Blog 28 - Inception

Inception. Honestly, best movie I've seen all summer, all year, and in a long time. I'd have to say that Star Trek was a really great movie too (released in 2009) and for anyone who is reading this, I'm telling you to seriously go watch it. I'm not a trekkie, never watched the series before, and honestly it's one of my favorite movies of all time. I've watched it probably 8 times and it still hasn't gotten boring. It has the same feel as Transformers in the sense that it's supposed to be something kind of nerdy but the director made it cool. But that's not what I want to talk about is it? Let's get back to Inception.


First of all, if you've never watched this movie go watch it NOW. It's playing at the union Wednesday Nov. 17th so go and watch it because its free AND its a great movie (http://ouab.osu.edu/view_event.aspx?id=631). Now fair warning, I probably will have spoilers after this point, so if you don't want to know about the ending or any details of the movie I'd leave this page immediately. 


Inception was surprisingly funny! I had seen the commercials for it throughout the year and thought to myself "Huh that doesn't look too bad. Maybe I should watch it." Clearly, my expectations and the outcome of the movie were not on the same page at all -- the movie was fantastic. The whole hype on the internet was crazy -- I havn't seen any other movie create such a reaction from the audience. This is probably because Inception's ending was so ambiguous, and smartly done at that! If the top's final "action" I suppose is the right word, had been a finite answer, the movie would have been just good. Mediocre. The fact that Christopher Nolan left the ending up for the audience's interpretation really made this movie. That night after watching I immediately went home and looked up all of the reviews about the movie, trying to find out what the ending really meant, just like the millions of others who watched the movie. Of course, everyone is entitled to what they think happened, but what's great is that Nolan made the ending so ambiguous that the two main possible endings are pretty much split even among the fans. 


So, for those of you who've watched Inception, what do you think the ending is? I'm going to write another blog about exploring both of the most popular endings, so if you'd like take a look at blog 29 too :)


My love for Joseph Gordon-Levitt exponentially grew after watching the movie <3
Here's some funny pictures about Inception: