was inception really hard too understand?

[blackdwarf]

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

I agree, Inception isn't hard to understand, but what exactly is there not to understand about Memento?
It's pretty straight forward. I was 12 when I first saw the movie, and there wasn't a thing I missed or did not understand, and I'm far from the intellectual type.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

No, it wasn't. And i wish people would just stop saying it is. Eraserhead was hard to understand. The Holy Mountain was hard to understand. Naked Lunch was hard to understand. Inception was just open ended, quite obviously to build up for a sequel.

 

[William Fleming]

I'm pretty sure there are much, much, MUCH more complicated movies than Inception, hell it wasn't anymore complicated than any other movie I've watched... Unless I missed something?

 

[Xavisam]

yes, I had trouble understanding when a "kick" happened and what "limbo" was.
but that's it really.

 

[mighty_honour_korea]

The story is a convoluted and cliched mess. If you accept the premise then you'll be able to follow along fine and have fun, if you don't, every other plot point will throw you for a loop.

Stop bandying the word deep around like it means something, it's however you define it.

It doesn't matter how silly the plot was anyway, the movie was just dressing for that scene in the spinning corridor. I'd watch the movie again just to see that. Nolan's a pretty plain writer, but fuck he knows how to shoot a film.

 

[Adrian Neyland]

I was able to follow it alright.

The only real confusing thing Inception did was introduce and talk about ideas that it hadn't properly explained yet, but if you watch the film for a second time and you are already familiar with the concepts it is quite easy to follow.

Don't get me wrong, I think Inception was a fairly decent film, I just think it is more confusing in reputation than in reality.

 

[suitepee7]

I wont take offense, since your spelling is terrible and even though that says shit all about you it does make you come off as a little dull.

On topic, well, it was kinda straight forward stuff until the last half hour where I started struggling. Following like 4 levels of dream and 3 groups of characters at once isnt something you can do with ease.

well the few errors he made were more typos than actual spelling mistakes, not much of a problem.

and personally i followed it with ease. it was clever, but still pretty simple. you knew who was in what dream, and so long as you payed attention to the dream levels, you knew how time was progressing in that dream compared to the others.

 

[chikusho]

The problem with inception is that it keeps breaking it's own rules with no explanation as to why or how the world works.
Other than that it's pretty straight forward.

 

[Hugga_Bear]

It was simple, the 'difficulty' was nothing more than a bullshit marketing ploy, everyone leaves the movie thinking how awesome they are because they managed to keep track with the film, this included more than a few critics. It was not difficult to follow. It was an incredibly simple thing.

Someone I know was all awe inspired when she worked out recently that the song playing is slowed down at lower levels. I always thought that was completely freaking obvious, apparently not.

Anyway, no. It was well done and quite clever at times (the song thing was obvious but still reasonably smart) but as long as you pay attention it's not difficult to follow at all.

 

[Stilkon]

I didn't see what the big deal was with the ending. He woke up.

 

[ruben6f]

not hard to understand, but once I say I didn't like the movie, someone always assumes that I am stupid and can't use my brain, inception fanboys talk like they achieved something by watching the movie

 

[Luke Cartner]

not by normal standards of intelligence

 

[thick doona]

I think the Escapist attracts a higher calibre of thinking. The general public might have been confused though

 

[Liudeius]

No,

I don't want to say anymore because it is undeserving, that movies was excessively easy to understand. They had very clear separations for each level of consciousness.
The only thing that at all has potential for being hard to understand is

Spoiler

What actually happened in the end. That is only questionable because they choose to make it questionable by trapping the one guy in the dream world so you can't know what happened to everyone else.
Although I also have heard that the top stops spinning at the end of the credits, but I didn't watch that far.

Otherwise, the film is very clear cut.
And I wasn't even paying close attention, I was playing some video game while watching it.

 

[monkey_man]

nah nor really. I got it almost instantly, I mean, they all got out safely from the dream within the dream within the dream within the dream in the end. (is that enough? i'm not sure)And isn't that all that matters? Mission accomplished?

 

[khoax123]

The only thing that confused me was when they went to the limbo world why didn't they change the world as much as possible to their advantage. Seriously there was only 1 person to retaliate so changing the world isn't going make much difference.

 

[The Last Nomad]

When I saw it the first time in the cinema, I was high as a muthafucka (On a then legal drug called king BBB, which really messed with your head). It was probably the single most confusing movie I had ever seen. Although I think the confusion only really came up in the end, during the bit in the snow, I began to forget what was actually going on. And then the very last scene confused me because I wasn't sure if I was supposed to be confused or not. I was really fuckin high you see. But then I saw it again, slightly more sober, and it made perfect sense. Maybe it was because I wasn't as stoned, or because I had already seen it, but I didn't think it was all that confusing, I thought it was just really clever.

 

[APSunder]

The first time I saw it I understood everything except whether or not he was in a dream or not. I had to watch the movie 4 more times to figure out when he was in a dream and when he wasn't in a dream because of the detail that says it (which I won't give away). But that said, I understand if people didn't get it, like, didn't know what part of the dream they were in when or something like that, because I do think it's a little confusing, even though there are clear indicators that show what level of dream the characters are in, or even what country they're in in the real world.

...Also, try watching Primer, that thing is confusing as hell. I think XKCD explained it best: http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=47683

 

[Roserari]

All you needed to do was pay attention and you'd be doing A-ok in the understanding part. Not like it was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or something. Understood it on my first viewing and hasn't confused me since.

 

[skywalkerlion]

Ehh, I thought it was a little confusing. But normally with every movie I watch I read the wikipedia summary or IMDB to make sure I understood everything. I guess I don't focus enough on the movie. It was still comprehendable enough to understand for the most part. Some parts though confused me.