No bullshit. No facade. No exaggerations.
I'm completely in love. My birthday was fine. The long weekend in Cali was fine. The date I had this past weekend was more than fine. I finally went to see what I've wanted to see for over a month - Inception - and fell madly in love.
Rarely does a movie come along that earns that affection, but it's 100% true; I love that fucking film.
Maybe it had to do with the shitty movie, The Expendables, I watched just before Inception that made me fall so hard. And I won't sugar coat shit for anyone's benefit, the Expendables sucked an old man's crusty, saggy balls. Not even worthy of a decent bashing, by myself of anyone else. Let's just say it's a dismal failure and leave it at that.
Back to the love.
Sure, it isn't perfect, but it's damn close; close as a movie can get, especially one that has so many threads and subplots. Leo's superb, better with every movie. Gordon-Levitt makes me want to buy a tiny purse and cart him around in it. Cinematography is beautiful. Action? Better than Stallone so much as wished he could create. From start to finish, it had me. I didn't want it to end, didn't want to leave; caught up in one of those endings that, once you watch it, you're compelled to immediately watch it all over again.
Jacob's Ladder-esque, but on a much larger scale.
So many details, so much to keep track of; so many twists, turns. With luck, I'll get a personal copy of it sometime today, and I'm giddy, without appetite, and smoking too many cigarettes.
I love good, unique creations. I love art. And Inception is both, a masterpiece.
Sounds like one hell of a movie. I'm dying to see it on a big screen but I almost never get out to see a movie, other than the very rare occaision that one of my clients invites me to a screening.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, by the way. Sorry I missed it but I suck at those things.
It really is worth every penny and the 2 and 1/2 hours.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I agree Leo has talent I have never been a big fan.. not sure why, but it is what it is. Gordon-Levitt is a cutie and has improved with age...imo
ReplyDeleteI don't imagine I'll get to it on the big screen, don't see many that way unfortunately.
On demand will have to do....eventually.
sorry on the delay, vodka. yahoo hasn't been working in my favor for the past few weeks.
ReplyDeleteLeo probably wouldn't be at the top of my list had it been for two movies - The Departed (which, unfortunately, I won't ever watch again even though I own it, as it's a Scorsese movie and I'm boycotting Scorsese permanently as he signed on in support of polanski), and What's Eating Gilbert Grape, which Leo played a character with the mind of a toddler with utmost perfection. And I don't give out those kinds of props easily.
And Gordon-Levitt, I became a fan of his during his run with John Lithgow on 3rd Rock From The Sun, and I also become more impressed with his work pretty much with every project.