Sunday, July 18, 2010

Inception and the midnight movie experience


It had been years since I last went to a midnight movie opening. Although I hadn't planned on doing one this summer as the release date for Inception grew near and my interest in seeing it grew exponentially when asked if I wanted to meet at the midnight show last Thursday I could not refuse. When comparing notes I believe the last Midnight premiere I attended was The Phantom Menace. It was definitely not worth the lack of sleep, other than seeing the fan boys and girls dressed up. It had been so long I forgot how unruly some people can be at that late hour.

I mean don’t get me wrong, I love to crack jokes at what’s going on around me and on the screen during commercials and previews, but not in public. My fiends and I do so in private at our homes or at least via text as t not make a huge spectacle of ourselves. Well last Friday Morning at twelve midnight we were just lucky enough to have the most annoying group of what I reckoned to be late teen early twenty something’s. After ten minutes I was ready to get up and pour my extra large tub o diet cola right into their laps.

Just as the urge to smack a kid in he head came to me the lights of the theater came up. A theater employee announced they had technical difficulties with the theater we were in and we would have to move to another. Now this was a good thing and a bad thing. The good we could get the hell away from the noisy ass’s behind us. The bad we had to fight for good seats in the next theater. The room was nearly full so three seats together in a stampede of movie geeks like myself would be difficult, but we managed. Not the best seats in the house but good enough. The crowd was still loud for my liking but thankfully once the feature started all fell quiet.

Inception would have to be the best movie that is not about an established character (Batman) that I have seen in years. On one viewing I would say it has shot to the top 5 of my favorite movies ever. Now after repeated viewings it may fall a bit but not much. I love movies that leave so much up to your own imagination. How do they do it? What did that mean? What happens after the screen goes dark. All things you too will be asking I am sure.

Inception is a love story, it’s an action movie, it will appeal to both men and women.
My best friend in fact called it “Eclipse for Men”. It is great counter programming to the sparkly vampire movies but its far more than that. I don’t want to talk to much about it but I will tell you the cast is great. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is an actor who I particularly hated before this movie. He does an exceptional job as does the man the ladies swoon over Leo. But even the supporting cast did an excellent job of pulling you into the world these characters occupy.

Go see Inception. Take a friend with you. Tell tow other friends. I believe that the better this film does (and it deserves to do so) the quicker we will get the next Batman movie from the Nolan’s.

Go See Inception!!!!!!!!!!!!

“You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling. “Inception (2010)