INCEPTION Review Thread (SPOILERS!!)

[Buddy Christ]

Originally Posted by mjbethancourt

[Show spoiler]wanting to go home / Saito's offer to make it happen = exposition; Fischer inception job = rising action; confronting Mal/guilt = conflict/climax; actually going home to the kids = resolution. Basic 7th grade lit class stuff.
He could have just as easily completed the mission and gone home and quit the business without dealing with his issues, if not for the fact that his subconscious kept sabotaging the missions to drag him down to limbo and force him to face his demons. Had he done so, he still would have been unabsolved and miserable, it would not be enough, and the story would lack interest. He would still become “an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone”. Confronting Mal is the central conflict foreshadowed throughout the movie from the opening scene onward, by frequent bleedthrough of his negative memories in every dream and even in some awake moments. Saying it's about getting back to the kids but not about confronting guilt, is like saying the Star Wars saga is about blowing up the Death Star but not about saving Darth Vader.

Very nicely put

[Blu-Malibu2009]

Originally Posted by Aerodude73

Right - I missed that. I wonder what it'll end up doing Domestic & International - Worldwide total...

Domestic: A lot depends on this weekend's hold. It needs at least $30m to have a shot at $300m total IMHO. If it ends up around $28m, which I think it will, then it's probably headed for $280ish million.

Overseas: Clash of the Titans made $328m and Inception so far has performed better than that one in a lot of key markets. The staggered release dates make it somewhat misleading in that it appears it won't make a lot overseas but that simply isn't the case. It's likely headed for around $330-350m overseas.

Worldwide: $610-650m.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by liquidice

not sure if this was posted yet, but this is a link to a nytimes site that has a commentary of a dream scene. You can move an audio slider from commentary to movie audio. Kind of cool.

Anatomy of a scene with Mr. Nolan

Oh.... My...... God....

This has me jonesing REAL BAD for the Blu-ray...... RIGHT F'N NOW!!!

[Aerodude73]

Originally Posted by liquidice

not sure if this was posted yet, but this is a link to a nytimes site that has a commentary of a dream scene. You can move an audio slider from commentary to movie audio. Kind of cool.

Anatomy of a scene with Mr. Nolan

I LOVE that scene. I saw this Weds. this week in an IMAX Theater (12,000 Watts of Digital Audio!!!), & that scene in particular was Thunderously Loud with Heavy Heavy LFE that literally was Shaking the theater & my seat!!! Freakin' Amazing!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Petra_Kalbrain

Oh.... My...... God....

This has me jonesing REAL BAD for the Blu-ray...... RIGHT F'N NOW!!!

Ditto -- I just hope the Audio is as intense & hard-hitting as my IMAX experience was.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by lDlisturb3d

Yeah. It will always be top 10

I'd be willing to bet it will be out of the top ten by July 31st 2011.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by Buddy Christ

There is nothing sleight of hand (IMO) about this movie. It is very straight forward and kind of cerebral. The only iffy part is the end but actually that is basic too. I find no ambiguity. Then again I have seen it 6 times. If you pay attention the second time everything is quite clear. Through dialog you are pretty much spoon fed the answers, but the first time you see it you do not hear it.

Thats what I didnt care for. It was "easy" for lack of a better term.

[mjbethancourt]

Originally Posted by bandapart

"A subplot involving Alex and Jane’s growing infatuation culminates with him sneaking into Jane's dream without the use of the machines which are a part of the process, a point Jane does not realize at first because she is too furious about the erotic elements of the dream Alex instigated (Alex is able to have sex with her in her dream).

With the help of a novelist named Charlie Prince, who has been covertly investigating the project for the basis of a new book, Alex learns of Blair’s sinister intentions.

Prince and Novotny are both murdered to silence them, things get worse when the President of the United States is admitted as a patient, and Alex’s co-hort Tommy Ray Glatman is sent into the President's nightmare in an attempt to have him assassinated.

Blair considers the President a threat to national security due to the President's nightmares of a post-apocalyptic world, which represent his fears and becomes cause for his wishing to enter unfavorable negotiations for nuclear disarmament."

That would be 'Dreamscape' with Dennis Quaid and Kate Capshaw.

[jj5206]

am i the only one that thinks that

[Show spoiler]the entire movie was his dream? Dreams always start off in the middle and it seemed like this movie started off in the middle. It also seemed to jump around a lot from scene to scene and rarely ever showed him travel anywhere.

[mjbethancourt]

Originally Posted by lDlisturb3d

Yeah. It will always be top 10

'The Dark Knight' ran almost the exact same numbers on IMDb when it came out... where does that one stand now?

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

I'd be willing to bet it will be out of the top ten by July 31st 2011.

I agree, it'll fall out. But it won't fall too far too soon.

The Dark Knight isn't in the Top 10 anymore over at IMDB, but it is still 12th as it has over 50% 10's (Inception currently has 67% 10s).

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by mjbethancourt

'The Dark Knight' ran almost the exact same numbers on IMDb when it came out... where does that one stand now?

Well 12, which isn't very shabby

[Blu-Malibu2009]

Originally Posted by Diesel

I agree, it'll fall out. But it won't fall too far too soon.

The Dark Knight isn't in the Top 10 anymore over at IMDB, but it is still 12th as it has over 50% 10's (Inception currently has 67% 10s).

TDK's spot is affected by TS3 and Inception. TS3 is likely going to fall behind TDK over the next 6 months or so. Inception might hang on for a while longer. It has nearly twice as many votes as TS3 and has managed to stay in the top 3 while TS3 has already fallen from #6 to #10 in roughly one month's time.

[mjbethancourt]

Originally Posted by Petra_Kalbrain

Very exquisitely put! I like the cut of your jib, sir.

Originally Posted by Buddy Christ

Very nicely put

You know, I had to type that with a sixaxis controller? I was mid-response when my computer got wiped out by a virus, and my PS3 was my only working computer at that point. What a pain in the butt.

[Blu-Curry]

Originally Posted by mjbethancourt

[Show spoiler]The "kick" in the van would wake them up from the dream they went into from the van: Arthur's "hotel" dreamspace. Waking them up early from the van dream would need a kick at the level from which they entered that dream, which was on the airplane. They didn't use a kick for that, they just woke up when the drugs wore off. If you pay close attention to that sequence, they show Ariadne wake up in each dream-level through the whole chain of "kicks", one after the other, all the way back to the van.

Ah ok then, thanks!

[JJ]

Her water must've just broke...

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by JJ

Her water must've just broke...

Ok... I have to admit... THAT is funny!

[GreenScar]

Revisiting 'Inception': A spoiler-heavy explanation of the year's trippiest film

[RocShemp]

Originally Posted by GreenScar

Revisiting 'Inception': A spoiler-heavy explanation of the year's trippiest film

Although he got a few minor details wrong, I like that he noted the potential of a

[Show spoiler]dual Inception

going on throughout the movie. It's that ambiguity that makes it so infinitely rewatchable. And a major reason why I hope that Nolan doesn't include any kind of commentary on the BD/DVD, unless it be of a technical nature. This is not a movie that should be explained but rather debated.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by RocShemp

Although he got a few minor details wrong, I like that he noted the potential of a

[Show spoiler]dual Inception

going on throughout the movie. It's that ambiguity that makes it so infinitely rewatchable. And a major reason why I hope that Nolan doesn't include any kind of commentary on the BD/DVD, unless it be of a technical nature. This is not a movie that should be explained but rather debated.

Yup and I now agree with those that think Cobb's

[Show spoiler]totem was his wedding ring, even if you never see the guy check it. He's always wearing it in dreams but doesn't have it on in real life.

[CYMBOL]

Finally saw the movie tonight.

My review:

Brilliant.