badnoodles:

… you say the dreams didn’t seem ‘dreamy’ enough, did you not see the parts where they could just change their surroundings however they wanted?…

I loved those parts. It happened like three times in the entire film, and the bulk of it was already in the trailer.

I knew when Cobb started lecturing Ariadne on not changing the dream world for fear of alerting the subconscious, and when someone says that “dreams always seem real when you’re in them” that this movie wasn’t what I was expecting.

Dreams definitely do not seem real when you’re in them. In dreams we fly effortlessly through the air, fall into infinite chasms, posses supernatural strength etc. I’ve almost never had a dream that didn’t break some basic laws of nature. Yet the rules of the real world were absolutely unbreakable for about 95% of Inception. That’s because this movie isn’t about dreams. It’s just a vehicle for a heist film.

… Arthur flat out says to Ariadne, “… They’re looking for the dreamer. For me.” and in the snow level Cobb says “Eames, this is your dream.”

Amazing how he strains the third wall with this dialog and I still didn’t catch it. Ariadne knows exactly who the dreamer is, and so does Eames. This is a really bad, heavy-handed technique, used solely for the viewer’s benefit. There is so much dialog like that in this movie, and it accomplishes surprisingly little.

In my opinion there was a lot of emotional investment, especially with Cobb. Between the death of his wife and losing his kids, he’s gone through a lot and this job is how he’ll be able to finally see his children again, and I think that would be worth the effort…

Yeah, it was obvious to me how the movie was supposed to appeal to me emotionally. I just didn’t buy it. At all.

Time to watch The Science of Sleep again.