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Inception.... wow.

#21
i_got_a_mohawk said:
Fair enough. The way I see it, it was written so that there was no concrete answer to what happened within the movie or how it ended. I just don't like how he tried to pull it off. But, different strokes n all that :)
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the children are wearing different clothes as confirmed in an interview with the costume designer for the movie. Also, the children have indeed aged two years per the final credits which list different actors for Phillipa at 3 years and 5 years and for James at 20 months and 3 years. You wouldn't have been able to say definitively that they'd never aged anyway because you don't see their faces until the end. The two facts that I presented above combined with the fact that he sees their faces at the end convinces me that the top does stop spinning and that he is, in fact, in reality.

bc
 
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DigMe said:
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Ah right, I had given up paying attention by that point then. It was just that my suspicion (which was wrong) was confirmed by someone else earlier.

Either way, still found it to be pretty bland :p


Mikaela Ellinger said:
So.. am I the only person who seen this movie and thought it sucked D***? Because it did. There were a ridiculous amount of loopholes, and it was like a 4 year olds brain.. on crack. Imagination gone wild, but.. really.. meh.
I dunno. That's just my opinion. I'm not fan of action movies, really though.
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Not the only one, didn't really do much for me either.
 
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I finally got to see this in the theater today. Pretty good, you really had to pay attention, the whole concept of the dream world was constructed so as to ease suspension of disbelief the same way that good vampire and time-travel movies have a lot of explaining to do. But I think the director pulled it off. By the time we got to the dream within a dream within a dream stage, I was losing touch with the original group of sleepers and how this thing was going to resolve itself. Long film, in the end I was a little mentally drained, and I'm not sure it was worth the effort. Unique concept, execution, and dazzling special effects. A solid 7.5 out of 10 in my book.
 
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P.S.--We debated the ending for a long time. Some in my group had a pretty convincing argument that, because anything is possible in the dream world, including seeing someone you know well in an altered form or at a younger/older age, it is certainly possible that Cobb is still dreaming, even of his children at a slightly advanced age. And Cobb did outline the circular nature of dreams earlier in the film. We thought perhaps Cobb is stuck in a never-ending cycle of dreams.

But I like neat endings, so I prefer the nice tidy resolution that he came back to the real world of the fully awake and was reunited with his children, having left his obsession for his deceased wife firmly and permanently behind him.
 
#28
I thought it was boring, cheesy, contrived, predictable, too long, and loaded with way too much unnatural exposition. I would give it a 6 out of 10, but most of those points are for the visuals (even though all the effects and set pieces were in the trailers).
 
#29
There is the whole "what is reality" mental part of the movie, but the action is also viscerally like a dream. The kind of dream where everyone is chasing you, and jumping out of corners to attack you and whatnot. It was his goal, and he succeeded in making me feel like I had just woke from a dream when I left the theater. I remained amped up about it for several hours. So in that sense, a great value for my $6.
 
#30
I thought it was entertaining, the actors were certainly decent, but the whole dream thing didn't seem very dreamlike at all, and I wasn't too impressed by the visuals.

I recommend a Japanese animated film called Paprika for something that did the whole dream thing surprisingly well.
 
#31
Well worth my money and the trip to the theater, but I'd say it's still the most over-rated movie of the season. Predictable (which is bad when your whole film banks on the clever "twist") a lot of baaaad lines written in, though the actors did a good job with them. I don't have any problem suspending disbelief for all sorts of far out movies, but this one takes its premise to the point of absurdity ( I was actually laughing at a few places that weren't meant to be funny). And not at all a "mind ***" the main ideas of the film have been around for quite some time.

Again, there's so much there that is well done and fun that it still comes out as a pretty good movie in my book. I just don't see why liking a movie= hyping the hell out of it and denying its problems. It's like Dark Knight syndrome happening again.
 
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Another spoiler:

Whenever Cobb is dreaming he wears a wedding ring whereas in what we think is reality he doesn't wear one, and at the end he isn't wearing one. That and the fact the children's clothes are different according to the film's costume designer and the two sets of actors (the set in the last scene being older than their counterparts) makes me think the top stops spinning, although there are other reasons to believe that Cobb is dreaming and even that he might be having inception performed on him.
 
#35
I've just arrived from the theater. I enjoyed this movie a lot. The concept of a dream inside a dream inside a dream is very "bold" (lacking a better term to describe it) to me and I think it was well developed (or at least in a very entertaining way). I particularly enjoyed the idea of Robert Fischer's projections being "military trained" for his own protection.
 
#36
BTW, in the morning I'm going to check if local music stores are carrying the soundtrack CD (will order it through Amazon.com if I can't find it). I paid special attention to the music during the movie and I loved it. Another plus for the movie.
 
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