INCEPTION (film)

Inception is a 2010 American science fiction-action film written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page, and Cillian Murphy. The film is inspired by the experience of lucid dreaming.^[5] The film, a variant on the heist genre, centers on Dom Cobb, an "extractor", who enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible.^[6] His abilities have cost him his family and his nationality, but a chance at redemption and regaining his old life is promised when Cobb and his team of specialists are hired to plant an idea in a target's subconscious.^[7] This process of planting of an idea, known as "inception", is less familiar and far more difficult than Cobb's usual job of "extraction".^{[7] Source: Wikipedia}

^{I was worried when I viewed this film with my fiancee yesterday I was too stupid to understand it after being dumbed down by all the crappy, Smellywood movies that have become a complete waste of my $12.50. I was extremely skeptical upon walking in Inception, especially after that box office bomb of a disappointment with DiCaprio..."Shutter Island" (Don't waste your time). I like to spend my time outdoors, or doing something creative like learning to play my acoustic guitar; but it was a rainy Saturday and we are two, broke college students.}

I love the movie. It's a geek's movie on so many levels, and just the fact you picked the movie over one as predictable as "Salt" or as despicable as "Despicable Me" shows you have some sort of brain. It isn't a movie to just sit down and throw popcorn into your mouth to. I was literally on edge the whole time (almost) and it was very intense. I had to really pay attention to understand everything (don't want to spoil anything here for people) and completely comprehend the ideas Nolan had. I mean, the whole three-layer dream thing and casting a sexy dykelicious Ellen Page totally blew me away (have you seen her play a real lesbian in Freeheld? Let's not get our gay selves excited here!). I love the way that girl walks! Anyways, back to the movie.

This is an intelligent film I can actually appreciate. Mental projections? It's like SIMS come to real life. Watching Paris fold in on it and some other special effects were pretty awesome, not to mention pride that this was partially filmed in (wh-what!!) Canada.

Wikipedia: To successfully return to reality, a team member is left behind on each dream level: Yusuf driving the van, Arthur in the hotel, and Eames and Saito in the fortress, to protect those in the next level and fight off Fischer's projected mercenaries, keeping them from attacking the bodies.

I actually understood more of this movie after I returned home and read about it. I didn't get the whole leaving a body behind while in theater (*blush*) but I was happy my fiancee wasn't snoring next to me, at least. It wasn't her "cup of tea" as she said loudly at the end of the film to the offense and shock of many die-hard sci-fi lovers. The film attracted quite a bit of different people and I like how it really appealed to various personalities. I loved the originality of the film, the cast, the prose, the way it was put together seamlessly with everything flowing and making sense and no abrupt ending with credits rolling while you're just getting over the climax. I am relieved to not have wasted my money on a film. It's been such a while since a good film has been made (Nolan's Dark Knight was definitely worth my $12.50 too). I hope they don't use him to create crap films now. I now wonder how long we have to wait for another winner like "Inception".

If you didn't understand the film or walked out to get your money back, you're brainless and idiotic and don't deserve to be there in the first place. My fiancee didn't get the movie, but then again English isn't her first language and it was a bit difficult for her so she's forgiven. YOU on the other hand...Shame.

If sci-fi, espionage, Di Caprio or a yummy dykish Ellen Page is your thing....get your butt to Inception! (It even cured my writer's block and I was able to write 19,000 more words on a story I'm creating about a lesbian romance\drama that has to do with the New York scene, lottery tickets, sexy past lovers, adopting children, the exploration of heteronormative roles and family relations and best of all.....most of it is true I'm drawing on experience (either mine or those close to me). Anyways, that's off topic. This movie rocks on many levels and here's some websites that offer a bit more about it.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inception/ (review)

http://gigaom.com/2010/07/24/7-reasons-why-techies-love-inception/ (insight)

http://community.livejournal.com/inceptionfilm/1700.html (other intelligent human's input\opinion on the movie)