Went to see Inception this past weekend. The MJR in Southgate, MI and the AMC in Adrian, MI no longer carry Reese's Pieces! I call shenanigans on that shit. How can you not sell one of the world's greatest candies? Anywho, don't worry about the big intellectual words that Inception throws out at you...it's just to get your mind working. The movie is about stealing and implanting ideas into people's minds thru their dreams. Or at least that's what I gather from it.
Let me tell you, Chris Nolan is a sick individual. I believe in order to be a great writer/director you have to be seriously fucked in the head. Tortured souls just have a bigger imagination and a brain that never stops working. Chris Nolan has only done a few films but all of them are great movies...he's no M. Night Shyma-two-hit-wonder, Nolan is consistently good. If you don't believe me you can imdb him and see that he's done Memento, The Prestige and The Dark Knight. Inception is "deep" but the script is not the most complex script ever. I maintain that that dubious title belongs to Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams.
Inception does hold the title for most baby-faced actors ever on one screen. Leo will never escape his boy-like features and will always look like "match in the gas tank, boom boom." Ellen Page will never escape her Juno role...I was just waiting for her to say something cleverly sarcastic to Leo the entire movie. And don't get me started on the Angels in the Outfield, 3rd Rock from the Sun kid...he will always be young and annoying. Not the best casting job. Leo is a good, solid actor. He's been in a lot of damn good movies but he will never be a great actor. He's been blessed with great screenplays and great directors but he has never really "carried" a film. Have you ever walked away from a Leo movie and said "Damn Leo was bad ass"? Brad Pitt has been bad ass numerous times, Matt Damon was bad ass in Good Will Hunting, Rounders and the Bourne movies, Heath Ledger was bad ass in Dark Knight, even Tom "Foos" Cruise has been bad ass in the past...The first Mission Impossible was a damn good movie.
I will say that the movie is damn good and worth the money. It's not the best movie I've seen this year but it definitely lives up to Chris Nolan's hype...Leo's hype will never live up to it's hype...he's the new Al Pacino...he yells in every movie. The ending can be looked at as clever, but not by this movie critic...I thought it was too obvious of an ending and that it was trying to be a mind-bender a little too much. By the by, Marion Cotillard was in last year's Public Enemies and is still amazingly hott! I do want to scratch off the mole in the middle of her forehead though.
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