2010 Summer Movies Awards

So I've seen 6 movies this summer, and again I will award my awards for Hollywood's big blockbusters.

The movies I've seen this summer are the following. Iron Man 2, A-Team, Eclipse, Toy Story 3, Karate Kid and Inception. I think compared to past years, this summer was a bummer in the movie category. There were still some good movies out there, but compared to past years and what is to come, I think that it ranks as a low grade summer.

Best Movie – Toy Story 3
Best Dude – Jackie Chan : Mr Han : Karate Kid
Best Dudette – Kristen Stewart : Bella : Eclipse
Best Scene – The end of Toy Story 3 when Andy goes to college
Best Fight – Dre Parker vs 6 other kids : Karate Kid
Biggest Dud – Iron Man 2
Anticipated Sequel – The Avengers / Iron Man 3 - They have to do something better I would think.
Summer movie not seen that I want too – Expendables and Prince of Persia and Robin Hood

Inception - Life? Reality? Dreams?

Ok, so this blog is a few weeks over due. And would have been better if it was still fresh in my mind, but we went out and saw Christopher Nolan's film Inception. It's visually great! That part is awesome. The story is good, some I could have done with out but yea it was really good. I think of the films I've seen this year its #2 right now behind Toy Story 3.

But here's what happened afterwards. We were talking about dreams and reality and then Christianity got brought up and belief in God. Now let me start here, I'm a Methodist. I believe in God, Heaven and a higher Power. (YES this is a big step from what your usually used to here if anyone is reading this.) But somehow that we got talking and it was like was Leo's character in reality or was his life all a dream of someone else. Are we real. Does that make a person a bad person if they don't believe.

I then brought up that fact that well when we are gone, we are gone. This is going to sound weird but when I was about 13, I sat infront of the mirror in the bathroom at my parents house and just looked at myself in my eyes. About 25 mins in to it I got the feeling that there is only 1 me. When I'm gone I'm gone. I'm never going to feel or enjoy those things in life again. Like the smell of peaches in a grocery store. The tingle of excitment of walking up the dark ramp at Kinnick Stadium until you get to the top and see the sun and the bright green grass. When I die, I die. I wont be able to see that again of feel that again. That affected me a lot that day and then the next few years.

So now fast forward. We were talking about Christianity and Jesus. (Please see statement above I believe in God and Higher Power) But did Jesus really exist as God's Son or was he just someone really smart that knew things that others didn't. Like were all these miracles happening based on the fact he knew certain sciences and could maybe pull these "miracles" off? Then had followers who believed him and maybe had knowledge too? Water to wine? Could he have added something? The healings, did he have some medicine training or knowledge that no one else did?

All these things pop in my head and I just think stuff. Like I said this blog would have been better a few weeks ago but I didn't get on the comptuer that night. There weren't kids around, can you blame me? Maybe this is what Nolan wanted from this movie. To make you think about life and your reality and religon. If so, hey good job Chris! If it was just meant for pure enjoyment then something got planted in my head. Can't wait for Batman 3 Chris!

What do you all think?