Inception - Complete mindfuck of a film

I thought Matrix was an OK movie when i saw it. This movie was pretty good but not enough character development IMHO. Memento was a GREAT moive for me.
 


Saw it last night. I like some of the interpretations on here.

If you like this movie for the craziness of the idea behind it, but also can handle slow moving dramas, check out Mulholland Drive.
 
Inception has tied Shawshank and the godfather on iMDB. Oh, I actually here to show this off. LOL.

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i honestly don't understand whats so confusing. its a little hard to understand, but that graph with the levels explains it perfectly imo.

the whole thing wasn't a dream, thats just nolan being a douchebag at the end w/ the spinning top

i give the movie an A b/c its original, creative, and well executed ..

my overall explanation of the movie is that is a combination of the matrix and memento
 
rgordon83 said:
Saw it last night. I like some of the interpretations on here.

If you like this movie for the craziness of the idea behind it, but also can handle slow moving dramas, check out Mulholland Drive.
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Thanks for the Mulholland Dr suggestion. Missed it the first time around. DL now.
 
Best movie of the year, and best movie I have seen in a long, long time. The comparison to the Matrix is unavoidable, and they both blew my mind in the same way. I haven't decided which one I like better yet, it will take repeat viewings of Inception first. I will say that the acting in Inception is better. Leo > Keanu.

Oh and the soundtrack is amazing, that's one of the best parts. Hans Zimmer outdid himself.
 
I finally got sucked into watching this by the hype.

110% over-rated IMO.

I left before it ends, right when they were at the snowy mountain top and the guy got shot by the wifey.
 
clyde said:
I finally got sucked into watching this by the hype.

110% over-rated IMO.

I left before it ends, right when they were at the snowy mountain top and the guy got shot by the wifey.
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ha fuck that...just saw this movie and it was the shit. you're the first bad review i've heard
 
ya this movie was hella good, I kinda found you could watch it without thinking too much about it if you tried too ... I didn't really try and analyze this one.
 
clyde said:
I finally got sucked into watching this by the hype.

110% over-rated IMO.

I left before it ends, right when they were at the snowy mountain top and the guy got shot by the wifey.
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wow, that's almost like leaving matrix before he takes the pill.
 
clyde said:
I finally got sucked into watching this by the hype.

110% over-rated IMO.

I left before it ends, right when they were at the snowy mountain top and the guy got shot by the wifey.
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You're an idiot, sorry. Anybody who physically walks out of Inception has no taste and doesnt even deserve to post amongst us. GTFO and go back to your BF Keanu.
 
I enjoyed this film but just like the Dark Knight, I probably can't sit through and watch it twice.

I also expected more house turning crazy shit but I still liked it a lot.
 
Saw this last night and enjoyed it thoroughly. I believe I pretty much understood it all EXCEPT for the first scene... old Siato touching the totem... and that guys explanation that it was all Cobbs dream turned the whole film on its head.

Very enjoyable to have films like this impress you whilst watching... then again hearing everyone talk about it.
 
gbmack said:
So I was thinking about it a little more, and here's my interpretation... spoiler alert

From the very first scene, we see Cobbs eating porridge with old Saito. We assume they're in Limbo. Saito touches Cobbs' totem, rendering it useless for Cobbs. Cobbs will no longer be able to distinguish dream from reality. However, now that Saito knows the weight and feel of the totem, he can perform inception on Cobbs (planting an idea).

Then it cuts to the next scene where Saito is young and Cobbs is in his mansion trying to steal his secrets. From the start it's old Saito telling the Story, in a flashback.

Then we get to the end of the movie. Cobbs eating his porridge and old man Saito sitting there with the totem and a gun. The flashback is over and we're back in the "present."

Saito presumably shoots Cobbs with the gun, thus getting Cobbs out of Limbo. Saito gives Cobbs the happy ending; Cobbs reunites with the kids. This is the inception part. Saito planted the happy ending idea into Cobbs' mind, and Cobbs would never know if it's real or not because his totem is now useless after Saito touched it. In the end, everything comes together because Saito honored his part of the agreement, Cobbs gets the happy ending.

Remember, Cobbs never told Saito that he wanted reality or dream, he just wanted to be with his kids.

Some may argue against my interpretation that if Saito knew how to do inception and performed inception on Cobbs, then why did Saito even need Cobbs and the team in the first place?

Here's the thing. Saito couldn't do it alone, he needed a team. That's where the auditioning part comes in. He auditioned Cobbs' team to see if they were capable, and of course they were.

You could say Saito was the mastermind of the group, but he couldn't do it alone. I like how the "teamwork" maxim comes into play.

In the end, it's a dream. Saito planted the idea of a happy ending into Cobbs' mind. Sorry team reality.

/end mindfuck
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This is the interpretation I left with, too.

Additionally:

- All the other team members, with the exception of one, may have only been subconscious projections of Cobbs that made up the mental defense "army" that he had taught himself to defend against extractors, the same service he was offering Saito at the beginning of the film.

- The one character who isn't part of that army is Ariadne (Ellen Page) -- she is Saito's extractor. Throughout the entire film, she picks up far too quickly on the concept of extraction, architecture, dream-exploration and is constantly pushing Cobbs in a "well-meaning" and seemingly innocuous way to delve deeper into his subconscious. She's also the one that comes up with the idea to go deeper when the plan seemingly "goes wrong" near the end.

- A forger was probably playing the role of Cobbs' father, which made it easier to suggest Ariadne join them to begin with.
 
It's interesting how this movie is a commercial success. It requires above average intelligence to understand and appreciate. But I think the masses "get just enough" of it to understand something "really cool and awesome" is happening. It's a feeling that they experience and then they tell their friends "how cool" it was and it goes viral.

P.S. I agree the movie's great.
 
As a father of 2 young boys I completely bawled when I saw the father kept the paper windmill the son was blowing in the pictured locked in the safe..great movie
 
all i have to say is: meh.

the dreams were all too literal - it would have been nice to see them play with the bizarre happenings of dreams a bit more.

i appreciated the complexity of it, but i tend to get hung up on small details, like how fucking annoying i find leo dicaprio or how the actual process of merging people's psyches in dreams works. (um, how exactly does this IV let me enter your dream?)

here's why the matrix was better - only the first one, the first time you saw it - that movie made jaws drop. the whole concept was so new and ultimately horrifying that you were completely captivated.
 
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