[Stu]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I voted for Inception and I've seen :

Black Swan
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network

I voted for it because out of those films, I thought about it for the longest afterwards and couldn't wait to see it again.

That's the thing you see. From my perspective I just don't understand that at all. What is there to think about exactly? It was good Hollywood storytelling. Stunning and overbloated in equal amounts. But it wasn't exactly a crash course in metaphysics or psychology or anything like that. The film was basically an exchange. In exchange for buying into what extremely intelligent, on the edge blokes the makers of this film were they afforded you the chance to feel similarly intelligent and on the edge as you watched and discussed this 'out there' film. It was the cinematic version of what a cultural touchstone the Da Vinci code became where every two bit Living TV guzzling sap could be a 'codebreaker' or theologist.

But there is nothing to it, really. It's basic sleep and lucidity concepts wrapped in an attractive package and handed over for the price of a cinema ticket. I left that film with absoloutely nothing to discuss about it whatsoever. I didn't do that with say The Matrix where I left thinking what a wonderful metaphor this was for anything you could apply it to. Full of interesting symbolic language and existentialist themes.

I left Inception basically thinking that if you kick a chair out from Cillian Murphy you can wake him up and save his life.