Christopher Nolan's Inception

[matrix_ghost]

It's really tempting ( and frankly annoying) for me to see entire pages of just spoiler-hidden posts here. THe movie opens thrusday here in holland so i'm still holding out.

Nevertheless i stumbled upon this at Cinematical and found it quite funny and cute.
Inception meets Dora the Explorer
http://www.cinematical.com/2010/07/19/watch-this-dora-the-explorer-spoofs-inception/
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Can you say "Buuurrrrr"

 

[byte19]

then her hair blows in the "buuuuurrrrrr" oh man that's funny!!!!

 

[redhawk23]

I found it interesting that Arthur, whose totem works according to the way it is weighted, is the one who fights in a gravity shifting environment.

Question: How does Paige's totem behave in a dream? does it simply not tip over?

My totem would be a diamond that would shater in the the dream, or perhaps melt when sqeezed, none of this waiting for a top to fall nonsense lol.

also i'm now completly convinced tom hardy will kick some major arse as mad max. i'm just really glad that role didn't go to Bland Worthington.

 

[CelticPredator]

It's weighted. It must fall on the side it's weighted at. That's what the tell is. If it falls to the other side...then she'd dreaming.

 

[SatEL]

Finally saw the movie, begged and begged until a friend gave in and came with me. Anyway one thing that pops into my head after the movie finished was woah overrated or what.

Despite it been overrated it is none the less still a brilliant movie, the ambiguous ending had the audience booing though. I guess at that stage everyone wanted to know what happened to Cobb. Mehhhhhhh might give a detailed review later but will certainly be seeing this again once my girlfriend gets back from Holiday.


8/10.

 

[Christopher Nolan]

wow...i love these dicussions about the different endings of this movie. that's exactly what i wanted from inception. that's exactly what i want from movies. leaving the theater and keep thinking about a movie. it's almost a shame that nolan needs to do another batman movie. clearly, his films outside the batman franchise are better.

 

[Spade]

I liked it. Besides Arthur and Ariadne, Nolan's characters felt cold and distant, and his action beats choppy. Despite that, though, it's one of the best films based around the subconscious mind that I've seen.

Spoiler

I was confused about the ending. But I found the best answer others have made for it is that Nolan performed an act of inception on our minds with the question "was it a dream," in the same way Cobb planted seeds of doubt in Robert's mind.

7/10. I'll wait for the DVD to watch it again; the first act did a number on my frontal lobe, and it needs time to heal.

 

[ironwez20]

Man so much to take in so mal was just this delusional chick thought she was in a dream the whole time ? That's why she commited suicide.

 

[coffeemugs]

It was really amazing, all the actors were doing gud...
Promotional Coffee Mugs | Promotional Stress balls | Promotional flashlights

 

[luke1234]

wow...i love these dicussions about the different endings of this movie. that's exactly what i wanted from inception. that's exactly what i want from movies. leaving the theater and keep thinking about a movie. it's almost a shame that nolan needs to do another batman movie. clearly, his films outside the batman franchise are better.

once hes done batman 3 hell have free reign for the rest of his career

 

[Mr. Para-Normal]

wow...i love these dicussions about the different endings of this movie. that's exactly what i wanted from inception. that's exactly what i want from movies. leaving the theater and keep thinking about a movie. it's almost a shame that nolan needs to do another batman movie. clearly, his films outside the batman franchise are better.

To me it seemed like Nolan was pressured into doing Batman 3 by Warner Bros and the Dark Knight Fanboys and the general audiences. As any one could tell Heath Ledgers death really hit Chris Nolan hard. During many interviews he was hesitant about saying whether or not he would do at Batman 3, at one point he said he was fine with Dark knight being the last of his batman movies.

 

[Longshot777]

Ok...i forgot...

What is pulling a Mr. Charles again???


And

How come Fischer did not recognize his father's rival Saito who is suppose to be a powerful man and should be well known??

 

[luke1234]

Ok...i forgot...

What is pulling a Mr. Charles again???


And

How come Fischer did not recognize his father's rival Saito who is suppose to be a powerful man and should be well known??

Pulling a Mr. Charles is

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decieving Fischer in believing that Cobb was his security and his actual security were the extractors. Doing this is risky because you have to reveal to the subject that he is in fact dreaming which keeps the subconcious(projections) on high alert.

and as for Saito

Spoiler

I'm assuming he didnt know what the man looked like. Maybe his father did but I'm sure Saito was a man of secrecy.

 

[omid17]

Spoiler

Well like I said, I think accidentally ending up in limbo does result in not knowing it's not real from the start. So THAT was the risk of dying in one of the dream levels. You'd end up in limbo and never know it. Only when they enter it intentionally (as Cobb and Mal did and Cobb and Ariadne did) do they know it's limbo. But even then, significant time spent there seems to cause the same lost sense of reality. So it's dangerous either way, especially since Cobb had to stay for an unknown length of time to find Saito. He had certainly lost some grip on reality when Saito's "men" found him on the beach.

Also, they specifically said that Cobb and Mal had been to Limbo before, which they did during their "going deeper" experiments. And since there's no reason to think that they died in a sedated dream to get there, I'd say that wasn't the only known method of going into limbo.

 

[omid17]

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[FlawlessVictory]

what do you guys think is your fav track from Inception?

mine is this

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Love this moment in the movie, such an emotional scene between Fischer and his father and Eames realizing the Inception was a success. Beautifully acted by Murphy.

 

[luke1234]

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Love this moment in the movie, such an emotional scene between Fischer and his father and Eames realizing the Inception was a success. Beautifully acted by Murphy.

Cillian Murphy was terrific in this movie. I hope to see him pair up with Nolan again in the future

 

[omid17]

damn shame Nolan only gave us a few seconds in the hallway scene, damn critics and his own wife made it seem like it'll it be huge. i wasn't that impressed with the action, level 3 just got boring for me, but the story kept me in, my favorite fight scene was probably level 1

 

[Crook]

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Well like I said, I think accidentally ending up in limbo does result in not knowing it's not real from the start. So THAT was the risk of dying in one of the dream levels. You'd end up in limbo and never know it. Only when they enter it intentionally (as Cobb and Mal did and Cobb and Ariadne did) do they know it's limbo. But even then, significant time spent there seems to cause the same lost sense of reality.

So it's dangerous either way, especially since Cobb had to stay for an unknown length of time to find Saito. He had certainly lost some grip on reality when Saito's "men" found him on the beach.

Spoiler

These are my issues: during his journey to search for Saito, he gets washed up on a beach. He was still young, so clearly he wasn't searching for very long. What could he have possibly f**ked up that he got lost in the waters, washed ashore, and couldn't remember where he was? How does a man that's spent decades in deep levels, manage to lose it on the most important job he's ever done, in no more than a few days, weeks, or months?

Surely it explains his current age, loss of memory, and beaten up state, much more coherently if we're to assume he was just "dropped" there (like the beginning of any dream) not long before he got washed ashore.

Spoiler

Also, they specifically said that Cobb and Mal had been to Limbo before, which they did during their "going deeper" experiments. And since there's no reason to think that they died in a sedated dream to get there, I'd say that wasn't the only known method of going into limbo.

Spoiler

I think Cobb and Mal got into limbo from being in there so long and living out their lives regularly. That much we can agree on. However to me it makes much more sense for them to actually lose their grasp of reality while they are asleep in one of the deep dream levels, rather than gradually losing their memory of reality. Hence my theory that when they wake up, that's when they're lost.

 

[omid17]

Spoiler

These are my issues: during his journey to search for Saito, he gets washed up on a beach. He was still young, so clearly he wasn't searching for very long. What could he have possibly f**ked up that he got lost in the waters, washed ashore, and couldn't remember where he was? How does a man that's spent decades in deep levels, manage to lose it on the most important job he's ever done, in no more than a few days, weeks, or months?

Surely it explains his current age, loss of memory, and beaten up state, much more coherently if we're to assume he was just "dropped" there (like the beginning of any dream) not long before he got washed ashore.

I think Cobb and Mal got into limbo from being in there so long and living out their lives regularly. That much we can agree on. However to me it makes much more sense for them to actually lose their grasp of reality while they are asleep in one of the deep dream levels, rather than gradually losing their memory of reality. Hence my theory that when they wake up, that's when they're lost.

Spoiler

My guess is that the process of dying in a dream and not waking up is brutal on the mind. They both have no recollection of any other reality besides limbo until they see each other and work together to remind themselves.

i agree with this
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[Doctor Jones]

Spoiler

These are my issues: during his journey to search for Saito, he gets washed up on a beach. He was still young, so clearly he wasn't searching for very long. What could he have possibly f**ked up that he got lost in the waters, washed ashore, and couldn't remember where he was? How does a man that's spent decades in deep levels, manage to lose it on the most important job he's ever done, in no more than a few days, weeks, or months?

Surely it explains his current age, loss of memory, and beaten up state, much more coherently if we're to assume he was just "dropped" there (like the beginning of any dream) not long before he got washed ashore.

Spoiler

I think Cobb and Mal got into limbo from being in there so long and living out their lives regularly. That much we can agree on. However to me it makes much more sense for them to actually lose their grasp of reality while they are asleep in one of the deep dream levels, rather than gradually losing their memory of reality. Hence my theory that when they wake up, that's when they're lost.

Spoiler

Didn't Cobb eventually realize that limbo was just limbo and not reality? He realized it, but Mal didn't accept it. So Cobb planted the Inception to make her believe that the place they were in wasn't the real world. When they killed themselves and got out of limbo, Cobb knew they were back immediately. But Mal couldn't accept it.

 

[Crook]

Yes. I've never disagreed with that. I was referring to how they both got there in the first place, that was the contention.

 

[luke1234]

damn shame Nolan only gave us a few seconds in the hallway scene, damn critics and his own wife made it seem like it'll it be huge. i wasn't that impressed with the action, level 3 just got boring for me, but the story kept me in, my favorite fight scene was probably level 1

As quick as the hallway scene was, it was still amazing because I have no clue whatsoever how they pulled that off . Sure it was brief, but I can honestly say I've never seen anything like that.

 

[Christopher Nolan]

To me it seemed like Nolan was pressured into doing Batman 3 by Warner Bros and the Dark Knight Fanboys and the general audiences. As any one could tell Heath Ledgers death really hit Chris Nolan hard. During many interviews he was hesitant about saying whether or not he would do at Batman 3, at one point he said he was fine with Dark knight being the last of his batman movies.

pretty sure that nolan wanted the joker to return in third and last batman movie. but the death of ledger changed a lot of things. i dont think they forced him to do another batman movie. he wants to finish his batman story and that's okay. i just think that he can do much better stuff outside the batman franchise cause he has no limits...

 

[rashad]

Inception still red hot on MON w/ an estimated $10.22M, $73M in 4 days. Could smash $100M in only 7 days.
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