>Has anyone seen Inception?
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>Watched it tonight, as part of our annual "squeeze a dozen people into a big living room and watch movies and drink and eat all night on New Year's Eve"....
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>3 comments about the movie...
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>1) I'm going to have to watch this 2 more times to understand the entire movie. I get the general idea but there's just so much I didn't quite catch (though I sort of predicted the suicide angle...that was an easy one)
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>2) After a few beers, Ellen Page is actually not bad looking....not sure why the wardrobe people insist on dressing her in teenage boy clothing
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>3) At the beginning, when Leonardo D. is face-first in water, I shouted out, "wow, this picks up where Titanic left off....Leonardo floating in water". Most of the room thought it was funny. My wife threw a potato chip at me.

I am not all the way through it even once and have the sense I will have to watch it at least one more time to get it all. If then. Something tells me part of it is intentionally left unexplained, up to the interpretation of the viewer.

Have you seen "Mememto"? It was also directed by Christopher Nolan and was the movie that put him on the map. It's one of my favorites. At the time I had a vague idea of writing a screenplay and hung out on a Compuserve forum for movie people. One of the guys there, Bill Martell, who had actual screenwriting credits to his name, caught an early viewing and posted a rave about it. Movies have been told backwards before but maybe not with such elan.

Re Ellen Page, yeah, exactly. The standards of movie star looks must be established in some distant galaxy. Women who would turn your head at the supermarket are cast as plain looking or worse.