it is ever better when you watch it again, you will see how the pieces falls together.

true enough. watched it couple of time just the week before... nolan nolan... I think among all of nolan's movie, excluding inception, memento seems to be the out-standing one...

right... memento was better for me...

inception was good yeah..but its sci-fi injected, didnt have the real umphh in it, but it was a unique concept, indeed.

i watched insomnia back when i was still stupid young few years back, i went to cinema n slept ... n i am redownloading and wanna watch it again for real haha...

haha... you ain't missing much. personally, that movie was average. once you'd watch [Memento], nothing beats it, that's how I see it.

And yet in the opening scenes of the film, we apparently see Cobb getting a document from Saito's safe and reading it. If you cannot obtain any new information from dreams, what is the point of doing extraction at all?

Insomnia... that remake version under Nolan was just so-so. Nothing that great. But I feel is the least best under his helm...

I think what he was trying to say is that you need someone else to teach you in a dream. You cant teach yourself new knowledge without having first taught yourself the knowledge.

Sure, that's why you'd wire up a professor together with a bunch of students. A whole course's worth of studying in just one day!

the whole feel of an alternate universe is still there bro, i think...but Dark City just grabbed my attention more...maybe i'm just a sucker for gothic-noir dark films. And Dark City was directed by the director of The Crow - hence the gothic feeling....

Imho, Inception is just too 'bright' for me and the corporate plot and trying-to--be-action-packed movie just turned me off a lil bit. Just didn't buy the whole 'wanna-plant-the-idea-into-this-corporate-dude' by getting into his dream....and then when it's in his dreams, there's guns and all?? Hmm...don't think it's that cool...

and the total turn-off was when there were Titanic-ish moments like 'you jump, i jump' and with Leo...gosh, i hated Titanic...so i guess the hatred spread into this film as well...haha

comparing Inception to The Matrix - at least The Matrix poked some sarcasm into our daily lives by saying that whatever we're doing now isn't real...and what's real is actually us being in dark leather and doing kungfu and gun-battles...that itself is great philosophy to me. Makes you think differently about the world

I think Dark City actually started this 'poking into your real life' philosophy...and that's why there were 'aliens' and 'building shifts' etc

Also - I never liked Dark Knight...thought it was just too much hoo-haa but no real depth...i feel Batman Begins was wayy better since there was more 'character'...

but that's just me...

anyways...i might try to watch Inception again to try to like it...Still I do like that dude playing Arthur...he's got some bright future ahead...3rd Rock From The Sun rocked...so i'm sure he'll rock the big screen too soon enough ...

Go Nolan!

This post has been edited by silbii: Jul 24 2010, 11:53 AM

bummer! i shud've watched Memento after i've watched others!

probably because he's not involved in the adaptation writing....every other movies of his, he's involved more or less in the story writing

I guess its possible but i think its quite pointless to discuss what other things you can achieve with the device. You can hook up an entire population to the device but thats not what the movie is about. And more importantly, the stuff in the film is not to be taken too literally. Like all films there bound to be a level of ambiguity and ridiculousness. Its all fake but you just go along with it.

agreed...i was forced to be like the character(having amnesia) and keep on asking myself "where am i" when watching the movie the first time lol

^the pic was posted few pages back already bro.. "wake up!" haha...

the ending is the "reality"

subtitle fail.

Just back from my second viewing. The plot and details seem to be clearer this time. Inception is certainly the movie that requires repeated viewings. And Christopher Nolan is definitely the genius of moviemaking. His movies never failed to impress. Even Insomnia (generally considered his weakest film) is good to me.

Share some interesting things in my second viewing:
1) A couple beside me left after Ariadne completes her experience in the dream world.

2) The audiences' response to the ending. Some peoples give a laugh after the credit, but mostly the sound of "Ohhhh....." Then discussion on the way out.

3) Outside the hall exit, a group of younglings talking there, probably waiting for their friends who are in the toilet.

Young lady A: I fell asleep during the part where .........
Young lady B: Ya ya, me too. Hahahaha.........

Do they have like books for Inception? A novel perhaps?