So... who's watched Inception?

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Must admit... was both awestruck and disappointed.

Awestruck at the scale and scope of Nolan's ambitions... disappointed that he left us hanging there at the end.

Thoughts?
 
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I think it starts a bit too slow for my linking at the beginning. But around 30-40 minutes in, it picks up real fast.

And that is all I saw b/c the theater I was in lost power right as they finished planning. So, have to go back Saturday to see it again.
 
McLaren
I think it starts a bit too slow for my linking at the beginning. But around 30-40 minutes in, it picks up real fast.

And that is all I saw b/c the theater I was in lost power right as they finished planning. So, have to go back Saturday to see it again.
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So did you get a refund or a free ticket or something?
 
Probably a free tick. Happened to me once, and theaters absolutely hate to refund. They'd rather give you a ticket than your money back.
 
^^^ Which is weird because I don't think the theaters make any money off the sale of the tickets. That's why the concession is so expensive.

I did see it on Friday night, and it is by far the best movie I have seen in theaters in a LONG time. Thank you Christopher Nolan for giving us a great original film. No re-make, no sequal, just straight up original awesomeness. (yes I just said that)

I might go see it again next weekend, since my movie experience was a bit ruined by the people sitting around me.
 
Nice avatar. :D

Yeah... it's one of those movies that you have to watch twice to get the full flavor of. I'm considering it... not quite sure I caught all of the easter eggs and clues Nolan stuck into the movie.

Only let-down, plot-wise is:
I think it's kind of obvious by half-way through what's happened on the job and why Saito and Cobb are old men. When they discuss multiple dream states, you already know that time slows down for each successive level to a great degree. Right before the job, we're told that death in the dream under heavy sedation leads straight to limbo (the deepest sleep state). And at the beginnning of the job, Saito gets shot. If you don't get it by that time... :lol:

The movie has aspects of a classic caper movie, some of the dystopian style and futurism of movies like Minority Report and Strange Days, and a level of introspection and depth sort of like Strange Days or the Matrix.

Like the Matrix and Strange Days... there seems to be a human side to the story, but it's all very cold and clinical. Though I think it might be done this way on purpose. It's certainly much better written than the Matrix films.

I quite enjoyed...
the way Nolan bludgeons you over the head with the idea that the entire movie is a dream... Cobb is the only team-member with projections inside other people's dreams... which would make sense if he's the "meta-dreamer"... everyone and everything in the movie is focused on him and focused on enabling his final catharsis. Other details include never showing Cobb's children's faces... having him pursued endlessly by nameless corporate drones (just like projections) in "real life" and focusing on the endlessly spinning top (which is Mal's "token/totem", not Cobb's... what is his token? The children?)... you're already tensed up, waiting for Cobb's triumphant return home to turn out to be a revelation that it's all a dream. Only Nolan turns this over by revealing the children's faces and showing the top almost falling... or will it?
 
I saw this last night, I thought it was a really good film. The ending left you with two possible conclusions I thought. It was a long film, but it didn't feel like it, very fast paced once the story got going, I didn't even think the first 30-40 mins dragged though. Best flim of the year so far and I would watch it again.
 
I thought the ending made perfect sense. Actually the whole movie made a lot of sense, you just needed to stick with it and think about it. I think we are so trained to have movies be either an all out CGI filled action flick in 3D, a lame movie about sexually frustrated creatures of horror, or a movie that makes you go WTF? that we get confused when an entertaining and well done movie comes along that also makes you think.

I'm surprised I liked it so much to be honest. I thought I would hate it since I thought the Batman movies Nolan did were terrible. Although I thought Memento was pretty good too.

This will be a Blu-Ray buy for sure and that doesn't really happen that much, I think I might own a total of 5 movies. I also wouldn't mind seeing it again either to pick up on details I missed.
 
Joey D
This will be a Blu-Ray buy for sure and that doesn't really happen that much, I think I might own a total of 5 movies. I also wouldn't mind seeing it again either to pick up on details I missed.
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Same here. I rarely buy movies on Blu-Ray unless they have lots of special effects, etc. (or if it's on sale) Anything else I just buy it on DVD.
 
Joey D
I thought the ending made perfect sense. Actually the whole movie made a lot of sense, you just needed to stick with it and think about it. I think we are so trained to have movies be either an all out CGI filled action flick in 3D, a lame movie about sexually frustrated creatures of horror, or a movie that makes you go WTF? that we get confused when an entertaining and well done movie comes along that also makes you think.
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It made sense, yes. It's just that, like all movies, it does have its goofs and inconsistencies. But Nolan manages to sweep this all under the rug with the good old "Wizard of Oz" hand-waving gesture...

One of the most glaring was how the falling van affects gravity in the second layer of the dream but not the third layer of the dream... or limbo.

Joey D
I'm surprised I liked it so much to be honest. I thought I would hate it since I thought the Batman movies Nolan did were terrible. Although I thought Memento was pretty good too.
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I was trying hard not to compare the movie to Memento. It's the same kind of approach. A mystery to be solved. A story that's told with a distinctly unorthodox chronology. Lots of twists.

Joey D
This will be a Blu-Ray buy for sure and that doesn't really happen that much, I think I might own a total of 5 movies. I also wouldn't mind seeing it again either to pick up on details I missed.
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I might be ordering this one, too. I really want to get Memento on DVD or Blu-Ray... but they don't sell it in my region!

stumpydino
great film :) I hope they don't make a sequal :indiff:

Director face palm moment at the end when the boy goes LEO! :lol:
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Did he really? :dopey:

I was thinking the same thing at the end... sequel... no sequel... sequel... The movie is ripe for sequelization... but I fear that it might lose its charm the second time around.

As the Matrix showed... you can have a perfectly good story revolving around a theme... and it can be neatly and tidily packaged into one good movie. The moment you go into serialization, it loses that uniqueness. What was special in one movie loses its flavor over each successive one (though I think Revelations kind of made up for Reloaded, in a way).

But you never know... there have been good sequels... but the next movie will have to come up with other ramifications of the technology that weren't explored in this one... and I thought it was pretty thorough as is.
 
I literally just saw it. First impressions: it's pretty much a perfect film. I especially loved the ending, and the way Nolan plants evidence that Dom is either awake or still dreaming throughout the film rather than simply dumping it on us at the end.
 
I haven't seen it yet, but ever since Batman Begins I have been a huge fan of Chris Nolan. Admit I hadn't heard of him before his re-invention of the Batman franchise. The Dark Knight was sensational. I will be seeing Inception ASAP cos I think the guy's a genius. Much like Bryan Singer when he first caught everybody's attention with The Usual Supsects.
 
I'd say this is one of the best films I've seen in the past decade, definitely the best film of the year thus far. The gravity of the film is tough to beat, and any kind of film that requires me to think while watching is worth a look.

What gets me is that Nolan, in his (usual) brilliance... He performed Inception on all of us. By cutting the film at the very end, before we knew whether or not the top fell, he placed doubt into our mind, causing us to question everything we saw in the film. My best guess is that he fully intended to have Cobb re-unite with his family, but by giving us even the slightest hint that it may have not been real... He accomplished his task. Absolutely awesome, Chris.
 
I saw it last night with my wife, and we both enjoyed it but both saw some of the narrative holes. She was of course a bit irritated at the ambiguity of the end, but I think...

...that I'm right in assuming that the entire movie itself was Cobb's dream, and there is no time at all that we are actually in surface reality. There are a bunch of clues scattered throughout (some subtle, some direct) that this is the case. Cobb's father-in-law (Michael Caine) tells him to his face that he needs to come back to reality, in a scene that is supposedly set in real life.

I don't think it was the best movie of the last 10 years but I do think it was very very well made, it held a logical consistency that made it easy to become immersed, and it gave a good payback to the viewer.
 
I saw it last wednesday in the IMAX. Really liked the movie. It has amazing sound effects that are only done justice in a movie theatre.

Have to go back and see it again though, probably a few times over.

Ah well, my personal records stands at 4 times with Avatar in theatre. Maybe Inception will get me to go 5 times.
 
Duke
...that I'm right in assuming that the entire movie itself was Cobb's dream, and there is no time at all that we are actually in surface reality. There are a bunch of clues scattered throughout (some subtle, some direct) that this is the case. Cobb's father-in-law (Michael Caine) tells him to his face that he needs to come back to reality, in a scene that is supposedly set in real life.
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One interpretation of the film is that Cobb is indeed dreaming and that Mal was right and that the entire film is him attempting to perform inception on himself (you'll notice every character in the film represents something Cobb has lost - Ariadne is his innocence, Arthur is his professionalism, Eames is his selfishness, etc. - and that Mal appears with increasing frequency as things get more unstable).

I myself choose to believe that while Cobb performs inception on himself by confronting Mal and planting the idea that she is not perfect and not representative of his memory, I also believe that the film was set in reality (i.e. Mal was wrong about being in a dream) and that Cobb escaped back to the real world from Limbo City to be with his children.
 
Pretty convoluted way of looking it, actually... but the ambiguity lends itself to that.

I tend to think that the final scene is a validation of the idea that this is all a dream. Mal lays it all pretty much out in the open near the end... the endless chasing by anonymous "agents"... the storybook lifestyle Cobb leads... flitting from exotic locale to exotic locale to perform jobs for shady characters. Some of the monologue really makes you think and go back over the plot holes and inconsistencies you've noticed all movie long... trying to think about whether it is a dream or not.

I like what one reviewer pointed out... the fact that Cobb, for all his obsession with that damn top didn't even wait for it to fall... signified an admission that he wasn't sure it was a dream and didn't really care... all he wanted was to be with his kids... whether they were real or not.

He'd already lived one entire lifetime in dreamtime (probably two, given how long it'd taken him to find Saito...), what was another to him?
 
I watched this on Saturday and yes it does start out quite slow. I almost fell asleep in the beginning. Then it started to pick up. Pretty good movie but I think I had my expectations too high for this one. It was good but not that good.
 
R1600Turbo
Depends on one's taste in movies of course.
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Or how much they're expecting form a movie due to hype. I'd heard plenty of good things about it but was so uninformed before seeing it (just the way I like it), I didn't even know Tommy (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) was in it. :P So going in with no expectations, I though it was outstanding and, as I mentioned in the What movies have you seen lately thread:
TB
Very simple idea, executed very well. Also, it didn't feel nearly as long as it's 148 minute run time would suggest. 👍👍
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Duke
...that I'm right in assuming that the entire movie itself was Cobb's dream, and there is no time at all that we are actually in surface reality. There are a bunch of clues scattered throughout (some subtle, some direct) that this is the case. Cobb's father-in-law (Michael Caine) tells him to his face that he needs to come back to reality, in a scene that is supposedly set in real life.
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I had the same thoughts after the movie (although in the grand scheme of things, I don’t think the director/writers actually care what the “right” answer is).
 
Saw it last night, and WOW. I thought it was amazing. I like movies but I don't go and see them much. This was movie was so wild but it was easy to follow, a little, if you tired. The last movie I saw and really liked was Up!, and that did well. Overall though I'll probably see it again just to be able to fully see everything and it was just plain good.
 
Duke, I'd be very interested to hear your other evidence for your point.


To be honest chaps, it's been out a month I say put spoiler alert in the thread title and let us discuss it properly.
 
Could always use the "spoiler" tags to do that.

It's an interesting discussion... but ruined by the fact that Nolan has been very vague in the hints he gave... on purpose... as to whether or not what we expected to happen in the end was what really happened.
 

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