was inception really hard too understand?

[Geekmaster]

In hindsight, I found much of the complexity to be a matter of convoluted content.

It was still a good movie, even if Memento is much better.

 

[ChildofGallifrey]

I have a feeling that mainstream audiences would be a bit confused by it, but these are also the people that made Michael Bay millions upon millions of dollars. People that enjoy movies that are more than "BRAH!! That building, like, TOTALLY exploded! And it blew that chicks TOP off!!" probably followed it pretty easily.

Bob addressed this point pretty well in his review.

 

[dstreet121]

It wasn't hard to understand, now if they didn't explain how dream-levels worked, then that would be a different story, but they tell you up front how the whole plot works.

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

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

Pff, Memento wasn't complicated. The whole thing is explained to you in those black and white segments.

Go watch Mulholland Drive and figure that out.

 

[The Cor]

The movie was not to hard to understand as many already have said, but there is one thing I cannot understand; why so many people think that it is a good movie. I am probably one of the very few people who wouldn't recommend anybody to watch it.

 

[harvz]

i can guarantee you that the people who had trouble understanding it are the same ones who are still trying to figure out how to set the time on their VCR's/

 

[Sovvolf]

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

Pff, Memento wasn't complicated. The whole thing is explained to you in those black and white segments.

Go watch Mulholland Drive and figure that out.

Memento stops being complicated when you realise its just a straight up mystery/revenge plot (if even that) with the scenes moved around a little in post processing. Though I liked the idea... I thought it was an attempt at something new, however its not all that complex when you break it down or you watch it in linear fashion.

 

[Fleeker]

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

I agree with 100%.

I don't understand at all why people didn't understand. You just have to understand how one idea can be multiple layers deep. I'm not going to elaborate to avoid giving a spoiler.


The point about Memento is fantastic, its a great movie but figuring out what is going on can be tricky...took me about half the movie.

 

[Agayek]

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 interested to know.

I, personally, had no trouble following the film and its various twists and turns.

I know several people who were varying degrees of baffled by it. My grandmother, for example, couldn't follow the movie at all, while my mom had to ask me every scene change which "dream-level" we were looking at.

I don't see the movie itself as being terribly complicated, but I can understand people not following it. You need to pay attention and make sure you don't miss anything in the first 30-40 minutes of the movie to really follow it completely.

 

[ReaperGrimm]

Nope I understood it perfectly people are just dumb.

 

[Michael Delvey]

I got it, and so did a lot of my friends except one. He even admitted to us why he didn't get it, because he is one of those guys that doesn't like to think in a movie. Which explains why he never liked any of the documentaries we watch with him. But I think the way he views movies ironic, because he hates Michael Bay.

 

[Silva]

It was easy. The only break in the narrative really was the flashback at the start, which frankly I think the movie could've done without.

 

[Agayek]

People found it difficult? What was complex about it? It had multiple reality levels, each having time-dilation effect to a certain magnitude to the next, with physical effects bleeding through to a certain degree. That was all.

According to those I know who didn't follow the movie, the hardest part to decipher was which dream level they were looking at. I don't get that claim myself, as I found it simple as hell to tell the difference (primarily "van", "office", "fortress"), but that's what I've been told.

 

[spacecowboy86]

I understood it as much as people seem to think understanding dictates, but I thought alot of "rules" regarding limbo were not explained well.

 

[airrazor7]

I thought inception was very straight forward but I was also puzzled by the amount of people I encountered who had trouble understanding the movie. It's kind of sad to know that Hollywood thought this movie was to confusing for the general public but at the same time it does shed light on why "simpler" movies gain larger revenue than more clever films.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

Its pretty easy to follow, its just more complex than the typical summer blockbuster. It had substance and was thought provoking, making it more complex than the average Hollywood fare.

 

[callit4]

1. If the "spinny thing" fell then each character was indeed a separate person.
2. If it kept spinning, all the characters in the movie were just projections of the protagonist (DiCaprio and they were just different aspects of his subconsciousness, representations of different parts of his personality.

Here's something to realize. He did something rather stupid partway through the movie: He explained how the mini-top worked to someone. The architect. So it's very real that it IS a dream, even if it functions normally as if he wasn't in one.

When he's just met the new architect and is in the warehouse with her you see the top fall over. It's shown that it will spin indefinitely in dreams. You see him get back to that base level, the same as the warehouse, after the job, so it's definitely NOT a dream.

^see above each quote is now a dream you now understand the move. Please note the contents of the quotes are meaningless.Also a quote within a quote withing a quote = quoteception.

Edit: someone should quote this

 

[Varanfan9]

I understood it the first time. I think the problem is that you have to pay attention to every scene or it will not make sense. And while thats easy for us geeks mainstream audience members probably turned their brains off one too many times.

 

[EGtodd09]

I found it pretty straight forward, though there are a few plot holes surrounding the whole "limbo" state.

 

[Araksardet]

This is kind of like Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen. Everyone who reads that series says it's really complicated, but nothing in it ever meaningfully confused me for more than a few hundred pages (not much, when the average book is over 1200 pages long), with the exception of the Grey Helms/Grey Swords and whether they were the same or not.

OT: I didn't know anybody found Inception confusing. I certainly didn't. The multiple dream levels made pretty simple sense.