{"id":811,"date":"2011-06-10T22:51:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T16:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2011-06-10T22:51:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T16:51:45","slug":"dream-hooey-inception-island-or-a-contrarians-view-of-inception-and-shutter-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/06\/10\/dream-hooey-inception-island-or-a-contrarians-view-of-inception-and-shutter-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Hooey: Inception Island, or a Contrarian\u2019s View of \u201cInception\u201d and \u201cShutter Island\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

So none other than knockout writer Susan Orlean (whose book on Rin Tin Tin is coming out soon, I believe) turned me on to the world of streaming video last fall, telling me that she finds that much better than any satellite\/cable TV in her home in upstate New York. Laggard that I am, I\u2019ve just recently picked up my Apple TV. It\u2019s so small and minimal it\u2019s freaky\u2014a little black box about the size of a deck of cards, a remote with essentially three buttons on it. But connected to Netflix streaming video, it\u2019s kind of amazing. Gone are the days of same-old movies on DirecTV! Gone are the day so seeing He\u2019s Just Not That Into You<\/em> and Lady Gaga\u2019s latest fashion show\/concert listed in maddening, multiple timeslots! Variety is here!
\nSo two of the movies I watched (which are not on DirecTV yet) both featured Leo DiCaprio, and I chose these two to catch up on what my students were talking about, generally expressing how much they loved them: Inception<\/em> and Shutter Island<\/em>. Inception<\/em> is great eye candy, but it didn\u2019t add up to much, and I lost interest in all the dream hooey as it went on and on. Shutter Island<\/em>, on the other hand, had a healthy dose of dream hooey, or alternate reality, and I thought it really paid off. The final line DiCaprio says rings out as a real kicker, like the final line Charlize Theron utters in Monster<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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