See what they did there?
A great collection of graphics about Inception. (Some NSFW) Funny ones at the top, serious ones at the bottom (including some infographics about the plot.)
I’m glad that the ending is ambiguous. The top did wriggle a little at the end, but it didn’t fall over. And it was fun listening to everyone grunt at the end and talk about it, and hearing everybody take something completely different from the film.
As for me, I think the film ultimately is asking the audience what makes up reality? Perception drives everything in reality and dreams have a tendency to distort perception. Dom’s reality is that he cannot see his kids for whatever reason. His driving goal, whether real or not, is to see his kids’ faces. For me, the final shot is a MacGuffin because it is the scene just before that which is very important. Dom has accepted a reality. Does it really matter if “a reality” is not “THE reality”?
Or is there a “THE reality?” I appreciate a film that can have me thinking about it for so long.
Incidently, I was going to post some of the Inception mash-ups, but there’s just too gorram many of them.
Saw it. Loved it. Great film. As always, this is a thread about a movie. I will assume you have seen the movie, but still avoid major spoilers. If you haven’t seen the movie, stop reading.
One stupid frakkin’ nitpick I can’t get over:
Level 1 Dream: Van goes over the edge, gravity ensues
Level 2 Dream: Gravity from level 1 effects level 2
Level 3 Dream: Gravity from level 1 has not impact on level 3.
I know it is small and stupid, but shouldn’t something like that be consistent throughout?
That is my one small thing that as I sat in the theatre I kept thinking, “Wait a sec…” Other than that, awesome!
Does anyone have any thots on this?
They did make a point that going deeper removes you further from ‘reality.’ Time dilates more, things are more unpredictable, architecture is harder to maintain, etc. Seemed consistent enough to me that I didn’t even think about that. (Why the first kick didn’t work, however…)
Also in Dream 2 the only person there was Arthur. It was his dream so the falling feeling from dream one was effecting him. Everyone else was in another dream.
As I was talking this through with the wife I realize they addressed this with the environment. If the Brit was the ‘dreamer’ of Level 3 then in Level 2 he was weightless and therefore wasn’t feeling the impact of the van hitting the curves. His body was suspended in air as the van went over the edge and the only reverberation was the avalanche when the van first went over.
They thought this crap out. Well done.
just a brilliant frakkin movie all around
I’m gonna get to see it in 2 hrs.
And so far I’ve managed to stay away from any spoilers.
He did spend ten years working on it, so I would hope so!
Who all’s seen it twice or more? What’d you notice on subsequent viewings?
Speaking of The Matrixian nature of the movie, maybe…
[spoiler]there is no top.[/spoiler]
that just baked my noodle… 
Agree wholeheartedly with you. I was very happy that the cinema in was nearly completely crowded, especially since I went to see the OV (original version).
During the movie I didn’t think back to the Matrix, probably cause I haven’t seen that in a while. It reminded me more of what happened to Desmond in LOST during the 3rd and 4th season. What is reality and how we perceive time when we are in another state of conscious.
Interesting theory, but since my crowd applauded right when the movie ended, I couldn’t hear that sound.
[spoiler]When I saw it, I was expecting Michael Cain to pick up the token to reveal that he created this dream for Cobb to find peace with his children.
I was wondering exactly what the point of the scene with the old Japanese guy at the beginning and end meant, but after reading about it, it seems like Cobb found old Saito in the limbo state. Why Saito appeared fully healthy back on the plane, somebody else has to explain that to me.[/spoiler]
Exactly what you say dude! The ambiguity makes it much more fun to discuss it with friends since everyone can make up his/her own mind. Just like with LOST.
Ha, now I remember where I knew the actress who played Mal from!! Has anyone of you seen the French Taxi movies??
It reminded me of The 13th Floor (which had the bad luck to come out about the time of The Matrix.)
Interesting theory, but since my crowd applauded right when the movie ended, I couldn’t hear that sound.
I didn’t hear it either, and our crowd was pretty subdued.
[spoiler]Why Saito appeared fully healthy back on the plane, somebody else has to explain that to me.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]He hadn’t been there long enough for the whole mental-meltdown thing to happen (although it looks like barely.)[/spoiler]
Ha, now I remember where I knew the actress who played Mal from!! Has anyone of you seen the French Taxi movies??
She also played Marlene Dietrich. Nolan almost pulled that music once they cast her, but the composer convinced him to keep it.
She played Edith Piaf, not Marlene Dietrich, and stole the Oscar from Ellen Page that year. And I’m pretty sure that either she got the part due to La Vie en Rose or Nolan input the references after casting her. Either way, it works.
But have any of you had the privilege to see Inception in D-Box? For those of you who are not aware of what D-Box is, it uses motion code in the seats so that the seat moves along with the action. And we’re not talking about a little rumble. We’re talking about a true sense of weightlessness in the elevator scene. And I don’t have to tell you how awesome the train sequence is.
I know only a handful of theaters have D-Box (which is twice the price of a prime-time ticket), but if you are in Houston, check it out at the Santikos Silverado on the Northwest side. This should be the heir successor to 3-D, and vastly superior to IMAX. I’m going back there for Tron Legacy.
Argh. Brain fail. Yeah, I meant Piaf. Otherwise my comment about the music makes no sense.
It’s all good. But I wouldn’t be much of a Moviedude if I couldn’t field such an easy one.
The zero-G hotel sequence, it was soooooo easy to figure out how they did it: They used magic.
This sounds awesome! i checked map, and unfortunately there aren’t any near me. i was wondering, how exactly can you create a feeling of weightlessness in a chair? i’ve been on a “skyride” before, and basically the seats just tilted. is this different?
better than imax? idk man…