Inception

[Mike]

I thought it was 'alright'... a slightly above par Hollywood thriller.

 

The opening 30 minutes are deliberately confusing, so as to make the audience feel smart when they finally get a sniff of a plot. After that it's pretty much the same old hokum repeated until the end of the film. I didn't really find this clever or exceptional in any way, and I can't really understand how people thought it was confusing.

 

It does take itself very seriously, which adds to the banality of it, and I found myself laughing in all the wrong places (the 3D model 'the architect' produces killed me). The terminology for basically 'having a snooze' was similarly laughable (a dream within a dream? let's go to level 2!).

 

Leonardo was his usual average charming/outraged self and I didn't think any of the other cast members particularly stood out. I felt they really drew out the 'battling personal demons' part of it, personally I would have been happy with some Matrix style effects. I had no emotional connection with Mr DiCaprio.

 

All in all I thought it was a good tale well told (flaws aside, I'm not that anal), but it didn't really change my life, as others seem to be making out.

 

I guess it's a sign of the times that expectation of a film is so low these days, a reasonably average one like is literally blowing the roof off the multiplex.

 

If you haven't seen it I would say catch it on DVD if you can. It's a creative romp that's not too pressing on the old noggin.

[Max Headroom]

I watched the film last night and must say the premise of the film was interesting and novel and allowed the film makers some carte blanche when doing the "dream" scenes where they could change the whole physics of their surroundings, Although I was dissapointed that their dreams were pretty boring, I usually dream about naked girls and baby oilI dream of more exotic things.

 

The fight scene in the hotel was very well done and overall I really enjoyed it, go into the cinema with an open mind, the film is worth 9/10

[Matt H]

I thought it was 'alright'... a slightly above par Hollywood thriller.

 

The opening 30 minutes are deliberately confusing, so as to make the audience feel smart when they finally get a sniff of a plot. After that it's pretty much the same old hokum repeated until the end of the film. I didn't really find this clever or exceptional in any way, and I can't really understand how people thought it was confusing.

 

It does take itself very seriously, which adds to the banality of it, and I found myself laughing in all the wrong places (the 3D model 'the architect' produces killed me). The terminology for basically 'having a snooze' was similarly laughable (a dream withing a dream? let's go to level 2!).

 

Leonardo was his usual average charming/outraged self and I didn't think any of the other cast members particularly stood out. I felt they really drew out the 'battling personal demons' part of it, personally I would have been happy with some Matrix style effects. I had no emotional connection with Mr DiCaprio.

 

All in all I thought it was a good tale well told (flaws aside, I'm not that anal), but it didn't really change my life, as others seem to be making out.

 

I guess it's a sign of the times that expectation of a film is so low these days, a reasonably average one like is literally blowing the roof off the multiplex.

 

If you haven't seen it I would say catch it on DVD if you can. It's a creative romp that's not too pressing on the old noggin.

 

Great take on it Mike

 

Come and join me on this side of the fence

[ivan]

Well I never. Inception was invented by Donald Duck...

http://www.cracked.com/article_19021_5-amazing-things-invented-by-donald-duck-seriously.html