Holy Bejeezus! Remember that Titanic movie where Leonardo DiCaprio was a total wuss and cried over an event that everyone in the theater knew how it was going to end?
Inception was like that, but 1,000 times better. That doesn’t mean it was the greatest movie ever. But if anyone could describe it best, it was my friend Ted who uttered immediately afterward “Fuck you, Christopher Nolan.”
Fuck you, indeed.
Inception had an amazing premise. What if you could enter into people’s dreams, and with some awesome but confusingly simple psychobabble, go in and steal people’s most important ideas and secrets? You could save the world from terrorists! You could take revenge on that hipster girl with the cool all-girl David Bowie cover band that rejected you! Or, you could use it to help one corporation defeat another.
The last one is obviously the most spectacular, non-contrived way of jump-starting an otherwise wonderful plotline. So there’s the gist of the plot for you. Your welcome for the spoiler.
DiCaprio as usual was amazing. And seeing ‘Tommy Solomon’ from Third Rock From the Sun all grown up and using a gun was pretty spectacular. Add in some trippy and artistically beautiful special effects, and you’re in for another signature Hollywood 2 1/2 hour long ecstatic filmfest.
One part that I’m sure many of you will find unnecessarily long was the snow scene. This scene is identical to N64 Goldeneye’s snow level. Including the blocky, late 90s video game graphics. I pretended I was controlling the one totally badass character in the movie, and it helped me get through all the typical shooting and killing.
(I smell a copyright infringement.)
What makes this movie better than most, was its one secret element. This element is similar to the Helen Keller card in Apple to Apples. It’s a guaranteed win. In Inception it was a zero-gravity fight to the death. Need I say more?
As I heard from a friend who saw this movie really, really, high: It’s a great movie, but if you go in under the influence, expect to be literally speechless for an hour after. It’s a mind fuck.
Not being on drugs, I give it 4 out of 5 Lebowskis. 
Red Dragon
08/21/2011
It is interesting that you need a drug to get there. Life is so easy. You just need to know how to play the game. Just make sure that you read the rules first. Then you are guaranteed to win.