INCEPTION FULL REACTION!!!

Personally I tend to think of Nolan as the modern Stanley Kubrick.

Nick of Time

Simply put Riley. YOu have officially entered the mind of Christopher Nolan. His movies are second to none and he has become one of the best film auteurs of our generation. He's surpassed, James Cameron and Frances Ford Coppola. His genius is simply on the next level. The deep scientific concepts and details he is not only able to deliver but also convey to us in a language that we can understand is truly unprecedented. Add to that the emotional weight, psychological distress that he places our protagonist under makes us also feel their pain at the deepest level. I can't say enough about the Genius of Christopher Nolan. You must watch his entire catalog.

KevG

When this movie came out I was spellbound watching for the first time. So I can imagine how you felt. I watched it three times in a row at the movie theater. See I of had this concept of being half asleep quite often. I of course was nowhere near to the concept execution and world-building of Christopher Nolan. The man is a mad genius.

KevG

Riley, you're reaction to "Inception" was amazing. I knew you would get lost in this world of the dream. Inception had you, balls-tripping so hard. What was even better is how you felt the emotion of Cobb and the desperate situation he was in as he revealed more and more of his psyche to the movie viewer.

KevG

Unfortunately I have seen the prestige already, it blew my mind!

I loved this movie. Ofcourse the visuals were great, but it's greatest achievement is bringing the concept of a mindscape together with an exciting story to the big screen. As someone who has had a fair share of experimentation with mediation, lucid dreaming and mushies, i could certainly relate and appreciate the concepts used. Though they used a lot of creative liberties, i recognised where they got some of the dreams specific ideas and details from. Especially the 'people projections' staring (so spot on for lucid dreaming) and the questioning of what is reality (something more related to mediation and hallucinogens). Im glad you liked it, hope you'll watch some more movies (or series) with some spiritual/philosophical themes.  (attributed to Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi) The story of the butterfly dream: "Once upon a time, I, Zhuangzi, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Zhuangzi. Soon I awakened, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a distinction. The transition is called the transformation of material things."

I had a dream about this movie. In the world of my dream, the Hayes Code never happened. As a result, Inception hit the theatres in 1960. Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster, Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Sophia Lauren, and Toshiro Mifune... wait. It's still spinning. Why is it still spinning!?

What I find most enlightening about Inception is what it reveals about Christopher Nolan’s philosophy as a filmmaker. The movie itself could be seen as a metaphor for the process of making a film—DiCaprio is the director with the grand vision. Gordon-Levitt is the producer with the practical knowledge and contacts to make the director’s vision a reality. Watanabe is the financier who forces the director to write a role just for him. Page is the set designer who creates the world of the film. Hardy is the method actor who literally becomes his role. And Murphy is the audience itself. DiCaprio even said he modeled his performance after Nolan himself. But more interestingly, the movie is a glimpse into Nolan’s creative process. DiCaprio’s line about them creating a world and the subject filling it with their subconscious lines up with Nolan’s belief that films themselves have no inherent meaning except for what the audience projects onto them. DiCaprio’s line about positive emotion trumping negative emotion echoes how Nolan always ends his movies with at least a glimmer of hope. The scene where they break the heist down to its simplest form is similar to how Nolan distills all his scripts down to a single, core theme. And the idea that the entire dreamworld is populated by projections of the subject is Nolan basically acknowledging that all his characters are, in one way or another, reflections of himself. So much of the dialogue in this film can be seen as commentary on the art of filmmaking itself. That’s why I love it.

Detective Dick Durkin

This is probably my favorite Christopher Nolan film. Have you seen "The Prestige"? That is another good Nolan mind bender.