Escape to the Movies: Inception
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Just watched this movie yesterday with a friend I didn't even get to the spoiler warning in this video when I left to go watch it (didn't have any time.)
I gotta say wow I bite off all my nails and half the skin on my hands.
The best movies I've seen in years.
I was not expecting such an awesome movie!
I just finished watching this review and good job on Movie-Bob on giving that spoiler warning.
In my opinion he shouldn't of included ANY of the plot but ahh well hes the professional here.
Everyone on the Escapist should go watch this movie!
^^
I gotta say wow I bite off all my nails and half the skin on my hands.
The best movies I've seen in years.
I was not expecting such an awesome movie!
I just finished watching this review and good job on Movie-Bob on giving that spoiler warning.
In my opinion he shouldn't of included ANY of the plot but ahh well hes the professional here.
Everyone on the Escapist should go watch this movie!
^^
YES! it was so awesome I think I left the theater feeling the same way as you. Just like an all around rush! So great!runnernda said:
Funny thing is one of my friends decided to watch the new twilight movie. I came out the theater around 25 minutes later than she did rushed like a drug and all I could tell her was how much of an idiot she was for missing out on Inception .
But then again she was watching Twilight so I guess.
The only part I got confused was when..somelameshite said:
The train is on the street and there was security shooting at them. Was just like WTF!? why is there people shooting at them AHHH!!!
Cant. Go. Past. 2:25.
DAMMIT!
Guess im going to have to see the movie first and then enjoy the rest of the review *starts pulling out of driveway and goes to the nearest movie theater*
DAMMIT!
Guess im going to have to see the movie first and then enjoy the rest of the review *starts pulling out of driveway and goes to the nearest movie theater*
Do either of you know if...Sadly_Awake said:YES! it was so awesome I think I left the theater feeling the same way as you. Just like an all around rush! So great!runnernda said:
Funny thing is one of my friends decided to watch the new twilight movie. I came out the theater around 25 minutes later than she did rushed like a drug and all I could tell her was how much of an idiot she was for missing out on Inception .
But then again she was watching Twilight so I guess.
The only part I got confused was when..somelameshite said:
The train is on the street and there was security shooting at them. Was just like WTF!? why is there people shooting at them AHHH!!!
the top, his totem, actually stopped spinning or not?
I loved this movie, I found it imaginative, Action heavy and one particular scene involving a hotel hall and a tumbling van was fantastic.
Though my opinion may be tainted by FINDING A KITTEN outside the theater just as I left!
Watch Inception, The universe will send you kittens.
Though my opinion may be tainted by FINDING A KITTEN outside the theater just as I left!
Watch Inception, The universe will send you kittens.
Sadly_Awake said:
Yeah, it's really left up to the viewer. I find that it seems more thematically correct for him to be awake, but Nolan also wanted to leave us with the haunting reminder that these characters can never really truly be sure when they're awake or dreaming again.
Then again, there (to me anyway) seemed to be certain hints that he really was dreaming. For one, when he saw his children they were EXACTLY as he remembered his previous moments with them. And the same age! Makes you wonder... I'm gonna see it again tomorrow and see if any other clues pop out for me.
Then again, there (to me anyway) seemed to be certain hints that he really was dreaming. For one, when he saw his children they were EXACTLY as he remembered his previous moments with them. And the same age! Makes you wonder... I'm gonna see it again tomorrow and see if any other clues pop out for me.
AgentNein said:
Watch the scene where he's running form the men after recruiting the forger.
Then near the end Mal says roughly "Cobalt Corporation always chasing you, seems familiar to the way projections work."
We accept the reality at first due to two things, we accept the reality we are presented with. "We don't ask how we got there, only when we do is the illusion broken".
Nolan is dreaming, we're living in his dream. Who we decide to side with is the basis of how real we find the level initially set for us. Was he "up there" or still below, did she go insane or saw the truth? Were both of them wrong and even further down as there is no bottom, just echoing layers of our minds?
I agree about the totem. If it is "real" watch the last time he spins it to be certain, and how he is never able to reclaim that certainty again. He stumbles with it so our anchor is lost. If it is "false" then it shows the totem is an illusion of the mind that is needed for grounding itself at a certain stage.
As the man in the chemist shop states "the dream has become their reality, who are you to say otherwise".
Then near the end Mal says roughly "Cobalt Corporation always chasing you, seems familiar to the way projections work."
We accept the reality at first due to two things, we accept the reality we are presented with. "We don't ask how we got there, only when we do is the illusion broken".
Nolan is dreaming, we're living in his dream. Who we decide to side with is the basis of how real we find the level initially set for us. Was he "up there" or still below, did she go insane or saw the truth? Were both of them wrong and even further down as there is no bottom, just echoing layers of our minds?
I agree about the totem. If it is "real" watch the last time he spins it to be certain, and how he is never able to reclaim that certainty again. He stumbles with it so our anchor is lost. If it is "false" then it shows the totem is an illusion of the mind that is needed for grounding itself at a certain stage.
As the man in the chemist shop states "the dream has become their reality, who are you to say otherwise".
AgentNein said:
CK76 said:
Very good points, whats very interesting to me is the wife though, if he is in a dream shes his last string to reality and he kills her that for me kind of signified that the layer of reality we interpret to be true is true.
I had thought about the children as well and it was strange that they were exactly the way he remembers them but do we know how long he was gone for? Or how much of that time he was in dreams.
But they could have also wanted us to think our own living reality is just a dream and that we'll just wake up to another reality when we die. Maybe the movie just wants to bring in the age old question of what reality is into question and it does so very brilliantly for the next generation anyway. XD
I had thought about the children as well and it was strange that they were exactly the way he remembers them but do we know how long he was gone for? Or how much of that time he was in dreams.
But they could have also wanted us to think our own living reality is just a dream and that we'll just wake up to another reality when we die. Maybe the movie just wants to bring in the age old question of what reality is into question and it does so very brilliantly for the next generation anyway. XD
Saw it. I dug the whole exponential time thing... kinda blew my mind. Actually, just about the whole movie blew my mind. And for those tearing their hair out over the ending two things:
1) He could never see his kids' faces when he was dreaming
2) You could see the top just barely flicker like it was just about to fall right when the screen went black...
so I've settled on not tearing my hair out on that shot. But yes, the ending was awesome, even if I kinda felt it coming.
2) You could see the top just barely flicker like it was just about to fall right when the screen went black...
so I've settled on not tearing my hair out on that shot. But yes, the ending was awesome, even if I kinda felt it coming.
Sadly_Awake said:
Simply can't do a movie where the line between reality and dream is ambiguous without keeping that line ambiguous, right? Throughout the movie I was honestly wondering if his wife was actually correct, and that they were still in some layer of dreaming that he wasn't aware of. I mean, what proof did he have exactly that his perspective was correct? I'm trying really hard not to geek out Descartes all over the place.
The best part to me is the idea of each person having a Talisman that can tell them if they are in someone's dreamstruction. It's funny because in dreams I've been made to believe plenty of weird ideas, and in a dream I could probably be convinced that I hold some magical object that can prove to me that I'm in the real world. So if the top fell or stayed spinning would it really have told us anything at all? Love Nolan for giving me a raging brainer with this movie.
The best part to me is the idea of each person having a Talisman that can tell them if they are in someone's dreamstruction. It's funny because in dreams I've been made to believe plenty of weird ideas, and in a dream I could probably be convinced that I hold some magical object that can prove to me that I'm in the real world. So if the top fell or stayed spinning would it really have told us anything at all? Love Nolan for giving me a raging brainer with this movie.
This movie delivered in spades! I can't fathom how you can possibly justify it only being the best "non-pizar" movie - if Toy Story 3 were candy, this would be steak. I thick, juicy steak that your brain can just sink it's teeth into and chew out all the sumptuous flavor. MMmmmm, mmmmm - tasty movie.
I have seen several dream-related movies in my life and have noticed they all miss one thing that is a constant reoccurrence in my dreams: looping.
By that I mean the same event happening over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Not once have I ever seen a movie about dreams deal with the sleeper's subconscious repeating an event. I think this is either because I'm the only person this happens to or ? more likely ? it would be incredibly difficult to put this aspect of a dream on film.
I'd love to see the first film that manages to pull it off, though.
I stopped at the "Spoiler Warning" and went to see the movie and was glad I did. The movie was very good, especially since it spent all the time explaining the rules in Act 1 and then just went about within the movie for the rest of it. The entire cast was great and the subtle makeup effects used were probably missed by most people (like Marion Cotillard's shoulder in one scene) There were also several very emotional scenes that broke my heart when I watched them happen.
Great movie and I really enjoyed watching the rest of Bob's review after watching the movie. Go see it.
By that I mean the same event happening over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Not once have I ever seen a movie about dreams deal with the sleeper's subconscious repeating an event. I think this is either because I'm the only person this happens to or ? more likely ? it would be incredibly difficult to put this aspect of a dream on film.
I'd love to see the first film that manages to pull it off, though.
I stopped at the "Spoiler Warning" and went to see the movie and was glad I did. The movie was very good, especially since it spent all the time explaining the rules in Act 1 and then just went about within the movie for the rest of it. The entire cast was great and the subtle makeup effects used were probably missed by most people (like Marion Cotillard's shoulder in one scene) There were also several very emotional scenes that broke my heart when I watched them happen.
Great movie and I really enjoyed watching the rest of Bob's review after watching the movie. Go see it.
