Comments on: Inception Review

By: nina

nina — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 11:21:26 +0000

I stumbled upon this review while searching for something else and couldn’t help but read it. I haven’t read any reviews of inception and was eager to hear if there are some official opinions stating how overrated this movie is. I get how it deserves oscar nominations in the technical area – visual effects and sound but a nomination for best picture of the year? Are you fucking kidding me? To level out this movie with black swan, for example? To quote sheldon – you are good naturedly ribbing me, aren’t you?
What bothers me the most about this review – it is stacked with words emphasizing precision like ‘internal logic’ and ‘tightly plotted’, ‘well conceived’ and ‘executed with precision’. Seriously?! What exactly is precise about this movie? The fact that that the architect draws some picture and builds some lego mazes and it somehow all relates to their dream? I’m not even gonna go into further details. I think comment no. 67 sums it up real nicely. And one more thing – this movie comes nowhere near matrix. Even though science fiction and even though made 10 years ago, this movie was explained almost to the very core – unlike this dipshit overselled movie.

By: Jenny P

Jenny P — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:40:12 +0000

I personally think this was one of the best movies to come out in ages. To be honest I did not want to watch it. I have never been a huge DiCaprio fan. Well let me tell you what. Now I am. This was the first movie to keep me glues to the screen and wanting more in forever. I have to think my boyfriend for making me watch it against my will. It was actually a some what challenging movie. I mean its the first movie that kept me on the edge of my seat. Then OMG when it went off. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. COULD’NT. I pulled out Google and researched and read and went crazy til I made sure I had all the info I could get. Watched Edited scenes. Then….I went back and watched it again. That’s right, I watched it again. And I loved it all over. I have to say this movie restored my faith in movies……Well then after that I watched tons of crap movies that killed it all over. But point is it restored my faith even if the next movie killed it all over again.

By: Y

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:03:45 +0000

Visually amazing though after 30 minutes special effects aren’t enough to keep one interested in this film. Way too long and I agree that the characters lack depth big time. It felt like far to much was being stuffed into it.

By: jc

jc — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:22:56 +0000

I am dumbfounded by the positive reviews this movie is getting.
I see it as a pretentious American movie with the gunfire and explosions that characterize so much American cinema.
The characters left me cold.
The story made me yawn.
The future scares me.

By: Emil

Emil — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:00:27 +0000

Cant belive the reviews this is getting, just finished watching it.. way to long and the character development is quite poor. I dont really care if Kobb makes which makes me indifferent to the outcome. I dunno i think Nolan is getting to much credit for this and The Dark Knight. The Prestige is amazing, this movie just tries to hard.

Dont mind plot holes watching GI Joe, but in these types of movies it just ruins it, 1.5 stars.

By: Brett Gerry

Brett Gerry — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:40:17 +0000

It’s about time we had a sensible reevaluation of this film: http://bit.ly/9xBJSz

By: rus in chicago

rus in chicago — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:12:55 +0000

- so-so, to me the better question is “Why do people seem to look past the ridiculous dream machine in Inception, but can’t accept the stupid cloth wrap in The Cell?” They are both ridiculous, but in Inception Nolan pulls off his greatest achievement as a writer / director feeding the audience enough atmosphere and drama that they are willing to go along and overlook the illogical.

You always hear sci-fi fans state that good sci-fi is merely human drama in the context of advanced science. You could say Inception uses the disguise of science to start a ride for the audience and then discards the science. Maybe that is because dreams are as universal as wanting to be love, fear of the beast, hope so the only task is for Nolan to get an acceptable way to unlock the audience’s shared desire to explore another persons dreams. The device is immaterial.

By: Jarron

Jarron — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:37:25 +0000

I am currently writing a science-fiction novel and this movie is so full of original and fresh ideas, it hurt. This movie is very complex and very drawn…it would be well suited for a comic book. There is so much information to retain that you have to be there in the beginning to understand and have a chess-player attention span to keep up with what’s going on because there’s just so much going on.There’s so many plot levels (quite literally), that this movie shuns the Matrix and sprouts ideas (the theme by the way) that is mind-eye candy. The dialogue is a bit loaded and kind of hard to comprehend under the influence of butter and sugar. Nonetheless, the dialogue serves its purpose of informing the viewer on what’s going on as guns blaze a zero-gravity rains supreme. This may be a small spoiler (but not really) but the perjections of people staring at their enemy is so origial and rather creepy because it happens in my dreams! I CAN’T WAIT TO GO TO SLEEP!!

By: so-so

so-so — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:33:10 +0000

The “mysterious dream-sharing device” is truly one of the most ridiculous props in the recent history of cinema. The mechanics/chemistry of SHARED dreaming via this device are totally unexplained, and honestly I can get past that irritation. But what gets to me the most is how this device is somehow needed within the dream states to go deeper into other dreams.

I simply could not suspend my disbelief enough to get past the silliness of needing that dream box within the dreams. Couldn’t they just as easily have all hooked themselves up to a spare tire or a chunk of ashpalt? Since none of it was real anyway, why were they even bothering to hook themselves up? Why not just agree on some simple shared cue to initiate the next dream, like a specific spoken word? Because once they’re within the first dream it’s no longer drugs that’s initiating the next dream level. If anything, it’s a form of hypnotism.

By: ProMovieBlogger

ProMovieBlogger — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:23:03 +0000

I found another chart. This one details the last dreams and all of the kicks:

Inception Infographic: The Last Dreams and Kicks
http://film-book.com/inception-infographic-the-last-dreams-and-kicks/

By: ProMovieBlogger

ProMovieBlogger — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:02:28 +0000

I thought these two posts might make the film clearer to some of you especially the second one:

Christopher Nolan’s Inception: Questions, Theories, Secrets, Explanations, Award Buzz
http://film-book.com/christopher-nolans-inception-questions-theories-secrets-explanations-award-buzz/

Inception: The 5 Levels Chart
http://film-book.com/inception-the-5-levels-chart/

By: Kevin Gebo

Kevin Gebo — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:11:51 +0000

Just a theory – from listening to the podcast:

SPOILER ALERT:

At one point Cobb says “when she would spin the top in her dream it would spin forever”. He spins it at the end and it doesnt stop, meaning the whole thing is actually Mol’s dream. Thats why Mol keeps showing up, shes not part of his subconcious, they are actually in her dream. He is actually the one lost in the dream world and she us trying to use inception to bring him back. Ultimately it doesnt work and he stays. This could be wrong, feel free to shoot holes in it.