'Inception' Mega Thread *SPOILERS FROM POST 292 ONWARDS*

kdevitt

Jaden wrote: »

Why does anyone care about the top spinning at the end? I thought it's just a red herring?

The spinning top is his totem - although the wedding ring is apparently only seen in scenes where he is dreaming.

The main thing to take from it is that he doesn't care any more if he's trapped in a dream, he's just going to live his live with his kids. For what its worth, and for a variety of reasons, I think he's in the real world at the end.

leposean

I just loved this film. How they filmed the hotel scene with the rooms moving is just mind blowing

blue note

I thought it was excellent, but I didn't love it as much as some others. The concept was fine, but it annoyed me throughout that

they were planting the idea of splitting up an energy company

instead of something interesting. Could they not have been saving the world or something?

I had a couple of other minor problems with it too, but I did really like it. A 4 out of 5 for me.

Penn

blue note wrote: »

Could they not have been saving the world or something?

No. Just.... no.

Mickeroo

blue note wrote: »

I thought it was excellent, but I didn't love it as much as some others. The concept was fine, but it annoyed me throughout that

they were planting the idea of splitting up an energy company

instead of something interesting. Could they not have been saving the world or something?

That's like watching a film about a group of people saving the world and then saying "Could they not have just robbed a bank or something instead?" :pac:

cabrwab

Its the one thing i enjoyed, the movie is based on an evil concept they are thieves common criminals who recruit a girl straight out of college. A heist movie with a difference!

Was given this at xmas on blu-ray and only got around to watching it again, what a great movie.

For me Nolan has never done a bad movie, the same day i watched inception i watched the prestige for the first time, he really is a talented director/storyteller.

I loved the ending the totem spinning but never falling.
A little piece to keep us guessing, think the Italian job or the end of lock stock.

blue note

Mickeroo wrote: »

That's like watching a film about a group of people saving the world and then saying "Could they not have just robbed a bank or something instead?" :pac:

I just felt that such a grand concept deserved some meaningful reason. Breaking up an energy company to avoid a monopoly was dull.

Mickeroo

blue note wrote: »

I just felt that such a grand concept deserved some meaningful reason. Breaking up an energy company to avoid a monopoly was dull.

It was a heist, the real reason was so they could all make a tonne of money not prevent a monopoly. Of course the real point of the film was DiCaprio's charachter's inner struggle to let go of the guilt about his dead wife.

Mellor

blue note wrote: »

I just felt that such a grand concept deserved some meaningful reason. Breaking up an energy company to avoid a monopoly was dull.

how would planting the idea of saving the world work exactly?

Also, splitting up the money so so they could make money. Energy is a big industry. the whole idea of the dream state is corporate espionage.

Plus if the think the idea they were palnting was important then you missed the point

Rabidlamb

An observation about time . . . .

Love this film, gets more impressive each time you watch it.
We are told how 5 minutes of sleep time = 1 hour of dream time & this multiplies down each level.
Yusuf's compounds may even lengthen these periods.
Yusuf is the only character to remain on level one so we have a time reference through him.
When they arrive there's the shoot out & escape, they spend time holed up in the warehouse, make another escape in the van then get caught on the bridge.
The whole level one experience can't have lasted more than a couple of hours which would have been about 10 minutes in real world time.
Eames, Aridane, & Fischer escaped the van with Yusuf so their whole mission was accomplished in the same 10 minutes of real world time.
The plane probably was probably still taxiing when they finished their mission.

Cobb & Saito however only woke at the end of the 10 hour flight, just as they were about to land.
We learned earlier on that Cobb & Mol spent an afternoon under high levels of sedation to spend 50 years in limbo.
Cobb & Saito were under for nearly 10 hours real time so they must have experienced well over 100 years.
It explains why Saito was so old in appearance but also implies it took Cobb an awful long time to find him.

How someone sat down & wrote a story this complex while covering so many potential loopholes is an amazing feat.

krudler

Cobb finding Saito all those years later could be another movie in itself, or a cool graphic novel or something, given the timeline he didnt just watch Ariadne leap off the building and wake up there and then to find Saito, it would have been years later.

Rabidlamb

krudler wrote: »

Cobb finding Saito all those years later could be another movie in itself, or a cool graphic novel or something, given the timeline he didnt just watch Ariadne leap off the building and wake up there and then to find Saito, it would have been years later.

Yep, that's exactly what I was implying.

Cobb & Saito were under for nearly 10 hours real time so they must have experienced well over 100 years.
It explains why Saito was so old in appearance but also implies it took Cobb an awful long time to find him.

Cobb obviously didn't age as he was conscious of where he was.
Big sacrifice on his part & to his mental well being, his brain could be mush after a century of experiences.
I thought this was like The Prestige

when you realise that Jackman's character has to die every night to perform the trick.

mikhail

Rabidlamb wrote: »

An observation about time . . . .

Love this film, gets more impressive each time you watch it.
We are told how 5 minutes of sleep time = 1 hour of dream time & this multiplies down each level.
Yusuf's compounds may even lengthen these periods.
Yusuf is the only character to remain on level one so we have a time reference through him.
When they arrive there's the shoot out & escape, they spend time holed up in the warehouse, make another escape in the van then get caught on the bridge.
The whole level one experience can't have lasted more than a couple of hours which would have been about 10 minutes in real world time.
Eames, Aridane, & Fischer escaped the van with Yusuf so their whole mission was accomplished in the same 10 minutes of real world time.
The plane probably was probably still taxiing when they finished their mission.

Cobb & Saito however only woke at the end of the 10 hour flight, just as they were about to land.
We learned earlier on that Cobb & Mol spent an afternoon under high levels of sedation to spend 50 years in limbo.
Cobb & Saito were under for nearly 10 hours real time so they must have experienced well over 100 years.
It explains why Saito was so old in appearance but also implies it took Cobb an awful long time to find him.

How someone sat down & wrote a story this complex while covering so many potential loopholes is an amazing feat.

You might like this video so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHBlYJ-tKcs
There are a number of similar attempts, but I think that's the original.