Inception looking very promising **POSSIBLE SPOILERS INSIDE**

[fustercluck]

Cool Sci-Fi flick. Pretty similar to the Matrix movies.

 

[blipblop]

I actually really enjoyed this movie. I would recommend it

 

[Mermaidman]

:thumbsup::thumbsup: Inception redeems Nolan after the overrated Dark Knight.

 

[Kaido]

I saw it today - it was phenomenal! Best movie I've seen since the first Ironman. Best movie of 2010!

It reminded me a bit of the first Mission Impossible, how you really have to watch it a couple times to get all of the bits of the storyline. Lots of complexity, great special effects (and not just for "special effects" sake), and pretty good acting. I'm not a real big Leonardo DiCaprio fan, but he was pretty good in this.

 

[hawtdawg]

Bahhhh ... 6/10. Somehow I found it entertaining but it seemed like a dumb action movie more than anything. Just don't think to much about what is going on. Yes, you can follow what is going on, but don't think about the plot devices to much or everything implodes in your brain. It ain't no Matrix.

Fail.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Saw it at 2:30 today in a packed theater.

I enjoyed it. Probably 7.5 or 8.0/10, certainly attempted to be more creative than 99% of what Hollywood puts out. I couldn't help but think about the Matrix though. We are all dreaming = The Matrix has you, etc.

I definitely think it's a movies best seen twice to capture it all.

And yes, I guessed within the first ten minutes

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that the entire movie is just a dream. No surprise there.

Edit: I must be an idiot or have terrible hearing, but I could have used subtitles for Ken Watanabe's dialogue.

 

[Regs]

Hm, might go see it tonight. I like psychological thrillers.

 

[Balt]

Edit: I must be an idiot or have terrible hearing, but I could have used subtitles for Ken Watanabe's dialogue.

I had the same issue a couple of times.

 

[HendrixFan]

And yes, I guessed within the first ten minutes

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that the entire movie is just a dream. No surprise there.

I think you must have left early then? The movie goes out of its way to

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make sure that there is no clear answer one way or the other. If the movie ended as you said, I would have been disappointed. At the same time, ending it without bringing the issue of whether or not the whole movie was a dream would have been a huge copout. Ending it as they did, leaving things undecided, was the only fair way to finish it.

 

[gorcorps]

Thought it was pretty fuckin awesome, and I had pretty high expectations. Nolan probably took over David Fincher in my mind for fave director.

 

[hawtdawg]

Saw it at 2:30 today in a packed theater.

I enjoyed it. Probably 7.5 or 8.0/10, certainly attempted to be more creative than 99% of what Hollywood puts out. I couldn't help but think about the Matrix though. We are all dreaming = The Matrix has you, etc.

I definitely think it's a movies best seen twice to capture it all.

And yes, I guessed within the first ten minutes

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that the entire movie is just a dream. No surprise there.

Edit: I must be an idiot or have terrible hearing, but I could have used subtitles for Ken Watanabe's dialogue.

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the entire movie wasn't just a dream. People are assuming this, when the movie goes out of its way to not tell you for certain (unless you notice the details). When Cobb is in reality, he doesn't wear a wedding ring, when he is dreaming he does, he is not wearing the ring in the last scene. The movie clearly ended without showing you what the top was going to do. It wobbled right before the movie cuts to credits and could have easily fallen over right after that. The top had fallen over previously in this same reality and nothing happened during the movie to suggest that he wasn't in that same reality at the end.

 

[Aikouka]

Edit: I must be an idiot or have terrible hearing, but I could have used subtitles for Ken Watanabe's dialogue.

I had the same problem with a few lines.

EDIT:

If you like the Soundtrack, it's available here: http://www.amazon.com/Inception-Music-Motion-Picture/dp/B003U9TDII (direct downloads)

#9 is a good one!

 

[mjrpes3]

I saw a screening of this movie last night. The theater has over 300 people waiting in line to see this movie. The movie was downright boring. The special graphics were not that great. It is a long movie being 2 hours and 28 minutes. I found it to be a copy of the 1984 movie Dreamscape where they would go into your dreams and fight and do all sorts of things. Hey, Inception has the same plot, they go into your dreams and fight and plant things in your mind. Leo appeared overweight and some of the people I was with thought it was actually Jack Black when he had that dopey look on his face.

Overall: The acting was poor to fair. The plot was a copy of a past movie. The special effects looked like they did it with mirrors and computer cut and paste. I would not expect this movie to do well. Hopefully Cyrus will be better. I'm seeing it tomorrow.

Two thunbs down.

Do you by chance happen to live in New York City?

 

[CZroe]

Damn forum glitch

 

[CZroe]

I went in thinking "It better not end with a 'did it or didn't it happen?' ending like 'Total Recall' and 'Shutter Island' just because it's about dreams" and then

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that's exactly what they did.

It wasn't even important to the plot/goal like it was in those movies, and dreams are the stereotypical "Deus Ex Machina" that most respectable filmakers avoid using.

Despite being his worst-rated movie according to the Tomato-meter, "The Prestige" is still my fave Nolan flick.

 

[Drekce]

Awesome movie, though he probably could have made it a little shorter. I didn't care much for the actress who played Leo's wife, but ma,n the entire final dream sequence was amazing. The way he handled the timing differences between the levels of dreams was phenomenal.

 

[HendrixFan]

I went in thinking "It better not end with a 'did it or didn't it happen?' ending like 'Total Recall' and 'Shutter Island' just because it's about dreams" and then

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that's exactly what they did.

It wasn't even important to the plot/goal like it was in those movies, and dreams are the stereotypical "Deus Ex Machina" that most respectable filmakers avoid using.

Despite being his worst-rated movie according to the Tomato-meter, "The Prestige" is still my fave Nolan flick.

How should it have ended? With a topic like that, if the story ended

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with him seeing his kids and not spinning the top at all then everyone would have spent the rest of eternity trying to figure out if the ending was real or a dream. If it ended with the top continually spinning it would have been a huge letdown. Lastly, if it ended with the top falling that would have been too contrived.

Any movie that deals with dreams is going to have the audience asking "is this a dream or real (in the movie sense)?" There is no way around that kind of thinking with this subject matter. The only way to end it is just like they did.

 

[fustercluck]

:thumbsup::thumbsup: Inception redeems Nolan after the overrated Dark Knight.

Dark Knight was great...so was Inception. I'd give Dark Knight a 10/10 and Inception a 9/10.

 

[Dangerer]

Came into the movie theater with no expectations. Left in awe and amazement. Without a doubt the best movie I've seen in the past few years.

 

[MJinZ]

It was OK, fairly clusterfucked at certain points trying to get a kicker synchronized to wake them up.

Also, they had some seriously fucked up names. Dom Cobb? Mal? Who the fuck are these people and why couldn't they have clear and easy to hear/understand what the fuck they were talking about names?

Ariadne? Eames?

Also, the story is not at all ambiguous in the end IMO.

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The top began the first stage of wobble/slowdown, indicating that it would indeed stop - if you follow the logic that it can not pick up speed again in a dream world.

 

[Kaido]

It was OK, fairly clustered at certain points trying to get a kicker synchronized to wake them up.

Also, they had some seriously fucked up names. Dom Cobb? Mal? Who the fuck are these people and why couldn't they have clear and easy to hear/understand what the fuck they were talking about names?

Ariadne? Eames?

Yeah I followed most of it, but there were a few points I couldn't keep track of in my head, like how many kickers got which person where and how they got there and blah blah blah. Gonna have to watch it again when it comes out on disc

I had a really hard time with the name "Mal" in particular. Kept throwing me off. That and I kept expecting the sidekick to call in the angels from the outfield :awe:

 

[Kaido]

I think Cillian Murphy was kind of wasted in his role. He's pretty good on his own or as the bad guy or supporting character with a big role, but he really didn't have a chance to showcase his talents. He was pretty good in Red Eye, Batman, and that one zombie movie. Didn't really have a chance to be interesting in this one, which is a shame. imo they should have used a no-name actor since he's not really the focus persay.

I also wish Michael Caine had a bigger role. He's awesome!

 

[TecHNooB]

Just came back from seeing the movie. The ideas didn't really grab me nor did the story. This is the first Nolan movie that left me disappointed.

 

[TehMac]

Saw this movie and i'm pretty floored tbh.



Spoiler; I thought the whole thing might have been a dream with someone having entered his mind the entire time. Remember how that old Japanese man in the beginning was the same in the end? That is what kind of confused me. Because how could that old man be simaltaneously in the same dream as his younger self unless someone was impersonating him in one version and the other was a "projection"
does that make any sense? There was that old version of that japanese man in the beginning of the film right?

 

[Aikouka]

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I thought the whole thing might have been a dream with someone having entered his mind the entire time. Remember how that old Japanese man in the beginning was the same in the end? That is what kind of confused me. Because how could that old man be simaltaneously in the same dream as his younger self unless someone was impersonating him in one version and the other was a "projection"

does that make any sense? There was that old version of that japanese msn in the beginning right?

Well...

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the beginning was a pretense to the scene at the end, so they're essentially the same scene. Now, if you recall how the Cobbs lived in their own dream world, you'll remember the one scene at the end where they were in their world and were old. What I'm taking from it is that the time difference of Saito dying and Cobb going into limbo to retrieve him was enough to make him age that long. But who knows... I may not be right .