I don’t watch many movies, but I did see Inception. Disappointment city.

The visual effects were stunning, to be sure, but the plot was uninspiring. Huge corporations fighting to corner the energy market? Seriously? The only character I cared about was Ariadne, in spite of her INTENSELY SYMBOLIC name. I guess I was supposed to be invested in Cobb and Mal’s relationship, but Cobb was mentally unstable and (his projection of) Mal was (1) trying to kill everyone and (2) imaginary. I didn’t even cry at the end, and I cry in EVERY MOVIE. All of them. No, I take that back. I don’t think I’ve ever cried during Monty Python and the Holy Grail. But all the others.

The movie went to so much trouble to set up these neat rules for dreams that I’d hoped it would be full of intriguing logic puzzles, but instead it was full of holes and nonsense.

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