Yesterday Christopher Nolan’s Inception came out in theaters. Having seen it, I can’t help but feel that films like Inception are the reason why I love watching movies.
I don’t think the film is perfect, nor a masterpiece. It’s a hugely ambitious film about the nature of ideas and dreaming, that happens to be a crowd-pleasing action blockbuster, but it’s also flawed in many significant respects (see Adam’s review for an explanation of some of them). Yet rarely does a studio give a director $100+ million to create a spared-no-expense, pulls-no-punches, extravagant action film based on an original story (notable previous examples: The Matrix and more recently, Avatar). The result, this time around, is something unique and visually arresting, a true standout among a sea of 2010’s cinematic crap and if you’ve read my previous post about what’s coming out this year mostly a pile of crap.
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