Reception of Inception?

• Reception of Inception? by Ming the Merciless on 17 Jul, 2010 15:23
• Hot as the hinges here, today, so I decided I needed A/C this afternoon, rather than lurk in my one A/C'd room, so went to the noon-time matinee of what is supposedly the summer's blockbuster.
  
  I'm surprised I did not like it more.  Maybe I'm getting too old, but I eventually got lost in the layers and the players (especially when all got into snow camouflage, head coverings, and goggles.  Just who WAS who?.
  
  I thought it needlessly baroque in some ways, and I felt the "Rosebud" moment in the (homage to "2001"?) vault (the pinwheel fan) was a bit obvious (if baroque and non-baroque can co-exist).  Throwaway references (quite pointless) to M. C. Escher, and, of course, the O'Henry teaser/twist at the final shot.  I thought, "Oh, please."  Some of the visuals, of course, were quite arresting, but the story, no matter how generous I try to be, was confused and confusing.
  
  Anyone else not care for the flick?  BTW, I saw not one Sly in the whole thing, save one character who aged to antiquity and lost all his hair along the way, and gained more wrinkles than my rayon shirt has in it.
• #1 by Mikekoz13 on 18 Jul, 2010 14:30
• While reading this review I was thinking, "Wow... I'm thinking Ming didn't like this movie"....... but then a single question came to mind.
  
  Do you really wear rayon?     
• #2 by The Noggin on 18 Jul, 2010 14:40
• Pre-wrinkled rayon shirt? HOT! 
• #3 by Ming the Merciless on 18 Jul, 2010 16:32
• Let's not let this degenerate into fashionista fascism.  Actually, the "rayon shirt" was a mistaken purchase that's been lying around with some other rejects or those of which one can say, "they don't quite fit...at the moment, of course," in heaps in the bedroom (closet space; bureau space--none left) gathering age and mildew.
  
  No, I did not "hate" the movie, but it did not much like it, either.  If I were ranking it on Amazon.com, it'd be a "3" at best.