Inception

[dre-w]

Wow, that's all I gotta say.  Didn't know such a good movie like that could still exist in this day and age..  now we'll probably see more of these movies start comin out..  haha Christopher Nolan really loves his Hummer type vehicles.  Dark Knight tumbler and Inception snowmobile hummers.  I really enjoyed the score by Hans Zimmer.  Going to go watch it again at a better theater, prolly a Century theater, maybe it's just me but I think the sound quality is so much better/louder at Century..  maybe they have bigger speakers or just turn up the the bass idk.  It's kinda funny when you have such an awesome movie like this playing at the theater, and in the room next door airbender is playing..  how the heck does that happen?!  This movie shouldn't even be sharing the same theater!

[Ginsu Victim]

INCEPTION

9/10

Definitely not a movie where you want to tear down the science of it, or else you just won't enjoy it as much. A fun sci-fi movie with a bit of Bond thrown in for good measure. Beautifully crafted, superbly acted, well-written...I loved this movie.

It does seem to drag a bit, and there were times when I wasn't sure the point of certain things (not really a spoiler: I didn't know what the hell Fischer was supposed to do in the first place and why it carried as much as weight as it did, but understood in the end).

I could've used more dream manipulation and building sequences. Everything in the dreams seemed too based in reality (I understand why this is, though).

Took away a point for no Freddy Krueger.

(I kid, I kid....it was for being slow at times. I did find myself checking my watch, but it was a very late showing and I was tired.)

[SNAAKE]

sold

[Vanguard]

Awesome movie.   My wife and I are still debating the ending.  I need to watch it again to see if I missed any clues.

[Ginsu Victim]

Spoiler:The top wobbled. In a dream, it never wobbles.

[Vanguard]

spoiler: In the final scene, the kids were in the exact position, wearing the exact clothes and were the exact same age as all Cobb's memories. Also, they didn't say the top didn't wobble in dreams.   They said it keeps spinning forever.   We didn't get to see it fall so we don't know.   The wobble might have been due to the surface it was spinning on.

[Ginsu Victim]

The main thing is Nolan left it open to interpretation. He has his version of what's going on, and we all have ours. It's a smart move.

Even I don't agree with my own post about the ending. They sounded older on the phone. In the other dreams, he couldn't remember their faces. So many things cause you to question your own opinion. Nolan is sitting back laughing at us right now for the chaos he created.

[Vanguard]

Yeah, I get that it could all be just left open to our own interpretation.   I'd like to see it again though.   

Btw, it wasn't that he couldn't see his kids face, he didn't want to.   He was afraid that if he did, he'd want to stay in the dream and not return to reality.   That's why when he confronts Mal to retrieve Fischer, he turns his head away when she calls the kids into the room.   He is perfectly able to see them, he just doesn't want to.

I agree too that at least one of the kids sounded older on the phone.


I have a theory that Cobb was the actual target of the inception.   His friends knew he was losing grasp on reality so they created a world for him where he could be with his kids.   I think at somepoint in the movie when we thought he actually woke from a dream, he really didn't.   I think it may have been in Mombasa when he tried out Yusuf's chemical brew.  That dream sequence was really short and weird compared to the others.

[danny_galaga]

Just got back a few hours ago from seeing this. I really enjoyed it, which meant I was thinking no one else here would like it    Strange days indeed...

4.5/5 dream levels...

Oh, and good to see Tom Beringer doing something.

Vanguard: I don't think there will be any clues for interpreting the ending. Although near the end, I may have missed something because I had to tell the idiot teenager next to me to stop texting. It was the first movie in a long time that I've seen that demanded your attention, so I'm not sure why she was bothering to watch it  . But because of the great directing, I never felt really confused...

[SNAAKE]

Oh, and good to see Tom Beringer doing something.

sold again lol

probably gonna check it out later tonight.

[Vanguard]

Vanguard: I don't think there will be any clues for interpreting the ending. Although near the end, I may have missed something because I had to tell the idiot teenager next to me to stop texting. It was the first movie in a long time that I've seen that demanded your attention, so I'm not sure why she was bothering to watch it  . But because of the great directing, I never felt really confused...

There are supposedly some clues:

According to some, Cobb always wears a wedding ring when in the dream state (because Mol is still alive).   He doesn't wear one in reality.   Supposedly at the end, he isn't wearing one.   Now,this could be because the end is in reality or  because he finally let go of Mol and "no longer needs her" so he doesn't wear the ring in the dream state either.

[hypernova]

I may have missed something because I had to tell the idiot teenager next to me to stop texting.

It was probably beyond her comprehension level, so she gave up.

Teenagers are generally morons.

[Ginsu Victim]

It was probably beyond her comprehension level, so she gave up.

Teenagers are generally morons.

Girl in front of us texted the entire time. She never gave the movie a chance in the first place. (Who was she texting?!? She was like 12, and we were at a midnight showing!)

[danny_galaga]

I may have missed something because I had to tell the idiot teenager next to me to stop texting.

It was probably beyond her comprehension level, so she gave up.

Teenagers are generally morons.

She had a magnificent rack though, so I forgive her 

Funny story. When her group got up and left (with an ending like that, why the hell wouldn't you stay till the credits end, just in case?) i saw a phone on the floor. HA! I thought. I'm not going to tell her. I'll wait until theyre gone and then hand it in to the front counter. Make her go without for a day or so. So I discretely pick it up and the woman behind me says 'excuse me, i think thats my phone'

 

[RayB]

Well I finally get to read the spoilers here! And looks like you all missed the clue I saw. yay for me.

I too was of the opinion that they showed the top wobble to imply it was going to fall over. But I agree with Vanguard that there is no way his kids would have appeared in the same clothing and positions as were in his dreams, unless it was still/another dream.

Another clue is in the airport scene when they show the various limo drivers, one of them is holding a sign that says "LAM" -- Mal spelled backwards. Cobb is still dreaming.

[Ginsu Victim]

Did you think the kids sounded older on the phone?

[RayB]

Did you think the kids sounded older on the phone?

No. The older voice was someone else cutting on the conversation, wasn't it??

[Ginsu Victim]

Grandmother, but to me (and many others) the kids sounded older on the phone than they looked.

[Vanguard]

To me, the youngest kid sounded about right but the daughter sounded too old.  Remember the younger kid didn't understand that Mal had died.   He didn't really grasp the concept of death.   That fit with his age as he appeared.

[danny_galaga]

Well I finally get to read the spoilers here! And looks like you all missed the clue I saw. yay for me.

I too was of the opinion that they showed the top wobble to imply it was going to fall over. But I agree with Vanguard that there is no way his kids would have appeared in the same clothing and positions as were in his dreams, unless it was still/another dream.

Another clue is in the airport scene when they show the various limo drivers, one of them is holding a sign that says "LAM" -- Mal spelled backwards. Cobb is still dreaming.

Geez, now THATS observant! I might have to go and watch it again!

[SNAAKE]

[AtomSmasher]

[MikeDeuce]

but did we really need Shutter Island 2?

Who needs dreams within dreams when you can have a spoiler* within a spoiler! Most impressive... You win the Inception Thread.

*I still haven't seen Shutter Island... I know, way behind

[RayB]

The answer might be in the music score:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/hans-zimmer-extracts-the-secrets-of-the-inception-score/

I'm thinking it might be possible to decipher the ending by measuring the tempo. However, if the movie started as a dream to begin with, then there's no way to do that ...

[RayB]

If the top was so important to proving he was in reality, why did he walk away after he gave it a spin?  Why does everything else behave mostly normally in dreamland but a top doesn't fall over?  etc etc 
[/spoiler]

Because if you are dreaming you can control it. So you spin the top and will it to stay upright. That would never happen in reality.

[hypernova]

If the top was so important to proving he was in reality, why did he walk away after he gave it a spin?

He walked away, because when he heard his kids, it became the "moment" he wasn't going to miss, like he did when he had to leave.  I think he already assumed he was in reality, as well.

For any other complaints, as with any movie, you can't nitpick every single detail.  Hell, reality doesn't even seem like it should hold up to scrutiny most times.

Oh, yeah.  Forgot to say:

This was a fantastic movie.  If movies weren't so expensive to watch, I'd pay to watch it again.  Can't wait for DVD/Blu Ray.

[struisje]

Great movie,
Saw it last week with my girlfriend.

I also saw another movie a few weeks ago 'Mr Nobody', it's somewhat the same concept.
I really enjoy movies that challenge the mind a bit.

Cheers