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I had the opportunity to see Christopher Nolan's new movie 'Inception' on opening day this last Friday. I went with some of my best friends and the girlfriend, and we made an evening of it with dinner beforehand, followed by loitering awkwardly in the mall for an hour because our intended showing was sold-out completely.

After lots of waiting, an absurd number of advertisements, and about 30 minutes of trailers, the movie finally started. From that moment we were transported into a dream world that could have only been conceived in the brilliantly intricate and twisted mind of Christopher Nolan.



For full disclosure, I speak as a Nolan fanboy. I own and love all of his previous movies, and it's not just the Batman fetish that's sold me on his psychological noir styling. He thinks outside of the box and knows how to create genuine thrills on the screen, the likes of which we haven't seen since Alfred Hitchcock.

This is Nolan's first voyage into pure sci-fi, and he's forged something mindblowing from within his own dreamscape, a multilayered masterpiece that requires multiple viewings to fully grasp and analyze. Not only is the movie one of the most visually beautiful I've ever seen, rivaling the spectacular optical feast of the Matrix, but it's also one of the smartest and tightly-woven films of the decade, rivaling Nolan's previous masterstroke, 'The Dark Knight'.

I really want to see it in IMAX, and I'll probably end up seeing it at least twice more.

Feel free to discuss the movie, your opinions of it, analysis of the story and its messages, commentary on the performances, etc. I've marked this thread for spoilers so you can share your thoughts about it freely.

I'm hopefully going to see this tonight.

One way or another...

Still waiting for it to come out here. But fully intend to go see this one

I am torn between my hatred of movie theaters and my not-hatred of Nolan. I will probably rent it once it hits DVD, because I'm cheap like that.

It only costs $10 to blow you mind. It’s a mindjob that is easily worth $12.

Me and the fiance saw this yesterday. I think it did seem that much more awesome because I was required to loiter inside a walmart for about 3 hours before hand (long story). But yeah, I really enjoyed it, though my only critique of it was that it just got a little long ("Geez, what level are we on now?"). I think everyone in the theater collectively groaned at the end of the movie. So yes, go see it. See it now.

I just sort of foresee this starting a whole new wave (much like after the Matrix was release) of people saying "What if this world isn't real???" IT'S A MOVIE.

I saw it. I saw the ending coming a mile away too.

Damn good movie though. Really pretty in the IMAX. Seeing it in a normal theater is an insult to the movie and you should all feel ashamed.

And I think he's still dreaming at the end. I think when he was lost and had to go find Ken Watanabe's character to bring him back, that he never actually woke up from that and his dead wife found a way to keep him trapped there with her anyway.

I think the entire movie was a dream, and the 'corporate agents' attacking him at the beginning were somebody else's projections trying to oust him from the dream. Just a theory.

And the sudden appearance of Saito to save him furthers this theory.

But, sometimes, Shadowflare, you have to have some faith...

True, though it'd be a shame because I personally think skepticism is cheap and superficial. What goes on in the entire film--the whole sophisticated planning and struggle in the act of inception--is a metaphor for how powerful an idea or belief is beyond our conscious control, and holding on to an idea is the exact opposite of skepticism because it's almost as if the idea holds on to us.

I was highly disappointed by the ending because it feeds the exact crowd that would do what you described above, though I'd admit I wouldn't know how else they could have ended it. Maybe a 1984-esque ending, where the situation completely takes over the main character rather than him believing he has his happy ending.

Overall, I loved the film. The general concept is cool, though nothing extremely original and new. What I enjoyed was the intricate details of it. I loved the layering of the dreams and how time flows differently in each layer--it was so well-done. I really have to go see this again because I didn't understand a lot of what went on at the beginning.

Oh, I saw it for only $5, by the way. Not in IMAX, but I've been a little dizzy all day and that would have killed me.

That's quite a bold thing to say, Shadow.

I'm seeing it again for this very reason.

Also, yesterday I slept for what seemed like 30 minutes. I woke up and it was only 5 minutes. Inception is correct about time-flow within dreams. XD

A must-read for those who have see the movie