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Inception
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I’m finally getting to see Inception (really busy August) tonight. I’ve heard that people have gone and seen it more than once. Is that true with anyone here? And if you guys want to talk about best scenes, I won’t visit the site until after I’ve seen it tonight, so spoilers are welcome.
GG
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I thought it was really good. It didn’t make sense for a while, but once you understand it it’s awesome. (except the very end! If you’ve seen it you know what I’m talking about)
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I would say it is an excellent movie, and would definitely recommend it. Some people say that if you look away for a moment you will get lost… I would not say that is an accurate statement, but if you are absent even a couple minutes, you will have missed a lot. So don’t go to the bathroom.
I would love to discuss the film when you finally see it… so let us know what you thought.
Christopher Nolan may be my favorite director… the films of his I have seen are of very high quality and very exciting pictures: Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and Inception.
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What is the movie about?
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What is the movie about?
The basic outline is that a small group of men are able to create a dream for a person and enter it. They then can “steal” secret information that this person has locked away inside them. As an example, the movie begins with Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in a dream trying to steal industry secrets from a company owner and deliver the information to a rival company who hired them for the job. DiCaprio and his cohorts are later found out by this owner whom they were trying to steal from. This owner offers DiCaprio the ability to return to his children (he is a “convicted” criminal) if he can do something similar to another rival company. Instead of stealing thoughts, DiCaprio will have to plant an idea in another persons mind… called inception, whereas stealing is called extraction. Inception is considered by many to be impossible, but DiCapro, being the expert he is, has done it… so he agrees to the job. The movie then becomes extremely more dangerous for the characters…
It takes off from there, with many plot twists, multiple levels of dreams and much action. The movie can be thought of as looking into a hallway of mirrors: you are really standing there but there are endless levels of you that continue down the hall. At least, it is similar. It is a very well made movie. It is not a special effects based film, although some of them are pretty amazing, and believable.
DiCaprio is the main character. I have never seen much of him before, but I think he does a spectacular job in this film. I don’t know his name, but the guy who plays Ras-al-Gul (not Liam Neeson) in Batman Begins plays Saito, the business owner who orders the inception job. Tom Hardy plays one of DiCaprio’s accomplices. The girl from Juno is in it. Michael Caine plays a small role… and there are others. Overall the cast is excellent.
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OK. I saw it. So much to talk about. Amazing piece of work! Without a doubt one of the best. I’m too tired now, I just thought I’d mention it.
First thought I will mention, best/most irritating ending ever. Anyhow College starts in the morning so I must go into a dream world. Hopefully my own. Or maybe the real one? I don’t know at this point…
GG
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I want to see it. If I can ever get away to see it.
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This should win an Oscar for Best Editing at least. For the maze the story can be at times I always knew what was going on and where I was. For as difficult as this sort of story could have ended up being to follow let alone get ahead of as I occasionally did that is a tremendous achievement.
My biggest problem with it is I didn’t totally buy into Ellen Page as an architect. I suppose the character worked but it seemed very much like they were stuck with her. She worked as DiCaprio’s confessor though but I’m curious who else might have been in line for that role.
The other problem is probably a bit on me but the movie’s big hook didn’t sort of scratch around in my head the whole movie. I don’t know how much of that is all the other stuff going on and how much is a decision not to worry too much about it in this film. In The Prestige for the whole film there was an answer always tantalizingly out of reach or maybe more like trying to but your thumb on a fast moving insect because you couldn’t ever quite find the right question.
With this one I nailed the ‘question’ straight away and then let it go and sort of enjoyed the ride. Which isn’t a bad thing and is to the director’s credit as I trusted him not to try to ‘cheat.’
The only ‘must see’ film of the year so far, at least that I’ve actually seen.
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I saw it, enjoyed it, probably could see it again. Not much to complain about…it’s a great movie. I do feel they could have omitted the technical mumbo jumbo (even though I like that sort of thing) and made the movie tighter. The only time I was confused was at the beginning. I liked that the ending was open to interpretation, and also had a great cast. However, I think The Prestige is a better thriller/twist movie than Inception.
I originally didn’t want to see Inception based on the previews over a year ago. It looked like the Matrix or a sci fi disaster movie, and it didn’t particularly appeal to me. But the trailers didn’t really do the movie justice…
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The other problem is probably a bit on me but the movie’s big hook didn’t sort of scratch around in my head the whole movie. I don’t know how much of that is all the other stuff going on and how much is a decision not to worry too much about it in this film. In The Prestige for the whole film there was an answer always tantalizingly out of reach or maybe more like trying to but your thumb on a fast moving insect because you couldn’t ever quite find the right question.
What did you mean by the “hook”? … like the problem of the film, what everyone was trying to get at?
I would agree about Ellen Page. For her part, she was decent, and they could have cast someone much worse. However she did not portray the protegee-architect as well as a confessor for DiCaprio.
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spoilers but by this point in the thread you should know that. :-)
The big ‘question’ or ‘hook’ of the movie is how he learned how to implant an idea. But after I asked that question, I let it go to a degree. Now how he learned to do inception and what it cost to learn is the entire point of the scenes with his wife and her constant appearance. I connected those two together shortly before the big reveal but I was disappointed that ‘there is a connection and you’re missing it’ didn’t pester me more.
Nolan gave you everything you needed to make that connection or hit that inspiration before the reveal in the film similar to “The Prestige” where I was very aware I was not connecting up the dots. I was aware that the answer was right in front of me and I wasn’t seeing it while in “Inception” I wasn’t as much. spoiler for The Prestige When we see all the hats I started getting a little voice saying “Do you see it now?” And that voice kept crowing at me till we learn of the trap door in the big trick where I finally connected the dots.
“Inception” somehow missed in creating that which is likely more about my own thought processes and decisions of participation in the movie than any failure of the film. I think that the whole action part of the story with the mogul they were trying to get to break up his father’s companies was MacGuffin and the real story was about what it cost to learn inception. I think the action parts distracted me too much from trying to connect the dots between the guilt over DiCaprio’s wife and learning how to do inception. They hid it a little too much that the story is a quest for redemption.
This kind of nitpicking is typically a sign of a movie I really enjoyed.
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