that is correct
Caught the late show and I gotta say it was amazing. Easily one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time.
The ending is gonna keep me thinking though -.-
i agree
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best QUESTION MARK ending since total recall
Simply put, the movie is genius, and so is Christopher Nolan.
just got back from seeing it.
now im just sitting here… mindfucked…
one of the best movies I’ve seen in YEARS.
on the ending…
[spoiler=]i was thinking he was in a dream limbo still at the end. my reasons being, he spun the top, signifying that he wasn’t even sure. and of course it did not fall down, even though it wobbled, which leaves it all open to discussion still.
i read somewhere that it was reality because the top was Mal’s totem, not his. the person went on to discuss that Cobb’s totem was the children, and seeing their faces was the signal that it was indeed reality.
but man, you just can’t pick a side.
one of my friends had a funny theory that everything was just a dream and not real, and when he woke up on the plane he snapped out of it. this theory to me is also plausible.
boy i tell ya, this movie is screwing with my head.[/spoiler]
I think people are reading way too much into the film. I believe people want this movie to be more genius than it actually is. (The simple rule of the “kick” ruins most theories I’ve read.) I’m a huge Christopher Nolan fan, yet I left the theatre underwhelmed. Maybe upon second viewing I will appreciate it more.
Can’t wait to see it again, highly recommended. If only for the fact that it isn’t very often that a director gets 200 million dollars of budget to make a massive puzzle trap of a movie. Also hoping it does really well in theaters, so hollywood gets more willing to make original stuff like this and less A-Team the movie!
I really liked it a lot. There people yawning in my theater, but I love movies like this. My favorite movie is Memento
Imo…
[spoiler=]I thought that he had been away from home for quite some time and the fact that his kids looked the same at the end as they did in his memory was an indication that he was still dreaming.
Somebody confirmed that there was nothing after the credits, right?[/spoiler]
Just saw it today. Pretty much the best movie I’ve seen all year.
I had a question…
[spoiler=]Remember when Dom said that you aren’t supposed to touch people’s totems or else it truly wouldn’t be a totem anymore? Was that rule only applicable to the real world? Because Ken Watanabe touched the spinning top when Dom washed up on shore, which could have destroyed it’s effectiveness.[/spoiler]
[spoiler=]The weight of the totem is what reminds you if it was a your real totem, or what someone else who has seen your totem but is unsure of the weight perceives your totem to be. So if they create a dream world and some how gave you your totem in it, you can tell it is a dream because the weight of your totem is off.[/details]
[spoiler=]I read one theory elsewhere that the end is a dream, however, Dom is not stuck in limbo per se. When he woke up in the plane, that was the reality. The ending scene is a dream sequence that occurs while he’s simply taking a nap somewhere. The dream he experiences is pretty much the same things most people dream of when they are really anticipating a future event. Hence the children wearing the same clothes and being in the exact same position. The difference from before is that Dom had since been able to release the guilt he felt from “inceptioning” Mal so he can once again dream(I’m pretty sure it was stated he couldn’t dream somewhere during the movie) and see his children without feeling the guilt he associated with them to his wife. At any point during that ending, he could just wake himself up and resume in reality.
That’s one theory I like. However, it was pretty unsettling how when Dom woke up in the plane, everyone was staring at him but no dialogue occured… like he was in someone’s mind still.
I don’t think the entire movie was a dream because early in the movie, Dom spun the top in the hotel and it stopped spinning. This of course assumes that Mal’s totem is compatible with Dom despite him explicitly stating that everyone must have a unique totem.
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Inception is thoughtfully interpretive, intelligently crafted, and has the best ending this side of Children of Men. Highly recommended.*
Dr. B’s dreams are DiCaprio-proof.
this film tries too hard to be smart, when its just a glorified action movie, much like every other nolan flick
- signed, every hating critic
I saw this movie last night. Its was fucking amazing.
Live-action movie of the year IMO so far!
4/5. Though I will say when I left the theater, I had a weird feeling, which is rarely the case after seeing any movie. I felt…happy? The movie was sort of heavy all the way through, so maybe that’s why after seeing it my mood felt lighter. I dunno.
OrangeCat, please don’t take offense to me completely dismissing your opinion without going into any detail whatsoever:
I think you’re completely wrong.
Anyway, questions for the thread about the basics of the whole reality:
dual input
[details=Spoiler]So earlier in the film we have Leo’s character explaining to Ellen Page’s character that when you enter someone’s mind, you have two parts (at least)- the person’s subconscious, and the sort of map of the world created by the other party. This is why he needed her to be the architect.
When Cillian Murphy’s character gets roofied on the plane and they enter his mind… I don’t understand what happens to this line of reasoning after this point.
Let’s look at it like we have 5 or so levels:
-Reality
-Level 1 (Warehouse, van driving into river)
-Level 2 (Hotel, elevator shaft shenanigans)
-Level 3 (Snow, the vault)
-Level 4 (Going back to Leo’s old map that he made with his wife, old man Watanabe(?))
Cillian Murphy gets jumped, we enter level 1. Cool. He gets put under in the van, and we enter level 2. But at that point, who’s map is it? Murphy’s character is supplying the subconscious henchmen and NPCs, right? So who’s world map is it? Shit, who’s was it in level 1? I would assume DiCaprio’s, except that it was stated directly that he can’t know the layout, or his wife will rush everyone’s shit down. And how can Leo’s kids/train be in Level 1/2 etc? It’s not his map or his subconscious, so why are his thoughts leaking into these worlds?
So we’re at Level 2, the hotel. Clearly we’re still dealing with Murphy’s NPCs/security, and that never seems to change. Then everyone but Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets put under again, and we go to level 3. Watanabe has been shot, and Murphy gets shot here. Gayish Brit Guy is setting up mine traps and doing his thing, and then Leo and Ellen Page go down another level to get Murphy before he dies.
Level 4. Murphy gets tossed off the side of the building/gets shocked and goes back to Level 3, where he goes into the vault with his dad in it. Ellen Page hits her reset button as everyone else gets sent back to Level 1 (climbing out of the river).
So, where the fuck is Leo? He’s at Level 4, which seemed to have absolutely nothing of Murphy’s in it. It was just Leo’s old world. So why is Ken Watanabe there? Murphy and the others are gone at this point (back to Level 1), so how the fuck did Watanabe end up in Leo’s world? And it seemed like Watanabe had built his own world, since he’d been living there for so long. So…where had he been? Were they still in Murphy’s head, somewhere? Seems unlikely, I think… And why would going deeper back in level 3 even allow them to save Watanabe? Dying automatically sent him to Level 4? I suppose Level 4 is the limbo they were all talking about…?
Likewise, where was Leo at the end of the film? In his own mind? How…?
There is a basic element of the story I didn’t quite understand, though I don’t think it’s one that can’t be resolved.[/details]
Other thoughts:
*This movie continues my man-crush on Joseph Gordon-Levitt after seeing 500 Days of Summer
*Ellen Page is somehow a 6.5/10 and a 9.5/10 at the same time. I don’t understand it. She is both average and perfect.
*I liked the whole time contrast/manipulation scene that took place during the later third of the film. I thought it was really well done, handling the different storylines, and showing the passage of time is different areas. That part of the film could have easily have been a retarded mess, but it seemed pretty straightforward.
*This was, to me, what The Matrix should have been. I was really disappointed by that movie, because the idea didn’t seem particularly new, and I wasn’t really impressed by it being well-thought-out or anything. This does a much better job.
levitt can really do no wrong
the guy is so goddamn talented