Inception: an okay movie that everyone loves because they have been to the movies in the last year.

I went into inception hearing a couple reports that it was a good movie and involved manipulating dreams.  Other than that I wasn’t sure quite what was going on.  Looking back, I’m still not quite sure I know what’s going on.

The ‘exciting twist ending’ was quite obvious early on, although the exact specifics were somewhat muddled.  Okay, so he’s still dreaming, that part was apparent.  Is the whole movie Cobb’s wife coming in and performing the inception?  Or is it more straightforward – he needs to off himself?

I thought the movie was a fun concept, similar to, but not replicating the matrix.  There has been a number of Inception/Matrix comparisons, and with good reason.  The people were mentally plugged in to some other world.  In order to unplug or be unplugged, you have to die.  Let’s not kid ourselves here.  Anyone who claims Inception and the Matrix are not the same movie, has not seen Inception and the Matrix.

All told, I think the movie was okay.  I am not in a hurry to see it again, but I won’t be screaming for the remote when it plays on cable tv.  Until the commercials come on that is.  Good enough to watch once, but not worth the hype it has generated.

I stumbled across this little Youtube video, and it is fun.  It’s really weird, but that used to be what made the internet so different from real life.  Now there are so many weird things online and everything is trying to outweird everything else.

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