<p>Who's seen it? Thoughts?</p>
<p>I saw it today and I'm still trying to formulate my full opinion on it. I know it was a wonderful movie, and it definitely restored my faith in cinema as an art form instead of entertainment. I would be very surprised if it's not up for Best Picture next year.</p>
<p>Absolutely loved it.</p>
<p>I saw it yesterday.
I have only 2 words for you:</p>
<p>Mind blown.</p>
<p>Seriously, that was incredibly well directed.</p>
<p>saw it today- really cool! I saw ties to the matrix and shutter island</p>
<p>Hugely overrated.</p>
<p>The idea of the movie is new and I’m sure a lot of money went into it for the actors and graphics but the flow was really bad and overall it was just more of the same.</p>
<p>Like Avatar or to a lesser extent the newer Bond movies…it gave up authenticity in favor of an image that would attract more people to watch it and as a result offered nothing new or unique. Some of it was clever, but it was only because of the multiple dream realities that you would get confused about what was real or not.</p>
<p>I was more interested in the wall street movie or the social network after leaving the theater.</p>
<p>Great film, so refreshing to see an original screenplay these days. Saw it three times in the last four days.</p>
<p>Saw the midnight showing and going to see it agian this week.</p>
<p>three times in four days and it’s a two and a half hour movie…that’s dedication</p>
<p>I haven’t seen it yet. User reviews for the movie on yahoo movies and box office mojo have been really good but the pessimist in me thinks I’m going to dislike it. Oh well. Probably see it in the next week or two.</p>
<p>Everyone on Facebook is having a hard-on over the movie, so I might go and see what it’s all about sometime.</p>
<p>Just saw it today ! Incredible.
But for people who have not seen in yet, DON"T EXPECT TOO MUCH ! IF you go in the theater with the mind that this is a magnificent movie, you would think it’s overrated.
Just enjoy the movie like it’s a regular one. You will walk out of the theater loving it :)</p>
<p>I thought it was about how people percieve reality. I would guess the theme was no matter how skewed our workd view is, you can’t prove anything is real, you just have to know it is. I was upset because some of my friends thought the whole thing was a dream, an that would have undermined the entire movie. Why would new characters be introduced in the end I it were a dream? I thought it was also about how memories shape our subconscious, and how memories are all we have to keep certain things and idea alive. When he killed off his memory it was just all about how no matter how important and even or person is, we will eventually forget about it. No one idea or person can be remembered forever. Those are my intitial thoughts, I’ve only seen it once. I thought it was well done. The concept of a seperation between realities was interesting, but it never really offered a solution to figuring out what is real, I guess you just go with instincts. Which in my mind is saying there isn’t a scientific explanation for everything.</p>
<p>I want to echo some of Prothero’s thoughts here.</p>
<p>The good stuff:</p>
<p>Very original premise and actually intellectually stimulating as opposed to what you would expect for a summer blockbuster. The hotel fight scene was just amazing. </p>
<p>The bad:</p>
<p>Some of the sequences were very actiony, as if Nolan had to put in some stuff to satisfy mainstream audiences who wanted to see gunfights and things blow up. The city gunfight scene was okay, but the snowy mountain sequences were just too much action and really wasn’t representative of what made this movie so great.</p>
<p>I actually really liked it. I usually don’t like movies and I almost never go to the theater. But I was impressed. I agree with the above poster - the movie is great, but if you go in with the expectation that it will be mind-blowing, you’ll be disappointed. It’s blowing up on Facebook right now, almost all of my friends have an Inception status.</p>
<p>PROS
very original for a movie this day and age
finally, Ellen Paige played a new character (I think Juno got lifted into Whip It)
funny scenes
made me think</p>
<p>CONS
the action sees disrupted the flow of the movie
what the heck was that woman’s name? MAL?
confusion when they reach the fourth level</p>
<p>I got a little dizzy from watching it… though not as bad as the motion sickness I got from Cloverfield… ugh took me like 2 hours to recover from that movie. Inception was great. I liked the originality, though DeCaprio plays his atypical character and it feels like a replay of Shutter Island. </p>
<p>I thought it was a little bit overrated, but overall a great film to watch.</p>
<p>See it in IMAX format if you can.</p>
<p>I saw it twice in three days, once in IMAX. Really enjoyed it, even if parts didn’t make 100% sense. Originality is refreshing.</p>
<p>I’m going to see it today, I think.</p>
<p>I understood everything except the ending.</p>
<p>So in the end, it was another dream?</p>
<p>No you see the top wobbling; therefore, it must have fallen. But now people are thinking that he was always in a dream because it was Mal’s top to begin with.</p>
<p>Absolutely not. If the whole thing were a dream there wouldn’t have been a point to the movie. The ending shot was just to get people to talk about the ending when he spun that cylinder. Why would new characters enter the movie in the end of it were a dream? The scenes with his dad were real and didn’t involve his memories, which was what tied him down in alm of his dreams. Nolan wanted N artistic closing shot but the whole theme o the movie was thAt there was a seperation between the two worlds. And if it were a prolonged dream, he would have aged like the Asian character did when he got stuck in the dream.</p>