Among everything else this movie does brilliantly, I'm always impressed by just HOW terrifying they manage to make Mal. Between her performance, the lighting, and the soundtrack, she really does feel like a nightmarish entity at times.
Yea his jumps were pretty funny, all the jumps scares in this film are mainly loud musical strikes. Coupled with quality headphones turned up to max... Yea his jumps were pretty funny.
So it looks like, getting a "kick" takes you up by 1 layer. That's why fisher woke up in the snow level after he fell from the building. The first dream-audition with Saito also followed those rules. But dying in a dream, even in limbo, will wake you up entirely. That's how Mal and Cob woke up from their 50+ years in Limbo, and that's how Cob brought Saito back to the real world too. Dying is like a shortcut, falling only takes you one layer at a time.
The sedative plays a key role. Robert fisher was in limbo and when he’s thrown off the building, he dies but he doesn’t wake up (in airplane) but rather goes back to the snowy fortress. If he wasn’t heavily sedated, he would be back to reality (airplane). This is why when Cobb and Mal died in limbo, they came back to reality as they were not heavily sedated. Same for Cobb and Saito - they were sedated but by the time they killed themselves in limbo, the sedative effect worn out and hence they came back to reality.
He planted the idea in her mind to help her get out of limbo; it was dumb, maybe, but he wasn't trying to get her to want to die, he wanted her to feel ready enough to make that choice in limbo. He didn't know that the idea would follow her out of limbo into the real world.
@@GauravSharma-dy8xvyeah he could have, but how many of us would be able to kill someone we love the most in the whole world, even if you knew you would wake up to the real world? I certainly couldn’t and neither could most people.
@@GauravSharma-dy8xv And she would likely complain to him about it in real life and try to sedate both of them to return both back into their dream world.
No the drugs they used probably were different. The one they took was modified by chemist to enable them to wake up from a fall. They were in a limbo. If you get killed you'll be stuck there forever.
That hallway fight with Joseph Gordon Levitt was shot almost entirely with practical effects. They built a spinning hallway and spun the camera in sync with the hallway to make it look like gravity was constantly changing.
@@thejamppa Same! He has played such diverse characters throughout his career, too. Even if you just listen to his accents, let’s say, here in Inception or in Peaky Blinders. It’s crazy. Definitely deserves main role on the big screen!
What also makes the movie so great is that the plot is so complex that it makes the movie almost spoiler-proof, because you can't really be spoiled by what happens without watching it in order to really understand HOW it got to where it was going.
That’s true, “Cobb killed his wife” wouldn’t work because they kill each other a lot in dreams anyway, but I guess “they succeed with inception” would kinda work. It incredibly vague but it works
@@ot7biasedmashupsand even once you know what inception is, the fun part is seeing the plan unfold, all the challenges they run into and have to work past. Like in a heist movie, we figure the thieves are probably going to get away with it if they're our protagonists, but we watch to see *how* they get away with it.
He is in the real world. His totem is not the spinning top (it's Mal's), it's his wedding ring. As the character of Joseph Gordon Levitt explain at the beggining of the movie, nobody can touch another person totem, or it becomes useless. When you look at Cobb's left hand, you can see that he is wearing his wedding ring in the dream world, but not in the real world. The spinning top at the end is a metaphor of him letting Mal go for good.
Thank you, so many people miss this detail even though it's explained in very easy terms in the movie "if anyone else knows, it defeats the purpose" It doesn't matter if the spinning top keeps spinning or not, it's Mal's totem, not Cobb's.
Oh I didn't catch that. I just assumed Cobb also disobeyed that rule like the 'don't dream real places' one. All these years I thought he didn't make it bc saito reached for the gun. (And they both agreed to fall further down the limbo and 'be young together again' since it's too late they missed the last kick)
@@marxton_ Nolan purposefully mislead the audience with the spinning top. And it worked 🤣 When Cobb reaches for the gun in the hotel room, this is not because he thinks he's in a dream but because he's thinking about Mal and his culpability. He did that to her, without knowing. When he's spinning the spinning top, look at his hands next time. It's very clear.
@@lrepiquet I was referring to the old limbo Saito reaching for the gun before the camera cuts. I thought Saito somehow just killed Cobb and himself (thus falling deeper down the limbo instead of waking up bc its too late). I've always believed in that theory but now Imma have to rewatch to see the hands.
I like how every dream starts in the middle of the scene. Leo said, "You can usually tell you are dreaming if you can't remember how you ended up where you are" love that detail
I saw it with my friends in theaters. While credits were rolling, we were debating "did the top fall?" And like half of the group thought it kept spinning and half (me included) thinking it fell. The fact that Nolan avoided giving a definitive answer for years is awesome. Just stating " the answer is within the movie". He is the only director that if I see he is making the movie, I am going to go
@@calebfoster7954 .. it fell .. you don't see it on screen - but i remember hearing it toppling onto the table ........ might of course be just wishful thinkin'🤔
One of my favorite movies of all time and my fave movie of Nolan. This "wild concept" was inspired by a classic masterpiece anime that's also mindblowing and waaay more trippy, Paprika. And its creator was also known and famous just like Nolan for doing complex mindf*ck movies.
@@stefanmilicevic5322 yeah, he's so creative that Hollywood kept copying his brilliant mind. R.I.P. to the legend, we could've had more mindf*ck masterpieces if he didn't gone too soon.
The fact that the top wobbled at the end means that it's real life. The top never wobbled in a dream, it always remained perfectly spinning. Peace of mind, for you.
The spinning top isn't Cobb's totem, so the whole issue of "is it a dream or not" is not at question. Cobb's totem is his ring, if he has it, it's a dream, but if he doesn't have it, it's reality. In the end, he doesn't have it.
@@Max-cf8pf Except you see him using the top as a totem to test for a dream throughout the movie. And the existence or nonexistence of an item does not make for an effective totem. Having the ring would definitely indicate he's inside of a dream, but not having it could be either way. There is no way to guarantee that in _every_ dream he will have the ring.
@@Justin.Franks It's also a pretty belabored point that he can't see his kids' faces again until he's done. This is arguable either way: it's proof that he's in reality or he's so deep in a dream that he's accepted it fully, but if it's the latter, then the whole plot with Mal doesn't make sense. She'd still be there if it was a dream.
@@tphil5901 I think I remember reading about that, is that where he says that Nolan told him "if you're in the scene, it's reality. If you're not in the scene, it's a dream"?
Biathlon. Some targets are shot laying down and some standing up. All this in the middle of ski race. I guess you need to slow down your heart rate from skiing to hit more accurately also. Unique and brilliant Olympic sport since 1960.
I distinctly remember watching Inception at the movies. Sitting on the edge of my seat. Absolutely losing it when they decide to go on the 4th dream, turning around to see if my friend was as blown away as I was... Just to find him with a they-lost-me-two-dreams-ago look on his face. GREAT movie.
One of the best things about Nolan is that he tries to use as many practical effects as possible, so the exploding flowers and the avalanche were real. As for the hallway scene, it was done with a black box, a centrifuge, and a static camera. "Inception" is a masterclass of filmmaking. If you like this kind of thought-provoking/brain-breaking concept, I'd also recommend "Memento" and "The Prestige" by Nolan.
@Shaun Whelan you could tell by the cheeky look on his face, it's obvious. Ofcourse he wouldn't state it because it would make the joke less funny and would probably offend a snowflake.
@@abrimfulofasha I definitely couldn't tell. It's also very late, so I'm not fully awake. Looking at TH-cam videos when trying to fall asleep isn't always the best strategy
Mal knew that he truly believed he was in reality. She thought she had to push him incredibly hard to convince him to try waking up, so she did everything she could to put him in a scenario so awful that he would do anything to escape it. She went to the psychiatrists to have herself declared sane *and* to say that she was afraid for her life. That would make him the bad guy and make him more desperate to wake up. The psychiatrists believed she really was afraid her husband would kill her, so they saw her having herself declared sane as a safety precaution to make sure that, if her husband killed her, it would be possible to remove the kids from him to keep them safe. It's twisted to think of how all these different people saw the same scenario.
I went to a Hans Zimmer concert yesterday. I can recommend it to everyone. The man composed such great movies. When hearing the music from Inception and interstellar... I just cried 😂
38:05 It wasn't "The hurt locker" which beat "Inception" at the Oscars. "The hurt locker" won its Oscars in 2010 (famously beating "Avatar"). "Inception" was nominated (and won 4 Oscars) in 2011. And most people weren't mad about Leo not winning (or even being nominated for) Best Leading Actor. The general upset was about Christopher Nolan not even getting a Best Directing nomination. And about him losing Best Original Screenplay to "The king's speech". And fun fact: the guy who won Best Directing that year was Tom Hooper, who directed "The king's speech". Tom Hooper is also the guy who, most recently, directed "Cats".
The thing about the ending is that Dicaprio didnt care about the totem anymore when he finally saw the faces of his children. And for me that was a badass ending! Nolan is a genius!!
That was my take. Like, he wasn’t gonna miss that opportunity again. When it happened originally, he was preoccupied with something else and missed the moment they turned and looked. So he was like, nope, not making that mistake again.
The hallway fight is one of the most iconic and revered stunt sequences, and it was basically filmed on a giant hamster wheel. The hallway was built on a spinning rig, the camera was fixed normally (not following the hallway’s movement), and the actors are experiencing gravity naturally while fighting because the ground keeps shifting.
I hace lucid dreams and really enjoyed some aspects of this movie. For a while I was kind of… addicted to sleeping. It was the only time I didn’t have horrible pain and could walk or even run and it be enjoyable. I write, so having tea with my characters and discussing their lives to figure out points I was unsure about was really helpful. I’d even see and talk with my late grandmother and mom. Then I’d wake up in my dim apartment where sometimes I’d go over a week without seeing another person, where my voice was hoarse from having no one to speak to, where I had to sit in the shower because I felt so weak, and my constant pain dogged every step. So one, yeah, if I could stay inside dreams for an extended period of time, heck yeah! I once had a dream that I perceived to be four years. I was really upset when I woke up, because I had a kid, and was its parent for three years. I wake up and my baby girl is gone, and NEVER EXISTED. I was basically grieving for a while. Lucid dreams feel incredibly real to me, almost more real than real life. Everything is more colorful and super saturated. The air is crisper. The emotions and impressions are stronger. Occasionally I’d lose lucidity and just be in a very vivid dream I didn’t control anymore, and when those became nightmares they were terrifying, because they felt so so real. My pain would leak in. Back pain became me being stabbed repeatedly, or crushed under boulders, or catching fire. It became too dangerous to lucid dream often when my pain was that bad. Now I’m married and in college and my pain is a lot better. I don’t try to lucid dream often now. I try to pull myself away even when I just have a “vivid.” It’s too… easy to fall back into wanting to sleep and go on adventures. I don’t want to miss out on my real life ones because I’m asleep.
There was a point in time I spent more time in the day sleeping because I was addicted. Since then, it's become a religious experience. Nobody could understand the lonely perfection of my dreams. Nolan is left-handed. So am I. The only other person I personal know who lucid dreams is also left-handed. Are you left-handed? The first time I was introduced to Nolan was through Inception, a movie I knew nothing about, only agreeing to go to the movies impromptu.That movie changed my life because it's the first time I felt that somebody else experienced lucid dreaming, too.
@@MrSnrubIsRight I’m left handed. And my brother, who also lucid dreams, is left handed. But I also have narcolepsy, which makes someone way more likely to have lucid dreams. Our brains are made differently so we’re more easily capable. There are some really interesting studies where scientists are trying to communicate with dreamers real time, and have the dreamers communicate outside of dreams. They thought dreams were like imagination, but they’ve discovered that it’s more akin to waking perception than anything we can imagine, much like in the way Inception portrays in the movie. There’s no way people can really understand just how vivid and real the dreams are.
@@abstractnonsense3253I do some reality checks during the day and go to sleep intentionally, and I have themes in my dreams that are giveaways that I’m sleeping, and when I see them it helps me become lucid. Like, there’s a book series I liked when I was little, but in the dream I have all the copies and there’s like 150 books in the series instead of the eight I originally had. Or, my mother left me some jewelry that I never inherited (yet; but it’s been three years) that I dream about, and usually if I find all the jewelry she shows up. Or for some reason I dream about grocery stores a lot. 😂 Or abandoned stores at night. Or abandoned grocery stores at night. 🤣 Also buildings tilting sideways, and even my weight making a difference in how it tilts. I hate those dreams. They’re on par with my dreams of being in the passenger seat of a car while somehow driving it, before it becomes a problem. And underwater dreams or water park dreams when I’m cold. So… any of those happen, I realize, “That’s not normal,” and become lucid. If I did reality checks recently or went to sleep or back to sleep intentionally, I have a higher chance of it happening. The best indicator of if I’ll have a lucid dream by FAR though is sleep time. So, I have lucid dreams when I’m around ten hours into resting. OR when I am asleep at 7-8pm. They’re my prime windows. Really not something I can do these days, but back in the day it was almost a guarantee.
“When I got the script of Inception, I was a bit puzzled by it and I said to him 'I don't understand where the dream is',” Caine told the crowd. “I said, 'When is it the dream and when is it reality? ' He said, 'Well when you're in the scene it's reality. ' So get that - if I'm in it, it's reality.
You should watch “Tenet” next. It’s Nolan’s most recent film and feels very similar to Inception in tone and style. It‘s also a film that takes a pretty classic film genre, like spy films, and adds a super mind bending idea on top of it, just like how Inception is basically a heist film but layers in the idea of them stealing from dreams.
Inception is also arguably my all-time favorite movie for many of the reasons you mentioned. It is really hard to piece together the chronology of the film even on rewatching with all the levels of dreams, and upon rewatching you wonder when are you actually seeing “reality”…it messes with your mind and I love that
Every Christopher Nolan movie is worth reacting to, they're all great. I highly recommend Memento in particular. His breakthrough film, another crazy mindfuck film
Yeah, there are some good behind the scenes on the Blu-Ray for Inception.
On the Blu-ray, there are 2 ways to watch the movie: - Default way: The way you're watching now. - Extraction Mode: This version of the movie will incorporate many "behind the scenes" moments into the movie. One of 2 things will happen, they will either air the scene and play the behind the scene, or show the behind-the-scenes first and THEN air the scene. They will this by pulling yout out of the movie via transition into the behind-the-scenes, then once that part is done, resume where the movie was at. It's done multiple times throughout the movie. Obviously, this is for people that go back to rewatch the movie, but want to see how things are done.
Normal movie runtime: 2 hours 28 minutes Extraction Mode: 3 hours 10 minutes (around 42 minutes longer with behind-the-scenes)
While there is a lot of CGI done in the movie, you'd be surprised how many parts of the movie have practical effects or done practically and not totally CGI (this obviously shown in the behind the scenes). Honestly, most movies should do an "extraction mode" like thing, incorporating various behind the scenes at specific spots in the movie. 32:44 - Picture very large sets of the wallway that's all welded around very large circular metal frames. A lot of motors turn the set to rotate them. The cameras are anchored to the spinning set so it looks like they are walking on walls and ceilings (at least in the hotel hallway). Then when they fall into the room, they did mention they would slow and speed up the set spinning speed. Then for the zero-gravity scenes, they had the corridor turned sideways and used various tricks suspended by wires to give the illusion of floating.
I love this movie, it is in my top 5 movies ever. The built a spinning hallway for the hallway fight scene, it's insane that they used practical effects for so much of it.
I love after Mal shoots Fisher and Hardy's character is all "well it's worth a shot" to the idea of going down to limbo and just riding the kick up each layer. His character is probably my favorite in this whole thing. He's the one explaining it to the audience. He also doesn't really seem to be too surprised or weirded out by anything that happens. Kinda want to know his history. There is a lot of behind the scenes for this film, and you'd be surprised how much they did practically. The hallway fight on the walls and ceiling. They built the hall, 20 feet in the air, put it on giant rollers, mounted the camera to the floor of the hall, and then rotate the entire thing around. From the camera it looks like nothing is moving, but the actors have to change to walls and ceiling as the whole thing rotates. It's a VERY old trick, used by Fred Astaire in a dance video long ago. Blowing up the city street with just the two sitting at the cafe... mostly practical, augmented digitally.
Its one of my all time favorite movies. It amazes me everytime i watch it, i love the cast, i love the story, doms backstory with mal is sooo important, i love the look, and the twist how they do it, how they make him do what they want, gives me chills every single time.
The point of the ending is that Cobb doesn’t care anymore if he’s dreaming or it’s reality because of what he’s gone through and he’s back with his kids
This was hands down my favorite movie for THE longest time. I love Leo, loved the concept and I think they did a great job explaining what was happening so idk why people think it’s confusing, especially when you think about how your own dreams work. Still a great movie and I’m always happy to see Tom Hardy too!
32:40 the hallway fight scene with the shifting gravity was filmed by building a giant hotel hallway, putting it on a rotating axis, and having the actors fight inside it
can i just take a moment to appreciate how quick you picked up on his wife being dead and that the first scene is a dream, like fair play dude so many other reactors ive seen react to this film were lost or took a while to put pieces together.
I know they filmed the scenes of Arthur fighting in the hallway during the drop in an actual spinning hallway, like they built it to actually spin. Because Christopher Nolan dislikes CGI and will always try practical effects. In Tenet there is a scene of an airplane driving into a building which then explodes and there was 0 CGI in that scene
Inception is my favorite movie. The writing, acting, movie score, visuals, cinematography and everything in between is just so damn amazing. Even though I too had to watch the movie twice to actually understand it, I still think it’s one of the most, if not the most, perfectly complex but compelling story ever.
The concept that ideas are viruses is super important. You can create a very appealing & "contagious" idea but that doesn't mean it's true, based on reality, or valuable. Same way we have junk food where the ingredients are not natural & are deliberately made to be as addicting as possible.
It's mad. Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordan Levitt and Sir Michael Caine were all in this movie and The Dark Knight Rises. Nolan has a type.
Lots of directors do that, I actually quite like it, it’s a fun Easter egg for fans of the director. Rian Johnson does that with Joseph Gordon Levitt, Sam Raimi with Bruce Campbell, Nolan with Cillian, etc.
When I saw this in theatres, people didn't know what they were getting into, making everyone so invested in this movie, that when it ended, everyone in the audience gave an audible gasp when it cut to black. Everyone laughed right afterwards. One of the better films to watch in theatres
Saw this movie with my brother and our best friend on midnight premiere. The *entire* theater gasped at the ending shot and cut, and then was so silent for about 5 minutes until someone started clapping and then we all gave a standing ovation. The ride home was so quiet as we were all just stuck thinking about it.
The hotel hallway was a real hallway that they rotated and put the actors on wires! The camera was stationary and the set was spinning! Also the numbers of the combination were everywhere in the higher layers to plant the idea. The hotel room number the cab number etc
33:21 I don’t have to imagine it, it’s an actual sport. The winter games has a biathlon where you ski to targets, the shoot the, either standing or lying down prone.
The hallway scene was real. They had a huge hallway built indide of a rotating structure. They device was reused for the floating semi truck in thor the dark world.
I Iove this movie! I saw it at the theater, opening night. I still hear the gasp when the credits rolled. Now, I don’t know why…. I’ve seen it numerous times! When mal looks at the camera, it’s still startles the S outta me. …and I know it’s coming! I don’t know if it’s the sfx, but her eyes are haunting in that scene. (I took my headphones out, and leaned the iPad back. When I heard you jump, I knew it was over. Lol)
One of the best cinematic experiences I’ve had. On Leo, I don’t think he was even nominated for this film. But I do think there’s something where when someone is consistently excellent, they get taken for granted a bit. He’s had so many great roles but only won one Oscar. We’ll see if he gets a second this year with Killers of the Flower Moon coming out.
As far as the technology existing, I would say “probably not” a year ago, but now that I’m seeing what they’re working on in the tech industry, I’m inclined to believe that if it doesn’t exist, someone is at least trying to make it happen. In the movie, the practical reason for the machine’s creation was explained to be for military purposes, so that soldiers could train in deadly situations without actually dying.
I love how Nolan just doesn't include politics and controversies into his movies. Surrounding things just happen for the viewers to make up their own mind and instead focus on the central story. Most other filmmakers wouldn't have managed to stay away from shaming Saito or his big business motivation. Same with interstellar. The world is ending, but Nolan refrains from adding that layer of morality towards "humanity didn't stop climate change so it's on us". Greatest example of "show don't tell".
I've always had dreams inside of dreams, it's strange...Majority of my dreams (atleast the ones I can recall) I'm fully aware I'm dreaming but occasionally I'll 'wake up' and then start noticing some odd things going on around me, not necessarily a good dream nor bad, but then once I realize I'm in another dream and hadn't woken up, I get this weird noise that I guess triggers something in my subconscious, I'll always leave where im at/what I'm doing (which is rarely reocurring) in my dream and get transported to a nightmare that always starts the same way with my heart dropping into my stomach and the same overwhelming feeling of absolute terror the second i hear it... it doesn't happen often anymore but it used to happen all time, i don't remember a time in my life where i haven't had this dream.. it never goes that far into the dream, infact, I've never even seen what it is that has me terrified, it's like I just know i have to avoid it and wake up at all costs or i won't wake up at all. I don't know if I've had it go further as a young kid and blocked it out so now my subconscious won't allow it to progress once it begins.. I know I'm dreaming too, so logically I'm safe, but I'll do anything possible to wake myself from that particular one. I can always feel my eyes straining to open, I can feel my hands clenching, my body trying to move, and I even bite the inside of my mouth to the point i taste blood by the time I finally wake up and i only bite my left side, i even have scars i can feel with my tongue from over the years of biting it. I usually wake up at the same point in the dream everytime, unless I'm lucky and wake up the second i hear that sound, but without fail I'll wake up with cold sweats bad enough to where it soaked through my sheets and into my mattress.. The weirder thing, too me anyway, I can have other nightmares (I get night terrors regularly) where i'm either aware that I'm dreaming, other times I'm not, and while I'll usually be reacting oddly on the outside (sometimes walking) if someone's awake watching me, in my dreams im usually not bothered and I'll go searching trying to figure my nightmare out...I love intense vivid dreams, especially if it's a recurring dream I'll always try going deeper and deeper each time whether it's good or bad...and for every recurring dream i have, I can always remember it perfectly even if it only happened once over 10+ years ago, it's like i have a dream memory bank stored in my subconscious...So i don't know why I'll chase all my other nightmares, yet that one particular dream with that sound bothers me so badly ill hurt myself to wake up... its like a bell type sound, as soon as it chimes i get transported and everything goes dark, there's a couple more rings that now echo, then everything goes deafening silent in this weird space that's empty, void of any light, and cold..it's so dark i can't even see my hand and i can feel it's a never ending void, almost like it's the universe itself that burnt out long ago and there's nothing left that exists.. yet at the same time it feels like im inside a dome (i know saying it's a never ending void but I'm inside a dome contradicts itself..that would mean there is an end, but theres not) ..and the scariest part outside of that bell ringing, I can feel whatever it is that's there, like it's a totally different consciousness that's separate from my own.. I can feel it like it's always standing there just out of my vision, so close i could reach out and grab it if I tried. The only way i can describe the feeling is like I'm being stalked by a predator, a predator that's not only very aware that I arrived there, but it's out hunting..I've always had the thought it was just screwing with me everytime, like it knows and thoroughly enjoys the terror it causes me. Almost like that's what it feeds on, and through my senses/subconscious it somehow always lets me know that it could reach out and drag me off into the blackness at any point that it wants, which at some point in time, it will.
Nolan’s whole filmography is someone’s favourite of his. If you ask what’s Cameron or Spielberg best movies, there’s the same 2-3 that going to come up for 95% of the people. But Nolan, over half his movies could be considered his best
If you take the first letters of the main characters' names, Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mal and Saito, they spell "Dreams". The hallway fight was done for real with Levitt on a gimble rotating the set. Levitt did all his own stunts.
@@Paralianpoet yeah but I was wondering why he would leave out Ariadne in favour of Arthur.... Like what part of Arthur did he find so interesting that he left out a better character in "message"
A little context for Ariadne's name: Ariadne is a Cretan princess who helped Theseus escape the Minotaur, who dwelt at the center of the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus, on the command of King Minos of Crete. Greek lexicographers in the Hellenistic period claimed that Ariadne is derived from the ancient Cretan dialectical elements ari (ἀρι-) "most" (which is an intensive prefix) and adnós (ἀδνός) "holy". So in a way, the character in Inception is given that name because she is the one who is eager to dive into the world with a fresh outlook on things, given she never did this prior. Plus, the viewers can see Cobb through her eyes and get to the core of the character. So if you ask me, her name is very fitting.
I remember vividly the second the movie cut away while the totem was still spinning... the whole movie theatre ROARED in disapproval, disappointment, distaste, disgust... like... it was a boiling cauldron of mixed emotions erupted. It was amazing!
Such a great movie! So glad you reacted to it! I also highly recommend The Prestige - another Christopher Nolan movie. That’s another mind bender that’ll completely blow your mind and make you instantly want to rewatch the whole thing the moment it’s over. In my opinion, it’s Christopher Nolan’s best movie.
Prestige is great! But inception and interstellar (as far as original Nolan screenplays go) are just on another level. Which is wild to think... Because yes the Prestige is a fantastic freaking film.
@@Stev4e897 I disagree but it’s just a matter of opinion so who cares? Don’t get me wrong, I like Interstellar a lot, but I think The Prestige and Memento are better. Doesn’t matter either way because he’s already reacted to Interstellar, so there’s no point in recommending it to him.
Fun fact: the name Ariadne is the name of a Cretan princess in Greek Mythology who was in charge of King Minos' labyrinth where the Minotaur was, and who gave Theseus a ball of string so that he could retrace his steps out of the maze. This Ariadne was names such because she makes mazes.
All the crazy multiversal movies and shows within the MCU have led you to this moment where you can truly appreciate Inception for the absolute masterpiece it is. All due respect to the Dark Knight, but I think this is Nolan's finest work. Nolan is such a tremendous filmmaker, and I can't wait to see Oppenheimer when it comes out.
I can't really decide wich one is my favorite between Inception and Interstellar, and I asked myself that question for almost ten years 😅 Sidenote: You being jumpscared is the highlights of your videos for me, the way you just say "FUCK" and everything just cracks me up man 😂
@@VykeKing Other way around, Interstellar is more scientific accurate and easier to follow. On top of that Interstellar has slightly better acting performance, better cinematography, score, and the writing on both is incredible. Both movies are masterpieces for me but I take Interstellar over Inception.
@@reynaldolorenzo8409 @bladeofmiquella4950 The question was not which one is better but which one is our favorite. And good is subjective, I can think of arguments right now that one is better than the other and vice-versa, but again not the point ! 🙂
Me while watching this: Omg Alfred! Omg Robin! Omg Talia! Omg Bane! Omg Scarecrow! Christopher Nolan directed this didn't he...? *looks it up* Yes, yes he did. Lol
This is my favorite movie ever.. the script is so air tight, whatever you believe about what is a dream or what is real, you can prove it to yourself..
I think the intention of the ending is that he made it back to the real world. But we never see the totem fall because Nolan always likes to answer his films with a question to keep us thinking about the movie long after it’s ended, even if we already know the answer.
Among everything else this movie does brilliantly, I'm always impressed by just HOW terrifying they manage to make Mal. Between her performance, the lighting, and the soundtrack, she really does feel like a nightmarish entity at times.
Hey this is so true, never thought about it.
@@XOTheHosttt rigght?
Exactly!!! She looked terrifing in this movie.
so true! my entire theater started freaking out loud reacting at one point when she shows up again like, this B!
It's a leftover of the original script, as Nolan said it was suppose to be a horror film!
Alex screaming bloody murder at even the tiniest of jumpscares never fails to amuse me.
He gets SO angry 😂
Sometimes it's things that I didn't even think were jumpscares, like the mirror shattering.
“FUUUUCKKK !!!!” 💀💀💀
Yea his jumps were pretty funny, all the jumps scares in this film are mainly loud musical strikes. Coupled with quality headphones turned up to max... Yea his jumps were pretty funny.
Where’s the timestamp?
So it looks like, getting a "kick" takes you up by 1 layer. That's why fisher woke up in the snow level after he fell from the building. The first dream-audition with Saito also followed those rules. But dying in a dream, even in limbo, will wake you up entirely. That's how Mal and Cob woke up from their 50+ years in Limbo, and that's how Cob brought Saito back to the real world too. Dying is like a shortcut, falling only takes you one layer at a time.
The sedative plays a key role. Robert fisher was in limbo and when he’s thrown off the building, he dies but he doesn’t wake up (in airplane) but rather goes back to the snowy fortress. If he wasn’t heavily sedated, he would be back to reality (airplane).
This is why when Cobb and Mal died in limbo, they came back to reality as they were not heavily sedated. Same for Cobb and Saito - they were sedated but by the time they killed themselves in limbo, the sedative effect worn out and hence they came back to reality.
Except when Levitt dies in the intro he only goes up 1 layer.
He planted the idea in her mind to help her get out of limbo; it was dumb, maybe, but he wasn't trying to get her to want to die, he wanted her to feel ready enough to make that choice in limbo. He didn't know that the idea would follow her out of limbo into the real world.
He could have just killed her with a knife. The only plot hole i found.
@@GauravSharma-dy8xvyeah he could have, but how many of us would be able to kill someone we love the most in the whole world, even if you knew you would wake up to the real world? I certainly couldn’t and neither could most people.
@@GauravSharma-dy8xv And she would likely complain to him about it in real life and try to sedate both of them to return both back into their dream world.
also, he could have killed himself right? so he would wake up
No the drugs they used probably were different. The one they took was modified by chemist to enable them to wake up from a fall. They were in a limbo. If you get killed you'll be stuck there forever.
That hallway fight with Joseph Gordon Levitt was shot almost entirely with practical effects. They built a spinning hallway and spun the camera in sync with the hallway to make it look like gravity was constantly changing.
Yup I've seen the behind the scenes it's amazing
Just like Lionel Richie's: Dancing on the Ceiling
Thats crazy! I thought they did the upppppppp and dowwwwnnnn thing in a jumbo jet. (simulate zero-g)
Thanks for explaining so I didn’t have to. 👍🏾
What is this "almost" you speak of here?
Cillian Murphy indeed is an amazing actor. Severly underrated. Can't wait to see him in Oppenheimer, Nolan's newest film.
Yes. Oppie!
I have loved Murphy ever since 28 Days later. I am so excited they finally gave him lead role in big budget film
@@thejamppa Same! He has played such diverse characters throughout his career, too. Even if you just listen to his accents, let’s say, here in Inception or in Peaky Blinders. It’s crazy. Definitely deserves main role on the big screen!
Watch him in Peaky Blinders 🔥🔥
Red Eye is a good thriller - love it when he goes creepy scary!
What also makes the movie so great is that the plot is so complex that it makes the movie almost spoiler-proof, because you can't really be spoiled by what happens without watching it in order to really understand HOW it got to where it was going.
That’s true, “Cobb killed his wife” wouldn’t work because they kill each other a lot in dreams anyway, but I guess “they succeed with inception” would kinda work. It incredibly vague but it works
@@bookwormd8627that's true but even that would only be a spoiler once you find out what inception is😂
@@ot7biasedmashupsand even once you know what inception is, the fun part is seeing the plan unfold, all the challenges they run into and have to work past. Like in a heist movie, we figure the thieves are probably going to get away with it if they're our protagonists, but we watch to see *how* they get away with it.
He is in the real world. His totem is not the spinning top (it's Mal's), it's his wedding ring. As the character of Joseph Gordon Levitt explain at the beggining of the movie, nobody can touch another person totem, or it becomes useless.
When you look at Cobb's left hand, you can see that he is wearing his wedding ring in the dream world, but not in the real world.
The spinning top at the end is a metaphor of him letting Mal go for good.
Thank you, so many people miss this detail even though it's explained in very easy terms in the movie "if anyone else knows, it defeats the purpose"
It doesn't matter if the spinning top keeps spinning or not, it's Mal's totem, not Cobb's.
After all these years. Thank you
Oh I didn't catch that. I just assumed Cobb also disobeyed that rule like the 'don't dream real places' one. All these years I thought he didn't make it bc saito reached for the gun. (And they both agreed to fall further down the limbo and 'be young together again' since it's too late they missed the last kick)
@@marxton_ Nolan purposefully mislead the audience with the spinning top. And it worked 🤣
When Cobb reaches for the gun in the hotel room, this is not because he thinks he's in a dream but because he's thinking about Mal and his culpability. He did that to her, without knowing.
When he's spinning the spinning top, look at his hands next time. It's very clear.
@@lrepiquet I was referring to the old limbo Saito reaching for the gun before the camera cuts. I thought Saito somehow just killed Cobb and himself (thus falling deeper down the limbo instead of waking up bc its too late). I've always believed in that theory but now Imma have to rewatch to see the hands.
I like how every dream starts in the middle of the scene. Leo said, "You can usually tell you are dreaming if you can't remember how you ended up where you are" love that detail
I remember seeing this in theaters and the ending made everyone let out an audible frustrated grown. Such an incredible movie and experience.
I saw it with my friends in theaters. While credits were rolling, we were debating "did the top fall?" And like half of the group thought it kept spinning and half (me included) thinking it fell. The fact that Nolan avoided giving a definitive answer for years is awesome. Just stating " the answer is within the movie". He is the only director that if I see he is making the movie, I am going to go
Leo is married to a woman his age at the end, he's still in inception. That's not reality.
@@unluckydiablo9502 😂😂😂
One guy at my theatre legit yelled out "INCEPTION!!!" at the end of the movie. Everybody's minds were blown
@@calebfoster7954 .. it fell .. you don't see it on screen - but i remember hearing it toppling onto the table ........ might of course be just wishful thinkin'🤔
Never has a quote of “she’s got some balls on her” been quite so appropriate 😂
😂😂😂
Did she get a transplant?
I was thinking the same thing 🤣
The actor Elliot Page is a Trans man
IKRRRRR 😆
One of my favorite movies of all time and my fave movie of Nolan. This "wild concept" was inspired by a classic masterpiece anime that's also mindblowing and waaay more trippy, Paprika. And its creator was also known and famous just like Nolan for doing complex mindf*ck movies.
Was about to comment that but you beat me to it. Satoshi Kon and his creations are legendary, R.I.P to this creative mastermind.
Kon gang assemble need more Kon seen.
Inspired is a very polite way to put it. ;)
@@stefanmilicevic5322 yeah, he's so creative that Hollywood kept copying his brilliant mind. R.I.P. to the legend, we could've had more mindf*ck masterpieces if he didn't gone too soon.
@@TKLMotoVlog thanks, i'll have to check it out.
The fact that the top wobbled at the end means that it's real life. The top never wobbled in a dream, it always remained perfectly spinning. Peace of mind, for you.
The spinning top isn't Cobb's totem, so the whole issue of "is it a dream or not" is not at question. Cobb's totem is his ring, if he has it, it's a dream, but if he doesn't have it, it's reality. In the end, he doesn't have it.
@@Max-cf8pf Except you see him using the top as a totem to test for a dream throughout the movie. And the existence or nonexistence of an item does not make for an effective totem. Having the ring would definitely indicate he's inside of a dream, but not having it could be either way. There is no way to guarantee that in _every_ dream he will have the ring.
@@Justin.Franks It's also a pretty belabored point that he can't see his kids' faces again until he's done. This is arguable either way: it's proof that he's in reality or he's so deep in a dream that he's accepted it fully, but if it's the latter, then the whole plot with Mal doesn't make sense. She'd still be there if it was a dream.
@@tphil5901 I think I remember reading about that, is that where he says that Nolan told him "if you're in the scene, it's reality. If you're not in the scene, it's a dream"?
Wrong. Leo is with a woman his own age, definitely a dream and not real life.
“Skiing with guns, imagine that was an olympic event”
…Umm, there is one.
With guns?
@@vinnicinhus44 yes. Target shooting.... To cross country skiing.
@@tphil5901 but they don't shoot while skiing
@@vinnicinhus44 correct.
Biathlon. Some targets are shot laying down and some standing up. All this in the middle of ski race. I guess you need to slow down your heart rate from skiing to hit more accurately also. Unique and brilliant Olympic sport since 1960.
I distinctly remember watching Inception at the movies. Sitting on the edge of my seat. Absolutely losing it when they decide to go on the 4th dream, turning around to see if my friend was as blown away as I was... Just to find him with a they-lost-me-two-dreams-ago look on his face. GREAT movie.
One of the best things about Nolan is that he tries to use as many practical effects as possible, so the exploding flowers and the avalanche were real. As for the hallway scene, it was done with a black box, a centrifuge, and a static camera. "Inception" is a masterclass of filmmaking. If you like this kind of thought-provoking/brain-breaking concept, I'd also recommend "Memento" and "The Prestige" by Nolan.
Omg the Prestige
@@jhedjoardumago7691 another amazing, star-studded, mind fuck of a movie
Memento, what, at first, seems like a simple movie, turns into such a thought-provoking movie. It and The Prestige are great!
Yes the prestige is amazing!
"She's got some balls on her". See what you did there. 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
He didn't really mention anything about it. He may have done it, or he may not even realize who that is.
@Shaun Whelan you could tell by the cheeky look on his face, it's obvious. Ofcourse he wouldn't state it because it would make the joke less funny and would probably offend a snowflake.
🙄
@@abrimfulofasha I definitely couldn't tell. It's also very late, so I'm not fully awake. Looking at TH-cam videos when trying to fall asleep isn't always the best strategy
Mal knew that he truly believed he was in reality. She thought she had to push him incredibly hard to convince him to try waking up, so she did everything she could to put him in a scenario so awful that he would do anything to escape it. She went to the psychiatrists to have herself declared sane *and* to say that she was afraid for her life. That would make him the bad guy and make him more desperate to wake up. The psychiatrists believed she really was afraid her husband would kill her, so they saw her having herself declared sane as a safety precaution to make sure that, if her husband killed her, it would be possible to remove the kids from him to keep them safe. It's twisted to think of how all these different people saw the same scenario.
"Inception" for me is Nolan's masterpiece.
And he is in the real world in the end. Caine said in an interview, that Nolan told him that some time...
I went to a Hans Zimmer concert yesterday. I can recommend it to everyone. The man composed such great movies. When hearing the music from Inception and interstellar... I just cried 😂
38:05 It wasn't "The hurt locker" which beat "Inception" at the Oscars. "The hurt locker" won its Oscars in 2010 (famously beating "Avatar"). "Inception" was nominated (and won 4 Oscars) in 2011. And most people weren't mad about Leo not winning (or even being nominated for) Best Leading Actor. The general upset was about Christopher Nolan not even getting a Best Directing nomination. And about him losing Best Original Screenplay to "The king's speech". And fun fact: the guy who won Best Directing that year was Tom Hooper, who directed "The king's speech". Tom Hooper is also the guy who, most recently, directed "Cats".
The thing about the ending is that Dicaprio didnt care about the totem anymore when he finally saw the faces of his children. And for me that was a badass ending! Nolan is a genius!!
That was my take. Like, he wasn’t gonna miss that opportunity again. When it happened originally, he was preoccupied with something else and missed the moment they turned and looked. So he was like, nope, not making that mistake again.
@@GamertagO1 yes. he was like "fck the totem, i already saw their faces" 😁
You think that this one is a mindfuck?
Wait until you see *TENET.*
bro. I still don't know what the fuck TENET was
@@lakzefar449 After watching Tenet like 3 or 4 times I THINK I now understand most of it, but the Midpoint Scene still breaks my brain.
The movie Fractured was a mind fuck for me lmao
yess pleaseeee alex!!
@@0liver1408 yeah that airport scene 🥲🥲🥲
The hallway fight is one of the most iconic and revered stunt sequences, and it was basically filmed on a giant hamster wheel. The hallway was built on a spinning rig, the camera was fixed normally (not following the hallway’s movement), and the actors are experiencing gravity naturally while fighting because the ground keeps shifting.
I hace lucid dreams and really enjoyed some aspects of this movie. For a while I was kind of… addicted to sleeping. It was the only time I didn’t have horrible pain and could walk or even run and it be enjoyable. I write, so having tea with my characters and discussing their lives to figure out points I was unsure about was really helpful. I’d even see and talk with my late grandmother and mom.
Then I’d wake up in my dim apartment where sometimes I’d go over a week without seeing another person, where my voice was hoarse from having no one to speak to, where I had to sit in the shower because I felt so weak, and my constant pain dogged every step.
So one, yeah, if I could stay inside dreams for an extended period of time, heck yeah! I once had a dream that I perceived to be four years. I was really upset when I woke up, because I had a kid, and was its parent for three years. I wake up and my baby girl is gone, and NEVER EXISTED. I was basically grieving for a while.
Lucid dreams feel incredibly real to me, almost more real than real life. Everything is more colorful and super saturated. The air is crisper. The emotions and impressions are stronger. Occasionally I’d lose lucidity and just be in a very vivid dream I didn’t control anymore, and when those became nightmares they were terrifying, because they felt so so real. My pain would leak in. Back pain became me being stabbed repeatedly, or crushed under boulders, or catching fire. It became too dangerous to lucid dream often when my pain was that bad.
Now I’m married and in college and my pain is a lot better. I don’t try to lucid dream often now. I try to pull myself away even when I just have a “vivid.” It’s too… easy to fall back into wanting to sleep and go on adventures. I don’t want to miss out on my real life ones because I’m asleep.
There was a point in time I spent more time in the day sleeping because I was addicted. Since then, it's become a religious experience. Nobody could understand the lonely perfection of my dreams. Nolan is left-handed. So am I. The only other person I personal know who lucid dreams is also left-handed. Are you left-handed? The first time I was introduced to Nolan was through Inception, a movie I knew nothing about, only agreeing to go to the movies impromptu.That movie changed my life because it's the first time I felt that somebody else experienced lucid dreaming, too.
@@MrSnrubIsRight I’m left handed. And my brother, who also lucid dreams, is left handed. But I also have narcolepsy, which makes someone way more likely to have lucid dreams. Our brains are made differently so we’re more easily capable. There are some really interesting studies where scientists are trying to communicate with dreamers real time, and have the dreamers communicate outside of dreams.
They thought dreams were like imagination, but they’ve discovered that it’s more akin to waking perception than anything we can imagine, much like in the way Inception portrays in the movie.
There’s no way people can really understand just how vivid and real the dreams are.
Did you ever practice dream "yoga", aka dream meditation? It's becoming more common. There's a guy I like who teaches it, Andrew Holecek.
@@abstractnonsense3253I do some reality checks during the day and go to sleep intentionally, and I have themes in my dreams that are giveaways that I’m sleeping, and when I see them it helps me become lucid.
Like, there’s a book series I liked when I was little, but in the dream I have all the copies and there’s like 150 books in the series instead of the eight I originally had.
Or, my mother left me some jewelry that I never inherited (yet; but it’s been three years) that I dream about, and usually if I find all the jewelry she shows up.
Or for some reason I dream about grocery stores a lot. 😂 Or abandoned stores at night. Or abandoned grocery stores at night. 🤣
Also buildings tilting sideways, and even my weight making a difference in how it tilts. I hate those dreams. They’re on par with my dreams of being in the passenger seat of a car while somehow driving it, before it becomes a problem.
And underwater dreams or water park dreams when I’m cold.
So… any of those happen, I realize, “That’s not normal,” and become lucid. If I did reality checks recently or went to sleep or back to sleep intentionally, I have a higher chance of it happening.
The best indicator of if I’ll have a lucid dream by FAR though is sleep time. So, I have lucid dreams when I’m around ten hours into resting. OR when I am asleep at 7-8pm. They’re my prime windows. Really not something I can do these days, but back in the day it was almost a guarantee.
“When I got the script of Inception, I was a bit puzzled by it and I said to him 'I don't understand where the dream is',” Caine told the crowd. “I said, 'When is it the dream and when is it reality? ' He said, 'Well when you're in the scene it's reality. ' So get that - if I'm in it, it's reality.
You should watch “Tenet” next. It’s Nolan’s most recent film and feels very similar to Inception in tone and style. It‘s also a film that takes a pretty classic film genre, like spy films, and adds a super mind bending idea on top of it, just like how Inception is basically a heist film but layers in the idea of them stealing from dreams.
YUP TENET IS GREAT!!!!
Absolutely. And if he thought "Inception" was confusing when he was younger, then "Tenet" will melt his brain just as much now. 😂
Tenet is terrible
Tenet's a piece of shit compared to Inception.
Christopher Nolan ✅
Hans Zimmer ✅
= Absolute Masterpiece
Their Kobe & Shaq of cinema
christopher nolan the man
Inception is also arguably my all-time favorite movie for many of the reasons you mentioned. It is really hard to piece together the chronology of the film even on rewatching with all the levels of dreams, and upon rewatching you wonder when are you actually seeing “reality”…it messes with your mind and I love that
The way he said “she’s got some balls on her” without realizing that she is a he now in real like 😂😂😂
Michael Caine said that any scene he was in was in fact reality. Therefore, the ending IS real & the spinning top did topple.
Well, he also lied to Batman once.
😆
Every Christopher Nolan movie is worth reacting to, they're all great. I highly recommend Memento in particular. His breakthrough film, another crazy mindfuck film
Interstellar
Yeah, there are some good behind the scenes on the Blu-Ray for Inception.
On the Blu-ray, there are 2 ways to watch the movie:
- Default way: The way you're watching now.
- Extraction Mode: This version of the movie will incorporate many "behind the scenes" moments into the movie. One of 2 things will happen, they will either air the scene and play the behind the scene, or show the behind-the-scenes first and THEN air the scene. They will this by pulling yout out of the movie via transition into the behind-the-scenes, then once that part is done, resume where the movie was at. It's done multiple times throughout the movie. Obviously, this is for people that go back to rewatch the movie, but want to see how things are done.
Normal movie runtime: 2 hours 28 minutes
Extraction Mode: 3 hours 10 minutes (around 42 minutes longer with behind-the-scenes)
While there is a lot of CGI done in the movie, you'd be surprised how many parts of the movie have practical effects or done practically and not totally CGI (this obviously shown in the behind the scenes). Honestly, most movies should do an "extraction mode" like thing, incorporating various behind the scenes at specific spots in the movie.
32:44 - Picture very large sets of the wallway that's all welded around very large circular metal frames. A lot of motors turn the set to rotate them. The cameras are anchored to the spinning set so it looks like they are walking on walls and ceilings (at least in the hotel hallway).
Then when they fall into the room, they did mention they would slow and speed up the set spinning speed.
Then for the zero-gravity scenes, they had the corridor turned sideways and used various tricks suspended by wires to give the illusion of floating.
This movie is almost a dress rehearsal for Dark Knight Rises with how many of the cast is similar
I love this movie, it is in my top 5 movies ever.
The built a spinning hallway for the hallway fight scene, it's insane that they used practical effects for so much of it.
Fred Astaire did it first.
Limbo is basically like being in a coma they die in the dream they end up in a coma forever.
Every scene with Michael Caine is in the real world because he was so confused, so Christopher Nalan told him that
And the music from Hans Zimmer is beyond amazing.
I love after Mal shoots Fisher and Hardy's character is all "well it's worth a shot" to the idea of going down to limbo and just riding the kick up each layer. His character is probably my favorite in this whole thing. He's the one explaining it to the audience. He also doesn't really seem to be too surprised or weirded out by anything that happens. Kinda want to know his history. There is a lot of behind the scenes for this film, and you'd be surprised how much they did practically. The hallway fight on the walls and ceiling. They built the hall, 20 feet in the air, put it on giant rollers, mounted the camera to the floor of the hall, and then rotate the entire thing around. From the camera it looks like nothing is moving, but the actors have to change to walls and ceiling as the whole thing rotates. It's a VERY old trick, used by Fred Astaire in a dance video long ago. Blowing up the city street with just the two sitting at the cafe... mostly practical, augmented digitally.
Its one of my all time favorite movies. It amazes me everytime i watch it, i love the cast, i love the story, doms backstory with mal is sooo important, i love the look, and the twist how they do it, how they make him do what they want, gives me chills every single time.
The music does sooo much in this film - what a soundtrack ❤️
The point of the ending is that Cobb doesn’t care anymore if he’s dreaming or it’s reality because of what he’s gone through and he’s back with his kids
This was hands down my favorite movie for THE longest time. I love Leo, loved the concept and I think they did a great job explaining what was happening so idk why people think it’s confusing, especially when you think about how your own dreams work. Still a great movie and I’m always happy to see Tom Hardy too!
Just curious, what's your favorite movie now?
Yea, dont keep us in limbo - whats your favorite movie now??
32:40 the hallway fight scene with the shifting gravity was filmed by building a giant hotel hallway, putting it on a rotating axis, and having the actors fight inside it
Momento!!! Another Nolan classic!!! Side note: I have never seen you so happy! I’m glad you liked it!!! 💙💙💙
*Memento
@@mjelves My bad.
There’s a great TH-cam video where someone edited together all the dream layers on top of each other in real time. It’s amazing
None of the above. It's actually The Prestige!
can i just take a moment to appreciate how quick you picked up on his wife being dead and that the first scene is a dream, like fair play dude so many other reactors ive seen react to this film were lost or took a while to put pieces together.
I know they filmed the scenes of Arthur fighting in the hallway during the drop in an actual spinning hallway, like they built it to actually spin. Because Christopher Nolan dislikes CGI and will always try practical effects. In Tenet there is a scene of an airplane driving into a building which then explodes and there was 0 CGI in that scene
I really needed to laugh hard - and Alex screaming so much really made my day 😀
Inception is my favorite movie. The writing, acting, movie score, visuals, cinematography and everything in between is just so damn amazing. Even though I too had to watch the movie twice to actually understand it, I still think it’s one of the most, if not the most, perfectly complex but compelling story ever.
The concept that ideas are viruses is super important. You can create a very appealing & "contagious" idea but that doesn't mean it's true, based on reality, or valuable. Same way we have junk food where the ingredients are not natural & are deliberately made to be as addicting as possible.
It's mad. Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordan Levitt and Sir Michael Caine were all in this movie and The Dark Knight Rises. Nolan has a type.
PTA reused the same 4-5 actors in his first 3 movies
Lots of directors do that, I actually quite like it, it’s a fun Easter egg for fans of the director. Rian Johnson does that with Joseph Gordon Levitt, Sam Raimi with Bruce Campbell, Nolan with Cillian, etc.
When I saw this in theatres, people didn't know what they were getting into, making everyone so invested in this movie, that when it ended, everyone in the audience gave an audible gasp when it cut to black. Everyone laughed right afterwards. One of the better films to watch in theatres
Now, once you're ready for another mind-melter from Leo, watch Shutter Island. Fantastic film!
It's one of my favorite movies. Good reaction!
The more and more I watch this movie, the more I realize how absolutely incredible it is.
Leo could've won an Oscar for blood diamond as well!!
It's been 5 hours and the video is still available. WB's generosity knows no bounds.
Saw this movie with my brother and our best friend on midnight premiere. The *entire* theater gasped at the ending shot and cut, and then was so silent for about 5 minutes until someone started clapping and then we all gave a standing ovation.
The ride home was so quiet as we were all just stuck thinking about it.
The hotel hallway was a real hallway that they rotated and put the actors on wires! The camera was stationary and the set was spinning! Also the numbers of the combination were everywhere in the higher layers to plant the idea. The hotel room number the cab number etc
33:21 I don’t have to imagine it, it’s an actual sport. The winter games has a biathlon where you ski to targets, the shoot the, either standing or lying down prone.
Someone needs to make a compilation of him screaming fuck from jump scares.
Excellent reaction! My favorite movie of this century. the concept and execution of the movie are unmatched.
cant wait for his brain to explode with Tenet
The hallway scene was real. They had a huge hallway built indide of a rotating structure. They device was reused for the floating semi truck in thor the dark world.
The biathlon is indeed an Olympic sport that combines cross-country skiing and shooting.
34:14 I love that Fischer was complaining that the dream wasn't a beach, when it's his dream and he's grieving and depressed, so there's snow.
I haven’t seen that movie in a long time. I’d forgotten how good it was. And great cast.
I Iove this movie! I saw it at the theater, opening night. I still hear the gasp when the credits rolled. Now, I don’t know why…. I’ve seen it numerous times! When mal looks at the camera, it’s still startles the S outta me. …and I know it’s coming! I don’t know if it’s the sfx, but her eyes are haunting in that scene. (I took my headphones out, and leaned the iPad back. When I heard you jump, I knew it was over. Lol)
One of the best cinematic experiences I’ve had.
On Leo, I don’t think he was even nominated for this film. But I do think there’s something where when someone is consistently excellent, they get taken for granted a bit. He’s had so many great roles but only won one Oscar. We’ll see if he gets a second this year with Killers of the Flower Moon coming out.
Dunkirk will always be my favorite Christopher Nolan film
As far as the technology existing, I would say “probably not” a year ago, but now that I’m seeing what they’re working on in the tech industry, I’m inclined to believe that if it doesn’t exist, someone is at least trying to make it happen. In the movie, the practical reason for the machine’s creation was explained to be for military purposes, so that soldiers could train in deadly situations without actually dying.
33:21 - "Skiing with guns; imagine that Olympic sport."
Reminds me that Robin Williams said the Biathalon is like a Norwegian drive-by, haha.
I love how Nolan just doesn't include politics and controversies into his movies. Surrounding things just happen for the viewers to make up their own mind and instead focus on the central story. Most other filmmakers wouldn't have managed to stay away from shaming Saito or his big business motivation. Same with interstellar. The world is ending, but Nolan refrains from adding that layer of morality towards "humanity didn't stop climate change so it's on us". Greatest example of "show don't tell".
I've always had dreams inside of dreams, it's strange...Majority of my dreams (atleast the ones I can recall) I'm fully aware I'm dreaming but occasionally I'll 'wake up' and then start noticing some odd things going on around me, not necessarily a good dream nor bad, but then once I realize I'm in another dream and hadn't woken up, I get this weird noise that I guess triggers something in my subconscious, I'll always leave where im at/what I'm doing (which is rarely reocurring) in my dream and get transported to a nightmare that always starts the same way with my heart dropping into my stomach and the same overwhelming feeling of absolute terror the second i hear it... it doesn't happen often anymore but it used to happen all time, i don't remember a time in my life where i haven't had this dream.. it never goes that far into the dream, infact, I've never even seen what it is that has me terrified, it's like I just know i have to avoid it and wake up at all costs or i won't wake up at all. I don't know if I've had it go further as a young kid and blocked it out so now my subconscious won't allow it to progress once it begins.. I know I'm dreaming too, so logically I'm safe, but I'll do anything possible to wake myself from that particular one. I can always feel my eyes straining to open, I can feel my hands clenching, my body trying to move, and I even bite the inside of my mouth to the point i taste blood by the time I finally wake up and i only bite my left side, i even have scars i can feel with my tongue from over the years of biting it. I usually wake up at the same point in the dream everytime, unless I'm lucky and wake up the second i hear that sound, but without fail I'll wake up with cold sweats bad enough to where it soaked through my sheets and into my mattress..
The weirder thing, too me anyway, I can have other nightmares (I get night terrors regularly) where i'm either aware that I'm dreaming, other times I'm not, and while I'll usually be reacting oddly on the outside (sometimes walking) if someone's awake watching me, in my dreams im usually not bothered and I'll go searching trying to figure my nightmare out...I love intense vivid dreams, especially if it's a recurring dream I'll always try going deeper and deeper each time whether it's good or bad...and for every recurring dream i have, I can always remember it perfectly even if it only happened once over 10+ years ago, it's like i have a dream memory bank stored in my subconscious...So i don't know why I'll chase all my other nightmares, yet that one particular dream with that sound bothers me so badly ill hurt myself to wake up... its like a bell type sound, as soon as it chimes i get transported and everything goes dark, there's a couple more rings that now echo, then everything goes deafening silent in this weird space that's empty, void of any light, and cold..it's so dark i can't even see my hand and i can feel it's a never ending void, almost like it's the universe itself that burnt out long ago and there's nothing left that exists.. yet at the same time it feels like im inside a dome (i know saying it's a never ending void but I'm inside a dome contradicts itself..that would mean there is an end, but theres not) ..and the scariest part outside of that bell ringing, I can feel whatever it is that's there, like it's a totally different consciousness that's separate from my own.. I can feel it like it's always standing there just out of my vision, so close i could reach out and grab it if I tried. The only way i can describe the feeling is like I'm being stalked by a predator, a predator that's not only very aware that I arrived there, but it's out hunting..I've always had the thought it was just screwing with me everytime, like it knows and thoroughly enjoys the terror it causes me. Almost like that's what it feeds on, and through my senses/subconscious it somehow always lets me know that it could reach out and drag me off into the blackness at any point that it wants, which at some point in time, it will.
Nolan’s whole filmography is someone’s favourite of his. If you ask what’s Cameron or Spielberg best movies, there’s the same 2-3 that going to come up for 95% of the people. But Nolan, over half his movies could be considered his best
inception and the dark knight are my obsession but Christopher Nolan's " Interstellar" is my absolute favorite one.
If you take the first letters of the main characters' names, Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mal and Saito, they spell "Dreams". The hallway fight was done for real with Levitt on a gimble rotating the set. Levitt did all his own stunts.
Why Arthur is the main character and not Ariadne??
@@Rash23215I mean they both letter A. Anyway either one was good. The OP just wanted to get the message across cause DREAAMS is not really a word.
@@Paralianpoet yeah but I was wondering why he would leave out Ariadne in favour of Arthur.... Like what part of Arthur did he find so interesting that he left out a better character in "message"
@@ParalianpoetA DREAMS
@@Rash23215they’re men, that's why he left ariadne out
"Skiing with guns. Imagine that olympic sport." Don't remember if it's Olympic rn but it's called biathlon.
A little context for Ariadne's name:
Ariadne is a Cretan princess who helped Theseus escape the Minotaur, who dwelt at the center of the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus, on the command of King Minos of Crete. Greek lexicographers in the Hellenistic period claimed that Ariadne is derived from the ancient Cretan dialectical elements ari (ἀρι-) "most" (which is an intensive prefix) and adnós (ἀδνός) "holy".
So in a way, the character in Inception is given that name because she is the one who is eager to dive into the world with a fresh outlook on things, given she never did this prior. Plus, the viewers can see Cobb through her eyes and get to the core of the character. So if you ask me, her name is very fitting.
Hans Zimmer did a wonderful job composing the music for this film
You need to watch Shutter Island, It's a crazy movie like Inception, the movie ends and you're just like😮
I remember vividly the second the movie cut away while the totem was still spinning... the whole movie theatre ROARED in disapproval, disappointment, distaste, disgust... like... it was a boiling cauldron of mixed emotions erupted. It was amazing!
Such a great movie! So glad you reacted to it!
I also highly recommend The Prestige - another Christopher Nolan movie. That’s another mind bender that’ll completely blow your mind and make you instantly want to rewatch the whole thing the moment it’s over. In my opinion, it’s Christopher Nolan’s best movie.
Prestige is great!
But inception and interstellar (as far as original Nolan screenplays go) are just on another level.
Which is wild to think... Because yes the Prestige is a fantastic freaking film.
The Prestige!!! The Prestige!!!!!!
Interstaler is far better that Prestige or Memento
@@Stev4e897 I disagree but it’s just a matter of opinion so who cares?
Don’t get me wrong, I like Interstellar a lot, but I think The Prestige and Memento are better.
Doesn’t matter either way because he’s already reacted to Interstellar, so there’s no point in recommending it to him.
Fun fact: the name Ariadne is the name of a Cretan princess in Greek Mythology who was in charge of King Minos' labyrinth where the Minotaur was, and who gave Theseus a ball of string so that he could retrace his steps out of the maze. This Ariadne was names such because she makes mazes.
All the crazy multiversal movies and shows within the MCU have led you to this moment where you can truly appreciate Inception for the absolute masterpiece it is. All due respect to the Dark Knight, but I think this is Nolan's finest work. Nolan is such a tremendous filmmaker, and I can't wait to see Oppenheimer when it comes out.
This and Tenet tie for me. Both are absolutely genius level writing and directing.
So Eric Vos just did a deep dive on this on New Rockstars Deep Dive channel I think you would LOVE!
I can't really decide wich one is my favorite between Inception and Interstellar, and I asked myself that question for almost ten years 😅
Sidenote: You being jumpscared is the highlights of your videos for me, the way you just say "FUCK" and everything just cracks me up man 😂
Interstellar is too convoluted and complex.. And complexity doesn't always mean a good story or movie
@@VykeKing Other way around, Interstellar is more scientific accurate and easier to follow. On top of that Interstellar has slightly better acting performance, better cinematography, score, and the writing on both is incredible. Both movies are masterpieces for me but I take Interstellar over Inception.
@@reynaldolorenzo8409 @bladeofmiquella4950
The question was not which one is better but which one is our favorite. And good is subjective, I can think of arguments right now that one is better than the other and vice-versa, but again not the point ! 🙂
Inception doesn't have a trash ending, so Inception CLEAR
This is one of my favorite movies. I lost count how many times I've watched it
Me while watching this:
Omg Alfred!
Omg Robin!
Omg Talia!
Omg Bane!
Omg Scarecrow!
Christopher Nolan directed this didn't he...?
*looks it up*
Yes, yes he did. Lol
“Skiing with guns, imagine that Olympic sport”… you mean biathalon
Lol just thought the same thing
This is my favorite movie ever.. the script is so air tight, whatever you believe about what is a dream or what is real, you can prove it to yourself..
"Skiing with guns? Imagine that Olympic Sport." LOL
8:37 Ariadne is a princess/goddess in Greek Mythology, who helps Theseus get through a labyrinth to kill the Minotaur.
33:20 there literally exists an Olympics Sport where they’re skiing with guns 😂
I absolute ADORE inception, keep the christopher nolan movies coming! Highly recommend Interestelar, PLEASE, you're not gonna regret it
I think the intention of the ending is that he made it back to the real world. But we never see the totem fall because Nolan always likes to answer his films with a question to keep us thinking about the movie long after it’s ended, even if we already know the answer.
The magic of this movie is that, like it or not, you left the theater talking about it. Sometimes for days afterward. Great filmmaking!
The spinning top and the theory that in Total Recall everything was just a dream are very compelling ideas.
Also the fact that even if it was a dream, I think Cobb would very much wouldnt mind if he had a whole life with his kids.