Inception

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i liked that it was open ended. ending on a gimmick? kinda, but as has been said , it's not really rocket science all along so the "gimmick" ending didn't really ruin it for me. i saw it as nolan doing a movie which was intellectual enough for the masses, and not just hard core movie buffs. he made a big budget movie which could've been a total mindfuck that keeps people guessing and makes them work through the movie (which i love when done right) but i think that in order to get the big budget (and cast?) he had to make it appeal to joe sixpack. not saying that's a good thing, but i also think he knows he did this and unlike someone else, didn't release "the happening" thinking he's hitchcock for the modern age. i'm guessing he wanted to make a multiplex draw that was clever. nolan almost certainly could have made a low budget version of this (with less effects probably and maybe a lesser cast), dealing with the same plot and themes, and made it much less accessible to the mainstream and though it may run the risk of being pretentious, i bet we'd like it a lot more. i really liked it for what it was, though.