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Eh, I don't really see the snow level as the end climax, it's more a setup for the confrontation in limbo in my opinion. Wait, wasn't the avalanche caused by Yusuf hitting the barrier with the van, not the van flipping? And they sort of explain it earlier when they say that they wouldn't be able to feel the plane turbulence in the second level, and so something 2 levels up wouldn't have as big of an effect as it could if it were a level up. Snow fortress served its purpose though as something they needed to infiltrate in order to complete inception. Definitely could've been cooler, though.I loved the hell out of this movie the first two times I saw it. Then it came out on DVD and I watched it again and...it was okay. I'm struggling to find what it was that I was so enamored with. It is neat, and very well put together, but it just rings hollow for me. It feels like no real genuine emotion went into the making of it.
And also, I hate how boring the end climax was. It's so lame that three levels down into someone's subconscious and it looks like a generic James Bond snow fortress level. Nothing super crazy even happens there. When the van flips, I was expecting that entire world to go nuts with anti-gravity. What happens? Oh, an avalanche and....that's it?
The training session with Ariadne where she flips the world over on itself was my highlight...but I still feel a little disappointed. When I saw that in the previews, it was the most epic thing ever. It's still pretty epic in the movie, but it set up a lot of expectations for the rest of the movie that were barely met. I was also expecting it to happen during a scene of conflict. As there wasn't any real conflict in that scene, it just wasn't as exciting as it could have been.
I do agree with the part about Ariadne, the only thing from the training about bending physics that they use are the never ending staircase when Arthur is fighting off the people in the hotel staircase. Did you pick up on the thing at the very end? I feel like it's important and a lot of people don't really get it.