By The Butcher
You love ’em, he hates ’em! The Butcher carves up your favourite films, and this week, he applies his sharpened cleaver to Christopher Nolan’s highly praised 2010 sci-fi epic Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
When the trailer for Christopher Nolan’s latest “opus”, The Odyssey, “dropped”, it got The Butcher to thinking about the many, many shitty movies this highly heralded director has made. That time, Nolan’s stupid wormholes sci-fi spectacular Interstellar got the chop, and now that The Odyssey is actually in cinemas, it’s time to swing the cleaver again. Hmmmm…now where should it land?
Director Christopher Nolan has committed many sins over the years, from getting Robin Williams to play it straight in the wholly un-thrilling thriller Insomnia (which should have had the words “A Cure For” added to its title) and actually making a film about magicians (The Prestige) that wasn’t a joke, to telling a story backwards (Memento) and taking a comic book character seriously (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises). He made a boring war movie (Dunkirk), and actually put in the effort to put together a massive epic about the bloke who invented the atomic bomb…and yes, Oppenheimer was showered with praise and Oscars.
Well, despite all of those major cinematic trespasses, Christopher Nolan’s silliest moment remains the somehow critically acclaimed Inception. In this big bag of nonsense, Leonardo DiCaprio – who never seemed to recover after going “full retard” in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? – plays a guy who sneaks into people’s dreams and steals their secrets.
Really? Couldn’t he just break into their safes, or hack their computers? Wouldn’t that be easier? Filled with cock-eyed logic (everybody’s dreams look the same; Leo’s nutbag ex-wife “invades” his dreams…or something), the film’s stupidity is summed up in one hilarious scene where Leo realises that one of his victims has had “dream training” and thus has SAS-style commandos running around and protecting his subconscious…or something.
Unfortunately, Inception is more than just a bad dream…it’s real! Wake me when it’s over…and remind me not to go on The Odyssey while you’re at it!
