Inception (2010)

Directed by Christopher Nolan

Starring: Leonardo Dicaprio, Eliot Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, Dileep Rao, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine

For the first time in Two Dudes, Brews & Reviews history a director has appeared for the second time as a recommendation, and in some ways this feels like a full circle moment for the podcast - Nolan is Austin's favorite director, the first episode featuring our updated audio set-up was on Interstellar, and he is one of two directors (thus far) that we've ranked on the podcast. Yet, returning to Inception felt weird to us....we discuss how the ideas are here, but the character and emotion isn't. It leads to one of our most free-flowing conversations that weirdly becomes a psychoanalysis on the films, themes, and tropes of Nolan's career thus far.