What is inception?
A similar question was asked at the start of so many reviews eleven years ago about another film - 'The Matrix'. Unlike 'The Matrix' though 'Inception' is a lot more believable. The core premise is that humanity has developed technology and drugs capable of allowing people to share dreams and enter each other's consciousness.
To tell you more about the plot would be to give too much away. But contrary to what you may have read in the papers and general public opinion, the film is not hard to follow. In fact it's quite a simple story - man takes one last job to get home to his children. It made me laugh when people came out from the cinema scratching their heads and complaining that the story was too hard to follow. Were they watching the same film as me?
It's true that if you do walk out to go to the toilet you may miss some important exposition...but that's the same of a lot of films. Inception is well worth watching. But don't let the gushing reviews and people scratching their heads fool you. The film is a lot simpler to understand then they would have you believe.
Friday, 6 August 2010
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Favourite Films
- About Schmidt - "Jeanie might be a little past her prime, but I still think she could have done a lot better!"
- Frost/Nixon - "I'm saying if the President does it, that makes it legal!"
- Ghostbusters - "You don't generally see that kind of behaviour in a house hold appliance."
- Aliens - "Game over man!"
- Terminator 2 Judgement Day - "Why do you cry?"
- Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan - "Aren't you dead?"
- Run Lola Run - "I fucked up Lola!"
- Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix - "I must just have missed it, but by a happy coincidence I arrived at the ministry an hour early"
- Goldeneye - "How original!"
- The Fifth Element - "Anybody else want to negotiate?"
- The Royal Tenenbaums - "Eli just ran his car into our house."
- Kill Bill - "Blonde bitch!"
- Kung Fu Hustle - "Hey fatso. How about you?"
- The Incredibles - "We look like criminals Bob! Inept criminals!"
- Spiderman - "I hunch."
- Dirty Harry - "I see a guy chasing a woman screaming, I shoot the bastard. That's my policy."
- Gran Torino - "Get off my lawn!"
- The Bourne Identity - "How can I know all of that and not know who I am?"
- Dodgeball - "If you can dodge traffic you can dodge balls!"
- The Jungle Book - "Man village? They'll ruin him. They'll make a man out of him!"
- Role Models - "Kiss are great! All their songs are about fucking!"
- Up - "So long suckers!"
- All About Eve - "Eve, Eve, Eve!"
- The Usual Suspects - "Have you ever tried to shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?"
- Star Trek - "Space, the final frontier..."
- American Beauty - "I think your parents haven't had sex in a long time!"
- Coraline - "It's Coraline, not Caroline!"
- Gladiator - "Strength and Honour"
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