I’ve never been a Leonardo DiCaprio fan. Shutter Island and Inception changed that. He’s not as dull as I once thought. He keeps you in suspense and glued to your movie seat. In a cheesy sense, he takes your focus off the popcorn. Just think about it, DiCaprio or Nicholas Cage? Or Johnny Depp? I’ll now take DiCaprio any day.

If you haven’t seen Inception yet, get off of this blog and go see it now. It’s the most mind numbing movie in awhile. It has a certain premise about it. See the thing about hollywood films these days is how unoriginal they are. Nothing is new. Doesn’t that bug you? The majority of the 2010 films are copies of other films. The Killers. The Bounty Hunter. She’s Out Of My League. Directors and producers aren’t thinking enough.

But Inception’s director did, meet Christopher Nolan who also directed The Dark Night. Rumor has it that when the actors and personnel of this film got together some time ago, security guards were hired to occupy the building. Nolan didn’t want this film script to leak out. So he had them guard the doors. He knew it would be a hit. Just since the release on Friday, it’s grossed 62.8 million.

Inception isn’t hard to follow. It’s hard to explain afterwards. You can understand what’s happening when it’s happening, but later on it’s hard to digress. I had to punt when I tried to clarify the plot to my Dad.

It’s a very good concept. Dreams relate to all of us. Some make us not want to wake up. DiCaprio is set out in this movie to plant a seed and make a twist in someones mind. DiCpario says a great quote: “Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was strange.”

In short, this movie got me to go out. Normally I wouldn’t. I’d rather sit at home and watch a baseball game on TV, check my fantasy teams or surf the internet. This movie was worth my time. Would I go again? It would help me understand it more.