3) only way I can make sense of that is that since the dreamers of those levels had woken up already, those dream levels were "closed" and so Cobb & Saito skipped all the way to the top.

1) That seems like valuing verisimilitude over safety though, doesn't it? I'd leave that detail out and get the carpet right.

2) If turbulence could take them out, then doing the whole thing on a plane seems overly precarious. I think them waiting it out for a week is my new canon, which means they must have had one CRAZY, projection-dodging, Fischer-dodging, rainy-ass week!

3) Yeah, that must be it. Or, alternatively, whenever Saito shoots himself to get out of limbo, he ends up wherever he wants. If he's powerful enough to erase Cobb's criminal record in minutes from a in-flight phone call, he can do that. (I also wonder if he fixed Cobb's problem before the job ever started, because WTF, is that even possible to take care of that quickly? But he didn't tell him because he wanted to make sure he got the job done.)

I saw Burlesque this afternoon and it was great fun. Loved the setting and enjoyed the singing. Cher and Stanley Tucci were great, Kristen Bell played interestingly against type, and Eric Dane may actually have learned to act somewhere. Christina Aguilera... should probably stick to singing, though at least Taylor Swift ensured that she's not the least convincing singer-turned-actress of the year.

I was skeptical, but I must admit eyeliner, a bowler, and cabaret lighting really do make Cam Gigandet a lot more attractive.

Yeah but Taylor Swift isn't in Christina Aguilera's class as a singer either.

Zap2it says that Orlando Bloom is close to signing to reprise his role as Legolas in The Hobbit.

An idea that never caught on: Multiple Screens for Super-Movies (Apr, 1934)

THE present method of representing simultaneous scenes on a motion-picture screen, in succession, may be supplanted by one in which details will appear on one screen, and the main body of the action on another, at the same time, according to a recent patent which contemplates the making and projecting of several films at once. This will require more than one projector; and they must be operated in exact synchronism, for both film and sound. The patent contemplates either the use of two machines to fill a screen twice the ordinary size, for a spectacle, or one for a full-size scene and one for a smaller screen, as illustrated. Another feature of advantage is the more exact location of the apparent sources of different voices and other sounds. For auxiliary pictures, on a different plane from that of the main screen, a mirror is used to alter the angle.

Ahead of its time? Or a very annoying way to watch a movie?

Kristen Bell is in Burlesque? Crud, now I have to see it. Will it lose much going from big to small screen?

Ahead of its time? Or a very annoying way to watch a movie?

Didn't that 1920's French Napoleon movie do something like that?

Why, yes, it did! [link]

Didn't that 1920's French Napoleon movie do something like that?

Huh. I thought it was just split screen - didn't know it required multiple projectors.

Kristen Bell is in Burlesque? Crud, now I have to see it. Will it lose much going from big to small screen?

It'll lose all the lush detail of the burlesque club itself, which was a big attraction for me. But if you have a decent sound system the musical numbers won't lose much with a more condensed visual. And Cher might not dive so deeply into the Uncanny Valley if you're not seeing her in 30-foot-tall closeups.