Review; III

In future, I will try to not do everything all at once.

Publish This Book is the most irreverent book I've ever read, but also one of the funniest. It's all about getting a book published (hence, the title). On the other hand, it's depressing to hear about how difficult it is to get something published.

Despicable Me is worth seeing.

It's clever, and it's highly entertaining to hear Steve Carell doing a Russian accent (and then to hear O. imitating it is even better, since she actually is Russian), but more than anything, it's highly endearing even though it's easy to figure out the plot from just the trailers. Unlike, say, Avatar, which you could figure out from the trailers, but then didn't give you much else (yeah, I know. Sue me, I didn't like it).

The minions are wonderful.

However, the best line belongs to Vector, the bad guy (well, the "more" bad guy):

"I'm Vector: a villain with both direction and magnitude!"

Vellum, by Hal Duncan...

...is beautifully written, but the only way to do it is to ignore the fact that time is a linear thing. Don't bother unless American Gods is your favorite Gaiman book.

But....

I did it. I finally gave in and saw it:

Inception.

I'm odd when it comes to movies. If the plot's not good, there's nothing in the 'verse that can make it good. (I'd say "think Twilight," but there just isn't anything good about those movies.) On the other hand, there are some movies I avoid because I don't like the lead.

I've never been a huge DiCaprio fan (he's too hit-and-miss for me), but the plot looked too good to ignore--plus, I love Ellen Page.

So I saw it.

I think the best way to describe it is a cross between The Matrix and Ocean's Eleven (the remake, not the original).

It was less Memento mess-with-your-mind than I thought it would be, but sleeping through half isn't really an option. They delve into the dream-within-a-dream idea, and play with the chemical makeup of dreams, and the fact that your brain incorporates what's going on in the world into your dream, and how you don't realize how weird a dream is until you wake up.

In short,

go see it.

m.