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INCEPTION - Written/directed by Dark Knight/Memento creator. Reviews are in: It is awesome
by Dark Knight/Memento creator. Reviews are in: It is awesome
creator. Reviews are in: It is awesome
Reviews are in: It is awesome
This is my problem right here. People look at reviews before they go out to see a movie.
I used to do this when I didn't know any better, but I realized something. If I was interested in a movie and go read a critic's review and the critic hated the movie, I'm going into that theater expecting to hate it as well, and just waiting for the first mistake of the movie so the entire movie-watching experience expectedly gets ruined for me.
When a critic says that it's great, I go into the movie over-emphasizing the good parts in my head, and even if I don't think that it's all that great, I would exclude my own thoughts of the movie just so I can be like everyone else and say that it's great.
This is my problem with this film. I'll be honest, it is the most overrated film that I have ever seen.
Unlike most/all of you, I went into the movie like I always go into the movie. The only things that I know of the movie is that it has DiCaprio and Ellen Page. Never read a review. Avoided every trailer and commercial thrown at me.
I feel like this movie was an 8/10 at best.
It's a shame how everyone loves to hop onto the bandwagon of it being amazing, or movie of the year.
For instance, last night I saw Black Swan. I had NO idea what the movie was about. At all. Never saw a review, trailer, or commercial. All I saw was the poster of the movie when I looked up movie times at my local theater. That movie is Oscar-type -- not Inception. At all.
I really wish that people could open up their eyes and self-analyze movies on their own without being biased based on other people's opinions, that were originally influenced by others.
It's about time someone stepped up and said something. Reminds me of the Emperor's New Clothes story. The movie is naked ffs.
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I knew it was going to be awesome the day I knew Christopher Nolan was making it, went into the film with pretty high expectations... He actually broke those expectations.
Not like anyone should give a shit about reviews, but the critics were right at least, it is awesome.
Also the most overrated film you probably ever seen is fucking Avatar, stop lying to yourself.
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yes they must be band-wagoning it's just not possible they actually liked it that much
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also you don't have to start a new line after every sentence fyi
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I watched it quite a while ago in the cinema, it was cool but I got confused at a certain point. The begin and end were pretty clear for me, but the rest was pretty confusing and had honestly no idea why they were going in everyone's dreams. The parts about DiCaprio's wife I found the most interesting, probably because I did understand what was going on.
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I enjoyed it thoroughly, I watched it twice when it was out in Theaters and now own it on DVD.
Sure, it might not be movie of the year, but god fucking damn it's a good movie.
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I suppose you didn't watch Avatar then.
Because THAT was the most overrated, thank you.
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Nah. Avatar had the "Star Wars" effect. It was revolutionary because of the animation and the 3D and the other hoopla.
If you think Avatar is that overrated, then surly, you think the same of Star Wars.
Yes, I am equating space and lasers to blue people and 3D.
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Well yes I had the same effect with Avatar that I had with the Star Wars prequels, which is boredom.
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Avatar is just plain terrible. Stop mentioning it in this thread from this post on.
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It can be hard to follow, but a second seeing will be better.
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Also collegegrad, nice job rating everyone who ranked this film #1 in the 'Your top 3 films of 2010' thread dumb.
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If people like the movie, that's their choice. It has nothing to do with "everyone else" liking it. I never look at reviews, and the only thing i knew about Inception was vaguely what it was about and had seen 1 trailer.
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Hay guys i didn't read anything in this thread but i saw the movie and it was the best thing ever
that is all
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I reckon the movie was awesome, didn't have any other people's input...
ALSO I GOT IT FOR CHRISTMAS YAAAAY
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collegegrad, leave if you don't like the film. Stop spamming ratings.
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Yay, Inception for Christmas!
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I never said that I didn't like it. I just don't think that it's more than an 8/10 at best film. Besides, I am free to express my opinions and participate in discussions as long as I am not violating any rules.
I rate you so I don't waste the post space or turn this into any sort of flame war.
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According to you, everyone who thought the film was great was being a sheep and following the critics opinion, all because you didn't like it as much. Now that's just being intolerant, and personally I don't like my intelligence being insulted by some random guy.
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I see a movie based of the trailer/teaser content.
If a movie has a bad trailer, its a bad movie.
Never steered me wrong.
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Yeah I'm sure that the trailer can tell you if the movie is good or not, but my problem with trailers today is that they give you too much information on the movie and in some cases give away lots of it.
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Except for the trailer for Inception, it was pretty damn good trailer that avoided telling too much.
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I cry at the end of this movie from where the safe is opened till the end because the cinematography, dialogue, and score is just, amazing.
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I listened with full volume to the end on the DVD, and I can't here the thunk Nolan said was there, am I missing it or is it really not there?
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The BWUUMP, while simple, was great. This film has a great sound track
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inception 2 disc DVD for xmas :)
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Can anyone give me the kick music? I know the song is non je ne regrette rien, but I want the 'kick' song. The one they felt inside the dreams.
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Err, same thing?
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Got the Inception DVD for Christmas :D
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Well I came into this film knowing nothing and I hated it. I only pretend to like it afterwards because it's popular, and critics liked it.
Also, 8/10? This movie is a 4.6/10 and that is a fact.
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actually more research and data i received showed this movie is more of a 3.989/10
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and that is a fact
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If you wake up when you die in limbo, why doesn't Cobb just kill Mal when they're there together, instead of making her kill herself?
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Watched this film last night. Was expecting to be blown away. I was disappointed.
It's okay, don't think I'll watch it again though.
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He probably wanted her to realise they needed to go home, not force her.
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Mistake.
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If you die in limbo, then you wake up, right? If that's the case, why didn't Saito immediately kill himself upon entering it?
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Hmmm, good point. Yeah a considerable amount of time did pass for the sedative to wear off so that Saito could shoot himself safely .
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The same reason Cobb and Mal stayed there for what felt like years, they didn't realise it wasn't real
Why are we talking in spoilers?
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How come Cobb realised it wasn't real the first time he was in limbo?
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No, they knew initially that it was all just a dream. Later, Mal chose to forget that idea.
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I did this (I haven't even checked this thread since it released) after I bought it on DVD and it's easily one of the best movies I've seen in the last 10 years
you realise just because people have differing opinions to you (even an overwhelming amount of people) doesn't mean they're jumping on the bandwagon, right? :))
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Letting all the people who say Inception lovers are jumping on the bandwagon are jumping on the inception hating bandwagon.
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Also, how did Saito get all those men in limbo?
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They were all projections of his subconscious.
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Cobb has been in Limbo before so he has experience, he remembers it all, because of this he doesn't age as well but does grown weary. Saito has no idea where he is and is in the same "fortress" he was in when Cobb and Arthur were trying to steal information from him. Cobb eventually finds this place after a very long time.
You can tell the way he speaks that he is trying hard to actually remember the reason he came in the first place because his mind has wandered so much over the course of time.
It's safe to assume that while they were in limbo many years went by.
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Ok then
It sounded as though Mal and Cobb had been doing the whole enter a dream and fuck around for a while before Cobb pushed to go deeper, and then they went into limbo. The inception dream was quite possibly Saitos second ever time with the machine, and first time being on the extraction/inception teams side of it all. He didn't have enough experience.
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No, he doesn't age like Saito because he wasn't there as long as he was.
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