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I recently went and saw the film and loved it.

I fell in love with Nolan's directing back with Momento (and to date is still one of my all time favorite movies) and Inception has the same type of feel to it. If you missed Momento back in 2000, I highly recommend giving it a view (keep in mind you will likely watch it back to back the 1st time - budget your time accordingly).

I agree that a second, and third viewing may be needed to get the full feel for the story. Although Nolan's other works (Follow and The Dark Knight) didn't have the same "whoa I need to see that again!" power, his movies often linger in my mind long after the initial viewing is over.

Inception is on my 'Buy it the day the Blu-Ray hits' list. Nolan's commentary will probably create as many questions as it answers though...



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The Momento is a great movie. I have not seen The Prestige so I cannot comment on that.

Apparently, Inception stole it's ideas from an old Scrooge McDuck comic.

That's what they say, anyway.

I saw it today. It was ok. Extremely well made: good shots, cohesive screenplay and decent acting. Of course with so action-bloated plot characters were a bit flat. I just feel all these gifted actors didn't exactly had anything to work with.
Di Caprio, who I like more and more as he matures, plays similar character to the one in Shutter Island. Good but not mind-blowing. Marion Cotillard's performance was very solid and was one of movie's strong points. Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine ( 2 scenes? really?), Tom Hardy all brilliant actors fell surprisingly flat due to lack of depth and screen time devoted to builiding up characters. It's not that they were bad, but in comparison to Hardy's Bronson or Murphy's The Wind That Shakes The Barley just didn't shine.

I don't mind complex plot filled with pivotal moments as long as it isn't the only thing going for the movie. At some point all this becomes counterproductive.

SpoilerAs for the ending... while I recognize beautifully drafted script that allowed for this moment of confusion at the end I don' feel like it was the best ending this movie could have. Somehow it felt like "ok, now I'm gonna mess with you one last time" sort of thing. Unnecessary for me. Who might have planted an idea in Cobb, what would be the purpose of this. None of this was in any way introduced or even suggested at any point of the movie.

All in all I would certainly recommend watching it. I just don't get all the hype following it. Nolan's Memento and Dark Knight were both better in my opinion.

Too long I thought, I got bored even though it was good.

Finally got a chance to see Inception with my wife the other week. I thought the movie was quite enjoyable, but I have been a fan of Nolan's work long before The Dark Knight. My following comments will contain spoilers, but I am not going to tag my whole comment; if you don't want to spoil seeing the film, then you shouldn't even be in this thread.

Sure. I could nitpick things whenever I see a film where Hollywood is trying to be "smart". According to the rules of the movie, we assume Eames is the dreamer of the ice fortress level, yet when his character becomes weightless in the hotel level, why doesn't that affect the gravity of his dream like it does for Arthur? Do I really believe there is one standard time conversion factor for all dreams even though everyone's mind works differently and at various speeds so you could exactly calculate and time a series of dream-within-a-dream kicks? But should I let these little things detract from an enjoyable and challenging (by Hollywood standards) movie? Certainly not.

Having seen and enjoyed Nolan's Memento and his remake of Insomnia, I see Inception as following a similar theme: how we perceive and question reality and how we do have some control and can affect our own reality. The whole movie is constructed that way, just like in Memento and Insomnia, where Nolan deliberately makes choices to shroud the viewer in uncertainty so the questions of reality and perception are more significant. The supporting characters in Cobb's team are intentionally somewhat one-dimensional, as if they are only what Cobb knows and can project of their personality. The questions Mal challenges Cobb with as she argues his knowledge of reality tug at us - is there really a mysterious corporation chasing him around the globe or is that fantasy? The locations in the "reality" scenes can be confined and seem staged. And the ending sequence once Cobb awakens on the plane is very deliberate in its dream-like direction.

The ending scene is not so much for us to question "Is he in a dream right now or is it real?" but rather to witness and appreciate the evolution and change in Cobb. Near the beginning of the film he is sitting in a hotel room anxiously holding a gun and watching the top intently. At the end of the movie he has accepted that he is happy with a reality where he is with his children, whether that happens to be the "correct" reality or not and doesn't even care to see what happens to the spinning top. I think it has more to do with this change from haunted and paranoid to calm and content than whether the last scene is reality, Cobb's dream, or hell even Mal's dream where she has forgiven him and wants him to forgive himself and be happy, or something else.

Anyways, I enjoyed it and look forward to more of Christopher Nolan's projects.

It's a blanket disclaimer for my laziness.

Also, by the time they got that far down into the thread they A) had already seen it, B) had already decided to see it (and thus probably went to see it before continuing in the thread), or C) decided to not see it. There were plenty of spoilers earlier in the thread so I don't blame Fenris for not putting the tags ;).

Well, can't blame me for picking on you a little too! :P

This movie is interesting both in terms of the plot and the background. however, the ambiguous ending really makes me feel annoyed.There is no need to leave the audiences in doubt of the ending.