Inception (with implanted spoilers)

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Polls Within Polls - Inception Showdown

Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:14 (fourteen years ago)

dunno what went wrong the first time

Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:15 (fourteen years ago)

http://chud.com/articles/content_images/5/dreamjob.jpg

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 October 2011 17:16 (fourteen years ago)

your poll was incepted lol! ;)

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:16 (fourteen years ago)

did leo really have to find himself in this movie

dayo, Monday, 24 October 2011 17:21 (fourteen years ago)

why couldnt it just have been about shooting inceptions

dayo, Monday, 24 October 2011 17:21 (fourteen years ago)

i want to propose a movie

during which this couple decides they're gonna have sex, even though they're not sure their relationship is a-okay
during which guy is having trouble deciding which hole is the right hole because hey, might as well go for broke
during which a single mobile sperm is having trouble getting into an egg because the egg is not sure the pairing will be a-okay
during which some molecular level-shit mirrors the frustration of the previous levels, but, you know, on a molecular level
during which the movement of a single quark represents a watershed that will determine if some higher level shit will happen AND... he is played by a guy who looks just like a guy from the beginning of the movie AND he has a fantasy about having sex w/ a lady even though their relationship is not okay.

it will be called 'conception'

turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:27 (fourteen years ago)

no that doesn't sound like a good movie

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:28 (fourteen years ago)

not like inception

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:28 (fourteen years ago)

i like that movie

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:28 (fourteen years ago)

(inception)

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:28 (fourteen years ago)

I am pretty sure that when he tries to have anal sex with her so they can make a baby, your movie is going to take a turn that blocks off the rest of your plot sketch

do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:30 (fourteen years ago)

foiled!

turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:31 (fourteen years ago)

u just made me think of:
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfpt77F3Qh1qbj46wo1_r1_500.gif

Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:35 (fourteen years ago)

remy they made that movie already... it's called 'the butterfly effect' and stars famous twitter user and part time actor ashton kutcher

dayo, Monday, 24 October 2011 17:56 (fourteen years ago)

deadpan =/= "airless"

its just a heist movie with a slightly different "dreamscape-y" twist, just because it pretends to be serious (which it isn't, really) doesn't mean y'all have to get all het up about it not being cerebral enough

the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 24 October 2011 20:51 (fourteen years ago)

i mean the movie has its problems, no doubt, but im totally happy to see nolan putting his thinky-winky twist on the whole blockbuster formula, god knows nobody else is really trying

the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 24 October 2011 20:52 (fourteen years ago)

still, 148 minutes is a lot of good intentions to reward.

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 October 2011 20:54 (fourteen years ago)

its just a heist movie with a slightly different "dreamscape-y" twist, just because it pretends to be serious (which it isn't, really) doesn't mean y'all have to get all het up about it not being cerebral enough

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, October 24, 2011 8:51 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

otm

lagerfeld of modern despots (latebloomer), Monday, 24 October 2011 20:55 (fourteen years ago)

Seeing the memes before the movie, I kept waiting for this part, not knowing that it was just a photo taken from the set.

http://img.chinasmack.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/leonardo-di-caprio-inception-photoshops-01.jpg

Kept thinking Juno would be on the beach while the dream city fell down and Leo would be walking like that toward her like Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff.

pplains, Monday, 24 October 2011 20:56 (fourteen years ago)

tbh I'm still lolling at the "this would have been better if it had been more like 'What Dreams May Come'" argument

do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 20:56 (fourteen years ago)

I know there's some pervy img zing to be made out of Leo, Juno, and What Dreams May Come, but goddammit I blame Monday for me not being able to come up with it.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 24 October 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

the problems with inception (po-faced degeneration to mess) are quite different to the problems with TDK (lumbering MESSAGE subplots)

Both well worth watching, neither worth discussing for months after

generation lmbo (darraghmac), Monday, 24 October 2011 20:59 (fourteen years ago)

also- they're incepting leo ffs

generation lmbo (darraghmac), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:01 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.zuguide.com/image/Isabella-Rossellini-Blue-Velvet.3.jpg

"He put his incept in me"

lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:03 (fourteen years ago)

Guys if anyone thinks there are lots of "alternate angles" to Inception or anything to be theorized about, then you missed a boat. And by boat, I mean a plot that was spelled out.

I mean the only thing that's vaguely open is whether the end is the top falling. Nolan says it is, but it's kind of the nondeterministic thing that leads to multiple interpretations in analysis, but to me it's not worth talking about because that is such a fucking boring open end!

I mean, if I was younger this might be ~mind blowing~ but I thought it was pretty entertaining if a little dead emotionally, which is kind of Nolan's stock in trade

avant-garde heterosexuals (mh), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:04 (fourteen years ago)

d-mac otm, is what I'm trying to say

avant-garde heterosexuals (mh), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:04 (fourteen years ago)

If Leo is being incepted or was incepted, what was the idea? "You are a clever, guilt-ridden murderer"?

do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:06 (fourteen years ago)

What if outside the dream Cobb is a Pittsburgh weatherman.

pplains, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:06 (fourteen years ago)

xp not to do shutter island

generation lmbo (darraghmac), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:14 (fourteen years ago)

yall shd watch Barry Lyndon tonight

Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:17 (fourteen years ago)

me too!! we had to google it after we saw it to work out how it actually ended!! Still not sure.....

conrad, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:18 (fourteen years ago)

I think these 2 movies leave a certain degree of interpretation. The purpose is to make you feel unsettled!

conrad, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:18 (fourteen years ago)

I'll stick with comedy and chick flicks for a while - I think it was all a dream xxx

conrad, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:18 (fourteen years ago)

yeah at least kubrick knew his leading man was a no-charisma blank

generation lmbo (darraghmac), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:19 (fourteen years ago)

i think we get the idea that conrad is massively more intelligent than the chicks he's c/ping or parodying or w/vs

lex pretend, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:30 (fourteen years ago)

fucking moron

lex pretend, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:30 (fourteen years ago)

oh fuck off you arsehole

conrad, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:31 (fourteen years ago)

...

what just happened

do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:31 (fourteen years ago)

the bump

conrad, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:32 (fourteen years ago)

i know, just as well as you do, s1ocki, that deadpan and airless are not the same. potato/potato.

in a nutshell, i found inception unfun and monotonous. the emotional pulse read (to me) as flat. it's just that - like the rest of nolan's movies - the band of psychological expression seems to swing only between 'bereaved' and 'dogged obsession'

turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:33 (fourteen years ago)

people who complain about nolan's movies who have seen all of his movies: maybe you should stop watching his movies?

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:34 (fourteen years ago)

maybe you should start complaining about them?

lol waggoner (am0n), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:36 (fourteen years ago)

I'd say he's about 50/50 good/bad, but he's not entirely uninteresting

turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:46 (fourteen years ago)

Guys if anyone thinks there are lots of "alternate angles" to Inception or anything to be theorized about, then you missed a boat. And by boat, I mean a plot that was spelled out.

I think i said this up thread, but there's a weird therapy/psychoanalysis theme going on. or maybe I'm nuts, but i sorta feel like there is. in that case, it's not so much Leo is being incepted, but that perhaps they are trying to get him to "wake up" from a dream he is still stuck in and thinks is real. they have to let him find that closure on his own, however they rig the situation for him to achieve it.

ryan, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)

remy OTM again

unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)

Inception. Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooring

conrad, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:49 (fourteen years ago)

I can hardly see how somehow can call this "just" a heist movie, but if so, perhaps that underscores its pretensions and/or shortcomings, because surely "Inception" did not aspire to be "just" a heist film. I believe it is meant to be Somewhat Profound (TM).

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:51 (fourteen years ago)

I am sick of talking about what this or any movie "wants" to be or "thinks" it is. Intentionality fallacy iirc

the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:56 (fourteen years ago)

I'm just saying, clearly this movie sees itself as more than "just" a heist film is all. Which is why the conclusion hinges not on the big job, but on Leo's subconscious state of mind.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:58 (fourteen years ago)


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