I've been watching a lot of shit lately. Partly because of the DVD reviews I'm doing, but also because I can't seem to avoid it. This year at the cinema has been mediocre at best, with even the good movies seeming to only get almost there. To be fair, I haven't seen TOY STORY 3 yet (and apparently HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON is pretty good too), and IRON MAN 2 was a lot of fun, but not Great. KICK-ASS is entertaining as hell, but only as good as its source material (which is meaning to say it's entertaining as hell, but slight, and stupid; and ultimately meaningless). GET HIM TO THE GREEK is surprisingly very funny and not mainstream (ie, it's very strange), but not a classic comedy. ALICE IN WONDERLAND is a terrible waste of decent talent, ROBIN HOOD is waste of great talent, and JONAH HEX is a waste of brain-space. I wish I could forget I sat through that one. HOT TUB TIME MACHINE and MACGRUBER fall in with GET HIM TO THE GREEK - very weird, and very funny, but kind of forgettable. Except, I think I'll be seeing MACGRUBER again before the other two. SHUTTER ISLAND, YOUTH IN REVOLT, SPLICE and EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP (in ascending order) are all very good movies, but none of them are classic, none of them are Great. INCEPTION is the first Great movie I've seen this year; indeed it's one of the best movies of the 2000s. Two days have passed and my mind is still turning those scenes around; I'm replaying certain moments over and over, truly amazed at what I've experienced. I know a lot of movie reviewers have the tendency to overblow a film, to raise one's expectations too high, but as I said in my first post I am not a fanboy, I want to remain as critical as possible. I have my issues with the film, but they're so slight that in order to keep from writing a premature review I'm going to wait. I know I will be seeing INCEPTION again very soon, so once that happens (and after I give it much more thought), I will spend a good amount of time writing a "review" of sorts.
Till then, Cheers.
Granted, I respect your decision to view again before "verbally blowing" this movie, but if your definition of "fan boy" is one who immediately creams his pants and talks about this movie with a giddy grin on his face for days, then.... I = Fanboy. It's been a long time since I was:
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b)not only satisfied, but completely blown away by a movie that I had built such high expectations for
c)immediately ready to see again in the theater
(Note: the other 2 recent movies that come to mind which fill that same criteria are The Dark Knight and Inglorious Bastards)
During the "Rolling Van Scene", (which is a series of film that will be talked about for YEARS to come and whose style will IMMEDIATELY *TRY* to be imitated in other action sequences) I remember sitting in the theater with a huge smile on my face, saying "wow" aloud to myself, and never wanting the movie to end. (I don't think I've seen an action sequence quite like this where there was nothing wasted, or was in the movie JUST for the sake of putting "something cool" in our faces. It could be the smartest action I've ever seen.) I don't want a sequel, by any means, but I was made selfish to the point that I wanted the movie to go on for another 5 hours or so. My head hurt when I left the theater.
So, in closing, Inception was the best movie-going experience I've had in a while; it made me want to make movies, and cower at the idea of making movies all in the same breath, and I eagerly await to see your further review of it.
---Sincerely,
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...I should also note that a movie has to be 'THAT GOOD' for me to actually think, "Man, I didn't hate DiCaprio at all during that movie."
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