I haven't been looking for to a film coming out in ages, every time some massive blockbuster or a well known remake of a TV show or some long awaited sequel is about to come out I always scratch my head and wonder what everyone is getting so excited about, it’s gonna be shit. They always end up to being shite, pretty much all of them. Okay, for instance, I saw the clip for that new Expendables movie there the other day, with all the 80s actions stars in it, Sly, Bruce, Arnie, Jet, Dolf, Mikey and for about 5 seonds, I thought to myself - 'Holy Shit, that is going to fucking deadl . . . . Hold on a minute, the trailer is fucking deadly but you can guarantee the film is absolute crud.
But for the first time in about 2 years I was genuinely excited about the release of a massive blockbuster, I saw the trailer and I was thinking the exact thing everyone else was thinking. 'This is gonna be fucking savage.' It was gonna be one of those movies that you knew was gonna be sweet. There was no two ways about it. The only thing that was getting at me was Christopher Nolan, the director and I know what you’re probably saying right now, 'What the fuck are you talking about; he is a savage director, Memento, the Batman movies.' Yeah, okay, I'll give you Memento is a fucking kick ass film, what a way to start your career and that Insomnia movie was of okay aswell but I hated the Batman movies. The first one, all that story about him getting trained and slowly becoming Batman, I thought that stuff was quality but all this shit with the Tom Wilkinson as this gangster of Gothem and Cillian Murphy sending the whole of Gothem on the worst acid trip of there lives. I thought all of that was bollix. And as for the second film which I was suspect about when it was coming out, that first scene with the bank robbery - amazing. That opening helicopter shot, the one that is heading towards the big black building, I thought to myself in that scene, 'This cunt can use a camera.' Not only in that scene but the whole film looked perfect and Heath Ledger, what a swansong, I never really rated him as a top class act until I saw him in that movie but, in my opinion, that was it. It was too long, Christian Bale's growly voice was wrecking my head and that whole bit with the boats at the end, a bit out of nowhere if you ask me and the word random is the only word that comes to mind. So I was hoping to Christ that Inception wasn't going to be the same.
What did give me a reassuring feeling in my waters was an interview with Christopher Nolan I read in Empire saying that he was going back to the psychological thriller of Memento and Insomnia, that he had had this idea for years and now that he had made a couple of billion for Warner Brothers with the Batman movies, he could finally make it. So that reinstated the buzz in me about Inception.
The film came out and was getting amazing reviews from some of my favourite critics and all my mates were going crazy about it, people talking about going back a second time, what? I haven't heard that one in a while from everyone, going back a second time. Facebook was off the metre, you know that home page area where people can tell you what they are doing at any given time, yeah, well, every second one was about how savage Inception was except for one person, one very important person and me and that one person agree with each other on nearly every film, we hated The Departed together, we hated Gangs of New York together and together, for the past 8 years, we have been writing a book entitled 'Why the Lord of the Rings film are shite!' which we are not even half way through - My Brother, Max. Immediately, as he uttered the words 'a bit random', my confidence was shot again. Leonardo Di Caprio has nothing on my bro, let me tell you, when it comes to incepting an idea into a person's head, Max Olohan has it in spades, it truly started to spread like a virus. I was back to square one again
Right, time to go an see this bad boy, and stop fucking around, myself and Tara book ourselves two tickets for the night show in Rathmines, get in there you little beauty, lets do this. We are there -
But for the first time in about 2 years I was genuinely excited about the release of a massive blockbuster, I saw the trailer and I was thinking the exact thing everyone else was thinking. 'This is gonna be fucking savage.' It was gonna be one of those movies that you knew was gonna be sweet. There was no two ways about it. The only thing that was getting at me was Christopher Nolan, the director and I know what you’re probably saying right now, 'What the fuck are you talking about; he is a savage director, Memento, the Batman movies.' Yeah, okay, I'll give you Memento is a fucking kick ass film, what a way to start your career and that Insomnia movie was of okay aswell but I hated the Batman movies. The first one, all that story about him getting trained and slowly becoming Batman, I thought that stuff was quality but all this shit with the Tom Wilkinson as this gangster of Gothem and Cillian Murphy sending the whole of Gothem on the worst acid trip of there lives. I thought all of that was bollix. And as for the second film which I was suspect about when it was coming out, that first scene with the bank robbery - amazing. That opening helicopter shot, the one that is heading towards the big black building, I thought to myself in that scene, 'This cunt can use a camera.' Not only in that scene but the whole film looked perfect and Heath Ledger, what a swansong, I never really rated him as a top class act until I saw him in that movie but, in my opinion, that was it. It was too long, Christian Bale's growly voice was wrecking my head and that whole bit with the boats at the end, a bit out of nowhere if you ask me and the word random is the only word that comes to mind. So I was hoping to Christ that Inception wasn't going to be the same.
What did give me a reassuring feeling in my waters was an interview with Christopher Nolan I read in Empire saying that he was going back to the psychological thriller of Memento and Insomnia, that he had had this idea for years and now that he had made a couple of billion for Warner Brothers with the Batman movies, he could finally make it. So that reinstated the buzz in me about Inception.
The film came out and was getting amazing reviews from some of my favourite critics and all my mates were going crazy about it, people talking about going back a second time, what? I haven't heard that one in a while from everyone, going back a second time. Facebook was off the metre, you know that home page area where people can tell you what they are doing at any given time, yeah, well, every second one was about how savage Inception was except for one person, one very important person and me and that one person agree with each other on nearly every film, we hated The Departed together, we hated Gangs of New York together and together, for the past 8 years, we have been writing a book entitled 'Why the Lord of the Rings film are shite!' which we are not even half way through - My Brother, Max. Immediately, as he uttered the words 'a bit random', my confidence was shot again. Leonardo Di Caprio has nothing on my bro, let me tell you, when it comes to incepting an idea into a person's head, Max Olohan has it in spades, it truly started to spread like a virus. I was back to square one again
Right, time to go an see this bad boy, and stop fucking around, myself and Tara book ourselves two tickets for the night show in Rathmines, get in there you little beauty, lets do this. We are there -
ha ha just read that, so what did you think?
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