Thread: Inception - Do you like it? - Post your Review

Inception was incredible, especially for me, since I am fascinated with dreams! I think anyone on this site will enjoy it, since obviously to be part of this site, you would be into dreams! The effects were mindblowing!

hoolyyy craaaaaaap.

just got back from it a bit ago. i wasn't disappointed in the slightest. the acting was solid and my jaw was slack a lot during the movie, haha - the effects were VERY well done.

though lucid dreaming is the whole basis for the plot, don't expect it to be a realistic portrayal of what lucid dreaming is.

best movie i've seen in a while

So do you think he was still dreaming at the end??

I really liked it. Acting top notch. Story top notch. Characters... as good as a film of it's kind allowed them to be.

If there's one fault it's that the script is sometimes built to confuse, which can be frustrating. But as with all Nolan films, you can figure it out in the end.

Originally Posted by CRAZY BONE

So do you think he was still dreaming at the end??

I've still got no idea.

I jizzed watching the movie. it was great!

-cV

Nice. Makes me want to see it more, to hear the good feedback.

great acting. beautifully made. very entrancing. I'll have to see it again, eventually.

I've just got back from seeing it, and I have to say it was pretty amazing how they made the whole sub-conscious part of the movie look amazingly realistic. By the way for those who have seen, do you think his totem was going to fall? I mean, he saw his kid's faces so...

Definitely a must watch for anyone whose on this site, let alone anyone who has even had a dream. And my theory is that the top was going to fall, after all it was teetering in the last shot, and we see the kids faces.

Very good movie. I dont know why you're reading this when you could be watching Inception.

Inside 'Inception': Could Christopher Nolan's Dream World Exist in Real Life? - ABC News

Apparantly Nolan practiced lucid dreaming when he was a teenager.

I myself had heard of lucid dreaming before but never really attempted at it, and my interest was piqued again after watching inception yesterday.

And the movie was awesomee.

telittleone: Awesome! Great to know that people are being affected by the movie, being inspired to Lucid Dream.


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Originally Posted by slash112

telittleone: Awesome! Great to know that people are being affected by the movie, being inspired to Lucid Dream.


DreamViews is a great place to learn. You should introduce yourself here
Also, some good tutorials here

Thanks for the friendly welcome!! I've already read the tutorials and I've decided DILDing is the best for me since I have summer school, and 3 more years of high school and then college.

I thought it was good, not very good. It was a bit too dramatic for my tastes. There were some flaws in logic as well. Like why couldn't they just turn themselves into giant dinosaurs or mecha to defend themselves? It's what I would have done. Definitely one of the season's best films, but it's not winding itself onto my top favorites.

I'm going to be pissed if the lucid cat gets out of the bag because of this movie. I cringe at the thought of an association being drawn with this movie every time lucid dreaming is mentioned. And besides, I like our happy little subculture of lucid dreamers.

Wow! This movie was the best thing I have seen in a long while. Everything was so classy, not cheesy at all. The acting and effects were great and the plot was original. Anyone who is into dreams will love it.

Amazing film, loved it from start to end. I was a bit annoyed that the ending took WAY long to happen, but I still enjoyed it.

I saw this movie twice, on the day it came out and today! It was really good. I loved the music, acting, and dream scenes! Even though some of it wasn't quite right.. like in some dream scenes people don't just start attacking you... and if you were being attacked you could just fly away or something, and in the underwater van you could have breathed underwater.. I had to see it twice to fully understand what was going on... But it was still awesome and it's the best movie I have seen in awhile. As for the end, I think the top didn't stop spinning because after he spun it, he went to see his children and like 3 minutes later the thing was still spinning. It was wobbling a little, but I mean come on, it definitely would have fallen earlier if he wasn't dreaming.

I did not like it. One reason is that the fact that it was dreams was just a plot device in order to have a few more trippy effects than waking life can allow. Another is, like has been mentioned, why didn't they just transform into dinosaurs or demons or fly away, instead of just running around shooting each other. The cheesy cop-out that if you die in your dream that you will wake up in oblivion is just a cheesy plot device to make there be real danger, when of course dreaming isn't dangerous at all. Another thing, if his wife had such a hard time figuring out what was waking life and what was dreams, why didn't she just do a reality check instead of killing herself? And since when is the only way out of a dream to kill yourself? It was an action movie trying to be a psychological thriller. There wasn't much imagination put into it at all. Most of my dreams are better than that movie.

I loved the movie. Plus, it added to my motivation to keep practicing lucid dreaming and gave me new ideas for things I want to try =)

I liked it very much. That said, my expectations were set really high, and I don't think it quite lived up to them.

Spoiler for brief review w/ spoilers:

I got the sense that Nolan had in mind an even grander and yet more subtle movie, but that it got distorted to fit into a more familiar summer block-buster format. I agree with what I've heard some others (not in this thread) say, which was that some of the action seems felt a little forced. As an example, when they enter the first-level dream and they've just kidnapped the subject, I was really looking forward to the ensuing dialogue and to see how they dealt with the subject and with the dream state in general. Instead, a freight train and a bunch of goonies with guns appear out of nowhere. For me, it kind of spoiled the scene.

I also felt like a few of the plot points were glazed over a bit too much. There was very little time at all between DiCaprio's character meeting Page's character and her being a full member of the team. I got the sense that some really important scenes involving her (presumably difficult) decision to take part in this strange and illegal enterprise had been left on the cutting room floor in favor of some fairly stock action scenes.

I didn't mind so much the lack of lucid dreaming logic that people like us would like to apply to the movie's dreamscapes. In fact, it would have made perfect sense, since for the most part it seemed like only the person whose dream it was could alter the dream--but then it was revealed that when he and his wife shared a dream, they could both control it. So that kind of threw off the coherence of the singular dream controller idea. But despite this, my disbelief was already suspended enough that it didn't bother me at all to simply accept the movie's dream rules.

I thought that the attempt near the end to confuse the audience about which reality was the "real" one for Cobb (by his wife Mal) was fairly weak. It didn't even begin to approach the subtlety and complexity of, say, the paradigm shift in Memento. Although the suggestion that what Cobb had perceived as real was in fact a dream was plausible, it seemed completely unlikely given the time spent in that state, the complexity of both the scenario and the characters, and the utter lack of prior clues (Nolan always throws in clues). So I was not convinced at all, and of course, it turned out not to be the case.

I have just focused on what I felt were the negatives of the movie, however, I want to emphasize again that I really enjoyed this movie on the whole. As Hollywoodized as it necessarily had to be, it still had a complex and interesting plot which engaged you on more levels than most movies. Also, I thought that the ending was superb. I was genuinely very worried, as I watched the top spin, that it would never waver, and I was very gratified to see it begin to wobble more and more before the fade to black. (And for those of you who seem not to be able to figure it out, it seems utterly obvious that the wavering and wobbling implied that it was about to fall. No ambiguity was even intended--he was awake.)

Whoa, who votes it terrible? o_O

The interpretation of the dream world in Inception is different from our interpretation probably due to issues concerning the audience. I don't think I would really enjoy or be able to easily follow the transition from a human character to a mech and than possibly another kinds of animal/robot/being.

The idea is that in their dreams, people don't have supernatural powers. Their abilities are largely based on what they can do in real life.

And maybe the machine they are connected to makes their dreams more realistic, as intended by the military for combat simulation?

Well, as I've said before in the other thread, the way I look at it is this:

In a normal lucid dream, we live by our own rules, so yes, we can turn into awesome things and just gun everybody down. But when you are in other people's dreams, you are living by partly your own rules, and partly their rules, so it isn't as easy/possible to do all that shit. So unexpected things can happen, and you loose the ability to do certain things at certain times.


That's they way I see it anyways.

Actually, now I think I understand why they didn't do a lot of that fancy stuff (like flying, transforming, etc) to make it easier. Maybe they didn't want to draw too much attention to themselves. Towards the beginning of the movie they explain that the more they change the dream, the more people want to kill them... So maybe they were trying to keep as much attention off them as possible.. but that's just my guess.