I went today to the theater to watch Inception, honestly i did not have that much of high hopes but after watching it from start to finish today all i can say is WOW over and over again, looks like we found the BladeRunner of our generations boys!  There were some points in the movie where i went "yes" at the great music and it's great timing with awesome scenes.  it's like someone took James Bond mixed it with Dark City and a perfect baby came out. really can't wait to get it on Blu-Ray! easily my favorite movie of the year and it will be one of those movies i will watch over and over again without getting bored. if you haven't seen the film you owe it to yourself to see this film in Theaters or iMax.
 
This film has a good chance of turning into a series in the far future. it just felt like a TV show at times than a movie.

It was pretty good. Definitely one of the top movies of this year. (as well as last year)

Damn it, I thought I was original with that Blade Runner crap :(.

Yeah I loved it.

I didn't think it was a great as everyone is making it out to be.  
 
I thought it was an amazing movie but i liked The Dark Knight more. Best movie this year i think, but then i haven't seen Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore yet.

There are certain times where I thought Leo could pull some new kind of Deckard Blade Runner. 
 
And then I remember hearing of him being in Akira. 
 
And I just think "Please, Lord Cthulhu, make it so that such a film arrives and is not destroyed by Hollywood."

so its like the matrix then?

Slightly overated because it's so different. I found it difficult to by into the inception breifcase machine where all their dreams are linked together in a dream. Also the dream world is too logical and normal, I expected it to be more trippy. Then again that's me, I could be wrong, I thought the maxtrix was better.

It's dope.

Yeah, it was amazing.  I'm going to see it again this week.

"Slightly overated because it's so different. I found it difficult to by into the inception breifcase machine where all their dreams are linked together in a dream. Also the dream world is too logical and normal, I expected it to be more trippy. Then again that's me, I could be wrong, I thought the maxtrix was better."

Its #7 on my top movies of all time.

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Slightly overated because it's so different. I found it difficult to by into the inception breifcase machine where all their dreams are linked together in a dream. Also the dream world is too logical and normal, I expected it to be more trippy. Then again that's me, I could be wrong, I thought the maxtrix was better.

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   Mr. Nolan took encouragement from the tradition of hit fantasy movies, from “Star Wars” to the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, that hinted at vaster realities than the films could fully detail. In particular, he said, the 1999 mind bender “The Matrix” showed how a mass audience could embrace “a massively complex philosophical concept in some sense.”     
 

“I think ours is of an older school, ours is more of The Matrix variety and the concepts of different levels of reality,” Nolan said. “The whole concept of avatars and living life as someone else, there’s a relationship to what we’re doing, but I think when I first started trying to make this film happen it was very much pulled from that era of movies where you had The Matrix, you had Dark City, you hadThe Thirteenth Floor and, to a certain extent, you had ‘Memento’ too. They were based in the principles that the world around you might not be real.”    

" @lavaman77: Well christopher nolan mentioned the matrix, many times as inspiration, also dark city. Don't know why you say there is no similarities, everyone connects to the matrix in the same way. There was an architect, neo is one too. It's not reality either, matrix did it better imo.  
 
Then again I usually don't like christopher nolan's movies until a few viewing, then I think they are great. Maybe I need to watch it again for a third time. I'm not saying the movie isn't good, it is, however I didn't buy into the concept because I expected more from how you get into the dream, rather than saying okay here is a breifcase and here is how you dream, in levels. I expected the last level to be alot more trippy.  

 
   Mr. Nolan took encouragement from the tradition of hit fantasy movies, from “Star Wars” to the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, that hinted at vaster realities than the films could fully detail. In particular, he said, the 1999 mind bender “The Matrix” showed how a mass audience could embrace “a massively complex philosophical concept in some sense.”     
 

“I think ours is of an older school, ours is more of The Matrix variety and the concepts of different levels of reality,” Nolan said. “The whole concept of avatars and living life as someone else, there’s a relationship to what we’re doing, but I think when I first started trying to make this film happen it was very much pulled from that era of movies where you had The Matrix, you had Dark City, you hadThe Thirteenth Floor and, to a certain extent, you had ‘Memento’ too. They were based in the principles that the world around you might not be real.”    

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Morpheus (pronounced /ˈmɔrfiəs/ or /ˈmɔrfjuːs/; Greek: Μορφεύς, Morpheus, or Μορφέας, Morpheas, "shaper [of dreams]") in Greek mythology as the god of dreams, 

Morpheus: Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?  
 
Morpheus: I see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, that's not far from the truth.        
  
Morpheus: You've been living in a dream world, Neo.

Agent Smith    But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.
   

I loved it. One of my top of all time :) I like the dreams being realistic. My dreams are certainly realistic. Especially him seeing his kids randomly, that kind of thing happens to me. Besides that my dreams tend not to be too trippy. Also the fact that the scenes cut from one location to another, this was how the dream was and how dreams are. maybe some people didn't pick up on that since movies cut from scenes to scenes so often its normal for us. But thats not reality, and it happened in dreams. either way, i loved that movie to death

" I loved it. One of my top of all time :) I like the dreams being realistic. My dreams are certainly realistic. Especially him seeing his kids randomly, that kind of thing happens to me. Besides that my dreams tend not to be too trippy. Also the fact that the scenes cut from one location to another, this was how the dream was and how dreams are. maybe some people didn't pick up on that since movies cut from scenes to scenes so often its normal for us. But thats not reality, and it happened in dreams. either way, i loved that movie to death "

I thought it was very good, but not amazing. Maybe I just didn't catch a few things, but there seemed to be some inconsistencies. Just a couple of things off the top of my head:

" @CitizenKane: Maybe, but a briefcase makes you dream? and everyone is part of the same dream? "

I don't know why, but I kinda got obsessed with it.  I saw it three times within a week.  Don't worry though, I think I'm better now.

" @Delta_Ass: Maybe I just would like it better explained for the brief case, they don't explain how you dream with it, or how everyone is connected to it they just say accept it, here is a dream and it's in layers. How do you know I don't like sci-fi? I am quoting the matrix in the entire thread as an example of a sci fi action movie. Maybe they just need to explain things better for inception. Why does the breifcase has a button, a timer? how does it make you snap out of a dream? How does it make you dream, how is everyone having the same dream when it's connected to your wrist? How did they make that breifcase? Who invented it cobb? How did he invent it if he did? Those are unexplained anwswers and I don't feel as immersed. I didn't buy into it because they didn't explain it and told me here is a dream. "

I was under the impression that the device administered the sedative, and the sedative had effects that would shape the parameters of the dream world insomuch as intensity and duration. The sedative could also link the members of the shared dream but I think the machine did that as well. The timer was probably to stop the drip of sedative or a set "kick" to wake them. I guess I didnt need an explanation beyond that.

The dreams became multilayed as they had dreams within their dreams. They would leave one person behind to act as the "kicker." How can you enjoy Sci-Fi at all? Explanation is never part of the genre.

" @Delta_Ass: I only watched star trek 2009, however they do explain who created it, how it was created by an equation of this guy called scotty and it shows him doing all sorts of different ways to beam multiply ppl. I think they did try to explain it, the matrix explains it, even dark city explains how to use your thoughts to control the world. Knowing a bit of psychology, our dreams aren't mult layered either, it's just one later. We get there when our brain gets into REM mode, rapid eye movement. Controlling a dream is difficult, however no one shares the same dream. Within a different univese of sci fi movies, we accept it easier because it's part of a different universe, inception is part of ours. "

what would explaining the technology behind the dream machine achieve other than bogging down the narrative, which is already saddled with task of explaining all the rules of dream land, with another layer of nonsense technobabble?

It was the first movie I've ever seen twice in the theatre. It was fantastic.

" @Delta_Ass: It's just because this is a very big film, so people who don't watch much scifi and watch more realistic movies question it a lot.  "

" @Delta_Ass: Maybe I just would like it better explained for the brief case, they don't explain how you dream with it, or how everyone is connected to it they just say accept it, here is a dream and it's in layers. How do you know I don't like sci-fi? I am quoting the matrix in the entire thread as an example of a sci fi action movie. Maybe they just need to explain things better for inception. Why does the breifcase has a button, a timer? how does it make you snap out of a dream? How does it make you dream, how is everyone having the same dream when it's connected to your wrist? How did they make that breifcase? Who invented it cobb? How did he invent it if he did? Those are unexplained anwswers and I don't feel as immersed. I didn't buy into it because they didn't explain it and told me here is a dream. "

A briefcase dream machine that isn't explained in minute detail is not a plot hole. That is not what a plot hole is.

I really liked it. Great film!

"wow this forest is amazing... except for this tree. THIS. ONE. FUCKING. TREE. ARHGGHGH."
 
nerds are the worst. goddamn. 

@emkeighcameron: thats not what a macguffin is

" "wow this forest is amazing... except for this tree. THIS. ONE. FUCKING. TREE. ARHGGHGH."
 
nerds are the worst. goddamn. 

@emkeighcameron: thats not what a macguffin is "

 This film has a good chance of turning into a series in the far future. it just felt like a TV show at times than a movie.

I enjoyed it at the theater. But the more I thought about it, the less I enjoyed it. The characters seemed pretty much one dimensional outside of Leo. JGL pretty much seemed to exist to explain the rules and pretty much that. The amount of action in that movie seemed unnecessary as none of it was really that memorable, just filler between areas. The fight in the hallway floating, sure, kinda cool. The shootout while skiing rather forgettable. The movie while visually interesting really lacked any substantial depth, imo. In the end, this is just my thoughts, and your free to enjoy it if you did. But, it just seemed shallow to me.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

I really liked it. Left an incredible first impression. Comparisons to The Matrix are more than apt, since a lot of the philosophical devices and themes are similar. I think Inception's characters wanted to be more vibrant, where The Matrix's characters really were vibrant. Conversely, I think Inception's plot was a little tighter. But it's too early for me, having had only one viewing of Inception, to objectively say whether it's a "better" film or not.  
  
It's one of those films you ought to see, even if you come away hating it.