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CCGaunt
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States417 Posts
July 20 2010 14:45 GMT
#361
Loved this movie immensely. While I wasn't confused about this movie, I just love how I can still digest it, thinking about it slowly. Right now I'm still building evidence for some of the theories of the ending, but as many posts have said, the most evidence is for the simple solution. Then again, its always fun to dream.
Take me to Korea
shammythefox
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom286 Posts
July 20 2010 17:06 GMT
#362
THe movie was good on all accounts make no mistake, but not great. I felt it lacked either a real emotional climax or a seeming sense of epicness that the movie feels like it should commandeer. Imagine if the matrix has been simply about one mans reality and not the fate of the human race, this is fitting for some movies, but not the matrix, thats what i felt the problem was here. Still an enjoyable watch
Yamoth
Profile Joined February 2009
United States315 Posts
July 20 2010 17:22 GMT
#363
I really hate this movie for one and one reason. After watching what seems like forever, Christopher Nolan just have to be an ass at that ending that keep me guessing. I want closure damn it!!!
OneOther
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States10774 Posts
July 20 2010 17:30 GMT
#364
On July 20 2010 19:59 Nal_rAwr wrote:
okay so cobb and mal didn't know they were in limbo?
so they lived on?
what about spinning the totem to find out
what about realizing it was an impossible world? i guess they didn't have sense enough in limbo?

gah

uhm of course cobb and mal knew they were in limbo. i think you missed the entire part where cobb explains how he knew inception was possible (planting an idea in another person's mind). he tried it on his wife during limbo and it worked. remember the part where mal puts away her totem in that lock? but see, the only problem was that the inception - the powerful seed that was planted - still existed even when they came back to reality. therefore, mal goes through a complete psychological breakdown and ends up taking a "leap of faith," more like killing herself and attempting to make cobb do it with her by dumping the blame on him.
Nal_rAwr
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2611 Posts
July 20 2010 19:31 GMT
#365
ok so they didn't want to get out of limbo even though they knew
Nony is Bonjwa
NonY
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
8751 Posts
July 20 2010 19:44 GMT
#366
Keep in mind that when they got to limbo, it was just when they were exploring. They did dreams within dreams and dug deep into subconscious just for the hell of it. They found limbo and stayed for a while. They built a whole world with their imagination. Then they broke their own rule and started building things from their memory, which made it like reality, and had the danger of confusing what's real and what's a dream. Eventually Mal decided to lock away her totem and to forget that she wasn't in the real world. She chose to make limbo her reality. Cobb never forgot that they were in limbo. When he realized that Mal wasn't going to leave, so she wasn't ever going to return to her kids and live her real life, Cobb went to the place where she locked away her totem (the deepest part of her mind) and planted the idea that her world isn't real and she has to die to go to reality.
"Fucking up is part of it. If you can't fail, you have to always win. And I don't think you can always win." Elliott Smith ---------- Yet no sudden rage darkened his face, and his eyes were calm as they studied her. Then he smiled. 'Witness.'
collegeBored
Profile Joined November 2002
United States1524 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-20 19:50:23
July 20 2010 19:49 GMT
#367
i tried hard like with other movies of this type to find plot holes, but the only things that came to mind:
why didnt they wake up when the van rolled over off the road, that was supposed to be a kick
and if hes been away/running out of the country for quite some time, why are his children still the same age.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget, the naive forgive and forget, the wise forgive but never forget.
Nal_rAwr
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2611 Posts
July 20 2010 20:05 GMT
#368
because the physics in the car you don't really feel a kick when you fall in the car? i think
only when it hits the war does it affect you
Nony is Bonjwa
Kuja900
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States3564 Posts
July 20 2010 20:06 GMT
#369
On July 21 2010 04:49 collegeBored wrote:
i tried hard like with other movies of this type to find plot holes, but the only things that came to mind:
why didnt they wake up when the van rolled over off the road, that was supposed to be a kick
and if hes been away/running out of the country for quite some time, why are his children still the same age.


They weren't the same age they were 2yrs older.
OMG you nasty gurl
iNdEMAND
Profile Joined July 2010
130 Posts
July 20 2010 20:08 GMT
#370
On July 21 2010 04:49 collegeBored wrote:
i tried hard like with other movies of this type to find plot holes, but the only things that came to mind:
why didnt they wake up when the van rolled over off the road, that was supposed to be a kick
and if hes been away/running out of the country for quite some time, why are his children still the same age.



I think that they need to fall both in their dream and physically in order to wake up. If you remember in the beginning Cobb didn't initially wake up when they kicked him, he woke up after the second kick when he hit the water however they didn't show his dream and what he did to wake up... that being said I have rolled off my bed countless times and have stayed asleep. The only time I waken up is if I dream that I'm falling at the same time I'm physically falling halfway off the bed. That is when I get the sense Im falling and wake up. I assume this is what needs to be done in the movie as well even though they didn't specfically say it. However they did indeed show it when Adriande falls off the cliff.
Kingsp4de20
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States716 Posts
July 20 2010 20:17 GMT
#371
I saw the movie last night and loved it, in fact I think im going to go watch it again tonight.
Whats with everyone trying to point out plot holes in a sci fi movie, just enjoy it.
Nal_rAwr
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2611 Posts
July 20 2010 20:59 GMT
#372
On July 21 2010 05:17 Kingsp4de20 wrote:
I saw the movie last night and loved it, in fact I think im going to go watch it again tonight.
Whats with everyone trying to point out plot holes in a sci fi movie, just enjoy it.

there are no plot holes...
the point of these kinds of movies is to incite discussion about possible plot holes etc
the story has been in the making for like 10 years, i'm pretty sure they worked out any possible "plot holes" years ago

also, remember to read as much discussion and article posts as you can before you watch a second time, will help you as you watch a second

i'm trying to watch it a second time, but idk when i will :o
Nony is Bonjwa
HaruHaru
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States988 Posts
July 21 2010 02:01 GMT
#373
GOOOD movie! Would watch again even though there are questions that are unanswered and discrepancies in the movie!
Long live BroodWar!
BalliSLife
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
1339 Posts
July 21 2010 07:57 GMT
#374
Ok spoiler alert




so talking about the ending, real or not? I say real
Ya well, at least I don't fuck a fleshlight with a condom on and cry at the same time.
noojOh
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States755 Posts
July 21 2010 08:03 GMT
#375
On July 21 2010 04:49 collegeBored wrote:
i tried hard like with other movies of this type to find plot holes, but the only things that came to mind:
why didnt they wake up when the van rolled over off the road, that was supposed to be a kick
and if hes been away/running out of the country for quite some time, why are his children still the same age.


remember when the van rolled off the road, joseph gordan levitt's character said, it's too soon and all of them in the snow scene said that they didn't have enough time so that they would go on the next kick which would be when the car hit the water. that's why they had much more time

i'm not sure if the kids were older but someone on another site i read said that in the credits, there were too castings for both children at different ages
ftw
Loser777
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
1931 Posts
July 21 2010 08:30 GMT
#376
On July 21 2010 16:57 BalliSLife wrote:
Ok spoiler alert




so talking about the ending, real or not? I say real

Lol the ending was awesome, real or not. I'm hunting for perpetual tops and inception promo tops on ebay now... trying to find something to freak my friends out with.
6581
anch
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States5457 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-21 08:37:02
July 21 2010 08:30 GMT
#377
saw this tonight, i thought it was incredible. Final Fantasy games should get depths like this.

On July 21 2010 16:57 BalliSLife wrote:
Ok spoiler alert

so talking about the ending, real or not? I say real

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/board/nest/167024711?p=1

DannyJ
Profile Joined March 2010
United States5110 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-21 08:42:10
July 21 2010 08:40 GMT
#378
On July 21 2010 17:30 anch wrote:
saw this tonight, i thought it was incredible. Final Fantasy games should get depths like this.

Show nested quote +
On July 21 2010 16:57 BalliSLife wrote:
Ok spoiler alert

so talking about the ending, real or not? I say real

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/board/nest/167024711?p=1



Not sure if i agree with his final conclusion. Might be going a bit too deep. Interesting read though.
flamewheel
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
FREEAGLELAND26782 Posts
July 21 2010 08:47 GMT
#379
On July 21 2010 17:30 anch wrote:
saw this tonight, i thought it was incredible. Final Fantasy games should get depths like this.

Show nested quote +
On July 21 2010 16:57 BalliSLife wrote:
Ok spoiler alert

so talking about the ending, real or not? I say real

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/board/nest/167024711?p=1


That's kind of hot. I actually had the same debate with my dad today.
Also, the numbers were messed up. Thinking about it more kind of irks me.

For instance, when Ariadne is first introduced to the dream world, after coming out Cobb says "give us five more minutes" and she interjects with "Five minutes?! We were talking for almost an hour!"
Then Arthur goes on and says that 5 minutes in the real world is tantamount to an hour in the dream world. 5 minutes to 60 minutes: x12 multiplier.

After the team is assembled and they begin talking about the three-layered dream, it is "calculated" that the dream levels would correspond to this:
5 minutes (real world) = 60 minutes (1st level dream) = 6 months (2nd level dream) = 10 years (3rd level dream).

The multiplier of x12 jumps up to (around) a whopping x4320, then back down to x20.

Yeah, it's a small thing but for a movie with such a complicated and mind-boggling plot, I wish the makers would have taken two minutes to fix the statistics :/
Writerdamn, i was two days from retirement
bulge
Profile Joined July 2010
161 Posts
July 21 2010 08:49 GMT
#380
its cool, its unique, there's a few bad loopholes, but who cares.
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