What a busy busy week I had. I didn't get much sleep, the heat has been atrocious & I am a night owl working morning shifts w/ no a/c. I did get pretty excited when I got called to work the Inception Premiere. Woo hoo! It was not as exciting as I let my crazy imagination lead me to believe. I didn't do any red carpet stuff & didn't see any of the actors or the director. (Damn it.) But I did see Hans Zimmer & I did get to shoot one of the cameras for a live webstream of his performance at the after party. That's pretty exciting still! Hans Zimmer does this nice little added touch by spinning a top on his piano. If you've seen the movie, you understand. The broadcast is streaming at the link below. My camera is the one shooting from the left side front straight onto the stage. Yay me!
http://www.ustream.tv/inceptionpremiere
I got a bunch of friends together today & went out to the Arclight to see the movie. I was very angry at myself for getting a soda - b/c you know what that means! Pee break! I tried very hard to hold it, but with a running time of 2hr 45mins, I knew I was in trouble. Thankfully I apparently picked a really great moment to run to the bathroom - and I ran... and I'm not the only one as I seem to have lead the way for other people to think, okay... I'm going too! So here I'll warn for spoilers? I may or may not say things you don't want to know. The good pee break moment seemed to be in the snowy place w/ the fighting & Leo & Ellen Page going "under" again. There must have been a 2 minute fight sequence. Thank you!
I thought the movie was pretty interesting. It leaves off in a way that you question whether or not things are real (although I believe them to be). There were a lot more fighting scenes than I anticipated. I'd like to see it again b/c I'm not sure how I liked the pacing. I'm left curious about it & want another viewing. The list of actors is amazing - even little bonuses like Pete Postlethwaite & Lukas Haas are in it. The zero gravity scenes w/ Joseph Gordon-Levitt (looking fantastic btw, as did practically everyone - this was an eye candy movie too!) were great as well as the rotating hallway. Really the list of amazing scenes can go on. I don't know if any of the dreaming was anything like how I dream but it brings up interesting points & similarities. I also dreamed recently of walking around & being on a bridge in Paris, which was a weird feeling seeing something similar in the movie. I also like things that are incorporated from dreams I actually have - like staircases, which I am apparently very frightened of falling off of in dreams due to a lack of hand rails... and floating - wow I dream about stepping onto thin air a lot. Yes, stepping... as if the air were stairs... hmm... I wonder what that means.
http://inceptionmovie.warnerbros.com/
