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Inception (*spoilers*)

I just got back from my second viewing. I wish I had paid attention for the wedding band when Cobb is in the bathroom. The thing is, I noticed it in the beginning of the movie (or the end) when he confronts Saito in Limbo. It's a plain silver band.

So I'm not sure if the theory holds up?
 
cleanup said:
I just got back from my second viewing. I wish I had paid attention for the wedding band when Cobb is in the bathroom. The thing is, I noticed it in the beginning of the movie (or the end) when he confronts Saito in Limbo. It's a plain silver band.

So I'm not sure if the theory holds up?
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I did try to watch for the ring in the bathroom but there's not a good shot of his left hand in it. We'll be waiting for DVD where we can pause and watch frame by frame to know that. hehe. Same for the end.

The ending seems confusing for me still tho. Cobb is already in limbo, and stays to get Saito cause he knows he must have died by then. Why does he wash up on shore again? And Saito says something to the effect of "Cobb? Impossible. We're already old men together." and Cobb says come back with me so we can be young men together. But shouldn't Saito have been in limbo alone? I mean, I understand the time differences to explain why Saito is so old by the time Cobb gets to him.. but it's not a time travel movie.. Cobb shouldn't have been able to be in two places at once?
 
I thought Inception was simply awful. I simple storyline padded out for 2.5hrs with SFX, car chases and guns.

If I hadn't been with someone I'd have walked out.
 
cujimmy said:
I thought Inception was simply awful. I simple storyline padded out for 2.5hrs with SFX, car chases and guns.

If I hadn't been with someone I'd have walked out.
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Ah, I see I'm not the only one. This movie was awful. The characters were pathetic. The plot and story were horrid. The only good thing was the dude from Third Rock From The Sun. I think he was great.
 
I saw it last night, thought it was awesome. Other than Leo and Ellen's mediocre acting, and the excess of music, it was perfect IMO. But the first 45 minutes of the movie had far too much music, it just ruined it. It felt like a really long preview/commercial, and it was hard to hear what people were saying. Still an amazing story and badass visuals though.
 
Just got back from seeing it. Yes pretty excessive in the music dept. Good premise although a repeat of the idea in Dreamscape a 1984 movie starring Dennis Quaid, when he was a young wipper snapper. I guess 20+ years is long enough not to gripe about a remake. ;) This story was much more polished. Intriguing. Felt a little muddled at first but I was able to commit. I'll have mull it over and watch it again when it goes to DVD before I'll really know if I liked it. :) One thing I don't like is spoiler>unresolved<spoiler endings. It keeps you guessing.

You really have to give a movie about dreams a lot of latitude. My dreams are never as clear as this movie makes out. If they really tried to represent a person's dream it would be such a disorganized mess. Although I have had dream episodes that were pretty well organized and exciting to, an adventure dream, but short lived.

For those who have seen it it really got my attention when spoiler> entering someone else's dream went from relatively safe, to extremely dangerous<spoiler. You gotta have a threat or who cares? :) I also really liked that his guilt spoiler> was masquerading around in his dreams as his wife <spoiler. I give it 7/10.

Lets do an informal poll: Who thinks he actually spoiler>made it back to Reality?<spoiler

1= Yes.
2= No.
3= Undecided

IMHO, the clues say spoiler>he did not make it, but with the uncertain way events finished, he might have, except they did not let you see if that damn top was gonna stop spinning or not.<spoiler :D

Try not to spoil. At this point I'm undecided. :D
 
Even if the spinning top did topple over, it wouldn't mean that he wasn't dreaming. Why? Because he told Ariadne his secret to knowing what was a dream and what wasn't. Cobb always said you should never tell someone that secret.
 
Kilamite said:
Even if the spinning top did topple over, it wouldn't mean that he wasn't dreaming. Why? Because he told Ariadne his secret to knowing what was a dream and what wasn't. Cobb always said you should never tell someone that secret.
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When you say secret do you mean the rule of the top (spins in dream falls in reality)? Because that is only if someone else touches it. Because right after Cobs and Ariadnes session Arthur explains his Di and Ariadne tries to grab it. And says something along the line of That would defeat the purpose.
 
cujimmy said:
I thought Inception was simply awful. I simple storyline padded out for 2.5hrs with SFX, car chases and guns.

If I hadn't been with someone I'd have walked out.
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ctt1wbw said:
Ah, I see I'm not the only one. This movie was awful. The characters were pathetic. The plot and story were horrid. The only good thing was the dude from Third Rock From The Sun. I think he was great.
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To put this in perspective, what films do you think are "good"?
 
I enjoyed it, but missed the first 10 minutes because the queue to buy tickets and get in was so huge! Also, the sound seemed terrible in the theater I was in. I could be becuase we were over to the far side, and not in the middle, but it definitely ruined the experience and made it hard to hear a lot of he dialogue. I'll certainly have to watch it again and pay more attention to understand it better I think.
 
To counter the "kids are the same age" argument, look at the credits -- they list separate sets of kid actors for different aged characters. One at age 3, the other at age 5.
 
Just saw it again tonight. It was even better the second time. I got a little emotional last time, but this time it really got to me at the end. I don't know why.

Love this movie.
 
leekohler said:
Just saw it again tonight. It was even better the second time. I got a little emotional last time, but this time it really got to me at the end. I don't know why.

Love this movie.
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Lee, I actually went again tonight. I wanted to see if I could absolutely validate any of the 8+ different theories of the movie. The only thing I could validate is that I still think he's in reality at the end of the movie. Did you find anything different?
 
wvuwhat said:
Lee, I actually went again tonight. I wanted to see if I could absolutely validate any of the 8+ different theories of the movie. The only thing I could validate is that I still think he's in reality at the end of the movie. Did you find anything different?
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Well, no. It still left me with the same impressions, although I did catch a lot of things I missed the first time. Honestly, I think he was in reality at the end too, but I was still questioning that like I did the first time.

Really though- it's just great to have a director like Nolan. Kubrick is dead, and Lynch probably won't be around much longer. I was beginning to think we would never find someone at their level again. I think we have in Nolan, although he has his own unique voice.
 
overrated

honestly, I got what I expected, nothing more. A fine action movie, with only few spectacular moments. It is just "Shutter Island-2", but more boring and pretentious
 
Just got back from watching it and felt like I was watching a remake of eXistenZ, but with more action..oh and Dark City (hint hint, check those films out if you loved this one!)

In any case, I love the action scenes (especially the fighting scene in the hotel) and the clever ending that didn't try to say one way or another.

However, I didn't like the incessant music (BEEEEEEEEE.....BEEEEEEEE.....BEEEEEEE was really cool at first but got old after a while), and I felt the pacing was a bit wobbly at times.

In any case, it was a good to great film; one I'd like to see again, but in my opinion it wasn't a masterpiece.
 
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