Inception

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I'm a major wack job though because I give Total Recall one of those A-s, and I have no doubt that it's Arnie's best flick (well, most-entertaining by at least a planet).
 
First, hello from me, everybody! I'm new here.

I agree with this post a lot. Although the shooting was indeed too much, it doesn't really take away the brilliance of the movie.
 
Yep he was.. That's why after Saito gets shot, Cobb ends up yelling at Arthur for not doing a proper background check on Fischer.
 
Yeah there are beyond too many questions. Everything about this film invites infinite speculation and that's just one of many wonderful things about it. I don't think that the top is just apart of his subconcious, though. You would have to ask yourself what the dream architect has to gain from planting one.
 
That makes an awful lot of sense. The ending is almost too neat, everybody nodding and smiling at each other, he walks straight through passport control, Michael Caine is waiting for him and his kids are just the same... yeah. The more I think about this, the more I think you might be right. And that ending is the best ending because it doesn't make the whole thing a dream and negate everything that happens including all the other team members. He could have been shot by Saito while in limbo and not woken up because of the sedation, he's just still there.
 
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing...it just doesn't strike me that way, as much as I like it.

The best bet is probably a nod for Best Original Screenplay. Best Director might be possible, given how monumental and ambitious it is. But if I had to bet on just one category it'd be on the former, and it wouldn't shock me if it were completely shut out.
 
It'll be interesting for someone who goes and sees the film again to specifically look to see if the children are the same thoughout. I think they're different older kids at some points.
 
I seen, I completely forgot about the scene. Now I remember. Like I said, there was a lot to digest
 
I completely agree.

Now let's please continue on this note. This is a thread about Inception, NOT about negative rep or a comparison between The Dark Knight and Inception. Though Planetnews, you have given me an idea for a thread. We can discuss some of the things you said over there so that this thread's sole subject remains Inception.

@ Yoda: You've seen it 2 times now, right? Am I about right with the ideas I put forward in my post on page 5?
 
This is also in my review thread but I reckon it'll get a little more coverage in here.



Inception

Christopher Nolan/2010/Leonardo Di Caprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe, Cilian Murphy, Marion Cotillard

The zinger that closed my previous review would better serve this capsule for Inception, a screwball-scramble of a mind-puzzle**** from hot-off-the-block 'sure thing' Christopher Nolan. Inception could allegorize, in smashy-smashy pots 'n pans form, the filmmaking process, with Leo's plucky dream thief a substitute for Nolan, himself an architecht of design. Indeed, this is very 'out-there' for a summer blockbuster, its theology far less dimestore than standard big-budget hokum, but much of this is stymied by repetitive gunfights that make more noise than sense. Make no mistake, this is more Michael Bay than Andrei Tarkovsky, only explosions and visual gymnastics outnumber ideas here. Although it is 12 years, two Batfilms and $170 million later, like his first film Following, made for tuppence in Eraserhead monochrome, Inception is overpopulated with the kind of hocus-pocus that obfuscates rather than illuminates.
 
Not sure if this has been mentioned but we open with the scene of old Saito and Cobb and then we go way back to the test extraction on Saito. From the beginning of the movie Saito and Cobb know the line about "growing old and dying alone", then when the moment actually comes later in the film - Cobb says Saito's line.
 
I have no problem with -ve reps Christy.. They dont affect me in anyway.
But giving -ve rep in every consecutive post of mine, just coz I mention that the action was necessary... That was a bit annoying! Also. maybe I over-reacted..
Apologies to all...
 
Ah yes, I think I remember now... but if his subconcious keeps conjuring up his dead wife, what's to stop it from conjuring up a spinning top that stops spinning? What if the dream architect knows about his top and deliberately plants one in the dream? So many questions...

Also, as I forgot to include this in my last post, I couldn't watch this film without thinking of a one-line review I'd seen on twitter: 'A dream within a dream within a dream within a Sony Bravia advert...'
 
Thanks for the comic link, Yoda. Had no idea about it. It's pretty cool and I imagine we'll be seeing further comics in the future which I will definitely be checking out.
 
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