In my opinion, Nolan made better movies w/ a limited budget- his screenplays are generally complex enough that they don’t need to have other elements added, whether they be special effects or tons of characters.

1) I realize now that I’m not particularly into plot-heavy stories, simply because I’m slower than average on that sort of thing, 2) I disagree w/ critics who say the film lacked emotion- the emotion was certainly there (DiCaprio himself didn’t sign on for the project until Nolan ensured that the film’s plot had more of an emotional drive to it), I didn’t feel it mesh w/ the rest of the story at all. That is to say, it felt shoehorned, and 3) I’m a chronic existentialist- I’ve taken no official college courses on the subject but I constantly question “the meaning of life and all that crap”- so any of the existentialist concepts featured/touched upon in Inception didn’t really impress me. My mind has already gone to those places, are beyond.

But I would totally watch it again.

YES.

I am tired of being told I “just don’t get it,” and that a re-watch will somehow change my feelings about seeing it from regret to idolization.

yeah, but the thing is, no matter how many “layers deep” this “twisty” movie “really” goes, I still won’t give one flying frack about the characters. they were either severely under-developed (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, the other people whose names I don’t care enough to look up) to the point of basically being defined by their jobs within the dream-heist (and what was the whole thing about the Asian guy fighting against them in the beginning? Nevermind, I’d rather spend my time pondering the lack of humor in The Family Circus), or they (Leonardo DiCaprio) were so irritating and actually a terrible person that my sympathies were in no way evoked. I was really hoping Leo would jump after his wife just so that this turd of a movie would be over.

the special effects were impressive sometimes, yes, I’ll give it that, but that’s still not enough to make me want to watch Juno and Jack Dawson twaddle about in the nightmarish fusion of Ocean’s 12 and Vanilla Sky.

and I’m still waiting for someone to explain to me when exactly my mind was supposed to be getting “f—ed.”

1. “UP-CEPTION”
2. THE INCEPTION OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA
3. “INCEPCION”
4. “BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT INCEPTION”
5. “TOY STORY 3′S INCEPTION”

I can’t vouch for any of them because I haven’t even seen the movie.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2010/07/the_5_best_inception_parodies.html#more

At the genre-plot level, I was bothered by how mechanical the whole big schema of the dream levels worked out to be, and especially how cause-and-effect (and thus un-dreamlike) each story level was. There seemed to be a simple linear multiplier for the rate of apparent passage of time — the script made a big deal out of it, and up to a point it’s plausible, but there was no good basis for calculating things out to the second, which turned out to be demanded. And why did some of those battles need to be fought? Couldn’t the nordic-ski adversaries just disappear, say?

Like you and a bunch of us here, though, I am getting *very* sick of being told that it was subtle and nuanced and genius…it was a good movie, folks. That’s it. It just may not be something the “average person” has been exposed to before…that doesn’t immediately equal “genius”.

[and I absolutely *hated* that ending…so contrived. ugh.]