I think my head just exploded and I voided my bowels. I can't pull my mind together well enough to adequately express how amazing and insane this movie was. Christopher Nolan has cemented his place as my personal deity.
I've seen it. Their are slight similarities such technology that allows people to enter dreams and weird ass visuals but other than that the main storyline is different.
I've seen Paprika, and I've seen Inception. I could watch both of them 100 times and probably never even entertain the idea that Inception is a ripoff of Paprika, or even similar. Don't worry. Whoever told you that is just *messingwithyourmind*
I read several reviews after the fact now that I'm creeped out about sleeping, and this one seemed to say it best: "But the truth, a truth that Inception exposes, is that belief and knowledge are basically the same question, with the exact same answer, because you can't really know or believe anything with 100 percent clarity. Your perception always gets directly in the way of grasping reality" http://www.film.com/features/story/review-inception-is-exceptional/39262471
I was reminded of why I hate going to the movie theaters. The rustling of candy wrappers and crackling of popcorn wasn't enough of a distraction, somebody thought it would be a good idea to bring a baby. Of course, half way through the baby was whining. Instead of getting up to soothe the baby outside the theater, mama just sits there trying to shush the baby. Ugh, don't bring a damn baby to the ****in' movies. At least not to a serious movie. Okay, now that I got that out of the way, this movie did not disappoint. Incredible story even though it was hard to follow at times. Watanabe's accent didn't make it easy to understand him. Cant wait for it to hit DVD. It was definitley worth the price of admission though. Oh yea, that Joseph Gordon-Levitt guy was great but throughout the whole movie I was distracted by him because I couldn't figure out where I knew his face from. It wasn't until my g/f said 3rd Rock from the sun when it hit me.
I'm really surprised everyone loves this movie so much. I absolutely love all of Nolan's work, but I absolutely hated this movie. I really felt like I wasted my time watching it. Shutter Island was way better.
Are you serious? I enjoyed Shutter Island, but this was a much more thoroughly satisfying movie experience. I haven't enjoyed watching a movie this much since ... Damn you, M. Night Shyamalan for ruining my memory of good movies with that Airbender trainwreck! The ending was about as perfect as they come.
If you fanboys would stop violently masturbating to Nolan you would realize that he's very much overrated. Inception just confirmed it.
I'd say better than TDK. Definitely better than Avatar. But then I'm partial to movies that are able to really mess with my imagination and intellect. Very few movies succeed in doing that. Most just paint you some stunning visuals and juice you up with adrenaline. Inception is very Matrix-like in that regard. And it's the whole package. Not lacking in plot, exquisite character development, plot twists, cinematography, pace, special effects, you name it. Perhaps we'll finally get a movie that challenges ROTK and Titanic for the number of Oscar nominations (not counting on it though). Spoiler He's definitely dreaming -- the totem always stops spinning in the real world. He meets his dreaded old man fate in the previous level, asks him to take a "leap of faith" but there is no evidence of a kicker after that. Plus the reasons you mentioned: the kids are in the exact same position doing the exact same thing when they finally turn around. The question is ... where/what level did *that* dream originate from. I'm inclined to believe that he himself architected it, not his father -- given his own notorious track record of using real-life constructs in dreams while forbidding his protege from doing so. ALTERNATE THEORY: I think that the girl (Ellen Page's character) did it all. She was the ONE person who knew about his problem with his wife and kids. She was the one who followed him down the elevator. And she was the one who afterwards insisted on coming along because no one else knew of his handicap. And at the end, after she shot his wife dead, he asked what she was doing and she said something to the effect of "improvising". I think it would make sense that she foresaw this situation and created an alternate escape for him since it was possible he'd never get to see his kids anyway and that was his sole goal. Of course, what's annoying about the whole deal is that we never know if they actually did make it or that the inception was successful. The successful end to the story we are given only exists in Cobb's subconscious. No better way to end a psychological thriller than that.
I can't really start ranking this one with the rest of the Nolan canon until I've seen it like... 60 more times. My mind hurts.
This movie messed up my head... in a completely awesomely stimulating way. Everything about it was great - the direction, the writing, the visuals, the score, and the acting. And definitely worth watching again.
Great movie, best movie of 2010 so far, please don't compare this movie and its level of greatness to Avatar (which was garbage and overrated) or Shutter Island (which was clearly just a okay movie).
The movie is visually stunning, Nolan is a very very ambitious filmmaker with a ton of ideas... But the ENDING, come on man!!!!
