INCEPTION

davidtrios

I've seen it twice. anyone here see it more?

mca47

Just saw it tonight and thought it was a great flick!!

So many angles and ways you can take it...


Well done Nolan!

catefrances

nuffingman wrote:

Saw this last night and thought it was very good. Not a film to have a 5 minute snooze in as you'll lose the plot. It was also weird to see Leo getting out of a helicopter in front of a futuristic looking building that is my wife's workplace. I could have been in it. I could have been seen shoving her bike into the back of my car. Fame has escaped me again.

maybe you were in it but havent recalled that unconscious memory yet???? :shock: :?


hmm well i saw it yesterday. cobb shoulda clicked his heels together three times and chanted theres no place like home theres no place like home...if he wanted to get back home.

Tommy Guitar

I seen it twice also. I think it's a fantastic movie, one of the best ive seen in years. Also the score :shock:
Bravo Mr Nolan

LikeAnOcean

I thought it was great!

I love how it's left to be open to interpretation. You can think of many possible scenarios and still enjoy the movie no matter which you think or try to think.

Funny enough, I had a dream a few weeks ago that I had a dream. I woke up into another dream. I was in my apartment, but I dreamt I woke up from a dream on my parents couch. It felt so real I was trying to figure out how the hell I got there..

I'm still not convinced I'm truly awake.

catefrances

SPOILER ALERT!!!!

LikeAnOcean wrote:

I thought it was great!

I love how it's left to be open to interpretation. You can think of many possible scenarios and still enjoy the movie no matter which you think or try to think.

Funny enough, I had a dream a few weeks ago that I had a dream. I woke up into another dream. I was in my apartment, but I dreamt I woke up from a dream on my parents couch. It felt so real I was trying to figure out how the hell I got there..

I'm still not convinced I'm truly awake.

i dont think he made it out.

LikeAnOcean

catefrances wrote:

SPOILER ALERT!!!!

LikeAnOcean wrote:

I thought it was great!

I love how it's left to be open to interpretation. You can think of many possible scenarios and still enjoy the movie no matter which you think or try to think.

Funny enough, I had a dream a few weeks ago that I had a dream. I woke up into another dream. I was in my apartment, but I dreamt I woke up from a dream on my parents couch. It felt so real I was trying to figure out how the hell I got there..

I'm still not convinced I'm truly awake.

i dont think he made it out.

I agree.

catefrances

Cue to film clue

In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a single idea can be the most dangerous weapon or the most valuable asset.

Video feedbackVideo settingsHAVING systematically picked apart the critical arguments for and against Christopher Nolan's Inception and the many possible meanings of that dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream caper, the film's fans on the web have gone deeper by focusing on its music.

A video by a pseudonymous author, camiam321, comparing the Edith Piaf song Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien to Hans Zimmer's score for the movie has circulated widely on the internet. It plays a key musical cue from the Inception score - two ominous blares from a brass section - followed by a slowed version of the Piaf song (which the Inception characters play at regular speed as a warning to wake up from a dream state). They sound nearly identical.

Zimmer, who won an Academy Award for his music for The Lion King, said the sonic similarity was not only intentional but it was an element of an enigmatic film ''that wasn't supposed to be a secret''.

Advertisement: Story continues belowThe musical cue, Zimmer said, ''was our big signpost'' to show the film's characters moving from one level of dreaming (or reality) into another. ''It was like a drawing of a huge finger saying, 'OK, different time'.''

Zimmer said the idea for this musical game began with Nolan, the film's director and writer. ''He had the Edith Piaf always written in the script, the da-da, da-da,'' Zimmer said, imitating the cadence of that song. ''It was like huge foghorns over a city, and afterward you would maybe figure out that they were related.''

Nolan was on vacation and unavailable, but in the liner notes to the Inception score, he writes that the music is meant to pull the audience ''through a potentially confusing tale by orienting them emotionally, geographically, temporally''. (He also describes Zimmer as someone who ''never lets practical realities limit his belief in the power of ideas''.)

Technically, Zimmer said, that part of his score was not a slowing of Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, but was constructed from a single manipulated beat from the version recorded by Piaf in 1960. ''I had to go and extract these two notes out of a recording,'' he said. ''I love technology, so it was a lot of fun for me to go and get the original master out of the French national archives. And then find some crazy scientist in France who would actually go and take that one cell out of the DNA.''

The manipulated beat comprises about five minutes of Zimmer's 132-minute score, but all its tempos, he said, are ''subdivisions and multiplications of the tempo of the Edith Piaf track''.

''I could slip into half-time,'' he said. ''I could slip into a third of a time. Anything could go anywhere. At any moment I could drop into a different level of time.''

In this sense the score is Zimmer's personal interpretation of Inception, which many viewers see as a commentary on the nebulous boundary between dreaming and reality.

''Everybody thinks the dream is the important part,'' Zimmer said. ''For me the time was the important part: the idea that, in a peculiar way, Chris had made a time-travel movie that actually worked.''

LikeAnOcean

I can see how the time travel aspect was more important than the dream aspect.. Time is all part of our consciousness anyways. Time speeds up and slows down depending on our brain and awareness.

Heineken Helen

*kinda spoiler*

The top DEFINITELY wobbled the reaction of everyone was really funny... everyone was pretty much like 'ahhhh' but I reckon it was gonna fall... not that it matters cos the film is very much open to interpretation.

I can't see there being a sequel... one of the few minor probs I had with the film was that it felt like a trilogy rolled into a single film... I think it deserved a trilogy... brilliant brilliant amazing brain fuck of a film... my head hurt afterwards. I was often on the edge of losing it but it pulled me back in every time.

Another minor problem I had was that it Cillian Murphy was underused. I think he's actually my favourite actor at the moment and he deserved a bit more depth. I'm slowly starting to like Leo... very slowly! I don't think he deserves all the roles he's gotten :oops:

Kilgore_Trout

Yah... Leo's been VERY fortunate with the roles he's gotten... not that they're entirely undeserved, but he has one of the greatest directors of the past (Scorsese) and the greatest director of the present/future (Nolan) eating out of the palm of his hand...

Nice to see Nolan reusing Cillian even if its not to his full potential... he must see something there

the whole wobble/not wobble argument seems like a moot point... why were the kids the same age and in the same outfits?! i agree that i heard a bit of a wobble... BUT STILL

Heineken Helen

Kilgore_Trout wrote:

Yah... Leo's been VERY fortunate with the roles he's gotten... not that they're entirely undeserved, but he has one of the greatest directors of the past (Scorsese) and the greatest director of the present/future (Nolan) eating out of the palm of his hand...

Nice to see Nolan reusing Cillian even if its not to his full potential... he must see something there

the whole wobble/not wobble argument seems like a moot point... why were the kids the same age and in the same outfits?! i agree that i heard a bit of a wobble... BUT STILL

Maybe the next batman film will do a bit more with scarecrow... this deserves a leading role I reckon... Murphy can be a creepy bollox. At least he got ONE emotional scene where he gave it everything.

Lol at the ages and clothes, never considered that. Need to see this a second time... but gonna give it a while to rest my brain

I really don't get Leo... but that might be a whole other thread sometimes he's really good and I think I'm starting to get it... but there's just something 'GOOD' about him... just good!

The Champ

So I saw this movie twice, once with my wife and once with my sister and they both without a doubt felt that the top kept spinning....damn pessimist....It wobbled and eventually fell is what I left the theater thinking...Nolan satisfied both types of viewers..........and Leo is the man..

Heineken Helen

The Champ wrote:

So I saw this movie twice, once with my wife and once with my sister and they both without a doubt felt that the top kept spinning....damn pessimist....It wobbled and eventually fell is what I left the theater thinking...Nolan satisfied both types of viewers..........and Leo is the man..

while it was spinning I said 'it's gonna fall' and when it wobbled and ended I concluded that it fell

I usually don't like films that let you make up your own mind cos sometimes it can be a bit lazy but the reaction from everyone in the cinema was brilliant... it was a collective gasp and then 'noooo' and then laughing

This was the best film I've seen in years.

Kilgore_Trout

The Champ wrote:

damn pessimist

i think with this - just like the twist in shutter island - the "bad" scenario is actually the more optimistic

Leo wasn't fit to live in the real world... staying in dreamland was perfect for him

The Champ

Heineken Helen wrote:

The Champ wrote:

So I saw this movie twice, once with my wife and once with my sister and they both without a doubt felt that the top kept spinning....damn pessimist....It wobbled and eventually fell is what I left the theater thinking...Nolan satisfied both types of viewers..........and Leo is the man..

while it was spinning I said 'it's gonna fall' and when it wobbled and ended I concluded that it fell

I usually don't like films that let you make up your own mind cos sometimes it can be a bit lazy but the reaction from everyone in the cinema was brilliant... it was a collective gasp and then 'noooo' and then laughing

This was the best film I've seen in years.

Definitely, I loved the ending....great flick and Leo was perfect in the role...admit it, you know you want to ..

The Champ

Kilgore_Trout wrote:

The Champ wrote:

damn pessimist

i think with this - just like the twist in shutter island - the "bad" scenario is actually the more optimistic

Leo wasn't fit to live in the real world... staying in dreamland was perfect for him

That's an interesting spin, but the fucking top fell damn it!

Heineken Helen

The Champ wrote:

Heineken Helen wrote:

The Champ wrote:

So I saw this movie twice, once with my wife and once with my sister and they both without a doubt felt that the top kept spinning....damn pessimist....It wobbled and eventually fell is what I left the theater thinking...Nolan satisfied both types of viewers..........and Leo is the man..

while it was spinning I said 'it's gonna fall' and when it wobbled and ended I concluded that it fell

I usually don't like films that let you make up your own mind cos sometimes it can be a bit lazy but the reaction from everyone in the cinema was brilliant... it was a collective gasp and then 'noooo' and then laughing

This was the best film I've seen in years.

Definitely, I loved the ending....great flick and Leo was perfect in the role...admit it, you know you want to ..

Nope... it was the first thing I said afterwards... well basically I don't think any of the characters were developed... otherwise I'd say Cillian Murphy shoulda had the lead role but I don't think any of the characters were better than the others... I think they were all pretty one dimensional and superflouous to the plot.

I wanna see it again now though

Kilgore_Trout

im glad ellen page's character wasnt anymore developed... i think shes cute as hell but i cant stand her acting...

that british actor from rocknrolla is great though... cant think of his name... i hope he gets more projects

catefrances

i didnt seee leo get out of the sinking van. sure he coulda but i reckon he never made it back home.