Yeah that is one thing that’s always bugged me, how come nobody in this movie dreams up something insane as hell like being on a spaceship or monsters attacking the city...although they are in the dreams of a boring businessman so it kinda makes sense, pretty sure somebody who spends 90% of his time sitting in boardrooms doesn’t have much of an imagination
As a father to a very small child, a newborn, and a father figure to Mason, I have no idea how James is holding it together enough to keep making videos with consistent quality
As someone who is familiar with Christopher Nolan's filmography but isn't like a huge fan of him, I legit thought there was a movie called The Title I never heard from before this CoG series haha. I didn't realize all the fake names in the fake poster until this video, right before James & Maso revealed the final movie will be Interstellar.
The tilting bar with Killian Murphy where he's like, "Killian Murphy, did you know this was a tilting bar?" and he's like "Oh my gawd, I thought this was a regular baaaar".
@@redfordreddington8834 he's spelled it the way it's pronounced tho, I think it's part of the joke.... or he's just an imbecile. I think it's the former tho.
About the bit with the effects, I actually had someone tell me that Inception was only an 8/10 because it “didnt have enough special effects” and I was like- “That’s...not what...the movie is about...?”
My favorite part of the movie is Dom and Saito talking about being young men again. I don't know, there's something about them honoring each other that's very endearing. A special bond was formed during the planning of the heist that caused both men to potentially sacrifice themselves for the other man.
I worked at the movie theater the year this came out, and at every single screening, and I mean* every* screening, people gasped at the end. It was incredible, we would all go in to the theaters to hear people react.
The end of this movie is the dumbest thing I had ever seen on a screen until 2020. Its such a lame mystery box ending. Is it a dream? Is it real? Or is it? You dont know. I dont know. Chris Nolan doesnt know. such BS
@@TheSuperappelflap The point is that the answer to the question doesn’t matter. The real answer, anyway. That’s why Nolan isn’t concerned with answering it one way or the other. The thing that is real is Cobb’s love for his children, and that he was willing to confront what he had done in order to return to them. Whether or not they or his reality were real was secondary. This is paralleled by the B plot where a son and father reconcile. Whether or not that reconciliation was real, it was “catharsis,” as Cobb says.
As a former grip, I'd like to point out that all that practical stuff is going above and beyond-- but building and utilizing "flyswatters" on cranes is quite common! Not saying it to be that annoying guy, just so folks know that a lot of shows & movies do this, although not always to that scale. I've worked on a bunch of "meh" shows that still have some pretty crazy rigging budgets. Another great video as always! Seeing Tenet tonight. Or is it yesterday...
@@hellskitchen7853 Sweet! I'm not officially retired or anything, just been focusing on screenwriting + book writing for the past few years. I still love gripping with crews I know and like, but sadly I've had a few abysmal experiences that reminded me that suffering is part of the game no matter what-- may as well suffer for what you love the most. I'm still officially a permit with 873, whereabouts are you?
@@ThreadBomb And I'm sure the grips appreciate that! Then again, depending on the day it's more fun to be busy than to twiddle your thumbs and practice your knots for 12 hours. You G&E?
@@ZacticalZombie I'm in NYC, permit for 52 but right now only card holders are working. Been pretty rough bro. The politics with some people I just really disagree with.
Omg inception as a horror movie with all the exposition part cut out sound sooooo good. Imagine it. I mean really imagine ellen paige character realizing her world seems off and slowly other character comes to her trying to wake her up. And the dead wife character keep trying to kill her. She keeps waking up from dream layer to dream layer with other characters trying to wake her up or tryig to remind her her goal in the dream. untill she wakes up for real and fully understanding whats happening at the same time as the audience. Then she needs to go back into the dream to save leonardo. Omg that sounds so good.
Finding out it was pitched as horror makes a lot of sense because when I watched Inception for the first time, it made me so anxious that I had to watch it in two parts. 😂 So I think the elements are still in there a bit, especially the bit where Ariadne gets “killed”.
I worked in a theater in Daytona, Florida. The most "Florida" part of Florida. The "Mos Eisley" of Florida. Florida Man's outhouse. Just setting the scene. During the opening weekend of Inception at least one grown adult would come out of almost every showing on this movie demanding their money back with the aggression of a Hollywood, wild west, cowboy in a poker game that just found out the person he was playing against had an ace up their sleeve. All of them stating the movie was too confusing and at times even hurt their heads.
The great thing about Inception is that it is so many things ... spy thriller, heist film, action film, sci fi and evening a ghost story. Moll’s projection in Hobb’s mind is for every intent a ghost. That’s maybe my favorite part of the movie. She’s haunting him ... even if it is just the memory of her. Good stuff gentlemen, love your videos!
The reason Mal went mad was because Cobb put the idea in her head that she had to get out of the dream world and it wouldn't go away even when she went back to real life.
The problem is Nolan treats the dreamworld and the real world like they're the same thing. You can dream a lot of things in which is impossible to do in reality. Inception lacks imagination
My Inception theory is that Christopher Nolan gets all his movie concepts from old episodes of Red Dwarf. They did an episode with time going backwards, they did an episode with a replicator. They did an episode with time dilation in space due to black holes. I think Inception is based on "Gunmen of the Apocalypse" where Kryten gets infected with a virus and his mind turns it into a western, so they go inside with a VR machine to help him fight it off.
I always thought that the point of the final scene was the camera focuses on the top until the moment it starts to wobble, and then cuts, because that's all the confirmation you need. That, and he actually sees his children's faces.
I know this comment will probably get passed over like most but just want to say thank you guys. Battling with some pretty severe depression today, and after a few videos of you guys this morning you gave me a much needed laugh and I’m grateful. You deserve to know the work you do isn’t meaningless to people like myself.
Tbh that was kinda the problem with dkr for me. He likes these people so he crammed them all into a batman movie. Until batman is barely in it and is barely involved for months of the storyline.
I still don’t get how people think he might be dreaming at the end. The top wobbles wich it never does in the dreams. His children are older and look different. And if that isn’t enough there’s the whole wedding ring theory thing
I think it's quite obvious for Leo's character arc. Now he has now finally found solace whether he's dreaming or not; he can see his children and that's all that matters.
It wasn’t his totem, it was mals, Cobb may have gotten stuck in mals dream because you need three layers to get to limbo and you need to kill yourself in limbo and then in the next layers to come back, but Cobb only killed hi self once when he got ran over by a train, that leads me to believe that when mal killed herself she may have gone to an upper level, and because mal is now in the real world, their children seem to get older because mal is projecting them and because mal was in the real world, her totem didn’t work
Saito = Big Studio Exec Arthur = Movie Producer Cobb = Director Ellen Page = Set Designer Eames = Actor Yusef = Director of Photography Fisher = Audience Mal = On Set Diva? Idk
This is late, but sorry James, Mason knows about the most important and fundamental aspect of this movie, and that is the drip. Fuck Cobb going back to his children, drip is more important than family, lmao.
"Inception" is just an infinitely rewatchable movie. I never get tired of it. I always want to see it. I've even watched it back-to-back! (something I've never even done with any other film ever made) But I never want to see a sequel, because honestly... a sequel would RUIN this flick!
The reason the top keeps spinning at the end is to suggest the true meaning of the film. So, as was said in the video, Inception is symbolic of the movie making process. Each member of the team represents a different person on a film crew. Movies are made to plant ideas in our heads. In the movie, dreams represent movies. As pointed out in Inception, dreams will just start and you sometimes don't remember how you got there. So do movies, you just hop into the adventure. So, when Cobb spins the top at the end, the "dream" (or movie) isn't over so the top doesn't stop. Or in other words, if you word it as "Is he in the real world or not?" the answer is "not", because he is in a movie and none of it is real. So what Christopher Nolan is suggesting here is that people who need an answer to the question are people who take movies way too seriously and movies become their reality.
On my recent quazzie rewatch of this majestic film, when the van flips and for whatever reason didn't qualify as a kick it made my brain go BWAAAAAAAAAAM
MITHYKA - they’re all seatbelted in pretty tightly. The ground isn’t being kicked out from beneath them; they’re spinning along with it (which is why Joseph Gordon Levitt’s character is doing the zero-G hallway fight) and all the other characters are a level deeper in the dream so the movement of it is so stretched out over time that they don’t perceive it in the same way (though it does cause the world to shake enough to cause avalanches). Remember they need an individual kick for each level of the dream to bring them up.
You know the ending is real life because the kids turn their heads. Otherwise Dom could only remember untill the point he had to leave in a hurry. The kids are also different, because they grew a bit since his departure.
@@ThreadBomb he couldn't see beyond the point when he left in a hurry. You can't remember something that didn't happen. In his elevator he has stored memories, one of them is that exact moment, where he left in a hurry, the last image he has of his children. In the end of the movie, not only the children turn their heads, they're both different, a little older.
@@franciscomenano9900 that's not proof though. Nolan deliberately made the movie a way that there are clues for both possible endings littered anyway. It's definitely an important detail that this is the only time we see their faces, but it's not THE proof for the ending. They are all just theories. There is no answer because Nolan never settled for one
@@goth_fraggle I know, I was just giving my oppinion and my take of the movie! Like The Sopranos, it's ambiguous, but because I didn't see Tony die my oppinion is that he's alive. Thank God for the people that make these movies and shows so we can have these discussions!
I think that's the point. The rules aren't supposed to make sense. The movie is about Cobb's broken psyche and it's debatable that you're never not in the broken psyche of Cobb. Even the "real" world is full of jarring cuts and borderline nonsensical plot. I think the exposition that explains the barely coherent world of Inception is Cobb trying to make sense of the bullshit world he has escaped to deal with the death of his wife.
In a dream you just appear but at the end we see Di Caprio leaving the plane, picking up his luggage, leaving the Airport, taking a cap, arriving at his house and thats the way Nolan is giving us a ans answer
Almost want a line from Tom Hardy saying “it would appear you pissed yourself darling” as soon as they got out, but I’m guessing that would be too goofy for a Nolan movie
If Cobb has been using his dead wife’s totem for years now and not his own, shouldn’t that mean he doesn’t really know definitively what’s a dream and what’s reality then? And if Joker(Ledger) was in Inception he’d have 13 totems, all knives and lint lol
That totem might actually be the reason his wife keeps interfering in his dream missions! Making HIM the villain, even though nobody in the film thinks that...
Isn't that the point? The only maze you can't solve is the one without a solution. That's what they needed, a maze someone couldn't solve, but one that they could cheat their way out of.
A horror prequel would be nice to explore. When the dream technique isn’t perfected and a dreamer is stuck in limbo with a crazed projection chasing him and he has to go through layers waking up one by one with a child’s voice as his guide only to wake up and find out it’s his military instructors voice the whole time trying to wake him up from a 5minute test run but in the dream, it’s been 50 years.
James: "I love this movie more because I'm a father and can extremely relate to the main character's motivations." Mason: "Yeah but I love the suits so much!" James: ".... that's fair."
My favorite thing to do with a new TWP video is read the comments, see there’s an in-joke, and waiting for it in the video. Last week, eggs at lunch. This week, wee in a box.
Damn mason is on some next level costume game. Im pretty observant in films but its all in shots, editing, acting and pacing. But mason is thinking up comedy points and some suite fashion sense
I think the main problem is not really taking advantage of the dream world during the action scenes and showing really weird dreams I don't know if people actually dream in that way I remember max Payne game it shows better dreams not in terms of craftiness, but they represent dreams better than this movie
He also has the best scene in the movie in that zero G hallway fight, which is wordless, as well as the following scene where he has to drag the group into the elevator and set the charges while they’re floating.
Loved this movie. There is a lot of exposition. But the world building is so cool and interesting, I find the exposition the best parts of the movie. It's also needed. I've known people that walked out of this move because the couldn't follow it (I surprised as well) but I think its harder to follow than we think, especially folks who don't watch a lot of science fiction or similar movies.
The thing that bugs me about Inception is this: if you're going to fold a city in half on top of itself in the first act, then you better have some incredibly impressive things coming in the third act that will bend physics in vast and awe-inspiring ways. If anything, the hallway fight should've been first and led up to the city-bending. As is, the city-bending ends up being basically a throwaway gag and the rest of the movie seems anemic by comparison.
I disagree, while yes the city folding is VISUALLY the most impactful thing in the movie. The movie goes on to surpass that, not through visual but through the further development of its concept as we descend further and further into the dream layers. In which imagination is challenged as we simultaneously get answers for each plot point it’s amazing film making in my opinion
The point of those scenes was to show the limits of fanciful design when trying to disguise a dream as reality. The actual mission dreams are supposed to be as lifelike as possible because they are trying to make fisher belieive in the dream before the mr. charles gambit. Also, personally i did not find the city bending to be that interesting and much prefer that hallway fight to be the penultimate action set piece as it is.
So you are telling me that Robert Fischer would see a city bending and be like "Oh that happens everyday and I am not dreaming this is my everyday just as usual".......You seriously did not understand the movie
Not only does it not matter if Cobb sees his totem fall in the end, it wouldn’t be any help if he did. 1) He’s told everyone how it works, and 2) why would anyone who isn’t him trap him in a dream world where tops just keep on spinning?It’s literally no indication of whether he’s dreaming or not.
I think the point is that nobody has thought of the physics of any particular totem so they wouldn’t know to implement that in a dream. If you have a totem that is always supposed to fall right even if you hit it left a dream designer might just treat every object with normal physics so it will fall left.
What if Cobb was stuck on mals dream and because of that because she knows the wedding ring is his totem and when she killed herself she actually went to the real world and he stayed in her dream and he kept dreaming while mal actually went to the real world and because Mal believed the world wasn’t real, she killed herself on the dream but left her own totem behind and because she is in the real world, the totem stops spinning. Just a random theory I can’t put into words very good haha
Right. Because how dare daddy want to save the entire human race, including his own children, by flying into a Black Hole, in another galaxy. How actual dare he??
If I have an overarching criticism of this movie, it's that it's set mostly in dreams, yet it has this intricate, rationalistic collection of *rules*. Nolan seems to think dreams work like clockwork, with predictable mechanics and uniform variations in time scale (even for dreams within dreams). And... dreams just aren't like that. They're way more batshit than this movie. So it's an intriguing Rube Goldberg contraption of a plot, but it just... doesn't seem convincingly dreamlike to me. That said, I saw it again recently and I think it came off better the second time.
I heard that in inception 2: electric boogaloo they have to incept Freddy Krueger but it's super hard to do cos Freddy is just hopping around all these different dreams murdering kids so it's impossible to keep his attention for long enough to make an inception happen. Eventually they all die at the hands of a pissed off super well rested Freddy Krueger and no incepting takes place at all
This reminds me of HISHE’s video where after they enter the dream, because the chemist who drank to much champagne had to pee he’s ordered by DiCaprio to wet himself so he doesn’t compromise the mission. Lol :D
I have a theory that Mombasa is actually a dream. That wall that DiCaprio is running through seems to become smaller for the chasers, and he is able to put a lot of things in their way.
its an awesome movie but the narrative is actually kind hilarious when you think about it and the way its delivered.... "ah a dream within a dream!" "You cant go 3 levels! It's too unstable!" "Not with a sedative its not" "A powerful sedative!" I love the way the movie just re-writes the rules and takes suspension of disbelief to its logical extremes
I tried the dream within a dream concept multiple times before. The end was always the same. The kick that woke me up was always something that involves water. Apparently I had peed my pants while sleeping. 🤦♂
Mol didn't go mad because she went to limbo, Mol was mad because that is what Leo's character thought of her. His consciousness brought his projection of her into the dream world.
The only thing unbelievable in this film is how well these adults sleep
I just spit out my coffee.😂
I dunno, people who inject things intravenously tend to sleep pretty heavily
Or how nobody dreams of anything really vivid or insane, just everyday action movies and tv shows.
Yeah that is one thing that’s always bugged me, how come nobody in this movie dreams up something insane as hell like being on a spaceship or monsters attacking the city...although they are in the dreams of a boring businessman so it kinda makes sense, pretty sure somebody who spends 90% of his time sitting in boardrooms doesn’t have much of an imagination
You mean the action they take in falling asleep or the sleep duration? Because you can see that they use intravenous meds to sleep.
I understand this movie on a level you cant..."AS A FATHER!"
As a father to a very small child, a newborn, and a father figure to Mason, I have no idea how James is holding it together enough to keep making videos with consistent quality
Ugh... THIS guy...
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The real inception was the friends they made along the way
That's wholesome AF
The really inception was the inception we incepted along the inception
Beautiful.. Freinds for ever and ever
how'd you post this comment 1 day ago
@@Question0007 Inception
I can't be the only one who thought Nolan made a film called The Title.
Starring 4 actors whos names are
"Name Surname"? Lol
I actually googled it lol xD
As someone who is familiar with Christopher Nolan's filmography but isn't like a huge fan of him, I legit thought there was a movie called The Title I never heard from before this CoG series haha. I didn't realize all the fake names in the fake poster until this video, right before James & Maso revealed the final movie will be Interstellar.
@@Ferreira0PH so did I.
I went straight to IMDB to find out what this movie I never heard of was all about. I'm such a dumbass.
"Today all of you will be grips!" is such a good line.
I laughed so damn hard at that line. Reminded me of MST3K
true
Grip as in stagehand or handle?
The tilting bar with Killian Murphy where he's like, "Killian Murphy, did you know this was a tilting bar?"
and he's like "Oh my gawd, I thought this was a regular baaaar".
Cillian*
I cried at that part, the shot of his face they show is so funny.
@@redfordreddington8834 he's spelled it the way it's pronounced tho, I think it's part of the joke.... or he's just an imbecile. I think it's the former tho.
@@redfordreddington8834 Just don't call him Sillian
i like watching inception right after shutter island and thinking of leo as the same person in both but he finally gets peace
:)
The security team in my dream would consist of things like; T -1000, The Hulk, Superman, Wolverine, Iron Man and The Transformers.
I can picture them all just watching optimus doing all the fighting while hiding in the background like in transformers 2
@@saintniccage2818
People's imaginations are really boring in this.
Cobb: Holy shit you didn’t tell me this guy had an actual imagination
@@anubusx "prime closes mouthguard" TIME TO FIND OUT.
@@saintniccage2818
lol.
About the bit with the effects, I actually had someone tell me that Inception was only an 8/10 because it “didnt have enough special effects” and I was like- “That’s...not what...the movie is about...?”
My favorite part of the movie is Dom and Saito talking about being young men again. I don't know, there's something about them honoring each other that's very endearing. A special bond was formed during the planning of the heist that caused both men to potentially sacrifice themselves for the other man.
Having lived in Japan, i got a Japan bsuinessperson vibe from the way that Dom engages with Saito
*“Don’t worry about it Ellen Degeneres they aren’t real co-workers.”*
Kinda random yet oddly fitting...
1:43 and now I'm just gonna pretend that's what James said. Unless it's ALL A DREAAMMM
OOOOOOF
I consider myself a true fan of this film. I make sure to sleep during each viewing for the ultimate Inception experience.
if theyre going to sleep though most days, no point making an exception for inception
“Today, EVERYONE’s a grip!” That made me holler
"What do you mean by that- AHHHHH"
I worked at the movie theater the year this came out, and at every single screening, and I mean* every* screening, people gasped at the end. It was incredible, we would all go in to the theaters to hear people react.
The end of this movie is the dumbest thing I had ever seen on a screen until 2020. Its such a lame mystery box ending. Is it a dream? Is it real? Or is it? You dont know. I dont know. Chris Nolan doesnt know. such BS
@@TheSuperappelflap *a great whooshing noise as the point of the movie flies clear over your head* "Must've been some idiot bird," you say.
@@BobbyReichle ive talked to a lot of people who like this film and no one has ever been able to tell me what the point was.
@@TheSuperappelflap The point is that the answer to the question doesn’t matter. The real answer, anyway. That’s why Nolan isn’t concerned with answering it one way or the other. The thing that is real is Cobb’s love for his children, and that he was willing to confront what he had done in order to return to them. Whether or not they or his reality were real was secondary. This is paralleled by the B plot where a son and father reconcile. Whether or not that reconciliation was real, it was “catharsis,” as Cobb says.
As a former grip, I'd like to point out that all that practical stuff is going above and beyond-- but building and utilizing "flyswatters" on cranes is quite common! Not saying it to be that annoying guy, just so folks know that a lot of shows & movies do this, although not always to that scale. I've worked on a bunch of "meh" shows that still have some pretty crazy rigging budgets.
Another great video as always! Seeing Tenet tonight. Or is it yesterday...
They probably don't use many flyswatters when filming in Vancouver.
I'm a grip, u say former why'd u stop gripping?
@@hellskitchen7853 Sweet!
I'm not officially retired or anything, just been focusing on screenwriting + book writing for the past few years. I still love gripping with crews I know and like, but sadly I've had a few abysmal experiences that reminded me that suffering is part of the game no matter what-- may as well suffer for what you love the most.
I'm still officially a permit with 873, whereabouts are you?
@@ThreadBomb And I'm sure the grips appreciate that! Then again, depending on the day it's more fun to be busy than to twiddle your thumbs and practice your knots for 12 hours. You G&E?
@@ZacticalZombie I'm in NYC, permit for 52 but right now only card holders are working. Been pretty rough bro. The politics with some people I just really disagree with.
Omg inception as a horror movie with all the exposition part cut out sound sooooo good. Imagine it. I mean really imagine ellen paige character realizing her world seems off and slowly other character comes to her trying to wake her up. And the dead wife character keep trying to kill her. She keeps waking up from dream layer to dream layer with other characters trying to wake her up or tryig to remind her her goal in the dream. untill she wakes up for real and fully understanding whats happening at the same time as the audience. Then she needs to go back into the dream to save leonardo. Omg that sounds so good.
Finding out it was pitched as horror makes a lot of sense because when I watched Inception for the first time, it made me so anxious that I had to watch it in two parts. 😂 So I think the elements are still in there a bit, especially the bit where Ariadne gets “killed”.
Needs to happen at least as a fanfic
The Cell. You are talking about The Cell.
@@ExhaustedWombat The Cell was a pretty good movie (except for that bit where the doctor mispronounced "infarction").
Exiztence is pretty close to what you're after.
I worked in a theater in Daytona, Florida. The most "Florida" part of Florida. The "Mos Eisley" of Florida. Florida Man's outhouse. Just setting the scene. During the opening weekend of Inception at least one grown adult would come out of almost every showing on this movie demanding their money back with the aggression of a Hollywood, wild west, cowboy in a poker game that just found out the person he was playing against had an ace up their sleeve. All of them stating the movie was too confusing and at times even hurt their heads.
Sounds about white.
Yeah...my mom and my sister didn't have a clue on what was going on :/
more background noise to fill the hole in my life ♥️ (listening while falling asleep, and randomly bursting out laughing. waking me up all over again)
Broooo same here! I watch Caravan of Garbage every night hahahahaaha!
The great thing about Inception is that it is so many things ... spy thriller, heist film, action film, sci fi and evening a ghost story. Moll’s projection in Hobb’s mind is for every intent a ghost. That’s maybe my favorite part of the movie. She’s haunting him ... even if it is just the memory of her. Good stuff gentlemen, love your videos!
I thought it was one of the most overrated movies ever
The reason Mal went mad was because Cobb put the idea in her head that she had to get out of the dream world and it wouldn't go away even when she went back to real life.
The problem is Nolan treats the dreamworld and the real world like they're the same thing. You can dream a lot of things in which is impossible to do in reality. Inception lacks imagination
I just watched inception in theaters yesterday for the 10th anniversary rerelease. This video came out the perfect time
Saw it in 4D, it was amazing
I like the fact that there is some secret organization that was vaguely mention throughout the movie
Possible spoiler but I assume u have seen it
If u think about it inception is just about a group of friends convincing a guy that his dad loved him
Well...
Where can one get these type of friends? Asking for a friend I know, not me ....obviously.
OMG that's so laaaaaaame!
*b r o*
@@certifiedmovies78 well he IS joking
6:08 Mason being a man out of time makes me laugh so much 😂
*“...Are you okay?!”😂*
"That many dreams within dreams is impossible, but I have a sedative right here that will let you do it" GREAT WRITING
My Inception theory is that Christopher Nolan gets all his movie concepts from old episodes of Red Dwarf.
They did an episode with time going backwards, they did an episode with a replicator. They did an episode with time dilation in space due to black holes.
I think Inception is based on "Gunmen of the Apocalypse" where Kryten gets infected with a virus and his mind turns it into a western, so they go inside with a VR machine to help him fight it off.
Dwayne Dibbly?!?! 😱
Oooh thats good! But please check out Paprika, its a japanese animation and it's good! It came before this movie and is better imo
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Red Dwarf was trash
Right, apart from Oppenheimer his movies are all just pulp fiction trash. Inception and Tenet being the worst examples.
What a garbage movie Leo isnt swearing every five seconds and he doesnt get mauled by a bear
lol.
Atleast he does some screaming.
They should make a movie about that!
0/10
And Tom Hardy isn't constantly yelling about pelts
I have never heard an Ozzy attempt a Cockney accent before and it was just such a blast to hear lmao
I always thought that the point of the final scene was the camera focuses on the top until the moment it starts to wobble, and then cuts, because that's all the confirmation you need.
That, and he actually sees his children's faces.
I know this comment will probably get passed over like most but just want to say thank you guys. Battling with some pretty severe depression today, and after a few videos of you guys this morning you gave me a much needed laugh and I’m grateful. You deserve to know the work you do isn’t meaningless to people like myself.
Feel better bro
Keep going bro hope everything is well for you
Hope you're doing better man. A year on and look how far you've made it. Keep pushing brother
Hope you are doing better 🎉
These guys sort me out aswell. Hope all is well.
Anyone else notice that at least half the main cast is in the dark Knight trilogy
Scarecrow, bane, talia al ghul, alfred
@@bigstunna2049 and 'Robin'
@@georgelinford5576 and also fake ras al ghul
Yeah directors usually like workin with actors they’ve previously worked with
Tbh that was kinda the problem with dkr for me. He likes these people so he crammed them all into a batman movie. Until batman is barely in it and is barely involved for months of the storyline.
"Hey, Leo, it's called an alarm clock you could've saved us three hours."
- Mega64
Mason is wrong about Interstellar! Hot take. Hot takes all the way OFF THE DOOOME
Personally my favourite Nolan movie and POSSIBLY my all time favourite film. So damn good
the love through time and spice thing is dumb but the rest of the film is insanely good
@@dankerbell what spice, paprika?
I saw this in theaters 3 times. I never see a movie more than once, except for Nolan films. They’re just incredible in theaters.
I watched it again last week in IMAX, was brilliant to see it again on the big screen.
The dark knight rises plane scene royally screwed my ear up when the drums kick in.
I just watched it twice this week alone, at my local IMAX replaying it for the tenth anniversary. Still holds up!!
@@MrJagermeister it's a classic
I still don’t get how people think he might be dreaming at the end. The top wobbles wich it never does in the dreams. His children are older and look different. And if that isn’t enough there’s the whole wedding ring theory thing
It cuts just as the top starts to wobble, because that's all the confirmation you need. It was perfect.
I think it's quite obvious for Leo's character arc. Now he has now finally found solace whether he's dreaming or not; he can see his children and that's all that matters.
If he was dreaming the top would be meaningless anyways. He made it his totem while in the dream.
It wasn’t his totem, it was mals, Cobb may have gotten stuck in mals dream because you need three layers to get to limbo and you need to kill yourself in limbo and then in the next layers to come back, but Cobb only killed hi self once when he got ran over by a train, that leads me to believe that when mal killed herself she may have gone to an upper level, and because mal is now in the real world, their children seem to get older because mal is projecting them and because mal was in the real world, her totem didn’t work
Because it’s a nice little mindfuck to end the film with
“The dream machine case is Hollywood” -Mason 2020
That spinning hallway fight scene is still one of the coolest fight scenes I’ve seen recently in a movie.
Ooh spinny fighty stuff, so cool yeah.
Saito = Big Studio Exec
Arthur = Movie Producer
Cobb = Director
Ellen Page = Set Designer
Eames = Actor
Yusef = Director of Photography
Fisher = Audience
Mal = On Set Diva? Idk
Mal would probably be the picky executive who stops the production constantly to mess it up, Mal is essentially Tom Rothman
@@mrcritical6751
There ya go.
Mal = Micromanaging Studio Exec who tries their hardest to ruin production
”See you in you my dreams *NOT* ” Mason knows how to make me laugh
“ I don’t care for people I only care for kissing my kids”
This is late, but sorry James, Mason knows about the most important and fundamental aspect of this movie, and that is the drip. Fuck Cobb going back to his children, drip is more important than family, lmao.
I’d love to dispute this but you’re right
"Inception" is just an infinitely rewatchable movie. I never get tired of it. I always want to see it. I've even watched it back-to-back! (something I've never even done with any other film ever made)
But I never want to see a sequel, because honestly... a sequel would RUIN this flick!
The did make a sequel, it was called Transformers The Last Knight!
@@cruizerdave Either you're commenting on the wrong thread, or that was an awful attempt at a joke...
@@shindari how dare you tell a person of colour, that he isn't funny? Maybe we should ask your employer what he thinks of your racist views.
shindari I can make awful jokes if I want!
@@peterwestenthaler7954 Maybe you're aware of something I'm not.
But how the hell am I supposed to know the race of any particular youtube poster?
The reason the top keeps spinning at the end is to suggest the true meaning of the film. So, as was said in the video, Inception is symbolic of the movie making process. Each member of the team represents a different person on a film crew. Movies are made to plant ideas in our heads. In the movie, dreams represent movies. As pointed out in Inception, dreams will just start and you sometimes don't remember how you got there. So do movies, you just hop into the adventure. So, when Cobb spins the top at the end, the "dream" (or movie) isn't over so the top doesn't stop. Or in other words, if you word it as "Is he in the real world or not?" the answer is "not", because he is in a movie and none of it is real. So what Christopher Nolan is suggesting here is that people who need an answer to the question are people who take movies way too seriously and movies become their reality.
either that's a really clever idea or dumb as shit, i ain't smart enough to know
@@alexmcintosh3397 same
On my recent quazzie rewatch of this majestic film, when the van flips and for whatever reason didn't qualify as a kick it made my brain go BWAAAAAAAAAAM
MITHYKA - they’re all seatbelted in pretty tightly. The ground isn’t being kicked out from beneath them; they’re spinning along with it (which is why Joseph Gordon Levitt’s character is doing the zero-G hallway fight) and all the other characters are a level deeper in the dream so the movement of it is so stretched out over time that they don’t perceive it in the same way (though it does cause the world to shake enough to cause avalanches). Remember they need an individual kick for each level of the dream to bring them up.
Ahhh but It's not simultaneous with the other dream layers... cLeaRly uR iQ iS tOo lOw tO cOmpRehEnd tHis mAstErPieCe
Mason's confused "What?" gets me every time. Lol
You know the ending is real life because the kids turn their heads. Otherwise Dom could only remember untill the point he had to leave in a hurry. The kids are also different, because they grew a bit since his departure.
You're saying he couldn't dream about his kids turning their heads? That is a crazy limitation.
@@ThreadBomb he couldn't see beyond the point when he left in a hurry. You can't remember something that didn't happen. In his elevator he has stored memories, one of them is that exact moment, where he left in a hurry, the last image he has of his children. In the end of the movie, not only the children turn their heads, they're both different, a little older.
@@franciscomenano9900 that's not proof though. Nolan deliberately made the movie a way that there are clues for both possible endings littered anyway.
It's definitely an important detail that this is the only time we see their faces, but it's not THE proof for the ending. They are all just theories. There is no answer because Nolan never settled for one
@@goth_fraggle I know, I was just giving my oppinion and my take of the movie! Like The Sopranos, it's ambiguous, but because I didn't see Tony die my oppinion is that he's alive. Thank God for the people that make these movies and shows so we can have these discussions!
Aren't they in the same clothes tho?
Kevin Malone: "Inception is like eating pigs in a blanket... in a blanket."
i must've watched this movie like 50 times the year it came out and the first 4 of those viewings is trying to understand the dream rules.
Not enough exposition? Perhaps you should watch it on Blu-Ray with director's commentary on.
I think that's the point. The rules aren't supposed to make sense. The movie is about Cobb's broken psyche and it's debatable that you're never not in the broken psyche of Cobb. Even the "real" world is full of jarring cuts and borderline nonsensical plot. I think the exposition that explains the barely coherent world of Inception is Cobb trying to make sense of the bullshit world he has escaped to deal with the death of his wife.
@@jstani21 what are you talking about? How is the plot nonsensical?
In a dream you just appear but at the end we see Di Caprio leaving the plane, picking up his luggage, leaving the Airport, taking a cap, arriving at his house and thats the way Nolan is giving us a ans answer
When the rain stopped in the dream...did he piss himself?
Almost want a line from Tom Hardy saying “it would appear you pissed yourself darling” as soon as they got out, but I’m guessing that would be too goofy for a Nolan movie
Good point
If Cobb has been using his dead wife’s totem for years now and not his own, shouldn’t that mean he doesn’t really know definitively what’s a dream and what’s reality then? And if Joker(Ledger) was in Inception he’d have 13 totems, all knives and lint lol
That totem might actually be the reason his wife keeps interfering in his dream missions! Making HIM the villain, even though nobody in the film thinks that...
Inception is my favourite movie to this day. Even though I don't really like the "draw a maze" scene. She simply made it unsolveable!
Isn't that the point? The only maze you can't solve is the one without a solution. That's what they needed, a maze someone couldn't solve, but one that they could cheat their way out of.
How did you post this a day ago?
@@elliott4875 BIG SANDWICH GAAAAAANG BABY
It wasnt unsolvable, it was confusing and novel and was a nice way of showing her ability to think outside the box... Literally lol.
That was the point, Joseph Gordon Levitt character said to make a paradox so its unsolvable
The hallway fight scene is my favorite part of the movie. Especially after watching the behind the scenes footage.
I’m really glad they never turned Inception into a multi-movie franchise, with numerous and needless sequels
A horror prequel would be nice to explore. When the dream technique isn’t perfected and a dreamer is stuck in limbo with a crazed projection chasing him and he has to go through layers waking up one by one with a child’s voice as his guide only to wake up and find out it’s his military instructors voice the whole time trying to wake him up from a 5minute test run but in the dream, it’s been 50 years.
Dayo Olaleye That’s really close to the plot of that one Black Mirror episode
James: "I love this movie more because I'm a father and can extremely relate to the main character's motivations."
Mason: "Yeah but I love the suits so much!"
James: ".... that's fair."
Saw this movie in high school in the theatres and it blew my little teenager mind away. Watching it in the cinema made it way better.
The movie that made movie trailer music annoying for the next several years.
BWWWWWWAAMMMP
In a world...BBBBBWWWWWWAAAAAAHHHHHH
To this day
Ben from Canada sneaked the Presto card in there. Respect.
Yes! Don't know if he's been doing it all along, but from now on I'll be looking for Canadian references in his videos!
Went straight to the comments 😂
My favorite thing to do with a new TWP video is read the comments, see there’s an in-joke, and waiting for it in the video. Last week, eggs at lunch. This week, wee in a box.
Damn mason is on some next level costume game. Im pretty observant in films but its all in shots, editing, acting and pacing. But mason is thinking up comedy points and some suite fashion sense
Love to see the PRESTO card. Shout out your Toronto based editor.
Fun fact: You can tell that DiCaprio's wife is a dream the whole time because she is over 25
Some problems with this movie: Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character exists purely for exposition; this is a 4-hour movie packed into 2 hours.
um the movie is almost 3 hours long lol
Yeah but thats usually better than a 2 hour movie stretched to 4 hours....
Not necessarily
I think the main problem is not really taking advantage of the dream world during the action scenes and showing really weird dreams I don't know if people actually dream in that way I remember max Payne game it shows better dreams not in terms of craftiness, but they represent dreams better than this movie
He also has the best scene in the movie in that zero G hallway fight, which is wordless, as well as the following scene where he has to drag the group into the elevator and set the charges while they’re floating.
the real inception is incepshawn
Interstellar is my personal fave Nolan movie, I’m looking forward to next week!
10:34 I have that exact Batman Pez dispenser, so I guess that’s my totem now
Does it come in black?
They stayed true to their words "Can we not talk about the batman movies?"
So true, kings.
Loved this movie. There is a lot of exposition. But the world building is so cool and interesting, I find the exposition the best parts of the movie. It's also needed. I've known people that walked out of this move because the couldn't follow it (I surprised as well) but I think its harder to follow than we think, especially folks who don't watch a lot of science fiction or similar movies.
What if Yousef ate a giant burrito before the flight? Would there be a guy following everyone around playing the tuba?
Big Sandwich gang WYA
Only the biggest sandwiches for this particular gang
Don’t get it.
@@sanjayraju988 You can see their videos early on Big Sandwich or something
MAD GHOST!!
Sorry, wrong gang.
"Give it a bloody go" is the moto Nike uses in Australia.
This movie was the first movie I saw in theaters multiple times. I saw it 3 times in about 2 weeks.
9:03 came back for the Micheal Caine impression 😂
The thing that bugs me about Inception is this: if you're going to fold a city in half on top of itself in the first act, then you better have some incredibly impressive things coming in the third act that will bend physics in vast and awe-inspiring ways. If anything, the hallway fight should've been first and led up to the city-bending. As is, the city-bending ends up being basically a throwaway gag and the rest of the movie seems anemic by comparison.
I disagree, while yes the city folding is VISUALLY the most impactful thing in the movie. The movie goes on to surpass that, not through visual but through the further development of its concept as we descend further and further into the dream layers. In which imagination is challenged as we simultaneously get answers for each plot point it’s amazing film making in my opinion
Like a giant purple interdimensional being?
I think it's just slapped in there to get people to understand what crazy whacky antics these dreamer men can conjure
The point of those scenes was to show the limits of fanciful design when trying to disguise a dream as reality. The actual mission dreams are supposed to be as lifelike as possible because they are trying to make fisher belieive in the dream before the mr. charles gambit. Also, personally i did not find the city bending to be that interesting and much prefer that hallway fight to be the penultimate action set piece as it is.
So you are telling me that Robert Fischer would see a city bending and be like "Oh that happens everyday and I am not dreaming this is my everyday just as usual".......You seriously did not understand the movie
Not only does it not matter if Cobb sees his totem fall in the end, it wouldn’t be any help if he did. 1) He’s told everyone how it works, and 2) why would anyone who isn’t him trap him in a dream world where tops just keep on spinning?It’s literally no indication of whether he’s dreaming or not.
I think the point is that nobody has thought of the physics of any particular totem so they wouldn’t know to implement that in a dream. If you have a totem that is always supposed to fall right even if you hit it left a dream designer might just treat every object with normal physics so it will fall left.
I legit thought that "The Title" was already a Nolan movie.
Should anyone ever see this, an inception style game might be the evil within
What if Cobb was stuck on mals dream and because of that because she knows the wedding ring is his totem and when she killed herself she actually went to the real world and he stayed in her dream and he kept dreaming while mal actually went to the real world and because Mal believed the world wasn’t real, she killed herself on the dream but left her own totem behind and because she is in the real world, the totem stops spinning. Just a random theory I can’t put into words very good haha
The virgin “I’m a father” vs the chad “I like suits”
Oh boy I'm looking forward to Space Man is an awful father: the movie
Dad Astra?
Guardians Of The Galaxy 2?
Right. Because how dare daddy want to save the entire human race, including his own children, by flying into a Black Hole, in another galaxy. How actual dare he??
"MURPH!"
@@shindari I more meant that he basically pretends his son doesn't exist for the entire run time.
"If you haven't watched Inception, but you've somehow suffered through this film"
They're speaking directly to me lmao.
If I have an overarching criticism of this movie, it's that it's set mostly in dreams, yet it has this intricate, rationalistic collection of *rules*. Nolan seems to think dreams work like clockwork, with predictable mechanics and uniform variations in time scale (even for dreams within dreams). And... dreams just aren't like that. They're way more batshit than this movie. So it's an intriguing Rube Goldberg contraption of a plot, but it just... doesn't seem convincingly dreamlike to me. That said, I saw it again recently and I think it came off better the second time.
I heard that in inception 2: electric boogaloo they have to incept Freddy Krueger but it's super hard to do cos Freddy is just hopping around all these different dreams murdering kids so it's impossible to keep his attention for long enough to make an inception happen. Eventually they all die at the hands of a pissed off super well rested Freddy Krueger and no incepting takes place at all
Wow Mason really knows his fashion new found respect for him lol great eye
This reminds me of HISHE’s video where after they enter the dream, because the chemist who drank to much champagne had to pee he’s ordered by DiCaprio to wet himself so he doesn’t compromise the mission. Lol :D
I would have said Gordon "Levitate"
I really want to see the movie of bullies following Leo around now. That movie sounds like pure gold.
This is OFF THE DOOOOOOOOOOOME...
...wait this isn't DC!
I have a theory that Mombasa is actually a dream. That wall that DiCaprio is running through seems to become smaller for the chasers, and he is able to put a lot of things in their way.
Am I watching this video or is it all a dreammmmmmmmmmmmm
its an awesome movie but the narrative is actually kind hilarious when you think about it and the way its delivered....
"ah a dream within a dream!"
"You cant go 3 levels! It's too unstable!"
"Not with a sedative its not"
"A powerful sedative!"
I love the way the movie just re-writes the rules and takes suspension of disbelief to its logical extremes
I can’t tell what I like more, COG on an actually bad movie or a good movie... maybe a good movie because of the ballsyness of it😂
Sometimes I wouldn't mind going into that lower dream level for that long extended stay...🤘🏼💯✔️
I tried the dream within a dream concept multiple times before. The end was always the same. The kick that woke me up was always something that involves water. Apparently I had peed my pants while sleeping. 🤦♂
😂
6:07 favourite part of the video genuinely made me laugh out loud on the bus
Mason, a man of the times but also a man out of time
Mol didn't go mad because she went to limbo, Mol was mad because that is what Leo's character thought of her. His consciousness brought his projection of her into the dream world.
Well she did originally go mad because she went into limbo.
Interstellar, or that 'man trapped in a bookcase' movie.
'The Man Trapped In A Bookcase' sounds Hitchcockian, I like it!