"Best ever" is a totally subjective thing imo. Inception is now in my best ever list, and yes i have seen quite a few Fellini, Kurosawa, Kubrick and others' films, but these days most if not all of their films leave me completely indifferent. In order for a film to be a candidate for my "best" list it has to have several main attributes - I must actually really, really enjoy it (...), it has to be reasonably accessible and not completely obscure and obfuscated, it has to be both fun yet have depth and provide thinking material. I think it takes a genius to create a film that is both so much fun yet makes me think, care about the characters and has some depth, and when I go out of the cinema I say to myself "THIS is how movies should be made". While i enjoy quite a few movies, there are so few of them around with all these attributes together. I'm going to see Salt next. WIll I enjoy it? Probably. Will it have anywhere near the same impact/leave an impression as Inception had on me? I doubt it. Did Memento  leave me with a lasting impression? Yes. But did I really enjoy the movie and remember it fondly? Eh, well, I'm not sure, but I think not.

Inception is definitely one of my favorites.  The thing about best of list for movies is that context plays a huge role.  For me. the Matrix will always be one of my all time favorites.  However, that is not likely for anyone who didn't see it early on in its original theatrical run.  Outside that context, the impact of the movie is much less.

very happy to see you retrasado

I m going inception ... to night !

I run away from your thread ... for now !

Wow coool thanks, I really was looking foward to see it, just because of the director, but whatever.

Great movie. Saw it in D-Box which if you do no know about is basically a moving seat. 

Inception is definitely the best film of the summer and after an entire SUMMER of boring, uninspired films it's definitely the one thing EVERYONE needs to see with its smart, original script screenplay and imaginative action scenes. Though I'm already getting sick of the contrarians going "oh, it's not as good as everyone says it is". WRONG, it is as good and people say it is and if it doesn't get Oscar noms I will be shocked

I very much liked it.

Couple of discussion promoting questions based on my 'reading' of the film:

1 - Who was ever actually awake and when was this?  How can we be sure?

2 - If the Spinning Top was actually Mal's Totem then what was Cobb's true Totem?

3 - Why would Cobb replace his Totem with Mal's?

4 - What does it signify that Cobb walks away from Mal's Totem?

5 - Who does Cobb really seem to know at the end of the film and what does this signify for all that went before?

Casual note : if a dream state is indicated by a scene starting abruptly already in flight what can we deduct about the film's openning scenes?

Last point, I also don't agree the film lost focus at all.  Without sounding arrogant it's pretty obvious to me reading reviews that they are split into those who lost their way and those who didn't - note I don't mean plotwise but thematically.

I have no doubt that every moment of every scene was carefully measured and considered for inclusion in the final cut and that therefore there is no meandering in the film from Nolan's point of view, only in how well we interpret the purpose of each scene and it's content.

It's not film as commercial Art quite on the level of 2001, but it is a very nice mix of commercial thriller with something a little deeper than usual and that's a relief... for me anyway.

Warner's must love having Nolan on their payroll - he's like a less complex more commercial Kubrick in approach and I imagine they love that combination.

yeah that's kind of what I thought too...

While I realize as an art form or from an intellectual standpoint, this movie is not that spectacular, if I want intellectual stimulation, I read a good book, not go to a theater. the kind of movies I like are ones that have a good story, make you think some, and have good acting/writing/special effects. Inception pretty much nailed it on all accounts.

INCEPTION WAS PHENOMENAL!!! haven't enjoyed a movie this much in awhile!!!

As for awake or not awake, no one knows.

I have one  theory that I have yet to see on the internet:

The only part of the movie that's real life, is the opening scene. The rest of the movie is a dream state induced by the old man. He has felt the totem that is the lead characters, so from that point forward, he can do anything with it.

This would also answer why he took her totem. He never really did. It was always his totem.

It would also be a cool way to play with the idea of inception. The scene at the end where he is in the room with the old man and he is there just to bring him back, could have been the old man using inception on the man character to cover up that he wanted to kill him. Instead, he thinks by the end of the movie that he just wants to bring him back.

So the entire movie is an inception, just not the one we were thinking it was.