So, INCEPTION (No Spoilers)

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I used to do these sort of reviews over on this site, but I figure that if this is the new home of I’m So Goddamn Clever, it might as well be for The Pop Ogre as well.

Anyway, I just saw INCEPTION.  It is very smart, exciting, and trippy, and very much the sort of well-crafted, intelligent, easy to admire but difficult to love feature that Christopher Nolan is becoming synonymous with.  I enjoyed every minute of watching it, and I’m glad I saw it theatrically, but I really don’t have any desire to immediately see it again.  I saw it, I liked it, I appreciate it, but the idea of owning it or watching it repeatedly just leaves me fairly depressed and exhausted.

Maybe this feeling will change, but I doubt it.

The performances are all top-notch, Nolan’s directorial hand is as assured as ever, and I highly recommend that everybody see this movie…once.  Nolan is fast becoming the modern age’s greatest crafter of sneakily smart mainstream entertainment that works one time.

I hope that some day he’ll make something worthy of repeated viewings.  I want to love one of his movies.