Official Thread of Inception: Best summer blockbuster since 2009!

[Solo]

Star Trek Nemesis' director was Casino Royale's editor. Food for bait, Cohen!

[Cheebs]

Am I the only one getting really tired of seeing the tron 2 trailer in front of everything? I think I have it entirely memorized by now.

[CajoleJuice]

I didn't see the Tron 2 trailer either time I saw Inception.

[bagofeyes]

As a side note The Expendables looks comically bad.  My wife mentioned that it looks like a movie from the '90s when (i quote) "they stopped making good action movies."

If it's as good as the last Rambo I'll be happy

[Phoenix Dark]

As a side note The Expendables looks comically bad.  My wife mentioned that it looks like a movie from the '90s when (i quote) "they stopped making good action movies."

If it's as good as the last Rambo I'll be happy

In other words, you like shitty movies and hope Expendables is shitty too?

[Solo]

Am I the only one getting really tired of seeing the tron 2 trailer in front of everything? I think I have it entirely memorized by now.

Ive only seen the trailer twice. Once on Apple's site and once before some movie.

[bagofeyes]

As a side note The Expendables looks comically bad.  My wife mentioned that it looks like a movie from the '90s when (i quote) "they stopped making good action movies."

If it's as good as the last Rambo I'll be happy

In other words, you like shitty movies and hope Expendables is shitty too?

I like shitty action movies

[Cheebs]

I feel bad for him

[Solo]

Don't. Hes probably balls deep in Bar Refaeli RIGHT NOW

[cool breeze]

Am I the only one getting really tired of seeing the tron 2 trailer in front of everything? I think I have it entirely memorized by now.

I was happy to see it in a theater for once.

and The Expendables, yeah, I feel like there is a certain crowd that is trying to pressure people into getting hyped.  Trailers just make it look dull.  Would rather have a shot-for-shot remake of Commando with a flabby Arnold.

[Great Rumbler]

Also Tom Hardy for James Bond

Tom Hardy>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>AIDS>>>>>Daniel Craig

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We don't talk about that.

[Cheebs]

Am I the only one getting really tired of seeing the tron 2 trailer in front of everything? I think I have it entirely memorized by now.

I was happy to see it in a theater for once.

and The Expendables, yeah, I feel like there is a certain crowd that is trying to pressure people into getting hyped.  Trailers just make it look dull.  Would rather have a shot-for-shot remake of Commando with a flabby Arnold.

I think people want to be hyped for it more than they are actually hyped for it.

[cool breeze]

I believe someone made the comparison on this forum before, but it works so I'll repeat it:  Snakes on a Plane

[Joe Molotov]

As a side note The Expendables looks comically bad.  My wife mentioned that it looks like a movie from the '90s when (i quote) "they stopped making good action movies."

Did you ask your wife if you could have your balls out of her purse?

[Phoenix Dark]

As a side note The Expendables looks comically bad.  My wife mentioned that it looks like a movie from the '90s when (i quote) "they stopped making good action movies."

Did you ask your wife if you could have your balls out of her purse?

He asked while in the backseat of the Volvo, as she drove him to Borders

[Cheebs]

It looks like an empty action movie. I can't tell you a single thing that happens in the movie and I've seen the trailers tons of times. I have no idea what the plot is.

65 year old wrinkly men on steroids run around for 90 minutes saying "I'm too old for this shit"?

[The Fake Shemp]

Sounds better than Inception, that's for sure.

[Groogrux]

Watched Inception.  Was impressed.  Out befoe Willco reply.   

[Flannel Boy]

My wife and I decided that Marion Cottillard is the female Jon Hamm.  She is impossibly good looking in a very adult, classical way, instead of merely being cute or precious.

She's insanely beautiful. 

[chronovore]

Also Tom Hardy for James Bond

Tom Hardy>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>AIDS>>>>>Daniel Craig

(Image removed from quote.)

I don't know what movie that is, but it looks better than Casino Royale

It wasn't. Ask Data.

[Mupepe]

I think it was mentioned earlier, but the only thing that felt cheap was the forced tension of

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"if you die, you go into fucking limbo."  That just seemed like someone looking it over tapped a pen on their lip and said "ehhh it needs something else.  something that grabs you by the balls and says 'this is fucking dangerous!'   and opposed to what was said earlier, I think there was enough foreshadowing for whatshisface being trained to fight against extraction.

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  so that wasn't a surprise.  I figured it would be something like that.

[Cheebs]

I think it was mentioned earlier, but the only thing that felt cheap was the forced tension of

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"if you die, you go into fucking limbo."  That just seemed like someone looking it over tapped a pen on their lip and said "ehhh it needs something else.  something that grabs you by the balls and says 'this is fucking dangerous!'   and opposed to what was said earlier, I think there was enough foreshadowing for whatshisface being trained to fight against extraction.

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  so that wasn't a surprise.  I figured it would be something like that.

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It wasn't simply to add tension to not die. The ending would never have been able to be a mystery without limbo. Without limbo there was no way for Leo to possibly be stuck in a dream world at the end because only limbo goes on "forever".

Nor without limbo would there be able to be a storyline of Mal and Cobb to grow old with one another and Mal to become to belief her dream world is the real world.

Without limbo two of the largest elements of the story could never have happened.

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[Ichirou]

Did anyone notice

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Were the kids at the end wearing the same clothes they were during Cobb's dreams?  If so, then he was definitely left, unknowingly, stuck in limbo at the end.

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[CajoleJuice]

Did anyone notice

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Were the kids at the end wearing the same clothes they were during Cobb's dreams?  If so, then he was definitely left, unknowingly, stuck in limbo at the end.

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To go with that...

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What was his dad doing there?

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Pretty sure it's Mal's dad, isn't it?

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[Ichirou]

That was actually

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her dad.  He and his wife, Mal's mother, were taking care of the kids while Cobb was on the run.

I imagine he could have flown back to the US while his university was on break.  It could still add to the evidence that Cobb was still stuck in dreamland, though.

I think if the kids were dressed the same way as in his dream, which was how they looked the last time he saw them, then the mystery is pretty much gone and the ending makes it clear that Cobb got stuck in limbo and never came back out.

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[Mupepe]

Did anyone notice

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Were the kids at the end wearing the same clothes they were during Cobb's dreams?  If so, then he was definitely left, unknowingly, stuck in limbo at the end.

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To go with that...

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What was his dad doing there?

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Pretty sure it's Mal's dad, isn't it?

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Yeah but he's supposed to be in Paris

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I think it was mentioned earlier, but the only thing that felt cheap was the forced tension of

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"if you die, you go into fucking limbo."  That just seemed like someone looking it over tapped a pen on their lip and said "ehhh it needs something else.  something that grabs you by the balls and says 'this is fucking dangerous!'   and opposed to what was said earlier, I think there was enough foreshadowing for whatshisface being trained to fight against extraction.

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  so that wasn't a surprise.  I figured it would be something like that.

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It wasn't simply to add tension to not die. The ending would never have been able to be a mystery without limbo. Without limbo there was no way for Leo to possibly be stuck in a dream world at the end because only limbo goes on "forever".

Nor without limbo would there be able to be a storyline of Mal and Cobb to grow old with one another and Mal to become to belief her dream world is the real world.

Without limbo two of the largest elements of the story could never have happened.

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Sorry, I meant the way it was introduced felt cheap.  

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Nothing is mentioned of limbo beforehand and then all of a sudden it's a huge deal and the entire story revolves around it when it felt so cheaply thrown in.

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But I guess there wasn't much he could do with people complaining about the exposition and length, I'd imagine it would add considerable time.  But personally I would have preferred a 3 hour movie more fleshed out.  

[Mupepe]

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Why was he being chased by the company he had worked for?  If he had failed, wouldn't they have simply not paid him?  Is it common business practice to kill your contractors if the business deal falls through?

And who was the dude that handed him the airline tickets?  Made it seems like james bond/presidential type shit.  "you have to go now, cobb.  now or never" or some shit.

dude was totally stuck in la la land

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[Ichirou]

Well, I'm sure

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some people would still say, "bubububu maybe it wasn't a dream and they just happened to be wearing the same clothes as the last time Cobb saw them" but that seems pretty darn unlikely doesn't it?

I wish now I'd paid more attention to how the kids were dressed in the dream sequences and the final scene, but I'm really not interested in sitting through the movie again.

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[CajoleJuice]

Well, I'm sure

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some people would still say, "bubububu maybe it wasn't a dream and they just happened to be wearing the same clothes as the last time Cobb saw them" but that seems pretty darn unlikely doesn't it?

I wish now I'd paid more attention to how the kids were dressed in the dream sequences and the final scene, but I'm really not interested in sitting through the movie again.

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I'm like 99% sure they are wearing the same clothes

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[Ichirou]

No, because

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I'm not saying he's in a dream throughout the entire movie, like the guy who answers that question seems to think he is.  I'm just saying he never woke up from getting Saito out of limbo at the very end.

This wedding ring thing sounds like your typical 'plausible-sounding' b.s.  but I'd have to watch the movie again and look at Leo's ring finger in each scene to be sure whether that's true or not.

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[Ichirou]

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Even if the wedding ring thing is true (which I have my doubts on), it doesn't really matter because Leo does come to term with his wife's death in the next-to-final scene of the movie, so he could very well still be dreaming even if he doesn't have his wedding ring on.

I think the definitive answer would be how his kids are dressed.  If they are dressed in the same clothes they had on during his dreams (which are the last way he remembers them looking), then it would be a pretty strong indicator that he's still stuck in limbo and never got out.  I'll have to rent it when it comes out on DVD again or something so I can take some screencaps.

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[Cheebs]

Did anyone notice

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Were the kids at the end wearing the same clothes they were during Cobb's dreams?  If so, then he was definitely left, unknowingly, stuck in limbo at the end.

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To go with that...

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What was his dad doing there?

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Why can't his dad be a creation of his dream just as much as his kids?

Here is why I feel like the end is a dream still. If it's reality then it's a perfect happy sentimental ending. Which goes against every single ending of every Nolan movie so far. It is too Spielbergy for Nolan.

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Oh and:

[Ichirou]

I wonder how DiCaprio feels about this.

[Cheebs]

He hasn't made a movie to appeal to that demo in over a decade doing gritty Scorsese stuff, Nolan mind-fuck sci-fi's...etc and is pushing 40. Yet they still won't let go. Hell by the age of those girls the old ones seem to be being replaced by new ones. 


When I saw shutter island I saw a large group of like teen girls. Which was hilarious to me.

[The Fake Shemp]

To be fair, up until recently, he still had a baby face. The wrinkles are a welcome addition, because he looks more like a man on camera nowadays.

[Great Rumbler]

Never forget.

[CajoleJuice]

In one scene towards the end where he is holding Mal, he totally looks like the Leo from Titanic. His hair looks just like that from the angle it's shot.

[Mr. Gundam]

A good friend of mine went to high school with Leo and actually stuffed him in a locker once. 

[Cheebs]

[cool breeze]

would you let go?

of course not

[Great Rumbler]

Inception had a better than predicted Sunday, which puts it at 62.7 million for the weekend.

[Cheebs]

Way better. It was a 55 mil weekend based on the friday number but then it shocked by INCREASING on saturday and then again for being actually higher than the non-midnight fridays on sunday which is unheard. The wom is incredible. Best holds for a major blockbuster since that dreaded Avatar.  Pretty much all the box office folks I see are saying it will likely surpass 250 mil domestically.

Glad to see it, while it isn't the best movie ever like many elsewhere are saying its great to see an original intelligent blockbuster do well.

I have bad feeling the intense love for it will ruin it for me in the long run though.

[Great Rumbler]

I have bad feeling the intense love for it will ruin it for me in the long run though.

Only if you keep reading GAF and WYL.

[TakingBackSunday]

That movie was fucking awesome.  Loved nearly everything about it, sans

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Ellen Page.  She herself was just fine, but it seemed like her character got the shit-end of the stick regarding exposition

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Also

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I think the ending is left purposely confusing.  Kids and father-in-law wearing the same clothing, yet the wedding ring is gone and the totem passes the test (it's beginning to stutter when the film cuts to credits).  Not to mention that he finally sees their faces, which would violate his projections in his dreams.  I think it's yet again another "think for yourself" ending, one accomplished better than Shutter Island's

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[The Fake Shemp]

Shutter Island was pretty cut-and-dry. There wasn't anything ambiguous about it.

[Cheebs]

That movie was fucking awesome.  Loved nearly everything about it, sans

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Ellen Page.  She herself was just fine, but it seemed like her character got the shit-end of the stick regarding exposition

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Also

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I think the ending is left purposely confusing.  Kids and father-in-law wearing the same clothing, yet the wedding ring is gone and the totem passes the test (it's beginning to stutter when the film cuts to credits).  Not to mention that he finally sees their faces, which would violate his projections in his dreams.  I think it's yet again another "think for yourself" ending, one accomplished better than Shutter Island's

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Shutter island wasn't a think for yourself movie. Scorsese said he even changed the novel to make it more obvious than it was, he didn't want it to feel like a twist.

[cool breeze]

I feel like I need to see Shutter Island now

the second I got out of the theater I've been hearing Shutter Island comparisons

[TakingBackSunday]

Shutter Island was pretty cut-and-dry. There wasn't anything ambiguous about it.

Well, I know that, but some people still like to think

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BUBUBUB HE WAS INSANE AGAIN, DUH

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I guess I should take back what I originally said.  What's another good ending regarding personal interpretation?

[Flannel Boy]

Inception is the best movie I've seen in a theater in at least two years. 

Speaking of spinning

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It's already been covered. Fuck.
I didn't notice that the children were wearing the same clothes. That's what I get for being an optimist just this once.

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[Barry Egan]

Seeing this bomba tomorrow.

I feel like I need to see Shutter Island now

the second I got out of the theater I've been hearing Shutter Island comparisons

Shutter Island is a pretty entertaining flick.  You should see it regardless. 

[Flannel Boy]

It was so sad. 

[The Fake Shemp]

Amusing: ... watching the Internet roast David Jaffe for criticizing Inception.

[Flannel Boy]

Amusing: ... watching the Internet roast David Jaffe for criticizing Inception.

.@adam_orth If I need such a spreadsheet to figure out a key aspect to a film I would not define that as 'explained clearly'

[Cheebs]

David Jaffe once pmed me on gaf to tell me to fuck off, of course he'd hate this solid movie. 

[Flannel Boy]

David Jaffe once pmed me on gaf to tell me to fuck off

so what you're saying is that David Jaffe isn't all bad.

[Purple Filth]

Amusing: ... watching the Internet roast David Jaffe for criticizing Inception.

you and Jaffe agreeing with something is weird.

[Cheebs]

David Jaffe once pmed me on gaf to tell me to fuck off

so what you're saying is that David Jaffe isn't all bad.

Pretty much

[TakingBackSunday]

Amusing: ... watching the Internet roast David Jaffe for criticizing Inception.

you and Jaffe agreeing with something is weird.

That would be true if Willco actually didn't like this movie.

[Robo]

Amusing: ... watching the Internet roast David Jaffe for criticizing Inception.

Why is twitter popular again?  Even if I wanted to read this shit, it's such a goddamn chore to follow along.

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a spreadsheet would be helpful 

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[Flannel Boy]