was inception really hard too understand?

[blackdwarf]

i know that i'm really late with asking this, but it has been bugging me for awhile now. a months or something ago i saw inception. i thought it was a clever movie with some solid actors. but what i heard was that people didn't understand it. that it was too complex to get it. not to blow my own horn (do is write the saying correctly?), but i thought it was pretty straigt forward. so am i just one of the many who also get it, or are there indeed people who thought it was too complex.

i don't will judge you if you didn't get it and shit, but i just really interrested to know.

 

[strum4h]

It was not complicated. Go watch Memento and try and figure that out.

 

[MysticToast]

I thought it was a good movie and thought it was deeper than most movies released around the same time. However, it wasn't like trying to solve a 20x20 Rubik's Cube, and I have a hard time understanding why some people still don't get it.

EDIT: I just saw the "deeper" joke in my post. Just wanna say "no pun intended"

 

[Irridium]

Not really. Basically, Hollywood thought it would be too much for "mainstream" audiences to understand. And I'm assuming quite a few critics did as well.

Haven't heard of anyone getting too confused by it though.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Not at all, then again I have been around the block a couple of times.
I made the mistake of listening to the hype so when I actually saw it I was expecting a whole lot more and inevitably ended on "that is it? come on now..."

It's a cool movie tho, I wish there were more like this but deeper.

 

[Harlemura]

I wasn't really paying attention when my family was watching, but I got the gist of it.
I'm not sure if that's because I understood it or because I just wasn't paying attention to the parts where it got confusing.

 

[Tanakh]

I agree, it was pretty straight forward and i too was amazed by people saying it was hard to understand, still a very good fun movie and I was very close to loving it.

 

[Ca3zar416]

I did not really think it was confusing or anything but remember they were talking about the mainstream person. Which apparently is appallingly stupider than I had previously thought so who knows.

 

[J-dog42]

I found it really easy to understand as well. From my experience it was a lot of older people who didn't get it.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Everyone kept saying, for ages after its release, that it was really complicated but I never had any trouble understanding what was going on.

 

[EmperorSubcutaneous]

It's really pretty easy to understand, especially if you don't try to. I think this is where a lot of people go wrong...They try to understand every movie they watch, every step of the way, when sometimes it's best to just let go and understand that it will all be made clear soon enough.

A second viewing doesn't hurt either.

What I don't understand is the people who think it sucks because they couldn't understand it, or who turned it off partway through for the same reason. I mean, really.

 

[jumjalalabash]

Its not complicated. People just don't like thinking during movies.

 

[MikailCaboose]

All you need to do is pay attention. Apparently for some that's too much to ask.

 

[Deschamps]

However, it wasn't like trying to solve a 20x20 Rubik's Cube

Solving a 20x20 is really the same as solving a 4x4, just a lot more time consuming.

I understood the movie much more after seeing it a second time, and I'm sure I'd pick up on more if I watched it again. But I think a single viewing is sufficient to appreciate what's going on, and the meaning of it.

This also reminds me, I should get around to watching Fight Club a second time.

 

[nickyv917]

It wasn't too difficult for me when I saw it. My ex-girlfriend, who was watching it with me didn't get it, but she was a moron, so the point still stands.

 

[blackdwarf]

I wont take offense, since your spelling is terrible and even though that says shit all about you it does make you come off as a little dull.

On topic, well, it was kinda straight forward stuff until the last half hour where I started struggling. Following like 4 levels of dream and 3 groups of characters at once isnt something you can do with ease.

fact being that i'm dutch can indeed make some flaws in my grammar. so if you find me dull even though i can make myself understandable in a languange that isn't my own. well, that is your opinion.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Clearly, if people think 'Inception' was particularly complicated, then they've never seen any other of Christopher Nolan's cerebral films (namely Memento, which I contend to be a better movie).

Where 'Inception' falls down is the dream construct concept (sequential dreaming vs. layered dreaming, levels of consciousness etc.). *shrug*

 

[HumpinHop]

Well I must be retarded then. I had some slight measure of difficulty keeping up with the dream within a dream within another dream idea, and I felt like I was three seconds behind whatever was going on onscreen. If you missed out on a couple seconds of dialogue it was a bit hard to play catch-up.

I still enjoyed the movie though, just not as much as I may if I saw it a second time.

 

[deehadley]

Inception is easy to understand, Memento takes two watches to get, but Primer takes a degree course to follow.