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goodolmikeYesterday, for me, was one of those straight-up bad luck days. My morning run didn't work out, then my truck rolled in to my fence and damaged the driver-side door pretty badly and work was particularly nasty.
But, next thing I knew, it was 4:30, which means "I'm on weekend." I kept telling Mark that I was depressed because I had had such a bad day. (I'm a pretty upbeat guy, so when I say I'm depressed, it's almost a joke. However, I was a tiny, little bit blue.)
Mark's solution was to take me to Onami (all you can eat sushi, that's right!) and the movie I've been wanting to see for weeks, Inception!
I had heard that it was weird and hard to follow. I'm certainly pro-weird. I had also heard that it's similar to The Matrix. Fine with me; I love that movie.
Turns out, it is all of those things. Plus, I thought Leonardo Decaprio was really great, despite looking like an aging man-child. Also great? Ellen Paige, Kitty Pride. I think I love her; she is so charismatic. There was also a buff European guy for Mark to get excited about.
What I really liked about it was the complex story. It was so dense. The audience is really expected to pay attention to key details, laid out early in the film, that come in to play later in the film. I really enjoyed having to work out what was happening. Most movies these days are much more dumbed down.
For the first third of the movie, my body was working out all that sushi I had eaten, so I was having trouble focusing on the story. Plus there was the non-movie-theater-volume conversation happening right behind us:
"Do you want to try to get a refund?"
"Do you want me to keep waking you up or do you want to just sleep?"
But at one point, I was fully engaged, and the movie seemed to get better and better all the way through to the super thrilling and intriguing conclusion.
I guess I'm excited about this Chris Nolan guy. He's very hot right now; hopefully he keeps up the great work. Oscar buzz? I vote yes.
But, next thing I knew, it was 4:30, which means "I'm on weekend." I kept telling Mark that I was depressed because I had had such a bad day. (I'm a pretty upbeat guy, so when I say I'm depressed, it's almost a joke. However, I was a tiny, little bit blue.)
Mark's solution was to take me to Onami (all you can eat sushi, that's right!) and the movie I've been wanting to see for weeks, Inception!
I had heard that it was weird and hard to follow. I'm certainly pro-weird. I had also heard that it's similar to The Matrix. Fine with me; I love that movie.
Turns out, it is all of those things. Plus, I thought Leonardo Decaprio was really great, despite looking like an aging man-child. Also great? Ellen Paige, Kitty Pride. I think I love her; she is so charismatic. There was also a buff European guy for Mark to get excited about.
What I really liked about it was the complex story. It was so dense. The audience is really expected to pay attention to key details, laid out early in the film, that come in to play later in the film. I really enjoyed having to work out what was happening. Most movies these days are much more dumbed down.
For the first third of the movie, my body was working out all that sushi I had eaten, so I was having trouble focusing on the story. Plus there was the non-movie-theater-volume conversation happening right behind us:
"Do you want to try to get a refund?"
"Do you want me to keep waking you up or do you want to just sleep?"
But at one point, I was fully engaged, and the movie seemed to get better and better all the way through to the super thrilling and intriguing conclusion.
I guess I'm excited about this Chris Nolan guy. He's very hot right now; hopefully he keeps up the great work. Oscar buzz? I vote yes.
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Date: 2010-08-01 06:42 am (UTC)You can never have too much sushi
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Date: 2010-08-13 02:03 am (UTC)I really went to see Inception because of DiCaprio and Marion Cotillard. I did not know much about it beyond that. I sometimes like going "blind" into a film. Cotillard was stellar in La Môme/La Vie en Rose (I am unclear as to why that film has 27 different titles)--I loved how meta it was to feature "Non, je ne regrette rien" so prominently in the soundtrack.