New Adventures in Movie-making, Starring Nolan

Rating: 10/10 (30 July 2010)

It has only two faults: 1) Although Ken Watanabe is a good actor and delivered a great performance, I couldn't understand what he was saying half the time. 2) the obsessive focus on the top-- there were maybe 20 shots/insert shots of the top- whether it was spinning or motionless. We needed maybe 5.
Otherwise, it's the kind of movie that I wanted to make when I moved to L.A. three years ago -- a stunningly brilliant psychological thriller.
John Lennon said that he couldn't listen to the radio sometimes because when he listened to a great song he was driven mad with envy because he wished he wrote it. I am not comparing myself to Lennon in a movie sense, but as a small-time filmmaker, I understood that feeling when I watched "Inception." I doubt that I will watch anything that comes close to matching its greatness during the next 5 years, and I am astounded and pleased that the public received it so well. I thought that the masses were permanently stuck on wanting something as juvenile and basic as Avatar.