Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010) & Shrek Forever After (Mike Mitchell, 2010)

Well since no-one asked...

OH, *SPOILER ALERT*

Inception centres around Leonardo DiCaprio's character something Cobb (which is hilarious as a last name) and his struggle to get back to his kids in America. In the film's universe, there is a new type of theft, known as extraction where the thief enters the victim's mind during a chemically-induced dream, and steals information from their mind. It's based on the idea of lucid-dreaming, according to Nolan. Looks more like a drug-fuelled trip to me.

Anyway Cobb has to get back to his kids and so he takes on a mission from the guy whose mind he just raped (because essentially that's what it is - entering without permission, perhaps trespassing). The mission is to plant an idea in a Corporate rival's mind, a feat known as 'inception', a notoriously difficult thing. Anyway he does it and there is a lot of confusion and levels. They go into different levels in the dream state (a dream inside a dream inside a dream etc.) Cobb goes into limbo to find a chap who died in a dream a level up, because if you die in a severely sedated dream state your mind goes into limbo and you eventually wake up with a melted brain because every level amplifies the time spent in the dream world by like 5x or something. Anyway you spend ages in limbo for like a 5 minute dream or something.

They all have little totems, which are things they can check to see if they're dreaming or not, and cobb has a spinning top which stays spinning if he's dreaming, and when he gets out at the end when he sees his kids he spins it and it begins to wobble then it cuts to black and that really annoyed me cos it's the most cheesy, cheap ending I could think of 'oh yeah he was dreaming all along, or was he?' It was just stupid Nolan, you tool.

Also, it was hilarious when one of the bad guys got hit by the van in Yusuf's level of the inception. Just saying.




Shrek was better than the 3rd one, but worse than the first and second. The whole busted up Far Far Away thing with the war between the Ogres and the Witches was cool, but most of it was cliché and uninventive. The Pied Piper was awesome though. And the Witches looked like a clone army of The Hob Goblin.
Anyway I can't be bothered anymore.