Inception, Opinions?

[Palademon]

I thought it was shit. Acting was good, special effects were good, everything else, blergh.

Characters? One dimensional. Story? Craptastic. Script? There was one line, ONE line I actually liked.

And if someone says "Huuur, you jsut didn't understand it", it was simple as hell. I can't believe people talked it up to be a mind-fuck.

Inception is the new Evangelion?
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! FILL IT WITH FIRE!

 

[Dark Prophet]

Oo it's a great movie, but anyone whos praising it for originality needs to see The 13th Floor, Dark City, eXistenZ and The Matrix and if you have then see them again. If you still think Inception is highly original go have your eyes cheked.

 

[EcHoFiiVe]

I watched Inception over the weekend, after hearing how amazing and must see it was, and to be perfectly honest, I wasn't that impressed. I didn't find the plot line all that deep. The special effects were really cool, but that isn't enough to keep me entertained. I might be missing something big, but I didn't think that the "depth" of the story, for lack of a better term, held up to the reviews. I feel like this supposed extreme depth was completely feigned and didn't actually exist. Basically what I got from it, was; Starts off in a dream, dying in dream wakes you up, pain in dream is actually felt. DiCaprio gets job from the person he just stole from, and neither of them appears to have any sort of problem with that. DiCaprio has a bunch of nondescript people after him, who he proceeds to run from, and beat the ever loving shit out of. He accepts job so he can go back to the states, asks (who appears to be his father for help) and his father gives him a grad student to potentially mentally destroy, and the grad student is initially reluctant to help, then 5 minutes later returns to help, with the reasoning being that "there's nothing quite like it". Basically from this point on, it's a cluster fuck of dreams within dreams, and at the end you see the top spinning, and the guy fails to check if it kept spinning, because he's ecstatic to finally see his children who are sitting in the same spot that they have been for the past few years, presumably cold, smelly, and very afraid, since they apparently have no guardians besides perhaps the wolves in the woods nearby, all the while, the top presumably keeps spinning, meaning DiCaprio is still in a dream yadda yadda yadda. Thats basically what I got from the movie. I feel like I'm either missing some huge point that makes this movie great, or everyone I've asked about it is easily impressed. Does anyone agree with me? Does anyone know what I'm missing thats keeping this movie from being great for me?

yes, you're missing the fact that you are an idiot.

I love me some quality replies. Especially when they have as much thought and reasoning as yours.

 

[Soushi]

It feels like the only reason the theme of this movie is dreaming not because of the quite clever subtext, but because it provides pretty scenery. The dream part is not particularly
engaging, because it's a "dream". So, when people are shooting at each other... yeah, they're not going to die.

So, to impose the false sense of danger, they come up with the Limbo rule. Which is a stupid rule.

I'm gonna have to disagree. I thought the dream setting was integral to one of the points the movie was trying to make. I'll admit when the the limbo rule was brought up it felt pretty tacked on, though I thought it worked alright in the end.

Of course I could be totally off with this analysis...Anyway, from what I gathered the dream setting is a metaphor for a work of fiction, or more specifically a movie. In the film Cobb tries to get Fischer through a series of fabricated events without him knowing it. A director tries to do the same to the audience; he tries to maintain the audiences' suspension of disbelief. When Fischer awakes from his dream he is changed even though what had happened was not real. Ideally, at the of a movie the same should happen to the audience.

A similar thing happens to Cobb as well. Near the end, Cobb no longer regrets that he couldn't grow old with Mal because he realizes he had already done so, even if was spent in limbo. He realizes its foolish to keeping holding on to Mal since the one in his mind was not the real thing. You could say his "suspension of disbelief" was broken since he knew too much about the true Mal and the substitute could never fill role.

So in the end what I got from the movie was that the dream setting was a metaphor for a work of fiction, inception is a director's goal (or perhaps just Nolan's), and a work of fiction can affect people in a very real way.

the top presumably keeps spinning, meaning DiCaprio is still in a dream yadda yadda yadda. Thats basically what I got from the movie. I feel like I'm either missing some huge point that makes this movie great, or everyone I've asked about it is easily impressed. Does anyone agree with me? Does anyone know what I'm missing thats keeping this movie from being great for me?

It's not certain if Cobb is still in a dream. The top slightly falters at the end before the movie cuts off to the credits; so I think it could go either way. I think people are too focused on the ending. Leaving them to think Inception is a movie about questioning reality, though it does have a little bit of that.

I loved Inception because you could just enjoy it as an action/adventure film, since it's pretty subtle and doesn't try to smack you with whatever theme/lesson it's trying to make. However afterward, if care to, you can let things sink in and ponder what the movie was about (kinda like the stuff i said above).

To be honest though,the thing i hated the most about the movie were the ones who think that just becasue they watched it and sorta understood it, that that makes them into "hidden meaning' super sleuths, like they are some elitist experts on movies jsut becasue they saw Inception.

Oh jeez, looking back at what I typed, I hope I don't come across like this. Heck, I'm usually the first to admit that I don't understand something. I'm not even sure what I said about the film make any sense. Nobody I know saw the movie so I didn't have anyone to discuss it with; it just built up and I had to let it out somewhere.

NO no no, you aren't like that. I am talking about the ones who think that jsut by virtue of seeing Inception, suddenly they are a crust above everybody else and some kind of cinematic genius who can sniff out a hidden meaning at a hundred kilometers.

 

[Busdriver580]

Well it's certainly overrated, the premise is solid but there's no real development of anything beyond Dicaprio's predictable wife relationship. It's just eye-candy and suspense, but I still liked it.

 

[Helmutye]

I was definitely a bit underwhelmed. I didn't even know what the movie was until we went to see it, so it definitely wasn't hype antibodies or anything, but I was a lot less jazzed than my friends coming out of the theater.

I think my biggest complaint was that it was all plot and no heart. Because the ideas were so complicated and counter-intuitive it took a lot of work on the movie's part to communicate what was going on. And because what was going on was so alien to normal human experience, there wasn't any real emotion or wisdom to it, no morals or insight that I could carry with me into real life after the movie ended. It was technically flawless--excellent visuals, excellent execution, and excellent explanation of the ideas (which is quite an accomplishment, in my opinion). But I feel like that movie had no soul.

The other problem was that it was so incredibly dense--dense in the sense that every single second was extremely important. You shouldn't buy a drink when you see this movie, because if you have to go to the bathroom in the middle there is a very good chance you will be lost for a long time after coming back. The movie never stopped to take a breath--now, I understand that that kind of relentlessness the intended effect, but I think I would have found it more engaging if I had had a second to think about what just happened for a second before concentrating on the next thing.

It was definitely worth seeing, but I probably won't think about it in a year or two.

 

[Chal]

I didn't think it was nearly as intellectual a film as it was made out to be, but I found it entertaining despite that. It was imaginative, thrilling, and it had a superb ending. Acting was good, effects were great, cinematography was nice- with a notable exception for the slow motion van drop recurring over and over again like the audience was going to forget.

Ultimately though, I preferred Toy Story 3 for my movie of the year for the reasons Helmutye brought up. It didn't really have much heart, and I thought the characters were just about interchangeable at times. Technically perfect, sure, but shallower than people try to portray it as.

 

[Amberella]

I absolutely loved this movie and it was the first movie Tom and I went to the theatre to watch together. :3 It'll always have a special place in my heart. ^.^

But I do have to say the acting was dead on and it was quite enjoyable. I was interested from beginning to end.

 

[JamesBr]

I enjoyed it, but then I went to see it with no expectations, good or bad. I thought it was an interesting film with an interesting premise. Some definite thought went into it. That being said, it wasn't OMG BEST MOVIE EVAR!!! It was a thoroughly enjoyable, mid-brow popcorn flick. I went in expecting fun visuals and a fun semi-cerebral plot. Nothing too deep, just lots of fun. And that's what I got. It doesn't rank in my favorite movies ever, but I didn't regret the time and money spent and that's good enough for me.

 

[Squidden]

The top definitely didn't keep spinning. If it starts to wobble, it won't just automatically correct itself and get back to steady.

So the solution is either that he was actually awake or a bit more complex theory: This was his wife's dream. He did say that the top was not always his totem, it was his wife's. Since he spun it, it may have fallen over simply because it wasn't his totem.

This is why I like it. The ending was really interesting, Leo DiCap is one of my favorite actors, and it obviously took alot of imagination to think of that story. The soundtrack was great, and IMO, the movie gets better the more you watch it.

 

[LogicNProportion]

It's not so much that the story is deep, as the idea in itself is the good bit.

Thinking about the movie just makes me happy.

 

[Geekosaurus]

It annoys me that films like Inception can be compared against all the other crap that comes out at the cinemas. They should have a special section of the cinema where they show all the good films.

 

[sb666]

ellein page ruined that movie for me

 

[rekabdarb]

Decent movies, filled with plot holes and confusing dialogue. I didn't complain about the small things (like i do with some most movies) and so thus i didn't not like it

 

[drbarno]

OP I'm guessing you probably suffered from hype backlash, I think there's a TvTropes page on it.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HypeBacklash

chances are that now, if you don't like it, you don't like it, there's really nothing I can do to convince you.