Inception

Whoah. Mindblowing. This movie is the most intense, nerve-racking movie I've ever seen. Simply stunning. Everyone should go see it. NOW!

I saw it a while ago. Very intensely weird, and astoundingly creative. Easily the best film I've seen all year.

I want to see it. My sister has this crush on Joseph Gordon-Lewitt.

This film was incredible. I love a movie that makes you think, and that's exactly what Inception does. The casting / acting was great, and Christopher Nolan did an amazing job with the screenplay and directing. It's a bit confusing the first time around, but it's still definitely worth seeing, in my opinion.

Needs... to... see! It's like this movie was made for me.

Amazing. I want to see it three more times at least, but unfortunately I don't have 10.50 to drop every session (yes, that's how much the CHEAPEST theater in my area is). I loved every bit of it. It's great to see an intelligent, complex movie WITH awesome visuals and action scenes. The combination is pretty much unheard of. You either get lots of sweet visuals and action with a retarded story (Transformers, 2012, etc.) or an amazing story with not so exhilarating visuals (Doubt, Invictus, etc.). I wish there more directors like Christopher Nolan.

That hotel/van fight scene was INSANE.

I liked the movie a lot. However, I found that, after watching it, my faith in about 70% of all reviewers faded, due to their insistence that it was hard to keep up with. I didn't find it that hard to keep up with. The story was good, the acting was good, the effects superb (although don't you wish they'd been more... surreal?), and so on and so forth. But it wasn't confusing for me.

It's superior to everything else we have at the moment so, that cinches the Oscars, dunnit?

And, Mares, add me to your sister's club. *whee!*

I loved Inception. And not just because I have a weird celeb-crush on Leonardo DiCaprio

The story was great, as was the visuals of it. Best movie I've seen all year. I also don't like how some people think it's hard to understand. I understood it perfectly well.

I loved this movie so much I paid to see it a second time. If I had more money and time, I'd pay to see it a third.

I enjoyed Inception a great deal, but when I think about it in-depth, it is lacking in a few respects. Overall, the dreams crafted were a bit too... mundane. I understand that some of the dreams needed to be mundane in order to convince the person whose mind was being invaded that this was actually real, but still. I don't think director Christopher Nolan tapped into how strange dreams truly are, and how much human desire and longing impacts our dreams. David Lynch's masterpiece Mulholland Drive tackles the theme of dreams (their bizarreness, their intense link with sexuality, the complete uncertainty if it is reality or fantasy) and does so far more successfully than Inception, even without ever specifying that what is being seen is a dream. However, anything compared to Mulholland Drive fails, and on its own Inception is pretty good. Certainly much better than most of the garbage stinking up the theaters this summer. The writing was strong, cast was solid, but the film was in no way an acting showcase. Marion Cotillard was the standout, the frayed, ragged beauty as an emblem of lost love and gnawing guilt. Not a particularly profound performance, but a compelling presence throughout the film. Cotillard's really been choosing excellent roles since she deservedly won the Oscar a couple years back.

I loved that movie! It was awesome.

Spoiler

What did you guys think about the ending though? Was he awake or dreaming?

That same question had been bugging me since I left the cinema. I went on imdb and there are loads of theories. I'll just paraphrase them;

Some people say he was dreaming because the ending seemed to flow like a dream. Everything seemed to fall into place, almost as though Cobb was playing everything out in his head; passing through immigration undisturbed, coming home, and finally reuniting with his children...etc.

Another reason why people feel that Cobb is still dreaming is because his children are still wearing the exact same clothes that they were wearing when he left them, as well as being in the same place when he left them.

Lastly, the totem. From what people are saying, they didn't see it drop meaning Cobb was still dreaming.

HOWEVER...

Other people say that Nolan tricked people into thinking that the totem was still spinning when in fact it drops at the end of the scene when it blacks out. My boyfriend went to see the movie again and he says that the second time he also noticed that the totem topples slightly and then when the scene fades completely you can actually hear it drop.

Anyway, I've probably confused you Here's the link if you want to read more on it http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/board/nest/168702823?d=168905304&p=1#168905304

In my opinion, Cobb wasn't dreaming. I don't think Christopher Nolan would have ended a movie like that - it would have been a complete waste of time and money.

Inception ROCKS!

*coco

Really? I think he was dreaming. It all just seemed too perfect. The only time we know for sure that Cobb was in the real world was in the beginning, when he spun the top in his hotel room and it dropped. After that, he was interrupted every time he tried to use it. He definitely fell asleep when he was testing the sedative with that Yusof guy. After that, he supposedly "woke up" and was splashing water in his face in the bathroom. But after that, he never got to use the top again until the very end. So there's no way to know if he ever woke up after testing the drug, or if the rest of the movie was just a dream.

And anyways, the totem should have never worked for him anyways. They said several times that if someone touches your totem, it won't work anymore. Well, the top was originally Mal's, so it shouldn't have worked for Cobb in the first place.

So here's what I think. Fisher wasn't the target of the inception - it was Cobb. They were trying to get him to realize that he was asleep. That's why Saito and everyone kept telling him to "take a blind leap of faith." His wife DID return to the real world when she killed herself, and Cobb was the one stuck in the dream. That's why she kept appearing. Mal wasn't a shadow from his imagination - she was coming into his dreams to try to get him to wake up. His "reality" was just another level of the dream, especially the part where he was being hunted by the company who hired them for the first, failed mission. They chase him, he jumps off of a second story balcony without hurting himself, and squeezes through a narrow wall to escape. Fantasy, much? Mal even said "getting chased by members of a faceless corporation... that's the stuff of dreams, isn't it?"

So Mal's doing the inception, and she hired everyone else to help her convince Cobb that it's a dream. And it does work - kind of. Cobb realizes that he might be in a dream, but he doesn't care anymore. That's why he walks away from the top at the end without waiting to see if it falls. He knows that this might not be reality - and it isn't - but he doesn't care because he just wants to have his kids and be happy. He knows and accepts that he's dreaming, but he chooses to make that his reality. Reality is relative, and the "real world" is whatever he want it to be.

At least, that's what I got out of it.