>My greatest dissapointment about it is watching everyone
>talking about how deep the concepts supposedly are, because
>that tells me people have to be pretty damn shallow and simple
>when these ideas are looked upon as "high minded" or deep.

I agree with you about the movie itself, but with respect to this piece, I think people are talking about it being "high minded" mainly in the context of typical summer blockbusters (or just big-budget mainstream films in general).

Obviously the existential questions here are ones that people have been pondering for thousands of years, but it's still not exactly common to see $150M movies playing in multiplexes and IMAX 3D theaters to dedicate large chunks of screen time to exploring these questions, even in a superficial way.