Paprika/Inception

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Hollywood's interpretation of the fact that there was a single animated gun as a prop in Paprika: USE A MILLION!

Alright, I've seen Inception once and admittedly I couldn't absolutely keep up with the story... but come on! If that's not a typical action movie I don't know what is. The storyline is what's supposed to be amazing, but with a million guns and constant firing who can really take notice?

A dreamy plot like that works best when animated, at any rate... which is why Paprika was perfect, I thought. The storyline is certainly at its very heart... Inception comes off as a rip-off, on the other hand. Just an excuse to make another action film.

I dunno, I like both movies. It seems anime has a big influence on Western media, like Paprika and Inception, or, as another example: Serial Experiments Lain, Ghost in the Shell, and another anime that I can't remember at the moment as big influences on The Matrix. I wouldn't necessarily call them rip-offs, since they haven't claimed the original ideas as their own (as far as I know) and the stories are as original as they can be with those ideas, so all the movies I just mentioned deserve about the same amount of recognition.