^ inception just got the idea of dreams into dreams, but beside that it was a pure action movie... no deep story where the viewer can feel with the character like in memento, following, prestige, batman. it was just cool to watch... matrix had a similar but the more complex idea, but the viewer had to know the material of computers a bit.
seems to me like with inception he thought "i can play with the twist of dreams too, let's make a movie". of course this sounds a bit harsh, but p.e. in the dark knight he really made me believe how whole gotham city turned into chaos (which no movie did before), that the joker wasn't meant to be the usual criminal. in prestige there is neither good or bad (as i thought first), it's just the life for the perfect magic, it's nature versus science, with tesla it got a possible background of history.
, blurry, or incomplete. sometimes i have regular ass dreams (like the other night i dreamt that i applied for a new credit card). anyways, while you're dreaming, you never realize that you're in a dream (unless youre lucid) and it feels like real life. only when you wake up do u realize u were dreaming, and sometimes, it can get a little confusing. was this a dream or a memory? in that respect, the movie does an amazing job at this b/c some scenes.... there's still a debate of whether or not it was a "dream" or "real". 
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