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Aja Russler says...

As far as movies go for 2010, this is a top contender for best picture.I think this movie will challenge other filmmakers to strive to give the audiences good quality films along with great stories.People want to be entertained and this movie certainly does the job.As far as combo packs goes, this is amazing because it has a whole disc of special features so there is always something new.The amazing thing is that you can analyze these behind the scenes and find something new overtime.



I would say that my only issue is that the DVD print looks cooler than the Blu ray, Other than that, it's amazing.

Posted on September 14, 2010

Alida Mcennis says...

Thank god there was one movie this summer not based on a comic book, a previous movie, television show, Disney ride, or candy wrapper. You actually had to invest some functioning brain activity to follow the plot and keep up with four simultaneous finales going on at the same time within different dream levels. And the ending was open to your own feelings or interpretation. Was he still in a dream or not? If you were still on board and paying attention, you may have noticed Leonardo's character didn't really care at that point, so why should we? It was a fun ride.

Posted on September 15, 2010

Adolfo Nikula says...

BLU-RAY:



I just finished watching Inception for the second time. The Blu-ray is amazing. The PQ and AQ are perfect in every way. I did notice that the video was not as sharp, crisp, or clear as The Dark Knight. However it was very, very good. The audio is very bass heavy, but is up there with some of the best Blu-ray AQ I have heard. The movie was stunning all the way through and after another watch, it is just as good, if not better than the first time I watched it. Since the price has lowered to $17.99, there should no longer be any doubt whether to purchase it or not.



The special features are great. Disc two is full of behind the scenes and a dream documentary by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. On the first disc, there is expansion mode which takes you behind the scenes and shows you each special effects scene and all which went into creating it. It is really interesting to watch. Very little CGI special effects were used on this film. They actually did most of the stunts or build huge models. It was really cool to watch.



MOVIE:



I went into Inception thinking very positive and with high hopes that this will be one of my new favorite movies. I based this simply on the trailer. I was not let down in the slightest, and I was blown away by the originality and creativity of the film. The directing, acting, and cinematography were all amazing. It is a beautiful film.



After seeing Inception I will have a hard time watching any other movie ever again. Anything else would seem boring and useless. I went to see The Expendables in theaters. Horrible. I couldn't understand what the interest in this film was. It was just violence and explosions. No story or plot. Just useless violence.



I can see where people may think of Inception as something similar to the theme of the Matrix. It sort of has the same basic idea of people being hooked up to a machine, leaving their bodies and going somewhere else. Besides that, there wasn't much at all, which reminded me of the Matrix. Each scene held its own new originality in the most creative way as possible.



As far as Inception being hard to follow, well, I had no trouble following it at all. The three friends and my eleven-year-old brother had no trouble following it. I believe people who are more open minded would follow and understand it much better than people who are not willing to believe the story. Parts are incredible to believe, but you have to be open and let the story take place.



The creativity and attention to each shot and scene really paid off in the end. The film was perfect in every way in my opinion. Things were done which we have never seen before and it was done so well. It has set a new standard for films, at least in my mind. The directing style is similar to The Dark Knight, however they seemed to give Christopher Nolan more creative freedom with Inception.



The acting was top notch. I liked that Leo's character, Cobb, seemed a little weak minded at times. Usually he plays a strong character, but in this film his character had a weakness. Joseph Gordon-Levitt played a larger role than I expected. I was impressed with his character as well. Most of the crazy stunts, anti-gravity, jumping off walls and fighting people in mid air kind of stuff were with his character. Very cool. Ellen Page played a young architect which is hired to build cities within a person's mind. She did a great job as well. Each character was so well thought out and everyone added just the right amount to perfectly blend each character into the story.



There is a Limited Edition US & UK briefcase Blu-ray release of Inception, however the US release is only from the Warner Brothers site and it is currently sold out. Their were only 2,000 copies available. Check out Blu-ray.com, under the UK flag at the top, and search for Inception. There you can get more information about the Inception UK Limited Edition briefcase. It should be region free as all Warner Brothers Blu-rays are. You can pre-order it at Amazon.co.uk.



If you're a fan of films which touch on subjects which most movies dare not go, you owe it to yourself to see this film. You won't be disappointed. I am very glad I got to see it on the big screen.



Video



Video codec: VC-1

Video resolution: 1080p

Aspect ratio: 2.40:1

Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1



Audio



English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

French: Dolby Digital 5.1

Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1

Portuguese: Dolby Digital 5.1

English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

French: Dolby Digital 5.1

Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1

Portuguese: Dolby Digital 5.1 (less)



Subtitles



English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese

English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese (less)



Discs



50GB Blu-ray Disc

Three-disc set (2 BDs, 1 DVD)

Digital copy (on disc)

DVD copy

Bonus View (PiP)

BD-Live

Posted on September 15, 2010

Elvira Stirk says...

I just finished seeing this movie, and I absolutely enjoyed it. The concept was what I loved the most.Yes, the picture had its share of special effects and CGI, but the reasons for them were always clear, and they served the plot so very well. The multi-layers of action going on were the driving force behind the picture and kept it going. So, if that kind of story doesn't interest you then Inception is not your kind of picture. But if you like movies that explore the mind, dreams, and the different levels of consciousness, you will enjoy this movie.For me, the special effects were just a really cool way to show what was happening in the mind as opposed to the use of some abstract, slow, surreal, lifeless way of showing this. The acting was well done by all the players, and there were times when the tension was almost unbearable. Thanks, Christopher Nolan, for a great adventure.

Posted on September 15, 2010

Kam Murnan says...

[This review was written for the theatrical release, and does not reference any DVD features.]



Christopher Nolan is becoming best-known these days for his Batman movies, but before he was a purveyor of superhero pulp he was reinventing the noir genre for the late twentieth century with mind-bending films like Following and Memento, the latter of which brought Nolan to the attention of American audiences. His films that are not merely adaptations or remakes of the works of others are ridiculously complex and yet still in the end comprehensible and satisfying. (And yes, Memento was an adaptation of his brother's short story "Memento Mori," but the two seem to have been artistic collaborators very early on.) Whenever Nolan adapts a foreign work to film, whether that be the remake of the Nordic movie Insomnia or the filming of Christopher Priest's novel The Prestige, the results are always good, but not as great as his fans know they could be. After making Warner Brothers a giant pile of money with the smarter-than-average The Dark Knight, he has been given a budget large enough to free his delicately intricate imagination to what one can only assume are the distant limits of his capabilities. And yet, at the end of it, one is left believing that he could do even more.



Inception is the story of Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), a man who makes a career out of invading the dreams of others, usually for the purposes of extracting valuable information from the invaded. As in all good noir films, Cobb is an imperfect anti-hero, surrounded by secrets he doesn't want to admit, and haunted by a mysterious femme fatale. And just like Humphrey Bogart in so many of his films, Cobb takes a questionable job from a questionable man; but unlike Bogart's usual roles, Cobb is actually doing some very bad things for his own selfish reasons. A bad decision he made some years back with his wife led to some very unfortunate consequences, and he escapes frequently into his own dream world to sort out the pain.



The conceit of entering another person's dreams has drawn comparison's to films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Matrix. Unlike the latter, Inception does not dumb down the concept at the beginning and then needlessly complicate it as the story goes on. Instead, all of the complicated explanations are laid out in advance, with multiple examples of how the dream-invasion technology works, so that when the time comes for the extended invasion to which all of this is leading, the audience is never truly lost or confused. Dreams are layered within dreams, and those within more dreams. Those lines of Shakespeare come to mind when watching Cobb and his team casually build and destroy entire worlds at will, "This vision... shall dissolve, / And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, / Leave not a rack behind."



Cobb's dream team--the cast of which includes such interesting choices as Joseph Gordon-Levitt ((500) Days of Summer) and Ellen Page (Juno)--is hired not to extract information from the heir to an energy empire (Cillian Murphy), but to plant an idea within his mind: not extraction but inception. As Cobb and his colleagues point out, inception is extremely difficult if not impossible because people can tell if an idea is being forced upon them from the outside. If a grown man feels that he is being coerced into an idea, he will fight against it. But Cobb takes the job not only because he wants what is being offered as a reward, but because he knows from experience that inception is possible; he also knows from experience that it is very dangerous for everyone involved.



If there are any weaknesses in Inception they revolve mostly around the fact that our dreams are never as orderly or logical as those laid out here. To be sure, the film's dreams are being designed by architects and are intentionally given narratives and a certain level of order, but Inception lacks any real presentation of the bizarre randomness that we actually experience when we fall asleep. Eternal Sunshine understood this strangeness much better, although that was a less ambitious film than Nolan's. There is also the ethical question of whether or not we should be rooting for Cobb when he is engaging in such dubious activity. Even so, he is not presented as a moral hero like Bruce Wayne who is only trying to do the right thing; Cobb is dangerously selfish in his desires, even to the point of putting his team at risk in order to keep his own secrets safe.



Inception has an overabundance of originality and intelligence, something entirely lacking in most films today. Nolan as auteur puts out some of the best films of our time, and even when he is working with other people's stories he manages to keep it smart and enthralling (unlike some other auteurs we all know). His next slated project is the third (and promised last) movie of his Batman series, after which he will reportedly move on to produce a relaunch of the Superman franchise. My hope, though, is that he can continue as an auteur to direct the kind of films that push the envelope of filmmaking's capabilities.

Posted on September 16, 2010

Maryjane Brandorff says...

`Inception' is a hard movie to judge.Basically, it is a mind-bender, and as such should be judged by two criteria:How good of a mind-bender is it? And, How much does it create arealm of its own with phenomena and rules of causality that work consistently?



In my mind `Inception,' despite some derivative elements, is an inventive movie that provides mind-enveloping reactions well after the viewing is over.Much like Lynch's `Inland Empire' before it, the movie coalesces well into one's imagination and lingers in the mind for days to come.



Being brief with the story is difficult, and I'm sure by now you've probably digested a great deal of material elsewhere.Washed up on an Asian seashore, American businessman, Cobb (Di Caprio) meets with an elderly leader to obtain a contract anddefeat his enemies. To accomplish this, he offers to perform an "extraction," a means of obtaining secrets from a person`s subconscious during one's dream life.In the midst of their negotiations, an entire village riots and takes over the building where they meet, and Cobb and his sidekick, Arthur, (Gordon-Levitt) fight and flee to save their lives....



In this beginning scene the lines are partially drawn between dreams and awakening, but the surrealistic landscape also provides Nolan ample opportunities to provide his trademark action-adventure for his science fiction saga.



Cobb later meets an old professor (Caine) who sagely links him to a prodigy student, Ariadne, (Page) who can assist him with his next assignment and help straighten out his perspective and proper use of inceptions, or the use of subliminal persuasion, participating in another's subconscious perceptions and manipulating them during their dreams.In their first assignment together, he plans to have a rich man's son and heir, Robert Fischer (Murphy) change his mind about his father's will, so he will be able to either obtain or sabotage his inheritance.



There are dreams, and there are dreams within dreams, and one of Cobb's plans is to have three levels of dreaming going on at once to have the most persuasive power on Fisher.



Intertwined are revelations from Cobb's subconscious, revealed with Ariadne, who joins him on his subliminal journey and witnesses some of his life-changing events with his wife (Cotillard).In a partial revelation, Cobb admits he included his wife in some of his dream work with complications that has created strife in their relationship.



As you might imagine, problems develop that make the operation work less neatly and easily as planned, so discerning what level of dreaming and what level of reality are taking place also becomes blurred.The exposition and details are laid out more concretely than Lynch's worlds, but the caveats others have placed about paying attention are well founded.



Besides the mood of mind-benders like Lynch's `Mulholland Drive,' Nolan has borrowed and alchemized elements from inventive movies like the truly excellent Japanese anime' adventure `Paprika' and movies like 'The Cell,' but the results are truly new and effective.



I have to admit my biases. I love mind-benders, and it's no accident that Christopher Nolan and David Lynch are at the top of my list of favorite directors.This creates a problem because if you love mind-benders as a rule, it is sometimes difficult to separate effective works from those that don't work as well.



I was originally wavering between four and five stars for this film based on the ending.I'll give no details for that, but, I've decided, like 'Inland Empire' before it, `Inception' may seem abrupt, but its import as a surrealistic experience is nearly as mind-altering.'Inception' deserves attention, awards, multiple viewings, and the time needed for a truly rewarding film experience.If you love Lynch's work, you will probably also love 'Inception,' but one could concede this movie isn`t as effective at playing with your noodle. On the other hand, if you find Lynch's films to be frustrating or too abstract, then Nolan's 'Inception' may give you a more satisfying sense of concreteness and closure overall.



(Tom Berenger and Ken Watanabe join an outstanding cast for a taut movie experience.)



(Some loose ends of `Inception' have been tightened from information from imdb.)

Posted on September 17, 2010

Elmo Javis says...

What more can be said that what's already been said?The first movie in 10 years that I had to go see again immediately after my first viewing.Love it still even now on blu-ray.

Posted on September 17, 2010

Dixie Murdock says...

Empathy turns out to be the biggest challenge that filmmaker Christopher Nolan faces in his audaciously intricate, sometimes confounding 2010 sci-fi action thriller. It's a 148-minute somersault of a ride viscerally engaging in its vivid elaboration of lucid dreaming. Ironically, there is little time to feel for the characters involved when the whole point of the movie is that nothing is meant to feel real. This dramatic dilemma is almost completely shouldered by the main protagonist Dom Cobb, a professional thief specializing in corporate espionage whose sharpened gifts as an "extractor" allows him to enter the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible. Heading up a Mission Impossible-type task force, Cobb has become a Shane-like solitary figure whose talents have cost him his family. He wants nothing more than to see the faces of his two young children.



The movie wastes no time in giving Cobb a final mission, his one last shot at redemption which will allow him to reunite with his family back in the states. A Japanese tycoon named Saito wants Cobb to perform an act of "inception" in which he would plant an idea in the subconscious of Robert Fischer Jr., the son of a corporate rival who is about to inherit his father's energy conglomerate. Saito wants Fischer to dissolve the company to prevent the corporation's inevitable takeover of global energy resources, but Cobb's participation represents a risky maneuver that conjures up memories of his dead wife Mal. She figures in the dream episodes in unexpected ways that invariably cloud Cobb's judgment in executing upon the mission for Saito. A crack team has been assembled to aid Cobb - Arthur, the point man who researches the targets whose dreams will be infiltrated; Eames, a cocky forger who has the ability to change identities inside dreams; Yusuf, a chemist who has developed the powerful sedatives that take Cobb and crew into the dream state; and Ariadne, a preternaturally talented graduate student whom Cobb and Arthur train as their new architect.



As both writer and director, Nolan methodically bends the storyline into a labyrinth that turns out to be circular in structure and contains at leastfour layers of dreams in which the task force must tag team in order to wake up to the next higher level until they each face reality. This is easier said than done since he attempts to show the unconscious as a supremely unruly place where nothing ultimately makes sense, and that's the film's major conundrum since it demands that the narrative must make some amount of sense to make the viewer feel engaged with the story being told. Leonardo DiCaprio brings his trademark intensity to Cobb and manages a gravitas that helps ground the story at a human level, even when the plot convolutions get more and more elaborate and far-fetched. There are some impressive CGI set-pieces like the street of Paris folding over like an omelet, a train careening down a busy downtown street, and the eerie sight of a vacant city in a virtual limbo. Other scenes border on the silly like Arthur's fight scene amid a rotating hotel that make him look like he's doing a 2001 riff on Fred Astaire's classic dance routine in Royal Wedding, or the way Ariadne precociously diagnoses the solutions to fatalistic dreams like an worldly scholar.



By no means does the approach translate into ineffectual performances by the rest of the eclectic cast. It's just that the actors reflect the generally poker-faced manner expected within the sci-fi genre. Joseph Gordon-Levitt ((500) Days of Summer) plays Arthur just that way as does Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai) appropriately inscrutable as Saito. Ellen Page (Juno) neutralizes her naturally sardonic manner to play up Ariadne's na

Posted on September 18, 2010

Jonah Knepshield says...

Unless you are prone to fall asleep during movies (I usually have the same problem, especially with shallow plots), ignore the reviews that imply that Inception is "confusing".It's true that the movie presents some mysteries to be resolved (which Nolan does quite well) in addition to some of the most thrilling action scenes in recent cinema, but Nolan takes great pains to make the plot easy to follow.The elaborate plans made by the team are simplified for the audience through the characters' strategy sessions, and when simultaneous actions are taking place on different levels, the use of entirely different settings for each level make it extremely easy to follow the abrupt shifts.Why anyone would find this puzzling is...well, quite puzzling.



Go see this movie...you'll be glad you did.I'm not a big Leo fan, but he (along with the rest of the cast) did an outstanding job. Each member of the 'team' gets his/her own moments to shine, which is extremely gratifying for the viewer.Memorable characters, unpredictable plot twists (and dialogue!), and outstanding special effects make this one a keeper.



Can't wait for the blu-ray!

Posted on September 20, 2010

Caridad Skokowski says...

I can honestly say that I don't understand all these people saying the they don't understand this movie. Of course there are certain aspects of it, that people will be debating for years to come, which is what makes it interesting and set apart from the average, but the main story is very easy to grasp. It is extremely intricate and deep, but presented slowly and explained to as it moves forward, so that you never find yourself completely lost. Don't be scared by people telling you, that you won't understand it. Watch it for yourself, it's a masterpeice.

Posted on September 21, 2010