Thread: Inception - Do you like it? - Post your Review

Just saw it. I didn't like it, not my kind of movie. But it wasn't terrible either.

i know inception is the bestest movie ever. way better than avatar.

Originally Posted by maddogg316

i know inception is the bestest movie ever. way better than avatar.

With Avatar, I didn't mind the poor storytelling because personally, I was so engrossed in the visuals (being an artistic person). Inception was more of both - the visuals and the storytelling. Both were good in my book.

I couldn't forgive Avatar's blatant rip-offs of Ferngully, Pocahontas, Dances with Wolves, and most offensively, Call Me Joe, for the sake of visuals. Other than the length being attriociously long, the acting was also terrible and boring. Inception managed to keep a solid pace, actually has great acting, and while it may have ripped off a Scrooge cartoon, it was less a near direct scene for scene remake/rip off of the plot, and more of a similar stories because of similar subject matter.

Hopefully, the Oscars favor Inception because it deserves it.

Originally Posted by TheKing

I couldn't forgive Avatar's blatant rip-offs of Ferngully, Pocahontas, Dances with Wolves, and most offensively, Call Me Joe, for the sake of visuals. Other than the length being attriociously long, the acting was also terrible and boring. Inception managed to keep a solid pace, actually has great acting, and while it may have ripped off a Scrooge cartoon, it was less a near direct scene for scene remake/rip off of the plot, and more of a similar stories because of similar subject matter.

Hopefully, the Oscars favor Inception because it deserves it.

There hasn't been much Oscar talk for Inception, as I've heard, which is unfortunate. I'm hoping it'll pick up though.

I most likely wouldn't be on this site if it wasn't for watching that movie. I have been more and more intrested in my own dreams, then that movie came along. Saw it for the first time on DVD release date, and was blown away. It was way too much to take in the first time tho, but I watched it 2 more times and still so amazed. If you go to watch it, watch it twice, and try to have no distractions durring.

Also been wanting a blueray player for some time, but this movie gave me a reason to go pick one up.

Originally Posted by theMagician

I most likely wouldn't be on this site if it wasn't for watching that movie. I have been more and more intrested in my own dreams, then that movie came along. Saw it for the first time on DVD release date, and was blown away. It was way too much to take in the first time tho, but I watched it 2 more times and still so amazed. If you go to watch it, watch it twice, and try to have no distractions durring.

Also been wanting a blueray player for some time, but this movie gave me a reason to go pick one up.

The sound's really good on the blu-ray, I picked up my steelbook copy yesterday and watched it again. As for the picture quality, it's not quite up there with some of my other blus, but it was still pretty good. The film was as good as the first time I watched it.
A lot of people got into lucid dreaming when the movie was released, even though "lucid dreaming" wasn't necessarily said in the film.

I thought this was prety funny. Spoiler alert though!

I liked it and I thought it was really good but I think they could have done more with the visual effects because when you are in a dream you can what ever you want and it seemed in the movie they were trying to keep it as realistic as possible but I never saw anyone go up and fly around (unless you count the part where there was gravity shifts.) or make a huge explosion with there hands to kill someone instead of using some guns.

Well thats just my opinion and I liked the movie I just think they could have done a lot more with it.

You know what why didn't they fly when gravity was shifting? That would have made it a lot easier. I am waiting for Christmas to get the movie before I watch it again and its killing me.

Okay I saw it for the second time, and there are still so many holes in the shared-dreaming-laws that it drives me insane!

I still don't understand why saito didn't just heal himself. Don't tell me because then the projections would become suspicious, when what's his face had no problem transforming (ahem DREAM SKILL) without projections becoming suspicious!

All he had to do was go to a quiet little corner, away from any projection and magically make that silly wound disappear

I DON'T GET IT

And how exactly did they get ficher into a dream within a dream? Okay I know that the drugs within the dream magically work. I'm okay with that, because it can be a placebo effect. The dreamers brain knows they are getting a dreaming drug, and fall asleep, within the dream, thus entering a dream within a dream.

I get that!

But, ficher didn't know that he was being given a drug. There was a bag over his head! The drug's placebo effect shouldn't have worked on him. So why did the drug work? When it isn't real?

Originally Posted by juroara

But, ficher didn't know that he was being given a drug. There was a bag over his head! The drug's placebo effect shouldn't have worked on him. So why did the drug work? When it isn't real?

Wow I never thought of that. You have to not be so hard on it. Most of the people who watch it have no idea that they would naturaly be able to fly and the science of real dreams. They did what they had to do to make the movie intertaining and have a good plot and they did a great job at it.

Originally Posted by juroara

Okay I saw it for the second time, and there are still so many holes in the shared-dreaming-laws that it drives me insane!

I still don't understand why saito didn't just heal himself. Don't tell me because then the projections would become suspicious, when what's his face had no problem transforming (ahem DREAM SKILL) without projections becoming suspicious!

All he had to do was go to a quiet little corner, away from any projection and magically make that silly wound disappear

I DON'T GET IT

And how exactly did they get ficher into a dream within a dream? Okay I know that the drugs within the dream magically work. I'm okay with that, because it can be a placebo effect. The dreamers brain knows they are getting a dreaming drug, and fall asleep, within the dream, thus entering a dream within a dream.

I get that!

But, ficher didn't know that he was being given a drug. There was a bag over his head! The drug's placebo effect shouldn't have worked on him. So why did the drug work? When it isn't real?

Saito couldn't heal because no one has been able to heal in the entire movie. This is not a movie that uses existing notions of lucid dreaming, shared dreaming, or anything like that. It establishes its own rules and laws. When killed or jolted, you wake up, and only the architect has world bending powers. The forger powers are never delved into, so it's not clear what he does to actually have it, but it is unique to him.

As for the drugs, that was one thing I wasn't clear with since they use drugs to bring someone into the dream (real world), but I chalk it up to the fact that the machine isn't very clearly explained.

Like TheKing said, Eames' specialty was that he was a forger. Don't forget that there are many lucid dreamers (even here) who don't have much experience with control. I agree that I would have like to see a little bit more 'bending' done by the characters, but I do like that they included a character who was much better at it than the others.

I would have to guess that the movie stuck by such strict laws because there would be little-to-no suspense, if it didn't. It is the same reason many people don't like Superman; because he is just so powerful that no human adversary could ever pose a threat to him (without Kryptonite). If the movie would have been made with the underlying idea that none of the characters were ever really in any danger, the movie would have not been very effective.

I did notice the thing about the sedative "drip" though. I've been trying to figure that one out, but I don't know how that would have worked, either. However, I could surmise that, since it was Yusuf's dream, and he is the sedative man, he could have been the one to dictate the rules of the sedative. If this is the case, then I would imagine that it wouldn't matter if Fischer was aware of the drip or not. The sedative would follow the dreamer's rules, and put him to sleep anyway. It's a stretch, but I would buy it, if it were explained that way.

Also it might be worth poitning out that it would be a lot harder to heal yourself from a gun wound while still feeling the vivid and intinse pain from it when compared with summoning a gun when you only have to imagine the feel of the handle and the weight of the gun.

There is also the factor that, in order to dream share, they are under a powerful sedative. I would say that their having accelerated brain functioning makes the dreams just that much more vivid, and realistic. And I know that, when I'm lucid, if my dream is too vivid, it seems all that much more like waking life (even when I know that it isn't), and it makes control really hard. It is like trying to control a B-6 enhanced dream. If this is the case, it makes all that much more sense that only one person on their team (the "outside of the box-thinking" Forger) is good enough at bending himself to a situation to be the only one capable of crazy control, like that.

Was it all a dream? [like no country for old men]
I can't vote until I know.

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Originally Posted by greenhavoc

Was it all a dream? [like no country for old men]
I can't vote until I know.

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Thanks. I hadn't yet gotten around to finishing No Country for old Men. I appreciate that.
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sorry

But to answer your question: No. The whole movie (Inception) is not a dream.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

But to answer your question: No. The whole movie (Inception) is not a dream.

Did [her] totem fall in the end?

Originally Posted by greenhavoc

Did [her] totem fall in the end?

Yes. We just don't get to see it - though we're given just enough time to see it wobble. The reason why is because, from a narrative standpoint, it doesn't matter. For the first time, in over half a century (counting all of the time he spent dreaming), Cobb didn't care whether or not he was dreaming. Nolan has been very clear that he's thrown things into the movie to screw with your head, but that the story (if paid attention to, as it's told) is actually very straight forward. We are always informed when he is dreaming, and we are always informed when he's awake - however subtly. There have just been extra mind-games thrown in there, to lead the audience on this wild, speculative goose chase, trying to find a truth that's actually right there, in front of us.

Here's an interesting new interview, that I don't think I've seen posted around the forums yet. I love how he plays so coy about the whole thing.

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Really?
Reads like tippy toe after thoughts to me. Thanks for the link.

Originally Posted by greenhavoc

Reads like tippy toe after thoughts to me.

Meaning?

And you're welcome.