[Movie] Inception - Page 44

On December 18 2010 00:43 YoungModerN wrote:
yeah, the ending was real for sure. He only had memories of his kids playing and never seen them turning around, cuz its was memories in his house. When they leave the airport its no longer a dream cuz the first dream was in the plane, so its the real world.

On December 19 2010 18:23 bbsss wrote:
I'd rate this movie a 5.5 cos it had good actors and nice settings/special effects. The story is utter crap. I feel sorry for people that say this movie is so awesome and "a mindfuck" even. Really? A mindfuck?
Maybe it's a mindfuck because it doesn't make sense in the slightest. I don't enjoy science fiction that could be thought of by a 10-year old. The whole dream in a dream idea is cool. But the idea that the dreamer notices (by how idioticly: people in the dream noticing) someone else entering a dream and the person himself is protected in a dream is SUCH wasted potential, someone with intelligence could have made something out of that. But I guess that would make the movie too hard for people with an IQ of below 90, thats how I felt, you need to keep urself dumb to really enjoy this movie, so many things don't make sense and if that was all id be okay with it but the movie pretends all that bullshit makes perfect sense.

On December 19 2010 18:23 bbsss wrote:
I'd rate this movie a 5.5 cos it had good actors and nice settings/special effects. The story is utter crap. I feel sorry for people that say this movie is so awesome and "a mindfuck" even. Really? A mindfuck?
Maybe it's a mindfuck because it doesn't make sense in the slightest. I don't enjoy science fiction that could be thought of by a 10-year old. The whole dream in a dream idea is cool. But the idea that the dreamer notices (by how idioticly: people in the dream noticing) someone else entering a dream and the person himself is protected in a dream is SUCH wasted potential, someone with intelligence could have made something out of that. But I guess that would make the movie too hard for people with an IQ of below 90, thats how I felt, you need to keep urself dumb to really enjoy this movie, so many things don't make sense and if that was all id be okay with it but the movie pretends all that bullshit makes perfect sense.

On December 19 2010 18:23 bbsss wrote:
I'd rate this movie a 5.5 cos it had good actors and nice settings/special effects. The story is utter crap. I feel sorry for people that say this movie is so awesome and "a mindfuck" even. Really? A mindfuck?
Maybe it's a mindfuck because it doesn't make sense in the slightest. I don't enjoy science fiction that could be thought of by a 10-year old. The whole dream in a dream idea is cool. But the idea that the dreamer notices (by how idioticly: people in the dream noticing) someone else entering a dream and the person himself is protected in a dream is SUCH wasted potential, someone with intelligence could have made something out of that. But I guess that would make the movie too hard for people with an IQ of below 90, thats how I felt, you need to keep urself dumb to really enjoy this movie, so many things don't make sense and if that was all id be okay with it but the movie pretends all that bullshit makes perfect sense.

On December 19 2010 16:07 lvatural wrote:
Just saw the film, gotta say I thought it was pretty good.

As for the people arguing about the ending being real or a dream, you're really missing the whole point. It doesn't matter if it's real or not, and the fact that he walked away from his totem before he could ascertain that he was in reality shows that he doesn't care either. It's the whole perception = truth idea, and he just decides that he's going to stick with the "ending" whether or not it's the "Truth." I'm guessing that's why the director made it so ambiguous, to show that what's reality is solely decided by the person who is perceiving it.

Personally, at first I thought someone was invading his dreams using that girl architect. She kept delving into his dreams, asking about his past, and I thought all that train and kids stuff was put in there by her to throw him off....thought she was trying to dig up something about him and Moll or something. But...that theory pretty much died towards the end :/

On December 19 2010 16:07 lvatural wrote:
Just saw the film, gotta say I thought it was pretty good.

As for the people arguing about the ending being real or a dream, you're really missing the whole point. It doesn't matter if it's real or not, and the fact that he walked away from his totem before he could ascertain that he was in reality shows that he doesn't care either. It's the whole perception = truth idea, and he just decides that he's going to stick with the "ending" whether or not it's the "Truth." I'm guessing that's why the director made it so ambiguous, to show that what's reality is solely decided by the person who is perceiving it.

Personally, at first I thought someone was invading his dreams using that girl architect. She kept delving into his dreams, asking about his past, and I thought all that train and kids stuff was put in there by her to throw him off....thought she was trying to dig up something about him and Moll or something. But...that theory pretty much died towards the end :/

On December 19 2010 18:23 bbsss wrote:
I'd rate this movie a 5.5 cos it had good actors and nice settings/special effects. The story is utter crap. I feel sorry for people that say this movie is so awesome and "a mindfuck" even. Really? A mindfuck?
Maybe it's a mindfuck because it doesn't make sense in the slightest. I don't enjoy science fiction that could be thought of by a 10-year old. The whole dream in a dream idea is cool. But the idea that the dreamer notices (by how idioticly: people in the dream noticing) someone else entering a dream and the person himself is protected in a dream is SUCH wasted potential, someone with intelligence could have made something out of that. But I guess that would make the movie too hard for people with an IQ of below 90, thats how I felt, you need to keep urself dumb to really enjoy this movie, so many things don't make sense and if that was all id be okay with it but the movie pretends all that bullshit makes perfect sense.

On December 19 2010 22:55 buickskylark wrote:
according to michael caine, who plays leo's father in the movie, the ending is real. i don't think it's necessary to be mysterious about it anymore, so i take his word for it.

On December 19 2010 21:55 anycolourfloyd wrote:
my first (and i suppose, most "pure") reaction to it was that it was a good movie, but nothing revolutionary. kept me interested, but i saw nothing that really made an impression on me. thematically, a bit similar to a less groundbreaking version of the matrix. 7/10.

what really pissed me off was the masses of people beating off over it and bowing down before it as the greatest literary creation ever. that it was a piece of genius and that they were part of that genius by watching it. pfft. i've had dreams within dreams before, multiple times. i saw nothing in there i haven't contemplated or read about before, and i wasn't hugely engaged by the execution either.

somebody compared the reaction to avatar, i did to, though i was a lot more frustrated by avatar. from where i sit, inception (and much more so avatar) just indicate that the general public these days are blown away by fancy special effects and pretty colours.

pretty colours in avatar don't save it from being total fucking literary garbage. books and the imagination can create far more interesting scenarios. by this token, i can't view inception as anything other than average.

On December 19 2010 23:02 Amestir wrote:


Read a couple of posts above you. It doesn't matter if the end is in the real world. What matters is that Leo has accepted the world he was in as real.

On December 20 2010 02:16 buickskylark wrote:


oh ok. it's okay to be insane and delusional as long as you accept it as reality.

On December 19 2010 18:26 Deadlyhazard wrote:

You said someone with intelligence could have made something out of the wasted potential. What exactly would you do different (so we can get some understanding of constructive criticism in here)?