Inception

Inception
Rated: PG-13
Grade: A

You ever go to a movie and it turns out to be exactly what you thought it would be. What a great day… It’s been a while.

The story line is fairly straightforward. Dude A and Dude B and Dude C try to steal from Dude D. they do this by hijacking him on a train and then going into his dreams which they built to accommodate his reality, only Dude D realizes it. So Dude’s A, B, and C runaway and Dude D catches them and I guess kills one of them off, and offers the others work by implanting an idea into Dude E. So to do that you need to enter dream state 1, and have that guy fall asleep and enter the new dream state of the dreamer dreams… blah blah blah... still reading?

It was a little convoluted. But it never really felt that way. I mean the concepts this movie uses to transition thru the angst of the central character is fairly difficult to get… it’s just complicated. You are with them, sleeping, but you can get kicked awake, and in different dreams of dreams you can get kicked out of one but not the other… its complicated! Think Matrix style complicated where they have to have a character monologue to the audience, only Inception is never forced to do that. Chris Nolan did a great job of directing the audience into concepts, surprises, and climactic moments. It was just a fun movie.

Every actor did a great job.

The action sequences were absurd. (In a good way)

The worlds created felt like home, but just a little different.

It was just really interesting.

It gets an easy A.

Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Rated: PG

Grade: C

It wasn’t that bad. It’s almost a B…

I mean you have to take into consideration this is a kid’s movie… kind of…

That’s the thing. It wasn’t really a kid’s movie. I mean the main guy was in Knocked Up and She’s Out of Your League. That’s his resume of work, and he plays the same character in all of his movies. Just an awkward nerd guy, sometimes he’s high, other times he is apparently a Sorcerer.

Anyway its origins are here:

And that’s just cool. I even made a maze a few years ago with it as the inspiration… *don’t sue me Disney.

They have an awkward tribute scene, where a mop kind of sexually assaults our protagonist. So with all that, it wasn’t that bad.

I don’t know. It feels weird. Like as I walked away from the movie I had enjoyed the little ride I had gone on. Just a little escape. The more I think about it though the more disdain I have for it.

I mean the most powerful spell in a dual is apparently shooting fireballs. Even spirit wizards apparently just shoot fireballs. If you are going to rip off a Disney wizard moment, rip off sword and the stone. I want to see Nic Cage as a freaking mouse running from a purple alligator. Also… make it look real please.

Another thing that just kind of annoyed me… Merlin. Really? !? The origin of the story was lame. Merlin trains 3 people, 2 guys and a girl. One guy gets scorned cause Monica Bellucci is just too attractive, so he makes a deal with some bad wizard person. There are throw away villains with a dragon, and again, our hero is running and throwing fire.

Just kind of a silly movie. Biggest problem is they wanted this to be like Pirates, where it appealed to everyone. They should have just picked a demographic and rolled around in their profit.

Oh well… This movie was a C for me.