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Daily Plastic is a Chicago-based movie blog, a collaboration between Robert Davis and J. Robert Parks, the same pair who brought you the wearable movie tote, the razor-thin pencil pocket, and that joke about aardvarks. If you know the whereabouts of the blue Pontiac Tempest that was towed from the Plastic Parking Lot on the evening of August 7th, 2008, or more importantly if you've recovered the red shoebox that was in its trunk, please contact us at your earliest convenience.

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Inception, Toy Story 3, Despicable Me
September 07, 2010
Leonardo Dicaprio in Christopher Nolan's Inception

Labor Day has come and gone, and Chicago just had its first cool day in weeks, so it's a good time to glance back at a couple of the summer's big movies. On this episode of the Plastic Podcast, Rob and J. Robert talk about Inception and Toy Story 3, with a brief nod toward Despicable Me.

0:00 Intro
0:47 Trailer: Inception Story
2:02 Inception (Nolan, 2010)
20:56 Toy Story 3 (Unkrich, 2010)
25:41 Despicable Me (Coffin/Renaud, 2010)
29:25 Complications and Traditions
33:15 Outro

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Duration: 33:27
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4 Responses to “Inception, Toy Story 3, Despicable Me”

  1. Doug says:
    September 9, 2010 at 12:18 pm

    Great to hear you guys again!

    I haven't seen "Inception," but your critique about it focusing on "the wrong questions" (intricacies of the plot) rather than the deeper life relevancies it alludes to is a nice articulation of my problem with all of the Christopher Nolan films I've seen. They seem so coldly immersed on the mechanics of what they're saying that they almost seem to forget what they wanted to say in the first place, creating very vague, even contradictory messages.

    Ebert is quoting Robert Warshow.

  2. Robert DAVIS says:
    September 9, 2010 at 12:23 pm

    Oh yes, Robert Warshow. Thanks, Doug. I have his collection of essays, The Immediate Experience, and like it quite a bit, but I never seem to remember that he's the "guy in the theatre" guy.

  3. J Robert says:
    September 9, 2010 at 3:30 pm

    Thanks, Doug. Glad that at least a few people are listening. :)

    Btw, full props to Rob for the hilarious mashup of Inception and Toy Story 3 trailers in that early audio clip. Made me laugh out loud. And, Rob, you'll be happy to know I've already listened to the whole podcast. It sometimes takes me weeks to get around to it, but not this time!

  4. Robert Eisenbraun says:
    September 24, 2010 at 9:16 am

    Glad to hear another good podcast, J Robert. I second Doug's comment.

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