I went to see Inception today with Katie of ArtisticalThoughts. I thought a movie review would be a good first post, since that's probably most of what I'll post here. So here we go. You might not want to read on if you plan on seeing it and you don't want spoilers.I decided last minute that I wanted to see this movie. I had heard that it was good, albeit confusing, so I thought I would give it a shot. Despicable Me was calling to me, but I put it off for next week. So I drove over, picked Katie up, and made it to the theater with four or so minutes to spare. We needed every single one of those four minutes since Katie decided to earn her "eccentric public nuisance" badge by paying her $7.25 all in change ($7.25? For a matinée? Thinking about it still hurts). A few minutes later, our tickets were paid for, we had our tickets taken by a man who claimed to be "the most beautiful black man in the world" (Katie attracts funny events, it seems. It's her gift in life. That probably wouldn't have happened if I had gone alone), and we slid into our seats as a trailer played and Katie tweeted about the man.
For an action movie, I was happily surprised by the lack of cursing every other word, and the absence of other adult stuff. The scene in the second layer of dreams when one of the men is fighting off the defenses of the dreamer's mind in the hotel hallway was cool in the effects and stunts departments, and the whole thing had nice cinematography. The use of slow motion made sense in most parts (using it at all was a risky move. I know pretty much since Kung Fu died off slow motion is usually played for laughs). The plot was hard to follow at some points (my joke is that this movie makes the plot of Lost look tame and easy to follow in comparison. Give me time-traveling, manipulative villains, and flashbacks from flashforwards any day. Just please no dreams within dreams that might not really be dreams or whatever it was that happened there at the end.)
So was this movie All Just a Dream? Was part of it real? Was the ending some sort of statement about perception of reality and its relativity? I have no clue. I've yet to meet someone who does.
Would I watch this again?: Yes
My rating: 4 out of 5
