NOKW - Inception

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  Inception

Basic Plot:  A group of people who infiltrate dreams are tasked with the impossible mission of implanting an idea inside The Scarecrow's head.  Oh, and a lot crazy shit happens that still doesn't make sense.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that if you truly try to understand this movie, you will have more questions than answers and a headache.  The fact that this movie seems to contradict itself constantly.  The fact that the big dilemma in the movie is that they are so heavily sedated that dying in a dream would send them to Limbo, but we also learn that that isn't that big of deal because if you die in Limbo, you just wake up, plus they go their anyways and it doesn't seem like it really matter anyways.  The fact that when the first dream level is in free-fall, the second level has no gravity and if you follow this line of logic, you would assume that the third dream level would follow suit, but somehow doesn't.  The fact that despite never being inside of one of Leo's dreams, his dead wife keeps showing up.  The fact that the Japanese guy dies after Leo goes into Limbo but has somehow aged 100 years and Leo still looks the same.  The fact that even though Leo accomplishes the Inception, he botched a job at the beginning of the movie that resulted in a group of people wanting to murder his ass and even found him in Kenya, so hiding at his home in America at the end of the movie isn't going to solve that problem.  The fact that we will never know if Leo was dreaming the whole time or not.

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that their whole plan revolved around "The Chemist" outrunning the bad guys in the first dream level who had guns and all-performance SUV's against a large crappy van full of passed out people.  The reason this is ridiculous is because being in a dream in this movie is not like being in The Matrix and you can't just download a skill into your head to instantly make you an expert at things like fighting or stunt driving.  So, The Chemist was nothing but a lab rat and had no training in evasive driving, but he was tasked with making sure the rest of his team, who are passed out in the back of the van, were not killed while driving a van that would easily flip over if it took a turn at more than a snail's pace (and he does that at one point).  However, this task also included him being chased by a bunch of gun-totting badasses in high-performance SUV's and motorcycles.  So, shitty van v. SUV's and motorcycles, who wins?  I'll give you a hint, not the chubby Chemist.  In fact, there is no way he would have made it more than one block before his tires were shot out, everyone in that van was murdered, and they fail their mission before the rest of the group even makes it into the third dream level.  I am not okay with that.

"I still find it amazing that this is the same guy who played Bane in The Dark Knight Rises."