Inception - How freakin weird and secretive is this movie

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Is there a reason why cineworld haven't got the film on their website? I've been trying to pre-book tickets but it's not showing at an cinema apart from weymouth?
 
In the very first scene with old Saito, Old Saito say "someone I once knew from a half remembered dream" and the second time you see this scene halfway through the film it is Cobb that says "someone you once knew from a half remembered dream"
 
Well, quite. But prior to this the film - to its credit - had gone to some length to cleanly establish what was dream and what wasn't. The volte face ending just seemed tricksy and unwarranted, a bit of smoke and mirrors to deflect from a surprisingly hollow film.

I've seen other films end on a note of ambiguity far more successfully, but then the reason for doing so is far more ingrained. The subtle theft at the end of House of Games being a very good example.



Never had a problem with 2001 meself, but it depenRAB on how you're following it. The Shining is a much better WTF? ending ;)
 
Did anybody catch a radio 4 review on it... the panelists were conspicuous in avoiding saying whether they liked it, as if they were too highbrow. You were left wondering if it was a film of style over substance, but they avoided committing themselves.
 
Is Leonardo (forgot his character name) dreaming in the end? when he's playing with his kiRAB?

That was the only bit I didn't get, but overall it was a very good movie, brilliant acting on behalf of all the actors and great effects. It started off really slow and boring but it became more interesting midway.
 
looks like DiCaprio's gonna have a good year next year with films like Shutter Island and Inception which are both predicted to be very good and do very well in the box office
 
The ambiguity at the end of the movie would have been more effective for me if I'd actually cared whether or not it was real. DiCaprio's character just didn't engage me enough for me to be too concerned.
 
When Cobb got onto the plane, he knew it was going to America. If the caper had failed, he'd have been arrested immediately on arrival, and he would have wanted someone to organise him a lawyer. So it makes sense for his step-father to be on hand regardless of the outcome.

I'm not sure of the timeline but it seemed like weeks of preparation. They had to train up a new architect and she had to design the dreams, for example.
 
I think it's funny how some people are complaining about the ending and it's ambiguousness. I think that if the ending had been a definitive ending it wouldn't have been anywhere near as powerful, you'd have just walked out of the cinema and probably not given it a seconRAB thought, but with the ending that we got, people are going to be discussing it for weeks/months/years. The ambiguous ending makes the film stand out in my opinion.

And Jonny Clay, who thought that the ending was a cop out and that Nolan will never get to be like Kubrick with endings like that: have you seen '2001: A Space Oddysey'? I don't think you can get more of a "WTF just happened?!?!?" type ending than that. I'm not saying that Nolan is the next Kubrick (far from it), but saying what you said is a bit ridiculous when you take into account 2001's ending.
 
I've just seen it and I thought it was brill.

That's all I have to say lol

Just a really good film.

I'm not a reviewer so I don't pick the film apart and analyse the characters. I just enjoy it. :)

Obviously at the end everyone in the cinema started muttering

"ooooh is it really real?" "Ohh he might be dreaming"

Yes well done I Think we know thats what we're supposed to think :rolleyes:
 
You make it sound like they just randomly went to Paris and picked someone at random, which is wrong. The reason that they went to that particular University was because Cobb's father was a lecturer there, the reason that Ariadne was chosen was because Cobb's father felt that she was the brightest in his class. And as for her motives, she clearly trusted her lecturer in setting her up with a job, and if someone showed you something as mind-blowing as what Cobb showed her i think you'd stick around too! I know i would! lol.
 
Saw it for the first time today . Thought Inception was great - if maybe not as satisfying as The Prestige - but not "freakin weird and secretive" as the thread title claims. In fact the only weird and secretive thing was the sound, which in a Vue Xtreme screen was very loud but still too muddy to hear all the dialogue properly.

Given that I didn't know much about it beforehand, I still guessed the reason he knew Inception worked and still expected the actual final twist. But nonetheless it's a gripping and intelligent film and the fact that the cinema was full at 1.40pm shows that audiences are voting with their wallets for better films than we've been getting lately.
 
Agree with most if not all of that.
I was waiting for someone to make a gag in the film about the guy having watched too many Bond films or played too much Golden Eye as a kid but I guess they took themselves a bit seriously! The closest was when Tom Hardy said why couldn't he have dreamed of a beach.
 
Have to say I found it quite easy to follow..... Ive seen many a film that confused me a lot more... the film explains the different "levels" of dreams quite clearly before they go into it. Using the "lift" analogy helps..
 
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