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The emperor marched in the procession under the beautiful canopy, and all who saw him in the street and out of the windows exclaimed: “Indeed, the emperor’s new suit is incomparable! What a long train he has! How well it fits him!”

Nobody wished to let others know he saw nothing, for then he would have been unfit for his office or too stupid. Never emperor’s clothes were more admired.

“But he has nothing on at all,” said a little child at last. “Good heavens! listen to the voice of an innocent child,” said the father, and one whispered to the other what the child had said. “But he has nothing on at all,” cried at last the whole people.
- Hans Christian Andersen in the fairy tale The Emperor’s New Clothes (1837)

Given all the hype and hoopla surrounding Christopher Nolan’s latest film Inception and the hyperbolic praise heaped on the movie, you have to ask yourself what the f*ck is going on here.

Group-think triggered hallucinatory hysteria? Possible.

Insane desire to equate confusion with genius? Certainly possible.

Folks, we just returned from the midnight show of Inception at a theater on the East Coast.

And, here’s our verdict – the wildly over-hyped Inception just does not live up, either, to the stratospheric expectations or the fulsome praise lavished upon it.

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As the bard would have exclaimed, Much ado about nothing.

Cockamamie Nonsense – Well, Almost
Unlike our Indian film-makers, it’s not every day that you find big-name Hollywood directors trying to pull the wool over the viewers’ eyes.

But for some decent visual effects and Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack, we’d have been readily forthcoming to completely dismiss Inception as a cockamamie flight of fancy.

Alas, those twin saving graces cannot totally salvage the film from the rubble-heap of a gibberish story, self-inflicted damage wrought by the astonishing hubris of director/writer Christopher Nolan of Memento, Insomnia and Dark Knight fame. Continue reading »