Why inception is bad

I encourage you to take a proper bong hit of salvia and see. Why did not DiCaprio tell her wife that he planted the idea?

Well, I see that this matter is explained in the movie well enough. It was not believed to be possible, DiCap probably did not understand the matter until later, with more experience in the field. But more importantly, isn't that the whole idea of the planting? It is a thought that is planted to the core of your mind. There for more powerful than anything, as a mental illness. I am aware that such a concept does not exist in our reality, but in the movies reality it does.

End of story. You also were talking about this "magic suitcase". It is well enough explained in the movie, that it is a technology originally created by us military in purpose of using it in training. Why not? Explained, possible in the movies reality, end of story. Lastly, I bet Nolan actually did want the audience to see the suitcase in the "waking up from limbo" -scenes, since it is there. Well, these are just my thoughts. Why to take a movie so seriously that it ruins the experience?

Inception was the most notable achievement in filmmaking in Make a pot of green tea and give it an other try. Riddle me this: How does 'be your own man don't try to be like your father' translate into 'break up the company and sell' so you don't end up with a monopoly position. Wasn't that the whole point of the 'heist'?

The funny thing is, for me if I had to write the longest interpretation for a movie I would pick Inception. The fact that it lacks an antagonist or any other element of basic plot writing does not make it a boring movie, or one with nothing to take out of it. A whole movie could be written on how the mind works, where it is solely about a person closing its eyes and imagining stuff and it could be absolutely full of details to analyze. For God's sake haven't you spent whole minutes connecting back to your own dream experiences and realized the amount of research that Nolan has made before stating certain aspects of dreaming?

To be honest I have no clue why I'm bothering that much, I just wanted to post that if you do not like a movie don't write a subjective article full of nonsense critisizing it just to justify your taste. I mean, just by reading your distaste even for the choice of a character's name I shouldn't criticize a movie I don't like?

Or is it because you disagree with me, my opinion is therefore nonsense and I shouldn't write it? I think the lazy choice of Arachne's name is indicative of the general pattern of poor decisions in the writing of Inception.

It's like Dr. Octopus being named Otto Octavius, except in Spider man it's a joke. In Inception, they do it with the same somber disregard for human character as the rest of the movie. The writers think that terrible name was profound, apparently. I think Inception's complete seriousness is the worst part, come to think of it. Post a Comment. Inception is a bad movie. I'm going to skip over some complaints that aren't a big deal, then I'll address the main problem.

Dreams are completely different in real life and in Inception in basically every way. Someone pointed out that the movie would work much better if they said "subconscious" instead of "dreams", so let's just pretend that's what they did. The rules throughout the movie are completely inconsistent, and often ludicrous.

Falling in your sleeping body is supposed to pull you out of your dream, but later in the movie, they pull a switcheroo and have the dream person fall to wake up the sleeping body. The entire Limbo thing was particularly dumb, if you can just kill yourself in Limbo to wake up, then Limbo isn't a real threat, or it wouldn't be if they were being consistent.

The naming of the characters is particularly silly. Are you serious? In defense of Inception , it's not actually that confusing or hard to keep track of or understand: Some guys use a magic dream penetrating thingy to insert the idea of breaking up a company into a businessman's psyche. The idea that there's so much "meaning" and "interpretation" to be analyzed is just piffle.

There's no subtext whatsoever, and the only interpretation anyone makes is "was scene X a dream or reality? There's no logic to think that the "real world" of the movie is real or dream, there's no system to determine what's real or not. The most popular dream question is the final scene, which must be a dream, unless Christopher Nolan would have us forget that children age in the real world.

The time that the apartment across the street was the same apartment that Dicaprio was in was an interesting, almost subliminal, visual trick, but it doesn't mean anything. Now the big stuff, starting with the second largest problem: The "antagonists". At some point, the people making the movie thought this would be boring, so someone decided that dreams defend themselves with gun wielding characters who attempt to eject foreign dreamers.

This makes for a constant video-game-esque gunfight against faceless goons for absolutely no reason. This provides no real narrative pressure or threat, since it's a dream, and we don't care about the protagonists.

There are only two people in the movie who actually have character, and they're both rather obnoxious. Leonardo Dicaprio's character, oddly named Dom Cobb? I just watched this movie last night for the second time, and I loved it! It was very confusing, since it has a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream.

Since the movie is so long, and so much subject matter is covered in the duration of the film, it is hard to nutshell it, but it is mind-bending, and it really gets you to think.

Parent of a year-old Written by Lolboimatrix June 22, Parent of a year-old Written by Olsefamily5 April 20, If they have the ability to know the difference between reality and imagination this movie has the potential for deep conversations. Be prepared to share what your values are and be ready to engage in critical thinking convos.

Adult Written by [email protected] November 27, One of the greatest movies of all-time! You just have to watch it! Adult Written by Anna Q. August 26, Adult Written by Daniel B June 4, Good movie but terribly confusing.

I thought this was a good movie but terribly confusing. Most of the "people" being "killed" are just parts of dreams and not real living people. Another example is one of the characters getting shot in the head non-graphic but he simply wakes up as a result. That being said, there is a lot of action and it can be pretty confusing I had to pause and rewind a bunch but still didn't understand some of what was going on until near the end so young kids probably won't enjoy it anyway.

Adult Written by Nathan R. May 11, Adult Written by Joe J. March 9, Best film I've seen in the theater. Transcends being a "film", more like an experience. Go to Common Sense Review.

An intestinal worm? The script of Inception underscores this with lines that frequently veer into absurdism. The updated opium den where dozens of men dream their lives away in what now feels like an eerie harbinger of the opioid crisis. The faceless men who show up to track Cobb through funhouse-maze streets and then are never seen again. The tyrannical businessman whose son clings to a Citizen Kane moment from his childhood that may never have been real at all.

He created a world that serves as a metaphor for world-building itself. Of course a bunch of fanfiction writers found a home in it. To me, Inception is a minor miracle — a movie built fundamentally on nonsense, with a terrible script and enough plot holes to be a permanent tease — yet one that satisfies on every conceivable level.

If Yusuf sped up the normal dose of Somnacin to be 20 times faster than real time instead of the typical 12 times, so that they could lucid dream three layers down, then technically the whole job only lasted about six minutes in reality, so what does the team do on the top level after the van crash for the roughly two weeks of dream time they have to fill up for the rest of the plane ride?

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