@hchavers I think they just want to know how to plant a: “Go to meh. Buy stuff.” thought into our deep subconscious minds, and were hoping our comments would give them clues.
It’s good, but people got way too obsessed with it. I heard so many people say it was hard to follow, and you’d have to watch it multiple times to understand the basic plot, but it’s a surprisingly straight forward story. It doesn’t really have an earth-shattering twist. I didn’t really see it coming until it was obvious, but it doesn’t change much, just slightly explain a little more of one character’s motivation. I recommend watching at least once with tamed expectations.
I came here to say the same thing as @benj said that where is the option that I have not seen it. So I just clicked the I will give my opinion in the comments answer.
I enjoyed the movie, but I am beyond sick of seeing “a thing within a thing” erroneously labeled as a “thing-caption.”
The weird dream thing was part of the movie (avoiding spoilers for the exposition of an eight-year-old movie), but it wasn’t the inception itself, just a vehicle for achieving it.
It’s like if I made a movie about trying to get a steak sub, and called the movie Steak Sub, and in the movie I had to take a bus to get my steak sub, and immediately after watching the movie people forgot what a steak sub was but they remembered there was a bus in my movie. They would walk down the street and see a bus and say “there goes a steak sub” and laugh raucously at their own clever joke. Eventually people would get even more clever and apply parts of the movie title to parts of names of other similar things. An automobile? Nope, a steaksubmobile, as my neighbor would hilariously shout every morning as I went to my driveway. That would be hard to say and unlikely to stick, though, so people would shorten it. An underway train? No, now it’s a subway train, because aren’t we all so amazingly clever. The marinebus? No now we call it a submarine, because obviously the title of a movie should be applied indiscriminately to everything in real life that is kind of like something someone remembers from the movie whether or not it has anything to do with the meaning of the word or what it represented in the movie itself.
And here I am, typing furiously away on my phone arguing to the internet in hopes of getting someone to read this and remember it later, the next time someone makes a ridiculous -ception joke, and maybe they don’t remember where that idea came from? Maybe you figured out for yourself how asinine the internet can be? It’s a mystery for sure.
I had to think hard to have thoughts about a movie that I did not just finish watching.
Did Inception start Inception-style movie trailers? I hate those. It was good the first time I remember seeing it, which was Inception, but now it is pretty annoying. Like how corporate keynotes now are all bad Steve Jobs impressions, instead of just being straightforwardly bad, which would be an improvement.
Uhhh… guess the movie had money behind it and was surreal and whatnot. So it was good, probably. “Kind of like the Matrix, sort of,” I remember either saying or hearing.
First movie in which I noticed Tom Hardy. I’ve liked him ever since. When I first saw the new trailer for Venom, I told my friend that I am one of the small minority of people more excited to see Tom Hardy in that movie than Venom.
Okay, I’ll be the one who actually admits to seeing this movie more than once (on a disc, not in a theater) and loving it. In fact, I would list it among my top dozen or so favorite SF movies, along with Silent Running, Gattaca, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Slaughterhouse 5 and a few others. It’s not a mindless shoot-'em-up bad Western-in-Space nor is it one of the uber-intellectual (boring) talkie-talk movies with no plot. After seeing it the first time, I watched it again just to confirm that the ending was what I thought and was NOT ambiguous. And to confirm that there was a movie starring Leo DiCaprio that I actually didn’t hate. and
But in the end, it’s just a movie. Love it, hate it, refuse to bother with it - it’s not important in the grand scheme of things.
The first time it was difficult for me to follow as I was doing something else at the same time. You can’t do that with this movie. We turned it off about 40 minutes into it. I kept hearing about it and I was like… ick… I hated it… couldn’t even follow it. So then one day I watched it again and this time paid attention. I definitely picked up a lot more the second time and understood it. I did find it somewhat compelling the 2nd time around. Just couldn’t get into it the first time tho.
Where is the option “Haven’t seen it”?
@benj
Right here
never seen it, any good?
@clonetek
It’s one of my favorites. Especially good if you like psychological thrillers.
Never seen it, would have no idea what it was about if I hadn’t seen the South Park parody episode.
Never seen it, I know of the basic plot entirely through memes.
This poll needs more
@RiotDemon actually, I’m pretty sure it needs more
@UncleVinny I enjoyed it.
Does someone at Meh have an obsession with dreams? Is there a Daniel behind the scenes?
@hchavers I think they just want to know how to plant a: “Go to meh. Buy stuff.” thought into our deep subconscious minds, and were hoping our comments would give them clues.
It’s good, but people got way too obsessed with it. I heard so many people say it was hard to follow, and you’d have to watch it multiple times to understand the basic plot, but it’s a surprisingly straight forward story. It doesn’t really have an earth-shattering twist. I didn’t really see it coming until it was obvious, but it doesn’t change much, just slightly explain a little more of one character’s motivation. I recommend watching at least once with tamed expectations.
@simplersimon also, realize that Hans Zimmer is a madman. The measure he went through for the score are ridiculous, with a fairly minor payoff.
@simplersimon I had to watch it twice.
I came here to say the same thing as @benj said that where is the option that I have not seen it. So I just clicked the I will give my opinion in the comments answer.
I haven’t seen it.
I enjoyed the movie, but I am beyond sick of seeing “a thing within a thing” erroneously labeled as a “thing-caption.”
The weird dream thing was part of the movie (avoiding spoilers for the exposition of an eight-year-old movie), but it wasn’t the inception itself, just a vehicle for achieving it.
It’s like if I made a movie about trying to get a steak sub, and called the movie Steak Sub, and in the movie I had to take a bus to get my steak sub, and immediately after watching the movie people forgot what a steak sub was but they remembered there was a bus in my movie. They would walk down the street and see a bus and say “there goes a steak sub” and laugh raucously at their own clever joke. Eventually people would get even more clever and apply parts of the movie title to parts of names of other similar things. An automobile? Nope, a steaksubmobile, as my neighbor would hilariously shout every morning as I went to my driveway. That would be hard to say and unlikely to stick, though, so people would shorten it. An underway train? No, now it’s a subway train, because aren’t we all so amazingly clever. The marinebus? No now we call it a submarine, because obviously the title of a movie should be applied indiscriminately to everything in real life that is kind of like something someone remembers from the movie whether or not it has anything to do with the meaning of the word or what it represented in the movie itself.
And here I am, typing furiously away on my phone arguing to the internet in hopes of getting someone to read this and remember it later, the next time someone makes a ridiculous -ception joke, and maybe they don’t remember where that idea came from? Maybe you figured out for yourself how asinine the internet can be? It’s a mystery for sure.
Sorry for the little rant-ception.
@geekahedron
sub = bus backwards…
I can’t stop laughing at this for some silly reason.
@geekahedron I agree. Scandalous. We should call it Ceptiongate.
I had to think hard to have thoughts about a movie that I did not just finish watching.
Did Inception start Inception-style movie trailers? I hate those. It was good the first time I remember seeing it, which was Inception, but now it is pretty annoying. Like how corporate keynotes now are all bad Steve Jobs impressions, instead of just being straightforwardly bad, which would be an improvement.
Uhhh… guess the movie had money behind it and was surreal and whatnot. So it was good, probably. “Kind of like the Matrix, sort of,” I remember either saying or hearing.
@InnocuousFarmer This is my favorite move review ever.
All Christopher Nolan movies are connected. There’s inception for you.
First movie in which I noticed Tom Hardy. I’ve liked him ever since. When I first saw the new trailer for Venom, I told my friend that I am one of the small minority of people more excited to see Tom Hardy in that movie than Venom.
@moondrake Love Tom Hardy. Have you seen Lawless?
@lseeber Yes, it was good. I think I liked him best in This Means War. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was also good. Heckuva cast.
@moondrake Haven’t seen that one.
Great special effects for 8 years ago, interesting story, but not a movie that I’d want to see over and over again.
Okay, I’ll be the one who actually admits to seeing this movie more than once (on a disc, not in a theater) and loving it. In fact, I would list it among my top dozen or so favorite SF movies, along with Silent Running, Gattaca, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Slaughterhouse 5 and a few others. It’s not a mindless shoot-'em-up bad Western-in-Space nor is it one of the uber-intellectual (boring) talkie-talk movies with no plot. After seeing it the first time, I watched it again just to confirm that the ending was what I thought and was NOT ambiguous. And to confirm that there was a movie starring Leo DiCaprio that I actually didn’t hate.
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But in the end, it’s just a movie. Love it, hate it, refuse to bother with it - it’s not important in the grand scheme of things.
@rockblossom ever see memento?
@Seeds Nope - just a trailer. Any good?
@rockblossom As someone with a fucked memory who keeps a lot of mementos, I’d recommend it.
@rockblossom Silent Running is one of the saddest movies I ever saw, partly because I’m terrified it’s prescient.
@moondrake That’s how I feel watching The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu.
@moondrake @rockblossom well, I know what I’m watching next.
Still have yet to see it.
The first time it was difficult for me to follow as I was doing something else at the same time. You can’t do that with this movie. We turned it off about 40 minutes into it. I kept hearing about it and I was like… ick… I hated it… couldn’t even follow it. So then one day I watched it again and this time paid attention. I definitely picked up a lot more the second time and understood it. I did find it somewhat compelling the 2nd time around. Just couldn’t get into it the first time tho.