Hype to me isn’t the amount of advertisement out there but the message it sends to me. I thought it was just gonna be a very visual eye candy movie like 2010, Day After Tomorrow, etc which sucked ass. I was wrong. “From the Director of The Dark Knight” isn’t enough to hype me up.
Dreams edit: I get de ja vu’s often, I think I’ll start writing down what I had dreams of when I awake.
I think this brings up a good point about the character development or supposed lack of character development in the film. I remember how GAF says Inception is like if The Fountain raped The Matrix but in a good way. What I think is perhaps rubbing people the wrong way is that it shows a man actually expresses emotion and motivation that isn’t revenge, anger, sarcasm or personified in another being other than himself. I remember listening to the commentary to the Fountain and said how the director got all these letters or feedback on how a lot of women viewers found it uncommon, bordering on weird to have a male character be so emotional over the death of his wife. Perhaps what is happening with all these criticisms is that we are now presented with a male lead that is fairly uncommon with what we’ve seen in a long long time.
Google speaks the truthe. This film certainly wasnt as action packed or intense as most are claiming it to be, and it often dragged on especially during some of the action sequences.
Its definitely not a masterpiece or even a great movie its just a decent film.
Has anyone noticed that Leo plays the same character in all of his movies?
Maybe I’ll check it out…there hasn’t been a movie I’ve seen in the past five years that was worth the admission fee (I usually watch them from the computer) so we’ll see.
If cobb was supposed to go back for saito in level 4, why was saito like a million years old and cobb a few days mangled by the ocean? didnt they almost go there at the same time? in fact cobb went first, then saito died in level 3 after… ?
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[spoiler=]Cobb was already in Limbo when Saito died. Remember, dream time is multiplied when entering the next level/layer. When Saito died in Level/Layer 3, he entered limbo from THAT point. Resulting in him spending several decades in Limbo. Cobb and Ariadne went straight into limbo through the Dream Device. Keeping their youth.
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Yes, that is true^, saito did enter limbo after cobb. Which is why, I believe, that one’s age representation in limbo is not a measure of how much you have physically aged while in limbo, but a symbol to represent the degree to which you have become lost in it. When it showed Cobb and Mal as having aged a great deal while in limbo, I do not believe it was due to them solely being down there for such a long time, but that cobb even admitted they had become lost so far down into limbo that they started to lose themselves. Think about it, when cobb and mal finally decided to ‘kill’ themselves in limbo, they again appeared as relatively young adults, representing their discovery that limbo was a false reality and they had to escape. Similarly, when cobb found saito in limbo, he had aged little because he was still driven by the desire to find saito such that he could honor their agreement, despite being a little absentminded upon arrival. Saito , however, had completely lost himself in the dreamstate, and it took him recognizing cobb’s totem, the top, to even gain some recollection of who cobb was.
I don’t agree with this, both parties entered limbo from level 3, cobb and ariadne entered before saito. It does not matter whether you enter limbo from going to sleep or dying, you are still entering limbo
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A friend told me that, as he watched the movie…
Saito
He thought the entire thing might have been a ruse in order to get Saito to spill his secrets (i.e., Saito was still dreaming the whole time). While both he and I dismiss the possibility given Mal’s absence in the “real world,” it’s awesome the the film is so well crafted as to illicit such talk.
Man I love this movie. I hope I can make a movie this good one day…
Dr. B is the flutter in your heart when you look at your sweetheart dressed in a string bikini, realizing “fuck this, this bitch ain’t Dr. B.”
Fucking brilliant shit. I love it when the simplest shit (ie. dreams, everyone has dreams before and they know what it’s like) is built upon and shaped into complex shit that would intrigue your mind and makes you think “hmmm maybe it’s not so simple after all”.
I should use the theme song as my alarm clock. That way I know everything’s a dream and that I should wake the fuck up.
About that totem
I don’t understand why if the top spins infinitely it’s not reality. Shouldn’t it be the other way around, since a normal top in reality would eventually topple over? Anyway, if I had to pick a totem, I’d use my wallet because only I know there’s no weight in it.
Leonardo’s Manliness
Is this the first movie leo hasn’t cried in?
Finally a proper movie! Loved it, Nolan is a genius, acting was top notch. Loved Watanabe in this movie. People overhyped how complex the movie is, I was left with a sense of statisfaction and no questions.
So many familiar faces from the the Dark Knight makes me wonder if this was also an audition for the next batman movie aswell.
Maaan that truck took forever to fall, then speeded up 
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that van was pissing me off. i was like wtf, hit the water already. awesome movie.
God damn, I should pay attention and stop trying to be gangsta on the internet.
I liked the movie.
Enjoy your upcoming ban for not wanting to do 2 seconds of work. Idiot.
Dr. B takes bans in stride. Constructing universes in one’s own image tends to make one chill like that.
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Ending
[details=Spoiler]The way I see it is, Cobb is clearly not in limbo because there’s a definite time when he wakes up on the plane. He wakes up to see everyone else, content to have completed their mission - with the exception of Saito, who looks like he just woke up from a very long dream lol.
Also, if we consider that Cobb is on the same “dream” level (reality) when he sees his Totem fall as he is when he sees his kids, it doesn’t make sense to believe that previously the Totem fell and now that he has seen his kids, it won’t fall. Again, that assumes Cobb never enters a dream state between waking up on the plane and seeing his kids.
Something else I noticed is that you never see the kids’ faces all throughout the movie until the last scene. Any other time, their faces are hidden or obscured - my interpretation of that is that it’s either because he’s dreaming and they’re not real, or Cobb’s subconscious guilt at not being able to see his kids again makes him literally unable to see his kids (i.e. see their faces) in his dreams. Yet, at the end of the movie he is able to see them, plus we the viewers, are finally able to see them. So that’s another reason I think the ending is real.
My feeling is, Cobb couldn’t possibly be in Limbo when he sees his kids - if he were, we would expect one of two scenarios: One, he is in Limbo and is back in the same Limbo he was in with Mal (and later showed to Ariadne). We’ve seen that Limbo dream and know what it looks like, plus, isn’t it crumbling and in disrepair? I don’t fully recall on that part, so someone correct me if I’m wrong. Anyway, the other scenario would be that he’s in an entirely new Limbo state, which would start him with a clean slate, which would have required him to recreate all of the environment, which he didn’t do (or at least, we didn’t see him do it).
Lastly, if we are to believe that they were never in “reality” to begin with, that would mean that Cobb is dreaming on his own, which would mean that every member of his team is a projection. That seems pretty implausible given their unique insights and talents, many of which Cobb does not share (especially Eames, the impersonator, and Yusuf, the chemist).
So, bottom line, at least in my opinion, Cobb gets to see his kids. Happy ending.[/details]
But man, I loved this movie. I would watch it again if someone invited me, and I am 100% getting that shit on Blu-Ray when it comes out.
Derrrrrrrr.
Me and my girl were supposed to watch the last air bender but after seeing this thread in GD I decided to ask her to watch inception with me and SRK still holds the reputation for not disappointing me when it comes to movie reviews by its members:tup:.
The movie was great. Everyone inside the theater went WTF and aww at the ending. I have a love-hate relationship with these kind of endings. I love endings that make me think and I hate it because it is hard to sleep thinking about the possible endings.
I dunno if it is just me, but the kids were disturbing and I agree with jasonC, the kids looks the same.