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what did you guys think of the movie? i thought it was awesome!

I thought it was excellent. Very thought provoking.

Yes, I loved it (especially as a lucid dreamer trying to maintain the false reality).

Of course, their dream dynamics were too rigid. I've died many times without awakening.

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amazing film. i love mind benders

...But yes, I like Inception

Aww, you missed the best one.

Inception is easily the best movie of 2010, it's original and messes with your head in the most mind-bending way possible. Another reason why Christopher Nolan is seemingly incapable of putting a foot wrong.

Tom Hardy nabs the best lines as Eames, the best one is...

"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling" *Pulls out a grenade launcher*

It was quite good

I think Inception is easily one of the best movies, or at least in consideration of best moive of the past decade.

I definitely disagree. Inception was visually impressive and fun to watch, but in many ways quite hollow/convoluted. The idea and production value, I feel, warranted more graceful presentation. Instead, much acting talent was wasted on looks and gimmicks. Leonardo DiCaprio ruined some scenes. His anguish over Mall was like a bandaid that I wanted to yank. Thomas Hardy is another great actor. He was the villain, Shinzon Remus, in Star Trek: Nemesis. Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine, and Ellen Paige were like somnambulists. Ken Watanabe's English was difficult to understand until I deciphered what he said days later, and I've had plenty of experience deciphering Japanese ESL accents. Cillian Murphy had some rather unmellifluously delivered lines. I rather felt that Joseph-Gordon Levitt, a very handsome guy, fit right in. Yet, all looked like obviously capable actors that weren't being challenged by the director, but this movie was a kitschy mix of brooding and slightly gratuitous comic relief. Similarly to The Dark Night, another Christopher Nolan film, it had plot points which made no sense or were poorly timed. Sometimes the action wasn't long enough, other times was painfully long.

Of course, most fantasy and science fiction films require the abandonment of certain adherences to logic. But if the rules that govern the world of the story are poorly presented, engagement in the story becomes precarious. I had the same feeling watching Inception that I do during many asian films, which have much lower production value but apparently similarly clumsy exposition. Major plot points/rules are revealed like information one wishes to have been told earlier. Information is delivered in a "BTW..." fashion..."This film is almost over, but here is the reason it must end this way." The plot twists felt more like workarounds for the screenwriter to get to -Fin-


To Asp-Z and Wyborne, ROFLsaurus-Rex.

Personally, it impressed the heck out of me, and I'd like to shake the writer's hand. I watched it twice in a row.

So did I. ...Actually, I watched it twice, but not immediately one occasion after the other.

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That's what I meant visually it was impressive, it had lapses into plot points and logic was basically thrown out the window. The movie could have adhere to some logical cohesion, but overall it kept the person engaged in the story. Not many movies have done that for me in the past.

What other movies keep you engaged?

I like action films, but I haven't felt impressed by anything recently. I am worn out on the injection of poor CGI into films, and won't even see some films if I recognize it in the previews. That is what I enjoyed about Inception. The best scene was entirely mechanical. I find fast paced films exhilarating, and I like even being challenged by the pace of action, where others might say "I couldn't keep up with that." Quantum of Solace is a good example I think. The opening scene was visually blistering.

On the other hand, two of my favorite films are "The Good Shepherd" and "The Thin Red Line." Most people I speak to hate these films because they were "too slow," and I wish I could see more films like "The Good Shepherd" with very fine detail and slower, more gradual exposition.