Movie Review: Inception (2010)

Now for another positive!

One friend of mine often calls this the best film ever made. I don't know, but I thought it was quite amazing. I only saw it once, and that was when it came out, but I'm now in love with Christopher Nolan as a director and writer. I have yet to see any Batman film, including his ones, and this movie bent my mind in ways you couldn't imagine if you haven't seen it.

A man called Cobb (played by the legendary Leonardo DiCaprio; forgot the character's first name) is lost in a world of dreams trying to rescue his wife from limbo. Cobb and his men go deep into dreams within dreams within dreams, etc., attempting to navigate the forever-shifting labyrinth of the human mind in order to get back home to reality. It's got some pretty amazing stuff, like the ground bending upward and cars upside-down overhead (still driving), and the hotel-hallway fight scene was also spectacular. I'm literally feeling a mental loss of gravity right now thinking about it.

The music was by soundtrack emperor Hans Zimmer, who scored Pirates of the Caribbean 2, 3, and 4, Nolan's Dark Knight (Batman) franchise, The Lion King, Sherlock Holmes (2009), and so on and so forth. I enjoy the famous "Inception Horn" (not sure if Zimmer composed that sound), and I should probably buy this movie's score on iTunes soon.

I also think "Leo" is a great actor, and Dileep Rao (the scientist guy) was in three movies I've seen - Drag Me to Hell, Avatar (blue people one, not airbenders), and this. Sam Worthington was in the dreadful Terminator Salvation, Avatar as well, and the newer Clash of the Titans. My question is, Where did they go afterward? I hope to see them again sometime.

Well then, I suppose that is all.

Final grade: A

Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

I thought I'd review this while it was fresh in my head, although I have yet to critique the first three. This is currently my favorite franchise, the first being the best, and as much as I enjoyed this one, I'd have made a few things clearer. Why would the British Navy let a former pirate join their ranks? Where did Blackbeard's powers come from? How could he have survived being beheaded but not stabbed? Even with these weaknesses, I had a lot of fun watching this film and have seen it twice already.

I thought Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides would be a prequel to the first three, but it takes place after 3. After losing the Black Pearl to Blackbeard, Barbossa and Captain Jack Sparrow team up to track down the mystical Fountain of Youth before Blackbeard or the Spanish get there first. In The Curse of the Black Pearl, there was the titular Pearl, inDead Man's Chest and At World's End there was the Flying Dutchman, and in this there wasQueen Anne's Revenge, which was a real ship just recently discovered off the coast of (I think) North Carolina. Blackbeard's ship. What I am saying is that there are several really cool ships in the franchise. Blackbeard is a great villain and I liked how they kept true to real history by having him light his beard on fire. Hans Zimmer, my favorite soundtrack musician, scored this movie quite well. I enjoyed his work on 2 and 3 as well, particularly with "The Kraken," "Davy Jones," "Hoist the Colours," And "I Don't Think Now is the Best Time."

If you like fantasy, mind-bending, swashbuckling adventure and hilarious witticisms, watch this movie. I personally don't usually see things in 3D, just because it usually is not in 3D, but says so to make extra money. 2D is fine, but I love this movie. I give it a B.