The Reel Rejects - INCEPTION (2010) MOVIE REVIEW – HOW DID CHRISTOPHER NOLAN PULL THIS OFF?! – FIRST TIME WATCHING

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Starting point is 00:01:20 We just finished inception. Oh my God. That was so freaking good. Yo, yes. I'm happy that lived up to the hype. If you listen to this on out with Spotify, make sure you go and give us five stars. Also, if you're watching this on YouTube, make sure you like, comments, subscribe, ring that notification bell to know if you are actually awake. Also, I don't know if you notice, but Andrew and I got some cool merch on.

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Starting point is 00:02:32 get into said fan questions, though, let's check in with how we're feeling, how we've been dreaming, what level are we on? Are we in the real world? Is this a dream? I don't know. I don't know either. I feel like this is all a simulation anyways at Roushageagee. I did just look. There's no mid or post-credit. I didn't

Starting point is 00:02:48 think so. Yeah, yeah. I figured it's Christopher Nolan's like, wait, this isn't a superhero film, at least, not Batman, at least. So I don't need to put a midter post-credit in this film. Yeah. I feeling coming out of it it's it was an incredible film just on so many different department just character-wise i i really i liked pretty much every single character that was in this film when

Starting point is 00:03:12 it comes to to cobb i liked emotionally vulnerable the character was i liked uh that the character was written with so much guilt and that was one of the the deeper and i'm kind of emotional or rather the the underlying themes of the film was about letting go of of guilt and and accepting reality. And I think that really was executed upon so well, not only from the character's perspective, but just what Nolan was trying to hit. And just having grief, like, let, get a hold of you.

Starting point is 00:03:43 Like, it can just cause a level of virus in your own mind and subconscious rather, and as well as affect how you are when it comes to your reality and when, you know, just you on a surface level. And I thought this movie was pretty deep, honestly. And I'm sure there's many things that you can pick up the more times you watch it,

Starting point is 00:04:02 as I alluded to in the beginning of our intro, that there's gonna be things that on multiple viewings that you're gonna not see in the first time, but I still think with so many different things that are happening over at a time, whether it's different action sequences or the things that are the world that is being, the world building that's happening around.

Starting point is 00:04:23 I like that it's still pretty, somewhat easy to follow, but I really enjoyed this film, as I said, And also, too, when it comes to Arthur, I like how precision-based he was. I like how calm he was as well, like no matter how crazy of a situation. You also feel the rapport and the history between him and Cobb that they've worked so many jobs together. Him and Leonardo DiCaprio, they have such a good chemistry between them. I do. Eames, he's so much humor and confidence.

Starting point is 00:04:53 He's kind of, I like that Nolan infused a lot of humor with the character, but it doesn't get cartoonish to the point that there's a lot of balance of levity with all the craziness that's going on in the film. It could have gotten a little over the top and cartoonish, but it didn't. So I like that there was a level of balance in there. And then when it comes to Mr. Saito, Ken Watanabe, I like that there was a level of Kravitas and mystery with the character. So I think just, I like that there's all these different personality traits given to each of these characters. And then I really think one of my favorite performances as well in this film was Killian Murphy.

Starting point is 00:05:28 I like, again, the emotional vulnerability. I know I just spoke about that when it came to Cobb, but the relationship that he had with his father and the mending of relationships that had to happen between him and his father. And, you know, did I live up to expectations on how I'm trying to be too much like my father? And then when it came to Cobb and his wife

Starting point is 00:05:48 and the guilt that is written inside of him and that he's feeling, this was, besides all the mind bending, when it came to the visuals and the storyline, Like that was all phenomenal, but the stuff that resonated to me was the storylines when it came to Cobb, when it came to Fisher, that was the stuff that really hit me the strongest, even though I was being blown away by the visuals and the storyline was great, those characters' arcs and those characters' emotional impact is what really resonated the most with me. Because I'm often dreaming upon, you know, I've suffered as many of you know, I have suffered such a great loss when it comes to my dad in the last year. And it is every day I'm thinking about it. is often in my dreams.

Starting point is 00:06:30 And so it's like seeing a movie like this, I'm like, wow, this is really hitting me hard because this is something I am currently experiencing. Granted, I can't plan dreams and things in people's minds or stuff, but just seeing someone that is so close to me that I'm often seeing in my dreams. Like this really was hitting home for me. Yeah. But how are you feeling? Yeah, man.

Starting point is 00:06:51 This was one of those films that obviously was very formative in the late 2010 or early 2010. you know, going into the legacy that has, you know, been built for Christopher Nolan and all the subsequent films and careers that have kind of blossomed since this came out. Yeah, I think this movie is a technical marvel. I think that the way that they were able to construct a narrative that is both accessible and complex, while having it rooted in something that is emotionally tangible, was an extremely well-crafted. the structure of an experience, I think that the way that they were able to showcase a balance of of visual fantasticalness while keeping it grounded in a way where the stakes felt like they were tangible is not an easy balancing act to do, you know, because I feel like we associate Christopher

Starting point is 00:07:48 Nolan with being like dark and gritty and grounded. But dreams are the exact opposite of that. And I felt like they found a way to allow that to be something that you buy into. And yeah, I was thoroughly impressed with the film. You know, the way that they're able to balance the amount of characters that they had into it, mythology they were able to put on display the way the exposition was interesting and, and kept the momentum of the film propelled, especially with it being coupled with, you know, these visuals that captivated your attention. I, yeah, I thought the pacing was also really, really, well done. It's a two and a half hour film and not feel like it at all. If I had to

Starting point is 00:08:32 blotby any criticism story of the movie, I would say that I think that on a plot level, it is extremely cohesive and accessible. I think that the way that we were able to lock in both on Cobb's motivations and his heart and his emotional nucleus and Roberts, and that was kind of like a a secondary nucleus to what cobs was and their storylines even the ones about the wife the other ones about the guy's relationship with his father there's certainly a parallel there i wish we'd have gotten a little bit more of the other characters i feel like all of them were there to service the plot which you know obviously need characters like that i felt like some characters though particularly elliot page's characters wanted more narrative more narrative depth and more narrative just character motivation yeah yeah yeah because i felt like For a character who's a college student who's new like she is, I would have wanted to know why she would want to involve herself in this world beyond just the curiosity getting to experience this thing. Like you were willing to risk your conscience getting lost for 50 years.

Starting point is 00:09:41 It's your idea that you're propelling. But what is like your deeper thing for why you need to go and do this? And is this something that you would do again beyond this? So yeah, I would like to know more there. and I would be very curious to know about these other characters, but those things particularly... What is it? How's it said? Arridae?

Starting point is 00:10:01 Ariane. I don't know. I'm the worst person to ask when it comes to pronunciation of names, but I can understand where you're coming from from, you know, when it comes to character development. Sure. I don't disagree with that, but I think Ariane's character was well constructed

Starting point is 00:10:21 when it came to the way, they were able to use the character for being, when it came to exposition based, and just introducing not only that character, but us, the audience for what this world is, building up the world. So I liked the character being used in that way. Sure, I would have liked the character being stretched out a little more

Starting point is 00:10:45 and like, wait, what's driving you to do this? Besides the fascination, the curiosity, yeah, you are a tech guru and an architect when it comes to using your mind, and this would fascinate you for sure, but I want to go a little deeper than this, but the fact that we were really locked into Cobb's storyline and to Fishers,

Starting point is 00:11:04 I think you have to sometimes in a two-and-a-half-hour film, and I think that's why you made the point earlier, I would have loved an eight-episode series as well, but when you have two-and-half hours and you've got an ensemble cast, sometimes you've got to make a little tiny bit of a sacrifice, like there's going to be characters. We're not going to fully be able to flesh out,

Starting point is 00:11:21 and we're going to have to lock in on a couple characters and sacrifice a little bit of development on some of the other ones, but they're still going to be pertinent to the plot, and we're still going to give them their time to shine in the light, if you will. So I didn't mind that because we had such rich flushing out in arcs when it came to Fisher and when it came to Cobb. I was okay with that personally, but I'm not saying what you're saying is not correct.

Starting point is 00:11:47 Yeah, and I think that it's funny watching a movie like this after experiencing a movie like The Matrix because Matrix wasn't a movie I grew up on. It was a movie I watched here on the channel with Tara. And then watching a movie like this, you do see certain parallels with the concept of what is reality.

Starting point is 00:12:10 What is the Matrix more real than the reality that people who are within the Matrix are living, you know? I think in Joey Pants' character, The guy who betrayed our team. Cypher. Seifer in The Matrix was somebody who, you know, had that desire. And it's very alluring the idea of staying in something that feels dreamlike, that feels easier,

Starting point is 00:12:35 that feels like it's playing to your pleasures and your sensibilities. But the way that they were able to flip it on its head by turning that concept into a heist and showing how person can be within that sort of. a scenario and get lost in it and then the ramifications of what those decisions are and how time moves within those spaces. It was just very, very well crafted. Yeah, I would be curious to see a concept like this, but explored from a more abstract lens, a more surreal lens, because, you know, ironically, everything for the most part, they found sound reasoning for and plausibility to dreams.

Starting point is 00:13:20 But dreams can be very strange. And they said it in the film. Everything seems normal while you're in it. It's only when you wake up, you realize something's off. So I feel like if maybe would have played with something a little bit more fantastical, I think it could have added some potential, like, color or visual dynamics of the movie. Not to say that it's a fault to the movie. It's more of a preference for my own personal sensibilities.

Starting point is 00:13:44 But for what they were aiming to do within the film, I thought they did a great job. Yeah. Yeah. And also, too, last thing before we get to the questions, because we're a low short on time, I really loved Hans Zimmer's score. It was so emotional. It was dynamic.

Starting point is 00:13:58 And it was very, I like how it built on momentum of each scene. And I like to that he could immediately right away, turn on a diamond, get it extremely dramatic on scenes that were a little bit more of a slow burn. So it was just, and it's so memorable, his score. I'm like already playing it in. in my head right now. So one of my favorite Hans Zimmer scores. I know it's a recency bias,

Starting point is 00:14:21 but I love, I love this score so much. It's, it just hit all the boxes for me. Yeah, totally. Same, same here. Okay,

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Starting point is 00:16:03 All right. I like this movie, but I've always felt that it was, I always felt that for all of its technical brilliance, no one isn't really able to communicate what dreams feel like because he and his writers were so often focused on crafting narratives with the protagonists that have basically solved puzzles. Basically solved puzzles. That's fine in concept,

Starting point is 00:16:30 but puzzles demand cold logic and hard rules. Two things that dreams often don't often run afoul of. Do you wish the dreamscapes in this movie had been a tad more surreal? I was okay with how they did it. think that they grounded reality enough as it was, but also they made the dreams very strange as well, and they were able to balance that out. But also, it was little things that I noticed and picked up on right away. I honed in on the fact that he was wearing his wedding ring when it came to in the dream situation. So things like that, whereas when he was in reality, he wasn't

Starting point is 00:17:10 wearing his ring. So I know that's not like a visual metaphor, but I am an object, I really am observance when it comes to things like that. So I didn't mind it and I thought, like I said, I thought Christopher Nolan did a pretty good job when it came to making

Starting point is 00:17:25 things normal in the real world and also strange enough in the dream world that I didn't need it to be even more surreal. Yeah, was he wearing it in the final scene? Sheesh. I wasn't... We can go back and look. I wasn't looking in that scene, but I was the camera really panned in on it a lot and the that's a great question and the other ones

Starting point is 00:17:44 really really quick because we're so low on time but we're not okay right now I'm paying attention yeah we'll go quickly to the last scene yeah because you did keep pointing that out as the movie was going along and I was I was launched into other things I didn't I didn't see his hand per se but yeah that is an interesting way to end it because obviously the whole nature of the film is questioning a reality that's how the movie starts off You know, it starts off in the abyss, and then we keep going up levels from there, which I thought was a very captivating way to start your film. Because you typically, you know, don't deal with movies that engage in dreams,

Starting point is 00:18:23 let alone multiple dreams within a single narrative. Yeah, very captivating stuff here. All right, survey says, did he have his ring on? We just got to the scene. Papa's here. Adorable kids. they're showing his hand show his hand oh yeah i think you'd go back a little bit further

Starting point is 00:18:42 because there's outside that one he walks into the room okay we can see his right hand can we see his left head yeah they make a point of not showing his left hand maybe they don't want you to know maybe they don't want you to know because no one yeah because no one knew someone like me was going to look at his ring hand that's why i probably didn't notice

Starting point is 00:19:00 i believe the airport scene was real but maybe not this scene come on show his left i can't see it Ah, because he has it behind the fucking door. It's behind the chair. Right, the chair, yeah. Wow.

Starting point is 00:19:15 You're smart. I'm smart by doing that. Yeah, now it really leaves it ambiguous on that last scene. I still think this is real, but this is so unfair. Now I want to see. And, yeah, and you never get to see the hand. No, you never get to. Oh.

Starting point is 00:19:29 Ah. They're cutting around it so often. That's so unfair. Wow. We'll never know. Outsmarted the viewers. yes he did he always thinks yes good job no down sir nolan sir christopher all right oh yeah real quick uh yeah i feel like the dreamscape stuff would have been a more enjoyable experience

Starting point is 00:19:52 not a more enjoyable experience but let's say we would do something with else within the world of inception i would like to see some more abstract dreams let's let's you know let's go into the dreams of some artists or some children or some other people that are not like corporate rigid people who would have more abstract dreams and I feel like if we could play in that world and see something a little weirder like imagine if the Daniels the guys who did everything everywhere all at once did something within the vein of dreams that would be pretty crazy so you know I like I like the narrative here I like the intent behind how it was constructed but yeah let's get a little weirder next time okay all right from

Starting point is 00:20:33 Randy Francois, thank you so much for being a roerogic. We're asking a question. We appreciate you. Real roomies hope you all are good. Okay, so this is not a question about planting an idea in your mind that a bunch of people will ask you questions, but they have to be Patrions first. Seriously, what would be your totem object when you woke up if you were in Inception?

Starting point is 00:20:52 Penn for me. That's how I know. I'm here. I'm doing stuff. I'm up. I'm awake. I'm conscious. Interesting.

Starting point is 00:21:00 Because they said it has to be a, an object that's small object, but it's also somewhat heavy. So I don't know, does this fit a totem object? I don't know. Because Arthur's was the dice, and the other one, right, was the... Does a totem necessarily have to be something that's in your hand?

Starting point is 00:21:19 Because if not, I'll probably make it like a pendant or something, like from a necklace, because then you'd be able to feel the weight of the necklace, and no one's really touching the pendant on your necklace, other than you. So, yeah, you'd be able to, like, feel... Okay, does this feel like what I'm accustomed to? it being. Granted, I don't have a pen on my chain, but if I weren't you have one, that's probably

Starting point is 00:21:38 what it would be. Well, I go with pen, but let me know if that's part of the world, if I'm allowed to choose pen, because I know a pen's usually in my hand when I'm awake and alive, not in a dream. I don't remember many dreams where I have a pen, so. Yeah. That would as hell. Thanks for the question. Thank you so much, Randy. All right. We got Senrak. Let's see you say their name.

Starting point is 00:22:02 I think that sounds right. Yeah. Well, I'm sorry if we did not say your day right. Genuinely so excited to watch this one with you both. It's among my favorite Leo performances next to Rami and Juliet and Titanic. Can you tell a millennial? Hey, fellow millennial here. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:22:19 Woo. Curious if either of you have a favorite Leo performance from what you've seen of his films. Oh, God, so many good ones to choose from Wolf of Wall Street. He's pretty great in that. Yeah, his performance in that movie is amazing. I mean, he's great in every... I can't really think of a... What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

Starting point is 00:22:40 That was the movie I saw when I... I think I was... I think I was, like, nine or ten, and I was like, this guy is an amazing actor. It's been a long time since I saw that. He... So sorry, correct me, if I'm wrong. I think he was autistic in that film

Starting point is 00:22:54 where he had some kind of... Something... Some kind of ailment. But whatever it was, I remember watching him in that film and going, this guy is such an incredible actor. And just watching, because I'd seen some other performances up to that point, but just watching how versatile he was as an actor

Starting point is 00:23:12 and that he could take up any kind of role and he wasn't afraid to do that. And just that's when I knew that he was amazing. I would say Woodsy and Gilbert Great. That might be my favorite performance of his. But it's been 20 or so years since I've seen that film. Yeah, I haven't seen that one, but I did watch Wolverwell Wall Street here for the channel.

Starting point is 00:23:29 And he was pretty great in that. But I think the one that comes to top of mind immediately when I hear that question would be Calvin Candy in Django and Change. He was just such a nefariously whimsical evil guy in that movie. And it was very believable. And even though obviously I don't like the guy, the performance. The performance is incredible. Sure. Yeah, Calvin Candy is what it's going to be.

Starting point is 00:23:54 He was incredible in that film. Great performance. Fantastic. All right. Francisco Francois Francois, thank you. Okay, now

Starting point is 00:24:07 you can now you can wake up from the reaction within the reaction. What character do you feel like you could get a spin-off or TV show

Starting point is 00:24:16 aside from DiCaprio? A spin-off of I feel like we did, right, with Jack Dawson in this movie with Titan. I'm just kidding. Movie, do you think could get a spin-off or TV?

Starting point is 00:24:31 show aside from DeCaprio um i wouldn't mind seeing a spinoff or for i i know it's going to be off to say but this movie i would love to see more stuff with cobb and see what uh what happened like i no no they're saying what character from this movie would you like to see a oh from this movie oh oh i thought it said from decaprio aside from decad oh my bad i'm still dreaming um aside from decaprio uh i liked eames dude his uh his like i said his his huge humor, his wit, and also I feel like there was a serious side to him. I would love to know more about his character. Like that happened, I would love a prerequisite to this.

Starting point is 00:25:10 See, what led up to him, led up to his relationship with DeCaprio. That would be fun. That's really good, yeah, because he's essentially like the dream mystique. He's a forger. Yeah, that's a very interesting premise for him to kind of be these different people. I could definitely see that. For me, I'd probably want to spin off of Elliot Page's character because, they were the newest person to this world.

Starting point is 00:25:34 They were the audience sort of peer into what this whole thing was. And we didn't really get to know too much about them or their lives outside of this, but we clearly know that they have a fantastic imagination. They're adventurous and they're willing to take risks. So now that they've had their first major job into the world of extractions or inception, the dreamverse, if you will, I would love to see what happens next for them if they continue. you on this path?

Starting point is 00:26:02 If so, where does that take them? Maybe some of the other characters like Eames could join them in that journey. I think that would be really cool. Absolutely. All right.

Starting point is 00:26:10 Final thing here from Sanrak again. The ending, would you like to both enter the debate? Does the top keep spinning beyond the movie's end or does it topple? I mean, I'm not going to get too deep into it.

Starting point is 00:26:23 I still think it was real, though I like that Nolan left it very ambiguous, very total recall-esque. I don't know if you saw that with Arnold, towards the thing here, but it's an interpretation to me that it's up to the audience to decide if this is a dream or if this is real or not, but I think it was real. I think the characters

Starting point is 00:26:42 earned that at this point. The character's been through so much and I think it was real. Yeah, the top was spinning in a way where it was wobbling, so it looked like it was going to fall over, but obviously the character, because he's been wanting this for so long, it makes sense that he would spin it as a, like a pinch me moment to verify if it was actually real or not. But it feels cynical for it not to be real because the entire movie they made a point of him not wanting to see the children's face because they're the thing angering him to keeping him in this reality. Good point.

Starting point is 00:27:15 So I feel it would be like hypothetical to everything that he went through over the course of the movie for it to just be a dream. And he just surrenders to his worst ambitions. Because otherwise he could have jumped with his wife if he didn't want to live in a reality where his kids were there. So, yeah, the optimist in me is going to say that he survived. That's a good point. He, yeah, is a dad. Who knows he's going to continue to go down the dream verse with the rest of the guys? It seems like just from a conceptual point, they could make a sequel and just another plot if they had wanted to.

Starting point is 00:27:50 Maybe follow one of the other guys into one of their plots. Maybe DiCaprio was like a supporting character more so than the lead in the next one. We follow somebody else. But yeah, I think that the top ultimately does fall. Yeah. That's a good point about him finally seeing, like, having that catharsis and then finally seeing his kids' faces. And he made a point not to do that whenever he was in the dream situation.

Starting point is 00:28:15 So I agree with him. Yeah. Cool beans. Well, all are you guys, that'll be it for us today. Did you guys, are you guys still dreaming? Are you awake? Are you trying to intercept somebody's mind? Are you trying to extract some information?

Starting point is 00:28:27 Let us know down in the comments below. We love you. We'll see you in the next one. Duceus.

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