<p>I also enjoyed it - if only for the originality of the idea.</p>
<p>I liked it but saw weaknesses, as well. The gun battles were so overstimulating i couldn’t follow the action at all.</p>
<p>My main criticisms, though, are these:</p>
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<li><p>Ellen Page was miscast. And, yes, what was her college major? Mind architecture?</p></li>
<li><p>The whole complex effort to plant an idea in the guy’s head should have been for a reason more noble than taking down a corporate empire. I mean, with all of that work and risk, they should have been curing cancer or saving the world from alien invasion.</p></li>
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<p>I didn’t want to open this thread before I saw the movie. just did and loved it. Will now go back and see what people didn’t like about it.</p>
<p>Something of a generational divide over Inception:</p>
<p>[Why</a> is it that the older you are the more you can’t stand ‘Inception’? | The Big Picture | Los Angeles Times](<a href=“Archive blogs”>Why is it that the older you are the more you can't stand 'Inception'?)</p>
<p>Excerpts:</p>
<p>" But from the moment “Inception” was released, it was obvious from polling data that the movie had created both a critical and a generational divide. Some critics have raved about the film’s originality while others have mocked its excesses. If you were a young moviegoer, you loved the visually arresting puzzle-box thriller. But the older you got, according to polling data, the more likely you were to detest its run ‘n’ gun, dream-within-a-dream complexity. </p>
<p>I guess I’m somewhere in the middle ground of the debate, since I was dazzled by the movie’s originality, but also so confused by its dense, video-game narrative style that by the last 40 minutes of the film, I’d pretty much lost track of the story. You might say I’d been forced to suspend both belief and disbelief."</p>
<p>'If “Inception” plays especially strongly with a young audience, it’s probably because they instinctively grasp its narrative density best, having grown up playing video games. “When it comes to understanding ‘Inception,’ you’ve got a real advantage if you’re a gamer,” says Henry Jenkins, who’s a professor of communications, journalism and cinematic arts at USC. " ‘Inception’ is first and foremost a movie about worlds and levels, which is very much the way video games are structured. Games create a sense that we’re a part of the action. Stories aren’t just told to us. We experience them."</p>
<p>Even though the density of “Inception” can be off-putting to older moviegoers, it’s a delicious challenge for gamers. “With ‘Inception,’ if you blink or if your mind wanders, you miss it,” says Jenkins. “You’re not sitting passively and sucking it all in. You have to experience it like a puzzle box. It’s designed for us to talk about, to share clues and discuss online, instead of having everything explained to us. Part of the pleasure of the movie is figuring out things that don’t come easily, which is definitely part of the video game culture.”'</p>
<p>I’m 54 and LOVED the movie!</p>
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<li><p>Ellen Page is miscast in everything. Especially those stupid commercials in which she’s going into classrooms where the kids are having teleconferences. What kind of stupid garbage is that?</p></li>
<li><p>Christopher Nolan is brilliant. Or maybe it’s his editor. All I know is that somehow I was watching a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream, and then everyone in all the dreams woke up one at a time, and somehow I knew exactly what was happening throughout. That’s incredible film-making.</p></li>
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<p>I’m also 50-something and I really enjoyed the movie. I went to see it in deliberate ignorance, having read none of the reviews, and loved the originality and the fact that it demanded that I actually pay attention in order to follow the story. I usually don’t like special-effects intensive movies either but I didn’t mind them here because they actually were necessary for a movie that takes place (avoiding spoilers) where it does.</p>
<p>I’m certainly no gamer though, so I guess I should have hated it.
Oh well…lol.</p>
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<p>I’m older than that and I liked it too. The age divide is a general trend but no doubt with many exceptions.</p>
<p>Is there some poll that backs up the old folks don’t like it theory? I’m confused. I thought youngsters these days suffered from short attention spans. Inception is not a movie for short attention spans. Lose your focus and you can miss a LOT in just a few minutes. </p>
<p>I’m an oldster (and a female) and I stuck with it the whole time…didn’t find it impossible to follow. I hated all the guns and explosions but found the plot intriguing. I’m not sure the evaluations of this movie follow any distinct pattern. It’s fund to speculate about the impact of video games…but honestly…do we have some numbers to support these assertions? </p>
<p>BTW, I really liked Memento and plan to watch it again soon. And I also like Insomnia.</p>
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<p>The article refers to “polling data” that demonstrates this phenomenon, but it doesn’t give specifics. It’s probably audience survey data from studio preview showings to the public.</p>
<p>There’s something wrong with you, OP.</p>
<p>No, elbeeen, it’s now been officially confirmed per the polling stats that I am merely an old fart–something I have long suspected.</p>
<p>Very belatedly saw *Inception *today. The IMAX version. Visually it was great, but the plot holes were so egregious I really couldn’t buy the concept. It ended up seeming to me like a chase film on steroids.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’m an old fart movie-wise. I loved The Matrix, Pulp Fiction and Memento.</p>
<p>What do you see as the plot holes? I thought it was pretty tight, aside from the could-mean-anything ending.</p>
<p>Just for starters, the van falling makes them weightless in Level 2, but being weightless in level 2 has no effect on level 3.</p>
<p>And why can’t his kids just join him in France?</p>
<p>but here’s the best critique: <a href=“Dropout - Independent, ad-free, uncensored comedy | Dropout”>Dropout - Independent, ad-free, uncensored comedy | Dropout;
<p>Thank you mathmom–that was great!</p>
<p>We finally saw this on vacation last week. I have to agree with mantori - Christopher Nolan is a genius. “Inception” pulled me in completely, and I didn’t care about any plot holes. I noticed a few, but didn’t care!</p>
<p>Ha, that video was funny! And, yes, okay, I guess there were come plot holes. I guess I didn’t think about them much during the movie, because I was chalking it all up to “dream logic”. Now that I think about it, that’s probably Nolan’s ultimate crutch: “If something doesn’t make sense, that’s because dreams don’t make sense, right?”</p>
<p>EVERY fictional movie has plot holes if you look hard enough.</p>
<p>^But I wasn’t looking for them. The problem was that I wasn’t sufficiently invested in the characters or their dilemma. </p>
<p>And just as a PS, I can’t imagine what sort of architecture school has architects drawing pictures of buildings on a chalkboard. They weren’t doing that 20 years ago, and they certainly aren’t doing it now. (But maybe that part was a dream too?)</p>
<p>For me there was too much explaining how the dreams worked, so that when things didn’t work that way, I didn’t want to hear “well things don’t make sense in dreams.”</p>