said:No, but it's like saying "Aside from Memento and Batman Begins, Nolan has never written any full-fledged characters that made any sense". Which is also right.
Oh, yeah, extremely emotional, especially those tutorial scenes that popped up every 2 minutes or so. I was crying my heart out.
Minority Report is Spielberg at his close-to-best. Nolan cannot even aspire to get to that level, since Spielberg started his career better than Nolan did, and went up and away. Nolan hasn't topped Memento ever, and is continuing to focus on action movies when he can't direct action sequences.
Inception really isn't an action movie.
And honestly, neither is The Dark Knight.
Scullibundo said:My gripe about characters comes more in their distinction. You can try to tell me that Cobb, Arthur, Ariadne and Eames are all completely different characters, yet if you give them all the same voice and turn the picture off it would be hard to tell who is talking. Even the side-characters, like the crazy chap who watches over the haloed victims in Minority Report are completely distinct and all have their own motivations - rather than characters whose sole purpose is to go with the flow of the plot. I know Anderton's motivations, I know his wife's, the inspectors', the head of pre-crime's, Agatha's etc. They are all well rounded and well established characters who, diverse as they may be are slotted into the story. I also identify and thus care about these characters. Now that isn't a requisite for a movie in any way - but its one small reason I prefer these characters. If Arthur, Ariadne or Earmes died, I wouldn't give two shits. But if Anderton, his wife or Agatha are in danger (or, like Farrel's agent) or killed, I care.
The characters in Inception all seem to want to help Cobb JUST CAUSE. None of them have motivations that define their character. Its essentially just a thinly veiled monetary gain if anything. But that's okay, because its a heist film. But then you can't complain if I don't find the characters in the film as engaging as I do Minority Report's.
You know what, this is a pretty valid argument. Touche.
I'll just say that I walked out of Minority Report in 2002 thinking "Wow, that was a pretty good scifi film", while I walked out of Inception earlier this year thinking "Holy shit, that was amazing!" But to each his own.