Inception - July 16th

Johnnytoxic · 19 Jul 2010 at 00:29

SPOILERS

Some theories say Mal was right to jump out of the dream which Cobb thought was reality.

When you have the falling feeling in dreams, just before you hit the ground you suddenely wake up? Could this be a true self kick that awoke Mal when she "killed herself".

My head hurts. Have a read of this.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/board/thread/167024711

Dogoid · 19 Jul 2010 at 01:03

there is a book called 'Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid' by Douglas Hofstadter.

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"he wrote about a storyteller who gets his protagonist to a cliff-hanger point in a story, then has him start telling another story, which in turn leads to its own crisis, and then again, and then again. After the crisis is resolved at the final, deepest level, we go up and up and up again, and finally out. Only then does Hofstadter call our attention to the fact that we went down 4 levels but only came back up for 3 of them." imdb commenter

i think nolan got his idea from this book, and would certainly explain the ending

Sinny · 19 Jul 2010 at 02:11

Well that was a steaming pile of.. EPIC!!

cotton_flex · 19 Jul 2010 at 02:16

is this worth the imax experience?

Sinny · 19 Jul 2010 at 02:43

cotton_flex said:
is this worth the imax experience?

yes, it's quite a mind bender.

Naffa · 19 Jul 2010 at 07:11

cotton_flex said:
is this worth the imax experience?

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and...YES. It was my first IMAX experience and it was incredible.

n111ck · 19 Jul 2010 at 08:28

L1ght said:
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As for the ending I think he was in reality. Whenever he was in the dream world he could never see the childrens faces but once he returned home at the end he could. As for the the spinning totum, who knows. As soon as I saw him spin it I knew the film would cut off there.

I thought he chose not to see there faces (by not calling them) as that would be to admit that the dream world was real and he would then go mad like his wife.

The end of the film is deliberately left ambiguous - he is either mental and stuck in limbo or he escaped. I think because the totem wobbled its reasonable to assume that he escaped though...

Very good film - 9/10 - Leo is always good at guilt ridden characters and this one makes a nice double bill with Shutter Island IMO.

Baz · 19 Jul 2010 at 08:56

Bloody Brilliant Film.

End.

Klo · 19 Jul 2010 at 11:27

I really enjoyed it, saw it last night and still thinking about it now. Special effects were amazing, story line complicated enough to be engaging, not too complicated to irritate and confuse.

Knubje · 19 Jul 2010 at 12:12

I saw this Friday night with some friends. Epic film. Wasn't my local vue's best screen (opening night, wtf?) and we didn't get the best seats in the house.

However, the 2.5 hours (?) flew by really quick. I barely noticed. Great film, good use of effects (Not too little , not too much or OTT). Good story that is very thought provoking in a good way.

Overall I'd give it 9/10 for me, as EPIC as it was there was something missing I haven't quite been able to put my finger on. The Mrs thinks so too. Almost like a lack of depth with something but I really don't know. Even that is nit picking in relation to how good it is!

Best film of the year for me so far and best film I've seen at the cinema since the Dark Knight I think.

Christopher Nolan delivers again.

Dano · 19 Jul 2010 at 12:25

Knubje said:
I saw this Friday night with some friends. Epic film. Wasn't my local vue's best screen (opening night, wtf?) and we didn't get the best seats in the house.

Gunwarf? I was there on Friday and also was like 'what the hell?' at the screen too.

Marky · 19 Jul 2010 at 13:05

Knubje said:
Almost like a lack of depth with something but I really don't know.

Lack of depth? - I do believe we were watching a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream at one point

Haha but I do sort of know what you mean

Knubje · 19 Jul 2010 at 13:24

Dano said:
Gunwarf? I was there on Friday and also was like 'what the hell?' at the screen too.

Yeah Gunwharf. I got sat quite near the bottom in the far corner, about half way back all in all.

My mates were sat behind me and I got stuck next to some fat chavvy appearing woman who kept jumping at any loud noise on screen. Also at the end when he sees his kids she let out this "Ahhhh" noise, as though she had just worked out the films plot from being told the ending. It was quite amusing/annoying at the same time.

I heard there were two 8:30 screenings and one of which was in Screen 3 (A good one). I think the rest were in Screen 4 (ours, the poor one). Bit of a shame that they couldn't let everyone see it in the 2/3 better screens. Given the epic nature of the film.

Marky said:
Lack of depth? - I do believe we were watching a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream at one point

Haha but I do sort of know what you mean

Yeah, it's hard to explain because it's clearly not a lack of depth within the story line, that's for sure!

I think it was more to do with the characters and the convenience of some of it. That could be easily explained if it was "all a dream" but I'm not so sure that was the case.

I just felt that it was missing something that would have made it 10/10 for me personally. I just can't put my finger on it

Dano · 19 Jul 2010 at 13:37

Yeh, I was in 4 with you, think the place was almost full excepting most of the retarded VIP seats and a few right at the front. I wrote some scathing feedback about them when Vue asked for a review on Saturday.

Has to be said though, even the poor screens in Vue are better than the screens down at Port Solent.

Knubje · 19 Jul 2010 at 13:40

Dano said:
Yeh, I was in 4 with you, think the place was almost full excepting most of the retarded VIP seats and a few right at the front. I wrote some scathing feedback about them when Vue asked for a review on Saturday.

Has to be said though, even the poor screens in Vue are better than the screens down at Port Solent.

Hells yeah. I usually get epic seats somewhere right in the middle of everything reasonably high up. We were 20 minutes early and the best I got I was thinking "Ah crap seats/view".

It actually didn't make too much difference. I think all of Vue is comfortable and good seating. The only place you never want to be is RIGHT at the front. Felt sorry for those poor ******** arriving at 8:30 bang on to get escorted to the front!

Dano · 19 Jul 2010 at 14:11

Well if they will arrive that late on the opening night

n111ck · 19 Jul 2010 at 15:36

It was on a crappy small screen too at my local Cineworld due to Twilight :<

peige · 19 Jul 2010 at 16:03

Watched on Saturday on a decent enough screen. I didn't know much of what it was about, caught on with the plot but it really didn't do it for me, felt so much like other films before and although well done I really can't rate it that highly.

6/10 for me. Girlfriend and I barely talked about it afterwords!

Foyman · 19 Jul 2010 at 17:22

Watched it this morning. Thought that it was a very good film but echo the comments from another poster about it missing something. Apart from Leo's character you knew nothing of the others background. I know that due to length issues this wasn't really possible but I found it very difficult to care whether they won or lost. Will definitely be one to see again but will not go down as a classic in my eyes.

Azza · 19 Jul 2010 at 23:42

Just got back from watching it and thought it was amazing.

Apart from some of the strange points (see spoiler thread) and that thing that seemed to missing, it is still an excellent film.

Great story, really gripping and thrilling, great action and effects. The ending was awesome as well.

One of the best films I've seen.

9/10