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Yesterday when I was wandering aimlessly around the internet, killing time, I found a site called I Write Like that lets you type in some text and then it tells you what famous author you write like.

Totally pointless and lame and, really, if you actually write like Charles Dickens then you would probably be writing novels and making money right now and obviously we aren’t ALL capable of writing like famous authors.

But whatever, I was bored, so I pasted in some text and got this boring result:

I write like
Cory Doctorow

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

I had no idea who this guy was, which was kind of a disappointment, because this sort of game is never as cool if you get matched up with some random that no one has ever heard of…. But I googled him and read his about me page (which I’m pretty sure he wrote himself), and figured, “Okay, that’s fair. I can see how I got matched to this.”

But I think I was still a little peeved that I didn’t get Meg Cabot or Diana Gabaldon or some other girly sort of writer, so I started pasting text from OTHER blogs into there to see what sort of results were possible with this thing.

dooce.com: Cory Doctorow
captainhambone.typepad.com: Cory Doctorow
smashingmagazine.com: Cory Doctorow
perezhilton.com: Cory Doctorow
….
By this time I was getting a peeved. Do we ALL write like CORY DOCTOROW? This can’t be right. I don’t even know who this guy is, how can we all be his clones??? And what kind of last name is Doctorow¹, anyway?

So then I started pasting gobbledy gook in there.
Gobbledy Gook: Cory Doctorow.

How can someone pay good money for a domain name, write a program (assuming they actually WROTE a program. It almost seems like they didn’t, at this rate…), create a layout, AND add a little link at the bottom with an ad for the creator of all this, when the damn thing only spits out one name over and over again? What a waste! At least spice it up a little! Throw in some harlequin romance authors and neo-nazis… anything but this. I’d rather the results be RANDOM than be fixed on Cory Doctorow.

So.
Who do you write like?

¹ After writing this I really looked at the name and realized: Doctor Ow.

Before I went to see Inception on Saturday night, I hadn’t even heard about this movie.

The only explanation I have for you is that I live under a rock and stare blankly at walls all day, only crawling out to blog once in awhile.

BUT.
I did see it, and I walked into the theatre having no idea what I was going into, which is almost the best way to watch movies. I didn’t even know that Leonardo DiCaprio was in it until he showed up on screen. This was a major point towards the movie, because I. LOVE. Leonardo DiCaprio. I’ve loved him ever since I saw him in movies in which he didn’t play Jack. This guy has been AMAZING in every movie he’s ever been in, with the possible exception of Titanic, and that might only be because no one wants to sit through that movie again for 3 hours, and all I remember from the first time around is when Rose drops Jack into the ocean like some heartless bitch.

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I think the one thing that really struck me about this movie from the beginning all the way through to the end, is that it felt like you were swimming through molasses the entire time. It was slow. Every scene was drawn out. And the acting was good, but it was the late show and there’d been like 40 minutes of previews before the movie and the mood wasn’t right for long scenes and careful setup.

I didn’t think it was too confusing. Some people I have talked to had no idea what was going on throughout the movie, but while the first twenty minutes or so were a little convoluted, I thought everything was sorted out before we really launched into the thick of things.

The action scenes reminded me of The Matrix, but cooler.

The romantic side of the story kind of annoyed me. Like, is that the best you can do for a plot complication? A messed up history that you don’t want to reveal how much it affected you? A messed up history that involves a WOMAN? CLICHE.

Also, that woman scared me. I spent entire scenes feeling terrified that she was going to appear at any minute. Which I guess was the point of it, and they did a good job of it, but at the same time, I would have liked to feel connected to her somehow, or to know what her ‘good’ version was like so that I could empathize more with Leo.

My only other problem with the movie is how they ended it, which I guess I can’t reveal, because that would be a spoiler for sure, but let me just repeat this: CLICHE.

Overall:
Acting: Amazing.
Plot: Pretty good.
Would I watch it again? Yes. I plan on it.
Worth going to theatres for? No. Not because it isn’t good enough for theatres. Just because I think it’s the kind of movie that’s more enjoyable at home, where you can get up and make popcorn without saying “excuse me, excuse me, excuse me,” fifteen million times on the way to the kitchen and then again on the way back.

4 out of 5 stars.

Life as Rose

Cory Doctorow

Movie Review: Inception