Poll: Who else didn't like Inception?

[Ironic Pirate]

They said that if it doesn't fall, it's a dream. If one of those wobbles, it's because it's losing speed, and speed it what keeps it going. Have you ever spun one? As soon as it wobbles, it fall shortly after that. That's why he picked it as his totem.

Because dreams are always logical and therefor you can apply real-world physics to them??

Anyway, child actors are expensive, and Nolan didn't want to hire more when his budget was already so high.

Even if the movie was having budget issues, this still doesn't explain why they were wearing the exact same clothes as in his memories?? I am reasonably certain that their costume budget wasn't that tight??

Alright, first, that was the point. In the dream, it keeps spinning, because dreams don't have real world physics. In real life, it stops.


Second, that part was a joke, because to be honest I can't remember what the kids look like.

 

[Jang]

He woke up. The thing was clearly starting to wobble.

Anyway, I liked it a lot, although the action scenes could have been a tad better, the first one specifically, the rest were okay. A lot better than I expected though.

Kids didn't age, though? Why? You sorta get the impression he has been gone for quite a while?
And they just so happen to be wearing the exact same clothes, both of them. Convenient?
And how do you know it doesn't even wobble inside a dream??

OT: I absolutely loved it!! Apart from toy story 3, it was the movie I enjoyed the most this summer.

Well, that's the thing. The totem is unreliable throughout the whole movie. The kids were wearing slightly different clothes as far as I could tell, and in the flashbacks Cobb didn't seem much younger than what he looked like during the movie. So you could make a strong case for both sides. Though, I don't want to spoil too much for those who haven't seen it yet.

OT - Inception was probably my favorite movie this summer, though this summer was a little bleak aside from a few movies, namely Toy Story 3. Though, if you didn't like it, too each his own.

We agree on almost all points. Only difference between us is that after having seen the movie 3 times, I am reasonably certain that they didn't change clothing.

I am not claiming that he did or didn't wake up. I am just opposing the idea that it is a dead give-away.

 

[Dancingman]

The movie tried to do a tragedy of a romance gone horribly wrong in a technology that is quite possibly too advanced for human beings to ever comprehend alongside an action plot. The action got pretty tedious and so did the whole "my life sucks and I'm a guilty person" angle that they kept having Leonardo Di Caprio's character following. They could've stopped with the constant, smack-you-over-the-head restatements of how much he misses his kids and how bad he feels about his wife, honestly that was a time where understatement or the use of subtlety would have been greatly appreciated.

Honestly there were plenty of fight scenes the movie didn't need (and quite frankly just started to feel like their stunt director was hassling the director to let him show off) and I feel like the romance/tragedy plot could've been cut down quite a bit.

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

I never saw it (though not for lack of trying. Six different sets of plans fell through. I just gave up). I guessed the twists though, according to one pissed off friend. In retrospect, I just don't care to see it anymore. Christopher Nolan films are very iffy for me. I really liked The Dark Knight, and I adored The Prestige. However, Insomnia, ironically, bored me to sleep, and Memento was the most pretentious piece of shit film I've seen in years, so I was ready to come out of Inception either loving the film, or detesting it. Neither happened, and I'm okay with it.

 

[I Max95]

it was mind blowing
in fact it was the only movie i ever saw that blew my mind mostly because of how it handled the different levels

just dont think about it so much you'll ruin it for yourself
i can think of a million things that didnt make sense and getting rid of any one of them would make the movie lesser for it

 

[masseyguy911]

It was pretty good, not amazing like my friends think it is, but thats just my opinion.

 

[Jang]

Alright, first, that was the point. In the dream, it keeps spinning, because dreams don't have real world physics. In real life, it stops.


Second, that part was a joke, because to be honest I can't remember what the kids look like.

1) well, yeah, but it seems that I didn't get my message across all to well then. I am simply arguing that "it starts to wobble", doesn't mean it will fall. In the real world then yes, it would fall very shortly after. But how do you know it will do that in a dream as well? We never saw it spinning for as long as it did in the final shot, so we simply don't know if it's not just a part of what it normally does.

2)I always have a problem reading humor into what people say, when I don't have a tone-of-voice to go by, so my apologies

 

[SnipErlite]

I still don't even know why they were trying to get into the safe.

For teh lulz, as far as I could gather.


Well okay who knows, I enjoyed it simply for the mindfuckery. Although some points were unfinished....like why the first few layers all experienced zero-gravity as the truck was falling, but the final snow mountain base level didn't. Hm.

Meh, I'd watch it again purely because it was cool

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Alright, first, that was the point. In the dream, it keeps spinning, because dreams don't have real world physics. In real life, it stops.


Second, that part was a joke, because to be honest I can't remember what the kids look like.

1) well, yeah, but it seems that I didn't get my message across all to well then. I am simply arguing that "it starts to wobble", doesn't mean it will fall. In the real world then yes, it would fall very shortly after. But how do you know it will do that in a dream as well? We never saw it spinning for as long as it did in the final shot, so we simply don't know if it's not just a part of what it normally does.

2)I always have a problem reading humor into what people say, when I don't have a tone-of-voice to go by, so my apologies

1) I guess we'd have to learn more about the rules, whether it can wobble, etc.

2) That's okay, I've done the same thing before...

 

[Odbarc]

Thank god, another Inception hater. I hated this movie! My cousin yelled at me for days and isn't talking to me now because she thought it was the best movie ever made.

I won't deny there were a lot of good IDEAS that just didn't work in the movie. I think it would make a good book.

I'd have loved to see this guy wake up and find out his wife was right or discover someone inceptioned him and he never HAD a wife or kids or something along those lines.