Inception (Spoilers!)

[Captain Russ]

YOU DESERVE TO HAVE IT WRECKED, BLASPHEMER.

(Go see it again, please.)

[Howard]

AT LEAST YOU HAVE A BUZZ.




Also, I love you guys.

[Bobby Bear]

This movie in one word: Refreshing....
I've got to work on choosing my totem.

Perfect word choice, Ed.

I love that you brought this up. By about twenty minutes in, I'd already decided that mine would probably be my thickest bass pick. That line about totem's needing to be heavy/ish made me think a typical guitar pick wouldn't cut it.

It's great to see so many people pumped about a film that's out and they've seen, not just one that's forthcoming.

[I_Cassini]

I saw it. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I am more with Bobby's assessment. Loved the action parts Joseph Gordon-Levitt got to do and I liked that Tom Hardy too.

[Bobby Bear]

I saw it. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I am more with Bobby's assessment. Loved the action parts Joseph Gordon-Levitt got to do and I liked that Tom Hardy too.

I'm glad you're of the same mind, Cass. This isn't one of those times when someone doesn't join the almost unanimous love-in just to get attention or be awkward. I really liked the film. Really. I hope to replay scenes time and again and snowball theories for years to come, but I doubt it'll ever have a place in my heart the way, say, Almost Famous does.

The reason for this isn't the "it's too cold!" gripe that seems to be gathering steam Elsewhere; I was invested just fine (Murphy's catharsis was great and weirdly powerful for a character of his standing.) Honestly, I'm not even sure exactly why I don't feel it'll become a perennial favourite of mine. It just didn't hit me on that gut level which tells you "this film's gonna be a part of you forever." It didn't send me out of the theatre with a desire to gush over it and see it again right away. Of course, this doesn't detract from the film's many triumphs, but it is the reason I'm not beaming from ear to ear over it.

[Captain Russ]

This movie will be a part of me forever.

(Who is Murphy? Das ist Robo Polizei?)

[Chris Miller]

Finally got to finish it (almost didn't, this time the Film broke for a minute!).

I mean, it's just an incredible movie. It's smart on a level that Primer is smart (and I consider Primer to be one of the smartest sci-fi movies ever), but it has the intense emotional core that so many sci-fi movies lose.

So, the architect had to design the landscape as a maze to slow the projections down, right? Took them about 5 seconds in Fisher's first level. I mean, I know they explain that he had trained his subconscious, but still.

[Matt]

Devin wrote a really beautiful piece on the film that I totally agree with: http://chud.com/articles/articles/24...ION/Page1.html

Don't click on it until you've seen the film.

[Ed Hocken]

One cool thing seeing this movie at the Arclight next door is that they have props and costumes from the movie on display. Including the "machine" that allows you to go into dreams. It really is just a briefcase with some tubes....or is it?

[gravedigger]

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It was a symbol of Cobb's guilt, regret, and emotional pain. It was her totem, and he held tight to it, afraid that he'd completely lose her.

He was convinced of his own reality, therefore the totem ended its rotations as dictated by its former owner (or at least his subconscious' version of her). He was still harboring the shade of his wife, and her resonant impact on his subconscious dictated the totem's function. It (as a symbol for the shade of "her" in his world) was the last roadblock that was keeping him from dreaming again.

Once he finally let go of his guilt, returned to his kids, reestablished his identity, he was free to do what he wanted within the dreamworld again. Thus, it continued to spin.

Also: soundtrack is fucking great. It's been on a loop since I got home.

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This makes much more sense than my interpretation- that Cobb was not in his own dream but that of Mal. While I don't doubt Cobb and Mal spent all that time in Limbo or wherever, it was Mal that couldn't hold on and created this new heist as a way for Cobb to move on. Of course, the way the story ends kind of takes Mal out of the equation so it isn't a perfect solution. I think this is a personal holdover from the (MEMENTO SPOILER) Leonard is Sammy reveal. And speaking of Memento, I'm worried that the ending here is hinting at a trend of Nolan's to have a perspective shifting twist at the end of his original movies. He's incredible so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt but I hope he doesn't feel the need to rely on that practice in the future.(END MEMENTO SPOILER).

Loved, LOVED this movie. Want the blu-ray as soon as possible. Memento is easily in my top three movies ever but this might come close to pushing it out. I need to sit with it a bit because that reaction could be the great action, music, performances, etc clouding my judgement right now. Also, I'm surprised at the emotion weight in what is essentially

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a heist movie spliced into a Matrix-world.

[Abraham Smashington]

Saw it. Dug it. Good on you Mr. Nolan.

[Abraham Smashington]

Also

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lulz to the the third level being the beginning of Modern Warfare2

[Captain Russ]

Tom Hardy rocked that level.

[Abraham Smashington]

I kept waiting for someone to yell "Ramirez!"

[Captain Russ]

He's too busy doin' everything.