was inception really hard too understand?

[WanderingFool]

I understood it quite well... atleast I hope I did, be kind of embarissing if I have the whole thing backwards...

Anyways, The concept of what Inception is made perfect sense, the actual plot was easy to fallow.

 

[standokan]

I had no problem with it at all like most people here. There is one thing that was odd though, Cobb's totem, his totem only keeps spinning in his own dreams or in limbo, making it completely useless to tell wether you're in reality or someone elses dream is it does stop spinning.

 

[SpaceBat]

I wasn't confused by it, but I'm an intelligent super being (I joke of course)
One thing that I didn't get was the end scene

Spoiler: End scene bit

I didn't get the spinning totem did it mean he was dreaming or not?

The totem falling or spinning doesn't really give you an answer. The point of the totems is to let you know whether you're in somebody else's dream. If Cobb is stuck within his own dream, the dimension we viewers believe to be reality might be his dream and if the totem fell, it could still mean he's stuck within his own dream. So others might be right, there might be no way to escape limbo once stuck there, which is where Cobb might be residing in the end of the movie.

The important thing is that it's irrelevant. The scene is simply supposed to plant the idea in us that it might be a dream, but Cobb doesn't care, since all he cares for is that he's with his kids again.

 

[Fledge]

It was not complex at all.

 

[Jegsimmons]

it's not complicated, but it's tightly written. as long as you pay attention you should be fine.


it's funny because earlier today i was debating with a friend over which was harder to follow, he said inception, i said the matrix.
when i was asked why i said: 'because inception doesn't have plot holes and knows what it's talking about.'

 

[katsumoto03]

You know what I love about these threads? The intellectual masturbation that comes with them. Not going to accuse anyone of it here, but that's what I find most "Is Inception really complicated???" threads end up being.

 

[Stall]

No it wasn't. Nolan specializes in making good mainstream Hollywood movies with the slightest semblance of depth so that edgy teenagers and people who think they are smart and "get film" can brag about how "DEEP IT WAS MAN" and "HOW I TOTALLY GOT IT MAN" to their friends, family, and various strangers on the internet.

 

[Crazycat690]

Not complex as in clever, complex as in retarded, I loved the movie but at times it seemed just kind of too dumb, it's more the complex "can't see the forest for all the trees" type.

I'm just wondering if he was dreaming in the end or not, there's a difference between complex and not explaining.

 

[BanthaFodder]

it wasn't that I didn't "get it", I just didn't care. it wasn't "deep", ir was over-complicated for the sake of looking clever.
I thought it was a pretty mediocre film overall. I didn't care about the characters, the action, score, and special effects were pretty good, but it wasn't this big clever clusterbomb of amazing that everyone says it was.
This is just me, but it looked like everyone who said that Inception was "SOOOO DEEP" and that anyone who didn't like it just "didn't understand it" was just trying in vain to make themselves look smart. like how people will praise a crappy painting as "wonderful art" and anyone who calls them out on it is "uncultured".

bottom line, Inception was pretty simple, but it kept trying to make itself look complicated to get points from people who want to look smart. this is just my opinion, if you liked it, fine, but please don't tell me that it went over my head because I don't think Inception is an amazing movie. as a movie, it's just kinda "meh". Toy Story 3 was far better, as far as entertainment vlue, overall themes, and emotional investment in the story and characterss goes.

 

[Chibz]

1. If the "spinny thing" fell then each character was indeed a separate person.
2. If it kept spinning, all the characters in the movie were just projections of the protagonist (DiCaprio and they were just different aspects of his subconsciousness, representations of different parts of his personality.

Here's something to realize. He did something rather stupid partway through the movie: He explained how the mini-top worked to someone. The architect. So it's very real that it IS a dream, even if it functions normally as if he wasn't in one.

 

[sabercrusader]

I liked the movie a lot, and I had a little bit of trouble understanding it the first time, but after the second viewing, I understood it all but the 4 different dreams happening at once.Still have a little trouble with that.

 

[Odbarc]

I understood Inception just fine. I just think it was a BAD movie.

 

[Orange643]

It was an easy film to understand if you're actually paying attention. Still, if you're one of those people who were actually excited to watch Fast Five and Dark Of The Moon (Like those people Moviebob is always railing against) Then you might find it hard to understand.

 

[JochemDude]

Inception was 'trying' to mindfuck and if you don't pay attention you might get mindfucked. For some real mind dicking watch Momento.

 

[Krion_Vark]

It was not complicated. Go watch Memento and try and figure that out.

I love that movie. Just had my dad watch it and he was pissed over it lol.

 

[Tanakh]

Understanding the story wasn't really the problem though. The main plot itself does indeed become clear at the end, but it's the ridiculous amount of interpretations one can come up with for nearly every single scene or item that makes it difficult.

You don't have to like it and I'd completely understand why. I enjoyed the movie, but it's not one of my favorites either. And no problem, rant away .

Haven't heard of Un Chien Andalou, so I can't say much about that. Might look into it.

Ohh... if you are into interpretations you will LOVE Un Chien Andalou, and if you are seriously into films you will need to see it at some point anyway, its one of the all time classics art films.

I like stories dense in new concepts and ideas even if they are clear as day like Blade Runner, The Fight Club, Ghost in the Shell or Reservoir Dogs, or amazing character construction like City Lights, Wall-e, the Godfather. Don't care about that interpretations stuff so Lynch or stuff like Zhang Yang's doesnt touch me deeply.

 

[VicunaBlue]

Here's a message to the ever-modest (lol) population of the escapist:

NO ONE THOUGHT INCEPTION WAS CONFUSING. People were annoyed at it because it was trying really, really hard to SEEM confusing, which many people took as an insult.

I'm expecting someone to quote me and post some passive-aggressive anecdotal claim like "Well everyone That I know who saw the movie thought it was confusing..."

Come at me, bruh

 

[Casual Shinji]

The movie was about as deep as a fishbowl.

Which is deeper than most movies, I guess, but once you've seen it there's not much else to it.

My real problem with the movie was that the characters were emotionless hucks of clay. But that's the same with every Chris Nolan movie.

 

[SpaceBat]

Ohh... if you are into interpretations you will LOVE Un Chien Andalou, and if you are seriously into films you will need to see it at some point anyway, its one of the all time classics art films.

I like stories dense in new concepts and ideas even if they are clear as day like Blade Runner, The Fight Club, Ghost in the Shell or Reservoir Dogs, or amazing character construction like City Lights, Wall-e, the Godfather.

Don't care about that interpretations stuff so Lynch or stuff like Zhang Yang's doesnt touch me deeply.

I absolutely love watching movies and have already seen quite a few. Strange that I've never heard of it before, though. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll probably look into it sooner or later. I've seen all of the movies you mention in the latter part of your post and agree with you.

And yeah, Lynch movies aren't necessarily enjoyable for everyone. Do try and avoid most Lynch fans, though. A lot of these people believe that if you didn't enjoy his movies, you just don't understand it because you're stupid.

 

[KeyMaster45]

so the movie is actually a pretty straight forward film, but hollywood thought it would be to diffulcult? shows how much hollywood knows.

Actually what it shows is that Hollywood knows how to market a high concept film; Oceans 11 but in dreams. That's literally the gist of it and had they marketed it based on that it probably wouldn't have gotten as much attention. If you however issue a challenge to the public by say making the claim that they probably won't understand it then you're going to get viewers who go to watch it just to prove you wrong. They basically marketed the movie by telling the public they were too stupid to understand it and movie critics helped them along by reinforcing that.

There are of course those who probably won't understand it and further solidify the claim made by the marketing team by shouting to the world as an angry minority that the movie sucks because it's too hard to understand. Thus making the issued challenge of "we dare you to understand our movie" given by a minimum of three sources.

It's a brilliant marketing strategy and as we can see it worked like a charm to get people into the theaters and now facilitates the sale of DVD's to anyone who hasn't seen it yet.