{"id":5702,"date":"2011-01-08T12:32:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T17:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=5702"},"modified":"2015-10-20T15:59:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T20:59:58","slug":"inception-2010-christopher-nolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/5702","title":{"rendered":"Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nolan is going for auteur status, taking his mega-budget action comic Batman movies and his multi-layered reality-questioning <em>Memento<\/em> and making a mega-budget multi-layered action comic reality-questioning super-movie.  Seems to have paid off for him &#8211; this is in the IMDB top ten at the moment, barely above his own <em>The Dark Knight<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>We&#8217;ll miss you, Pete Postlethwaite<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image11\/inception1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I should have known <em>Inception<\/em> wouldn&#8217;t be as awesomely complex as I&#8217;ve heard it is.  It&#8217;s not my love for Alain Resnais that makes me feel like a condescending art film snob, it&#8217;s breezing through a movie like this one, which the whole world thought was so confusing.  I was never in doubt as to what was happening, or which level of dream\/reality our heroes were haunting, and thought the ending, while somewhat emotionally satisfying, was the most obvious one possible.  Does that make me an asshole?<\/p>\n<p><em>Why does this shot look so familiar?<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image11\/inception2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s a fun action dream flick with bang-on performances by Leo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, good support by Ellen Page and Marion Cotillard and Ken Watanabe, and some overqualified actors wasted in minor roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nolan is going for auteur status, taking his mega-budget action comic Batman movies and his multi-layered reality-questioning Memento and making a mega-budget multi-layered action comic reality-questioning super-movie. Seems to have paid off for him &#8211; this is in the IMDB top ten at the moment, barely above his own The Dark Knight. We&#8217;ll miss you, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,520,522],"class_list":["post-5702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-michael-caine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10567,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions\/10567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}