• TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world
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    In general, will smith has always been an action type of guy in his roles, but to do that he always needed to have clear motivations. I guess a nested dream in a dream isn’t functional for this type of actor.

    Well, and the fact that back then these movies were almost a gamble you know, like now we treat them as cult classics, but than they were absolutely new and nobody know what they were about.

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      44 minutes ago

      I’m sure Keano was the right choice there. I could see him handling the Matrix if he walked into it in bewilderment like the original Men in Black movie. He’d be fine up until somewhere around the Oracle. I think when things started coming together, and he needed to start commanding his own destiny, the suspension of disbelief would have dropped.

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      2 hours ago

      I suppose I could see Inception as being a very risky film based on the script, to be completely fair

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        and at the time, that was only a third of the way through Nolan’s career as a blockbuster director. not even, actually