inception, it just blew my mind. did it blow yours?

[Kortney]

No, it didn't quite blow my mind. It came kinda close at times.


Loved it though.

 

[Squidden]

OT: Your interpretation of the ending was extremely different from mine.

I thought Inception/Extraction WAS real in that universe, especially from seeing the looks on eachother's faces when they woke up.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

I loved the crap out of it, but you're gonna catch a lot of hate for this. People here really like hating popular things because it's "edgy" or whatever.

Your gonna get the hate for generalising. Where the hell is all this hate your talking about?

Um...I'm not sure what you want from me. Are you looking for links to specific posts or something? Cause I don't have them. I just see a lot of topics every now and then like "I HATE THIS POPULAR GAME/MOVIE/BOOK/ANYTHING AND HERE'S WHY!" like it's supposed to inspire shock or something. Plus, the last topic about Inception I saw was filled with people talking about how overrated it was.

So...there's that....

 

[Jazzyjazz2323]

It was a great movie but I personally didn't find it mindblowing or life changing or worth any though pondering.Also best description of Inception"I'm the dream playing the dream disguised as another dream!"

 

[Nazulu]

I loved the crap out of it, but you're gonna catch a lot of hate for this. People here really like hating popular things because it's "edgy" or whatever.

Your gonna get the hate for generalising. Where the hell is all this hate your talking about?

Um...I'm not sure what you want from me. Are you looking for links to specific posts or something? Cause I don't have them. I just see a lot of topics every now and then like "I HATE THIS POPULAR GAME/MOVIE/BOOK/ANYTHING AND HERE'S WHY!" like it's supposed to inspire shock or something. Plus, the last topic about Inception I saw was filled with people talking about how overrated it was.

So...there's that....

I guess that's fair enough.

Understand that I was looking through this particular thread and realised there is a lack of hate here. I reckon most people here are pretty good, there will always be someone who will do one extreme or the other.

 

[Srdjan]

No, but it was a damn great movie.

 

[ph0b0s123]

Oddly enough finally got to watch this myself. Been waiting for the Blu-Ray release for ages, not much of a cinema goer anymore. It was a great movie, bit like Ocean's 11 but in dreams. It was original for Hollywood but done before in anime (which I believe Nolan acknowledged and said he got inspiration from Paprika etc).

It had a few plot holes in to stop it being perfect (which I won't bore you with). And an unoriginal ending. The whole is it real or not posed at the end, in every movie of this type. If you had told me nothing about movie except that it involved dreams or altered reality I could have told you it would have ended this way. Is is almost more original if they end the movie showing for definite that the hero is back in the real world with a happy ending. For shame Nolan.

But it was good and gave my brain more to do than when watching most Hollywood movies, which is always welcome. But mind blowing, no. Mind blowing is normally when a movie does something I am not expecting or did not see coming, like a Sixth Sense or Shutter Island.

 

[CCountZero]

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I'm confused. How exactly did it stop playing by its own rules?

Well. One example:

Spoiler: Minor Spoiler

The van falls off the bridge. People in van are "weightless". This carries over into dream #1, but not further from that dream into dream #2, etc.

That part totally kills the groundrules laid down by the movie itself.
Basicly, the movie bends it's own law to accomodate a part in the script that a writer/director thought would be look really cool. (And it does, sure.)

 

[shootthebandit]

i also noticed at the end that the entire events of the film where just a single dream he had from a legitimate buisness trip and that the dream manifested from his feelings for his dead wife

Did you not notice them get on the plan AFTER all that planing? They are only on the plane for half the movie, that was their best opportunity to get inside the guys head to implant the idea.

thats if they actually left the plane in the first place, i beleive the entire film was based on Cobb's dream that he had on the plane. The associates he worked with to complete the inception and the guy they performed the inception on were 'projections' based on random people he seen at the airport. The dream manifested from his desire to see his children after a long buisness trip and his feelings for his dead wife. i could be wrong but thats the impression i got from the ending

also everyone who says that i didnt blow thier mind. i understood the plot but if you look into the concepts of our reality and our subconious, theres some really good metaphors that really make you think. perhaps i was looking too deeply into it but thats the beauty of this film, it can be as deep as you want it to be

 

[shootthebandit]

Oddly enough finally got to watch this myself. Been waiting for the Blu-Ray release for ages, not much of a cinema goer anymore. It was a great movie, bit like Ocean's 11 but in dreams. It was original for Hollywood but done before in anime (which I believe Nolan acknowledged and said he got inspiration from Paprika etc).

It had a few plot holes in to stop it being perfect (which I won't bore you with). And an unoriginal ending. The whole is it real or not posed at the end, in every movie of this type. If you had told me nothing about movie except that it involved dreams or altered reality I could have told you it would have ended this way. Is is almost more original if they end the movie showing for definite that the hero is back in the real world with a happy ending. For shame Nolan.

But it was good and gave my brain more to do than when watching most Hollywood movies, which is always welcome. But mind blowing, no. Mind blowing is normally when a movie does something I am not expecting or did not see coming, like a Sixth Sense or Shutter Island.

sixth sense, are you being serious. i mustve been about ten years old and i was watching it with my mum, half way through i was like "mum bruce willis is a ghost" she told me i was being silly. i guess she was wrong =P

 

[ph0b0s123]

And an unoriginal ending. The whole is it real or not posed at the end, in every movie of this type. If you had told me nothing about movie except that it involved dreams or altered reality I could have told you it would have ended this way. Is is almost more original if they end the movie showing for definite that the hero is back in the real world with a happy ending. For shame Nolan.

But it was good and gave my brain more to do than when watching most Hollywood movies, which is always welcome. But mind blowing, no. Mind blowing is normally when a movie does something I am not expecting or did not see coming, like a Sixth Sense or Shutter Island.

sixth sense, are you being serious. i mustve been about ten years old and i was watching it with my mum, half way through i was like "mum bruce willis is a ghost" she told me i was being silly. i guess she was wrong =P

Don't know what to tell you, most twists I see coming a mile off, but I have to say that one I did not see coming. Don't know what to tell you, maybe I was having an off day. But sometimes it is nice to be fooled. Like a magic show being not as much fun as if you can see how all the tricks are done, I don't know. Shutter Island I saw coming, but I know a lot of people didn't, so used it as an example. I think any movie I use as example some smart a$$ will say, 'I saw that coming....'

I really just wanted to contrast that with Inception where for all it's greatness the ending was cliched. Total Recall ended in the same way for crying out loud..... Is it real isn't it. That made it not in the mind blowing category for me.

 

[TheComedown]

i also noticed at the end that the entire events of the film where just a single dream he had from a legitimate buisness trip and that the dream manifested from his feelings for his dead wife

Did you not notice them get on the plan AFTER all that planing? They are only on the plane for half the movie, that was their best opportunity to get inside the guys head to implant the idea.

thats if they actually left the plane in the first place, i beleive the entire film was based on Cobb's dream that he had on the plane. The associates he worked with to complete the inception and the guy they performed the inception on were 'projections' based on random people he seen at the airport. The dream manifested from his desire to see his children after a long buisness trip and his feelings for his dead wife. i could be wrong but thats the impression i got from the ending

also everyone who says that i didnt blow thier mind. i understood the plot but if you look into the concepts of our reality and our subconious, theres some really good metaphors that really make you think. perhaps i was looking too deeply into it but thats the beauty of this film, it can be as deep as you want it to be

What are you talking about,"If they left the plane in the first place"? They don't get on the plane until halfway through the movie.

You are looking way to far into this, so you want to believe that, the whole plot behind an evil corporation and the need to tear is apart form the inside was also all in Cobbs head? Then why even bother with the shit about the inception and evil corporations? Why would the stuff about Cobbs wife and kids only come through in a side plot if that was the whole reason he was having the dream?