A Marvel Fanboy Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olive Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJohn Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 One of the best sci-fi movies of all-time, IMO.Memorable.10/10 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blankments Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 I always have mixed opinions on Inception, but I hadn't watched in a while. So I decided to rewatch on the way back on a long car trip. All my negativity toward it was still valid, but only partially. The first half remains full of terrible exposition that is a bore to watch the second time, although the cast pulls it together, with the exception of Ellen Page, who just comes off as annoying. However, as soon the "heist" begins, the film becomes exciting, emotional, and overall great. If I could, I'd say the first half of the movie is Nolan's worst movie, but the second half of the movie is the best Nolan's ever been. When I finished the movie, the next day I rewatched the second half of it, because it's just that good.First half: B-Second half: A++Overall: A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yads Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Watching this at the cinema I loved it and assumed it would have fantastic repeatability. So when the DVD came out I watched it right away expecting to love it, and was mostly just bored by it. Soon after I moved house and lost the DVD somehow.... and didn't particularly care. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goffe Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 One of the best sci-fi movies of all-time, IMO.Memorable.10/10this 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 On my first viewing I thought this movie was alright, but nothing special. Then like a year later on HBO, I couldn't make it an hour into it. This movie completely relies on its initial viewing to keep the audience interested and once thats gone, theres nothing left except Christopher Nolan's trademark cold characters. I'm not quite sure what the point of this film was. If it was meant to be a thought provoking or a piece of abstract art, it was a laughable attempt. It also amuses me when suckers talk about the ending of this film as if it is ambiguous at all. I would've prefered a Christopher Nolan cameo slapping Cobb across the face and saying "wake up bitch, you're late for work!" followed by "Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan"Don't care to ever see this again.5/10. 5 for visuals. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vc2002 Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 On my first viewing I thought this movie was alright, but nothing special. Then like a year later on HBO, I couldn't make it an hour into it. This movie completely relies on its initial viewing to keep the audience interested and once thats gone, theres nothing left except Christopher Nolan's trademark cold characters. I'm not quite sure what the point of this film was. If it was meant to be a thought provoking or a piece of abstract art, it was a laughable attempt. It also amuses me when suckers talk about the ending of this film as if it is ambiguous at all. I would've prefered a Christopher Nolan cameo slapping Cobb across the face and saying "wake up bitch, you're late for work!" followed by "Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan"Don't care to ever see this again.5/10. 5 for visuals.Wait, you think the whole was just a dream? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Marvel Fanboy Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Many people think so too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopher Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Both theories completely work. That's Nolan's master stroke in this. But that's not the point. Cobb stops looking at the top when he sees his kids. He's home, whether it's in limbo or in reality. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vc2002 Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 (edited) Both theories completely work. That's Nolan's master stroke in this. But that's not the point. Cobb stops looking at the top when he sees his kids. He's home, whether it's in limbo or in reality.The dream theory would make the film a completely meaningless crap. It's the same as the stupid theory that Zion in Matrix was also virtual and just another Matrix to make them believe they were freed.I think some people just over-examined certain films that they probably forgot if the theory they came up with made the film meaningless. Edited August 28, 2012 by vc2002 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommycruise Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 The dream theory would make the film a completely meaningless crap. It's the same as the stupid theory that Zion in Matrix was also virtual and just another Matrix to make them believe they were freed. I think some people just over-examined certain films that they probably forgot if the theory they came up with made the film meaningless. I had never even heard of that until now 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopher Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 I'm talking about the ending existing as a dream, which it could, as the film offers no evidence to disprove either theory and doesn't really change the end result of the movie. This isn't a case where audiences think a movie is saying what they want the movie to say, like that whole ''was Alfred dreaming?'' query about TDKR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 I had never even heard of that until nowSame.Both theories completely work. That's Nolan's master stroke in this. But that's not the point. Cobb stops looking at the top when he sees his kids. He's home, whether it's in limbo or in reality.There is no master stroke there. Cobb not looking at the totem after a few seconds and walking away means nothing because its irrelavent. The Camera fouses on the totem, and it never stops spinning. Thats what matters. There is nothing ambiguous here at all and I'm a huge fan of ambiguity, 2001: ASO and Prometheus are some of my favorite scifi films. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamingFreak Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Prometheus and 2001 should never be mentioned in the same sentence. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Prometheus and 2001 should never be mentioned in the same sentence.I'm not comparing them, I'm talking about ambiguity in regards to Inception. Lets not derail now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfirebird2008 Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Same. There is no master stroke there. Cobb not looking at the totem after a few seconds and walking away means nothing because its irrelavent. The Camera fouses on the totem, and it never stops spinning. Thats what matters. There is nothing ambiguous here at all and I'm a huge fan of ambiguity, 2001: ASO and Prometheus are some of my favorite scifi films. Wrong. The totem wobbles at the end and the screen cuts to black right as it's wobbling. Millions of people interpreted it the exact opposite of how you interpreted it, so clearly there is some ambiguity in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozymandias Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Wrong. The totem wobbles at the end and the screen cuts to black right as it's wobbling. Millions of people interpreted it the exact opposite of how you interpreted it, so clearly there is some ambiguity in it.I just looked up the scene on youtube, thats just grasping at straws. If the scene was meant to be ambiguous, they would've done more than cutting the screen to black. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfirebird2008 Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 I just looked up the scene on youtube, thats just grasping at straws. If the scene was meant to be ambiguous, they would've done more than cutting the screen to black.Grasping at straws? Millions upon millions of people interpreted it the same way I did. Apparently we're all grasping at straws. I don't think so. My view on it is like Gopher's. The point of that scene is that Cobb no longer cares whether it's real or a dream. He is finally at peace with himself. I actually took the jump cut at the end as a joke by Nolan. Earlier in the film, the totem never wobbles during the dream scenes. At the end it does wobble and I'm 99% sure it falls over. The jump cut right before it falls over made me laugh because I viewed it as Nolan's way of winking at the audience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vc2002 Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 (edited) There is no master stroke there. Cobb not looking at the totem after a few seconds and walking away means nothing because its irrelavent. The Camera fouses on the totem, and it never stops spinning. Thats what matters. There is nothing ambiguous here at all and I'm a huge fan of ambiguity, 2001: ASO and Prometheus are some of my favorite scifi films. That was a just tricky move by Nolan actually. It never stops but it's clearly about to stop at the very end. You can even hear the start of the falling. The ending could've been just Cobb running to his kids without testing with a totem (because he doesnt need to), but given the fact the Nolan is a director addicted to twists, he had Cobb doing that but without giving the shot of the totem falling. His intention obviously was to make the audience have a second-thought, but I do believe what Nolan want is JUST a 2nd-thought, not the audience thinking otherwise. Unlike Mulholland Dr when we realized the whole was just a dream we gets deeper in the plot(actually not the whole was a dream), believing Cobb was dreaming and the actually second half (or the whole film some might say) was just a dream is a disregard to what actually makes sense (the whole structure and rules of this dream world) in the film, which would make the whole film meaningless. As I said, it's exactly what happens when people over-examine films (which is very typical in the post-internet era). Pretty much the same as the "Zion is also virtual" theory. A twist isn't necessarily good. It's good only when it's needed. But I guess finding twists is becoming a habit for many film geeks, which is one of the reasons Nolan became insanely popular on the internet. Edited August 28, 2012 by vc2002 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...