Weekend Movie - Inception

I saw Inception this weekend and I have to admit that it was a lot better than I expected. I heard it was amazing, but only from a bunch of nerdy boys. I don't think the previews really do the movie justice. To me, the previews make the movie just look wild and crazy, but it's so much more than that.

I will try not to give anything away in case you haven't seen it, but the premise is very simple, yet so complex all at the same time. These people basically go into dreams and try to change the subconscious, but there are so many levels of dreaming and deep sleep that if done incorrectly, you could be trapped in limbo for 500 years. It's all quite interesting to me. When you realize what the entire premise of the movie is when it's all said and done, it's kind of simple and silly, but the writers make the surrounding story so complex that you don't even realize how plain it is. You really do have to pay attention though in order to know what's happening in each scene and whether the characters are dreaming or not. With all that said, Leonardo DiCaprio and his team must change one mans subconscious while traveling through 3 different levels of dreaming and 3 different peoples subconscious. Ellen Page is a design student and is brought in by Leonardo to design each dream world and they go from there. The end of the movie leaves you hanging and I loved it. Nothing is better to me than using your imagination. The sound level of the movie was a bit too loud for my taste, but an article somewhere said the movie theatres are required to turn up the volume as part of the "experience." The theatre was freaking shaking, but it makes sense that the writers and directors want the audience immersed into the world they create.

The cast is amazing. Ellen Page breaks out of her quirky roles she's been thrust into and Leonardo DiCaprio just knows how to pick them. Of course the cast also includs Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who does his own stunts and is amazing and I was so happy to see him outside of a teen movie, Michael Caine, who has a smaller role, but no role is ever too small for him, and Marion Cotillard, who does a fabulous job and is just gorgeous. It's just a great ensemble cast. It's one of those movies you could buy and watch over and over again and always find something new. So needless to say, the movies deserves to be at number one for 3 solid weeks.