If I hear you say Inception sucked, you get punched in the nose. To deny that it rocked, is to deny your inner child a Michelangelo Ninja Turtle. Never again should you coat anything in a greasy layer of butter, because you hate all things amazing.
Okay before we go too deep, first things first… No, I’ve not become a Leonardo DiCaprio convert. I will not be purchasing all his movies and “catching up” on everything I have “missed”. I will say that I found his presence in this movie less disturbing than I thought I would, and he did a fine job with the role. It doesn’t change the fact that he looks like a big kid, trying to play very adult roles. Nevertheless, it’s caused me to realized that I need to look past the visually disturbing actor and focus on the potential of experiencing a really great story…
…because that’s what Inception was, a really great story.
It’s smart, perhaps too smart. I’m not saying it’s not without it’s flaws, but it has so much going for it that the flaws seem small in comparison to what they accomplished. It’s nice to get a film of this caliber in the science fiction genre, a genre that really has nearly limitless potential that is infrequently tapped.
If you wish to ignore all of that, there is an upside. You can score a lot of points with other snobs if you start to voice your intellectual superiority to the film’s narrative. Make sure to talk about how you predicted the ending in the opening credits, or how how the director completely ignored everything you learned about the brain when you took that one class in junior college.
That’s how you win the ladies my friends.
