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      After watching it again I thought he could have been dreaming for the whole time after he goes to that chemist. Coz he drops the totem off the sink and never gets to spin it.

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      there's a light in the forest and a face in the tree

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      Quote Originally Posted by Carôusoul View Post
      there's a light in the forest and a face in the tree
      You saw that too, eh??
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      Quote Originally Posted by Oneironaut View Post
      You saw that too, eh??
      what's up, man

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      Not too much, bro. It's been a while.
      Good to see you back around.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Oneironaut View Post
      Not too much, bro. It's been a while.
      Good to see you back around.
      I'm waiting til new year

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      Awesome. Fireworks, booze and Carou. Going to be a happy New Year! Haha.
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      Quote Originally Posted by tommo View Post
      After watching it again I thought he could have been dreaming for the whole time after he goes to that chemist. Coz he drops the totem off the sink and never gets to spin it.
      I believe that these are exactly the kinds of responses that Nolan was going for. There is really no reason to believe that he was still dreaming, after leaving the chemist's place. The movie plays on just like it was supposed to, but that subtle agitation of having not seen him confirm his state is enough to cause much of the audience to figure it meant he was dreaming the rest of the time. The story, though, continues on, just as it was supposed to. The movie is filled with things like that. He says, himself, in the interview, that he wants the audience to doubt Cobb. He says that Cobb is an untrustworthy narrator. He is purposefully throwing the viewer off at times, so that they can question whether or not things are actually going according to plan.
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      At the risk of being outed as the pariah I am, I'll admit now I didn't like the film. It wasn't terrible, I mean I did take somethings away with me that were positive (some stunning cinematography, notably). But philosophy and all that jazz aside it was poorly executed. The script was horrible, the premise was pointlessly complex and for all its apparent intensity I thought it was totally devoid of emotion (Cillian Murphy's character wasn't 'emotional' btw, I'm pretty sure mental is the term ), dear I say humanity.

      I did like how it was kinda thought provoking, though you had to wade through a lot of BS to find anything really worth considering, that said none of the ideas put forth struck me as unique anyway or even well presented. I don't think that was the intent though so whatever.

      Yeah. I tagged Inception as "Summer blockbuster '10" and nothing more. (the Transformers rank)

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      the reason they couldnt change themselves is because the subconsious of the peprson they were in would kill them and make them wake up and get stuck in limbo, and as for the kill her self he implanted the idea in her head so that she would leave the dream world but when she woke up, she still and the idea pay closer attention to the movie

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      this post is to people who constantly say this movie is impossible, inaccurate according to lucid dreaming and dreaming in general and just plain unrealistic. i don't care if you liked the film or not or any other opinions on it are fine with me.

      there are so many people complaining this movie wasn't realistic as far as what can and can't go on in dreams. here is the end all be all answer though: the impossible things are possible in the movie because they are using fictional drugs to make it happen. this drug is the films validation device in that it validates all the things that do not correspond with reality.

      it's the same as watching a movie about a vampire. all the impossible things a vampire can do are logical in the terms of the movie because of the validating factor of the idea of the fictional being of a vampire. so imagine seeing the vampire get burned by the sun and then saying:

      "the sun doesn't really burn people like that!"
      then your friend says: "he's a vampire."
      you: "oh yeah that's right."

      then again the vampire is running way faster than a normal person could

      you: "people can't run that fast!"
      friend: "dude, he's a VAMPIRE!"
      you: "whoops, good point, never mind!"

      get it? everything like the fact that they all need kicks to come up or getting trapped in subconsciousness or the time differences are all answered the same way.

      you:"you couldn't be three levels down and if you were you wouldn't need a kick to come back up!"
      friend: "remember? they're using that fictional drug that makes all this possible and necessary."
      you: "oh yeah that's right."

      then they are talking about the time thing how an hour in the dream is five minutes real time.

      you:"it wouldn't really be an hour dream time. that's not possible."
      friend:"dude! the guy even said in the movie that the fictional drug accelerates brain function so it works faster making time slower by comparison."
      you:"oh gosh why do i keep forgetting about the validating fictional drug???"

      then they have to put the IV in even inside the dream.

      you:"they wouldn't have to put it in inside the dream! that's not real life!"
      friend:"COME ON! give me a break? it's just one of the rules of the fictional drugs workings! probably something like the action in the dream corresponds to synapses in the brain firing in relation to the drug."
      you:"oh, that's right! the drug, silly me."

      then they're in the subconscious empty space world.

      you: "hey wtf??? the subconscious wouldn't be like that in real life!"
      friend:"i'm f***ing leaving dude, this is worse than the time i tried to watch that vampire movie with you."

      the bottom line is that since these drugs do things that are completely impossible in reality it's entirely likely that they don't in any way work the way we would think they would. they could be altering the users brains for all we know. they could be combined with drugs that do not exist and microscopic nano machines running around inside the users brains creating mini alternate realities they are able to share through projecting the same audio/video experience into each users brains, who knows or cares? none of it is real or remotely possible. they're not real and left intentionally vague for that reason! do you watch x-men and argue the whole time that a skeleton couldn't be made from metal? or watch the hulk and argue the biological impossibilities of growing and shrinking??? why??? by all means argue when a movie is supposed to be realistic! that's a good thing as the movie is in the wrong and needs to be set straight. but when it's totally designed to be outside of our reality using fictional validation devices then let it go! all you could really say is that those drugs they use are unrealistic and impossible and just stop there, this is true and cannot be argued with. however, if you accept that these drugs are being used and choose to comment on the rest of the movie then you are passed that point and having accepted the drugs have given up the right to complain about realism in relation to the effects of these drugs.

      like arguing vampires don't exist all throughout a vampire movie. totally pointless. so you accept they are real inside the movies plot and go from there. you accept that they are real and then so is everything related to them being a vampire. accept the drugs are real for inception, so is everything relating to their use.


      all that being said i'm sure some of you are still thinking the movie is not "realisitic" if you can't get passed that then we at least surely agree that anything is possible inside of a dream right? then remember how they never show whether the top stopped spinning or not at the end? and remember how there were elements of the movie that implied that he was dreaming all along? it's possible that the entire movie was a dream so there is no reason whatsoever to argue that someones dream wasn't "realistic" okay???
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      From what I saw it was a good movie.

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      Funny how things come full circle at times. Some friends rented this movie and I watched it with them last night. I should say I'm not big on films, and I had seen zero previews only knowing that Inception was a more recent movie.

      Honestly, it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either. To start, I felt that it plodded along, spent way too much on slow down, back and forth, and pointless scenes to display cool seeming special effects. Also, I had zero idea what the movie was about going in, and the first part annoyed me as it felt a bunch was shoved on you with no rhyme or reason.

      Such a long movie too. Character development was nil, heck they never really explain what they are doing, or why they are doing it, or even what inception is until well in the movie. Though after the first part, it was clear they were dealing with lucid dreaming. If I saw the previews or hype this likely would not have been an issue, but personally, wide exposure or not, I feel it's a poor idea to assume your viewers know the premise that is explained in previews. I also love how little characters question things and drop from one topic into another in a very unnatural flow of conversation. Like when the main character's father recommends, I can only assume a colleague of his based on the scenery of a busy college hallway, to help main character pull off the job. The scene where she questions the need for a test, and main characters response that the job isn't exactly legal. then straight into drawing a maze that's solvable in a minute with just two to draw it. There is little given about characters, and it takes a while of spoon feeding to get to explaining or showing things you've likely already figured out. Thankfully the actors did a good job with giving the characters personality, but the lack of character development or background killed much of any reason to care or associate with the characters. Though, the main character gets a billion monologues and repeated scenes that don't add much to his background after a point.

      The heavy usage of the one symbol, anyone who's seen the movie knows what I'm talking about, felt like a, "I'm so clever and cool for thinking this up" type thing from the writer(s) and/or producer. I hate when they make sure to shove something in your face a billion times, assuming you need anywhere near a billion to understand what they are getting at. Making the top thing slightly warble at the end as it faded to credits was a bit nauseating for me.

      But down to the core of what Inception of about, and what prompted me to remember having briefly passed through this place some months ago. I called shenanigans on feeling pain in dreams to my friends. I should say, I never was the norm with dreams. Over the years I've come to find out my typical dreams are the types a lot actually focus on experiencing, or no where near like many others experiences. For years I erroneously believed that lucidity in dreams signified a very realistic seeming dream and nothing more, and never looked into if further.

      I found out from both of my friends last night, they actually do feel appropriate pains in dreams. However, I've been stabbed in many dreams and even died, but only an odd 'numb' sensation that varies with what accompanies the action that would normally bring pain. In the case of death it usually signals the start of a different dream, but sometimes I can take on a new existence in the dream I died in.

      Of course, I usually (always?) have some level of lucidity in my dreams, it varies, but if I've had a dream that I was not at least aware I was dreaming at some point during it, it would have had to happen before elementary school. My favorite ones are the very out there ones, the ones that you get to do all sorts of fun things with physics and such. So long as I can remember, I can fly in all of my dreams, but it varies how I am able to do so from dream to dream.

      I still remember the dream that I learned how to end or 'change dreams' I had sometime in my elementary days. Ever since I've always had no worries in dreams, because well, when you are aware you are dreaming, what does it matter?

      Back on topic though, while I don't feel Inception was a great movie, or one I'd ever recommend, I can say one great thing about it. It reminded me about a subject I had only more recently learned of, and well, dreams have always been a fascination of mine, period. Inception brought me back to looking further into lucid dreaming, and hence, it brought me back here, this time to post on the forums.

      Lastly, I can say not much of the premise of lucid dreaming portrayed in the movie matched my own experiences. It is very likely this added to my somewhat negative view on the movie. Also, I like something a little more engaging than watching a movie generally, and half way in on Inception, I was doing my best to patiently wait it out til the end. I sure had to complain a bit when the credits rolled though.

      I know it sounds like I'm blasting the movie, and really my opinion on movies won't mean much to most. Honestly, if it was half as long as it was and moved things in an actual direction in the time used up by drawn out scenes, special effect bonanzas, or leading up to an awkwardly timed joke (and maybe used that time to make the characters feel more 'real') , it would have likely enjoyed it.

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      Had a dream fragmet:
      I saw the Inception loggo (which is on this forum) and I was like MUST SEE.
      Didn't watch it tho,should I?

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      Inception was very ver good movie
      i watched it on Cinemas and i was like in that dream.

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      Fuck Inception.

      Thank you

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      Quote Originally Posted by KeaDeluxe View Post
      Fuck Inception.

      Thank you
      So you liked it! Awesome!

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