*INCEPTION* is a complete MINDF*CK!

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INCEPTION is a complete MINDF*CK!

[@dlweiss]

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.

[@XOTheHosttt]

Hey this is so true, never thought about it.

[@pjbj12]

@@XOTheHosttt rigght?

[@veeraltiwari2935]

Exactly!!! She looked terrifing in this movie.

[@indierock110]

so true! my entire theater started freaking out loud reacting at one point when she shows up again like, this B!

[@4Everlast]

It's a leftover of the original script, as Nolan said it was suppose to be a horror film!

[@infingirl8488]

Alex screaming bloody murder at even the tiniest of jumpscares never fails to amuse me.

[@patt3rs358]

He gets SO angry 😂

[@AWSVids]

Sometimes it's things that I didn't even think were jumpscares, like the mirror shattering.

[@Humanipathic]

“FUUUUCKKK !!!!” 💀💀💀

[@freebird6591]

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.

[@kindracorbridge6118]

Where’s the timestamp?

[@marsalien4]

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-dy8xv]

He could have just killed her with a knife. The only plot hole i found.

[@TheSofkujepanen]

@@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.

[@pointystories582]

@@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.

[@legendaskap]

also, he could have killed himself right? so he would wake up

[@adminsucks8806]

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.

[@alexandrat698]

Cillian Murphy indeed is an amazing actor. Severly underrated. Can't wait to see him in Oppenheimer, Nolan's newest film.

[@sirjohnmara]

Yes. Oppie!

[@thejamppa]

I have loved Murphy ever since 28 Days later. I am so excited they finally gave him lead role in big budget film

[@alexandrat698]

@@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!

[@Humanipathic]

Watch him in Peaky Blinders 🔥🔥

[@racing2cat]

Red Eye is a good thriller - love it when he goes creepy scary!

[@glennwelsh9784]

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.

[@iamBlackGambit]

Yup I've seen the behind the scenes it's amazing

[@brbapappa]

Just like Lionel Richie's: Dancing on the Ceiling

[@Paul_Waller]

Thats crazy! I thought they did the upppppppp and dowwwwnnnn thing in a jumbo jet. (simulate zero-g)

[@athens_1psvr31]

Thanks for explaining so I didn’t have to. 👍🏾

[@TrackpadProductions]

What is this "almost" you speak of here?

[@lrepiquet]

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.

[@blinkachu5275]

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.

[@charmedlex]

After all these years. Thank you

[@marxton_]

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)

[@lrepiquet]

@@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.

[@marxton_]

@@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.

[@glennwelsh9784]

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.

[@bookwormd8627]

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

[@ot7biasedmashups]

​@@bookwormd8627that's true but even that would only be a spoiler once you find out what inception is😂

[@markgoguen8698]

I remember seeing this in theaters and the ending made everyone let out an audible frustrated grown. Such an incredible movie and experience.

[@calebfoster7954]

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

[@unluckydiablo9502]

Leo is married to a woman his age at the end, he's still in inception. That's not reality.

[@nathanlindahl8336]

@@unluckydiablo9502 😂😂😂

[@MyronZhao]

One guy at my theatre legit yelled out "INCEPTION!!!" at the end of the movie. Everybody's minds were blown

[@stefanbork3326]

@@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'🤔

[@stuartthomson1863]

Never has a quote of “she’s got some balls on her” been quite so appropriate 😂

[@SnoWhite2420]

😂😂😂

[@n0body550]

“Skiing with guns, imagine that was an olympic event” …Umm, there is one.

[@vinnicinhus44]

With guns?

[@tphil5901]

​@@vinnicinhus44 yes. Target shooting.... To cross country skiing.

[@vinnicinhus44]

@@tphil5901 but they don't shoot while skiing

[@tphil5901]

@@vinnicinhus44 correct.

[@Bhaalspawn84]

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.

[@xDrucciMane]

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.

[@Max-cf8pf]

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.

[@Justin.Franks]

@@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.

[@DragonTigerBoss]

​@@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.

[@DavidGowers]

@@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"?

[@unluckydiablo9502]

Wrong. Leo is with a woman his own age, definitely a dream and not real life.

[@silverdandylmao]

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.

[@abrimfulofasha]

"She's got some balls on her". See what you did there. 😂

[@Humanipathic]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@shaunwhelan17]

He didn't really mention anything about it. He may have done it, or he may not even realize who that is.

[@abrimfulofasha]

@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.

[@Humanipathic]

🙄

[@shaunwhelan17]

@@abrimfulofasha I definitely couldn't tell. It's also very late, so I'm not fully awake. Looking at KZbin videos when trying to fall asleep isn't always the best strategy

[@soulscyther666]

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]

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.

[@Videodragon64]

Kon gang assemble need more Kon seen.

[@manticore5733]

Inspired is a very polite way to put it. ;)

[@soulscyther666]

@@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.

[@soulscyther666]

@@TKLMotoVlog thanks, i'll have to check it out.

[@Lauckitdown]

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.

[@jhedjoardumago7691]

Omg the Prestige

[@PuckTheFenguins]

@@jhedjoardumago7691 another amazing, star-studded, mind fuck of a movie

[@jarred_w]

Memento, what, at first, seems like a simple movie, turns into such a thought-provoking movie. It and The Prestige are great!

[@freshcoastdrifttracks6074]

Yes the prestige is amazing!

[@angell1971]

Michael Caine said that any scene he was in was in fact reality. Therefore, the ending IS real & the spinning top did topple.

[@DragonTigerBoss]

Well, he also lied to Batman once.

[@angell1971]

😆

[@Kevin.Costner.]

Christopher Nolan ✅ Hans Zimmer ✅ = Absolute Masterpiece Their Kobe & Shaq of cinema

[@jayfonseca6328]

christopher nolan the man

[@hopejaworski9097]

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.

[@DankBlitzwing]

You think that this one is a mindfuck? Wait until you see *TENET.*

[@lakzefar449]

bro. I still don't know what the fuck TENET was

[@0liver1408]

@@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.

[@_JoeyOnAir]

The movie Fractured was a mind fuck for me lmao

[@icalzalfa8338]

yess pleaseeee alex!!

[@rishabhtheweird7939]

​@@0liver1408 yeah that airport scene 🥲🥲🥲

[@sildewit1716]

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 😂

[@abrilelenaariasorozco1258]

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.

[@gippywhite]

Momento!!! Another Nolan classic!!! Side note: I have never seen you so happy! I’m glad you liked it!!! 💙💙💙

[@mjelves]

*Memento

[@gippywhite]

@@mjelves My bad.

[@AmaraJordanMusic]

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.

[@MrSnrubIsRight]

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.

[@AmaraJordanMusic]

@@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.

[@abstractnonsense3253]

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.

[@AmaraJordanMusic]

@@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.

[@jacobkirk1846]

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.

[@AnthonyLepper]

YUP TENET IS GREAT!!!!

[@MrZeek1519]

Absolutely. And if he thought "Inception" was confusing when he was younger, then "Tenet" will melt his brain just as much now. 😂

[@davedoesthingsdreaded]

Tenet is terrible

[@uriadelavaro3956]

Tenet's a piece of shit compared to Inception.

[@DeadpoolTesla]

"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...

[@nolanrussell6326]

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

[@Stev4e897]

Interstellar

[@rydellgarcia]

The thing about the ending is that Dicaprio didnt care at all about the totem when he finally saw the faces of his children. And for me that was a badass ending! Nolan is a genius!!

[@Sphero1984]

About Ellen Page "she has some balls".... so who gonna tell him?? 😂

[@sunsetjesuz]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Master-bk3qd]

💀💀💀

[@forcesensitive6371]

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.

[@pewburrito]

PTA reused the same 4-5 actors in his first 3 movies

[@bookwormd8627]

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.

[@KellyKels23]

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!

[@TitusJudah]

Just curious, what's your favorite movie now?

[@Kentaku3]

Yea, dont keep us in limbo - whats your favorite movie now??

[@alexman378]

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.

[@thatonkgau5221]

Limbo is basically like being in a coma they die in the dream they end up in a coma forever.

[@jamamio]

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.

[@fullmoonprepping4024]

Fred Astaire did it first.

[@Bavio]

Now, once you're ready for another mind-melter from Leo, watch Shutter Island. Fantastic film!

[@sarahs2650]

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

[@mattfromwiisports4911]

Someone needs to make a compilation of him screaming fuck from jump scares.

[@Daniela-xy3ow]

The music does sooo much in this film - what a soundtrack ❤️

[@roncelune9901]

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]

Interstellar is too convoluted and complex.. And complexity doesn't always mean a good story or movie

[@reynaldolorenzo8409]

@@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.

[@roncelune9901]

@@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 ! 🙂

[@vinnicinhus44]

Inception doesn't have a trash ending, so Inception CLEAR

[@Stoney_Snark]

The biathlon is indeed an Olympic sport that combines cross-country skiing and shooting.

[@proteuswest1084]

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.

[@mycroft16]

This and Tenet tie for me. Both are absolutely genius level writing and directing.

[@ThatEflatGuy]

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

[@gabrielleroux2333]

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

[@kemsari9969]

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.

[@tastyneck]

When they're in the snow and Cobb says "How do you know [Mal is just a projection?" in answer to Ariadne, I believe it's because he used memories for his dreams and "visits" Mal with the elevator and all of its levels. He told Ariadne she should never use memories because they start to bleed into your subconscious mixing the two. All that time spent with Mal in those dreams are things that actually happened in his life, right? It messes with his head and he starts to associate Mal's projection with real life in ANY scenario, subconsciously. Essentially she's 'real' to him regardless of whether she's a projection in someone else subconscious or within his 'memories as dreams,; At least that's how I interpret it.

[@ravenID429]

And especially since they’re so deep at that point

[@fullmetalandtheflame438]

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.

[@tphil5901]

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.

[@pizzadohpaz]

The Prestige!!! The Prestige!!!!!!

[@Stev4e897]

Interstaler is far better that Prestige or Memento

[@fullmetalandtheflame438]

@@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.

[@jamescordier1775]

“Skiing with guns, imagine that Olympic sport”… you mean biathalon

[@dekulruno]

Lol just thought the same thing

[@mycroft16]

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.

[@blockbusterunderground]

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.

[@Rash23215]

Why Arthur is the main character and not Ariadne??

[@adminsucks8806]

​@@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.

[@Rash23215]

@@adminsucks8806 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"

[@Music_Movie_Fan_]

​@@adminsucks8806A DREAMS

[@lavinder11]

​@@Rash23215they’re men, that's why he left ariadne out

[@nickburrellaka]

"Skiing with guns? Imagine that Olympic Sport." LOL

[@Cymoar]

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.

[@GabrielKitignaTessouat]

"Skiing with guns!? Imagine that olympic sport!" Lmao That's absolutely hilarious! I even watch biathlon sometimes!

[@waterdragon2224]

I haven’t seen that movie in a long time. I’d forgotten how good it was. And great cast.

[@digidv85]

To answer your question about who won the Best Actor Oscar in regards to any other eligible film the same year that Inception released, it was Colin Firth for The King's Speech. Inception released in 2010 as did The King's Speech and both were eligible at the Oscar ceremony in 2011. Inception was nominated for 8 awards and won 4, none of those 8 were for acting. As for Leo, it's been a long running gag/meme how he's widely considered an A+ grade actor yet the top honor has eluded him for so long. He has been nominated a total of 7 times, winning on his 6th for Best Actor in The Revenant. That movie is not very popular among the movie reaction channels here, and it's very unfortunate. But be warned the violence featured in that is among the most graphic and brutal you'll ever see in a media form. It's a 4 star experience, don't get me wrong. Just go into it with caution is all I'm saying. As for the closing shot of the top at the end, that was specifically made to be uncertain if it fell over or not. A lot of analysists I've seen insist the result is irrelevant and meant to convey how Cobb was going to stay in this existence no matter what so having the audience confirm this to be fantasy or reality is not important.

[@alexman378]

The fact that this movie lost Best Screenplay to the King’s Speech is beyond me. Don’t get me wrong, the King’s Speech is a great screenplay, but goddamn, Inception is on another level. The fact Nolan managed to create a mainstream blockbuster out of such a complex and artsy concept is mind boggling. I think people are taken so much by the visuals and they forget just how impossible a task it would be to create this screenplay from scratch.

[@maxschmidt9461]

My picture froze when Alex was squeezing his beard making it look like some hairy butt cheeks 🤣 Awesome movie, can't wait to see your reaction

[@TedBrogan]

Great reaction, Alex. I NEED you to make a montage of your jumpscares, bro. They are EPIC. 😂

[@JediMastr80]

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.

[@LetMeZnoozz]

Cillian Murphy is one of the best actors around right now in my opinion, he's been a "sidecharacter" in multiple of Cristopher Nolan's films (Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception & Dunkirk (which you should watch if you haven't)) and im SO excited to him as the main-character in Oppenheimer this summer. ALSO... LEO SMELLS LIKE PORK N BEANS.

[@mercyfulnate]

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.

[@coachellyn]

Re: your question about avalanches: My grandpa was trapped in an avalanche when he was 17. There's actually a Time magazine article about it. One of his friends died and one them got out and went for help. The only reason he survived was because the way his arm was pinned in a way that created an air pocket for him. He should've died, basically.

[@lamento_official]

“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.

[@luikanami]

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".

[@jacobkirk1846]

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.

[@highheartwellness]

Excellent reaction! My favorite movie of this century. the concept and execution of the movie are unmatched.

[@aarontaylor1688]

I love the movies you review, but your reactions make the movies even better. Good work, buddy!

[@xoso599]

The spinning top and the theory that in Total Recall everything was just a dream are very compelling ideas.

[@zulawoo]

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.

[@madeleinehoward3418]

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

[@ASMR.by.HIPPYCHICK]

So happy you reacted to this!

[@davedoesthingsdreaded]

I like your energy my guy. Glad you enjoyed this movie. One of my all time favs

[@danielaponte8594]

I won't be ready for Oppenheimer with the plots twists of Christopher Nolan and his cliff hangers. Of course, it's nice to see you reacting to them.

[@spdcrzy]

This is one of those films that was technically, artistically, emotionally, and physically FLAWLESS. It's not that there are no loose threads - but those threads were left loose on purpose. The worldbuilding, literally, was unlike anything that came before it. It quite literally changed what audiences expected out of original IPs, and I'd go so far as to draw a direct link from Inception to Interstellar to Arrival.

[@XvKJP2015]

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

[@buffducks]

The more and more I watch this movie, the more I realize how absolutely incredible it is.

[@jarce2010]

Omg I've been wanting to see your reaction to this masterpiece for months 😭 this is the best day ever 😂🥳

[@maxschmidt9461]

I also watched it with 16 the first time but got like 70-75% and watched it a few times in a month or two for the rest. The most important thing to get movies like this imo is to be in the right state of mind when you watch them

[@marcellakryka]

Saw this at the drive-in theatre 3 times, I loved it so much. One of my top 3 favorites of all time.

[@alexkramerblogs]

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.

[@teigen13]

Have seen inception few times and just finnished watching season 1 of Fringe. I would maybe never reconiced the actor who stamped Leo's passport if I had not watched the series or not watched this reaction now. Crazy how many famous actors there is in that series, blows my mind that I never have heard of it!

[@mojoriot2293]

Fringe is a phenomenal show! Watch the whole thing, it gets CRAZY! The final season was one of the best final seasons ever, imo. I won't spoil anything, but I'll say this... They not only nailed it, they nailed it with style! I was gonna mention something else, but you should just watch it. You'll see, I hope, enjoy! 🤘😁

[@BassLineProductionsI]

Fringe was awesome

[@teigen13]

@@mojoriot2293 at first I wasn't much impressed, bad cgi and acting. But feels like it getting better and better, and I like thats it's a bigger story than it started with. J. J. Abrams is one of the creators behind the show too. I really like the sort of science fiction thats in this. I'm sick with covid for the first time right now, so I'm gonna watch as much I can 🙂 Funny thing was that it took me seven episodes to rec that Olivia was the same actress in Last of us 😅 maybe the blonde hair throw me of... As much I "hated" Denethor in LOTR, how can I not love Walter, it really shows how good actor John Noble is

[@cricketcsk03]

Director Bertram? Ifykyk

[@pewburrito]

also the crazy dog guy in S1 and 3 of the Leftovers

[@omegapsi847]

11:30 18:33 22:33 The jump scares are a quality of itself in this one :)

[@MyronZhao]

🤣

[@DthDisguise]

To answer your behind the scenes questions: The hotel is a practical set built inside of an airplane. When the plane nose dives, the actors are dropped into "zero g," the camera is mounted within the set and stabilized so that the final film looks like they're flying.

[@alexman378]

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.

[@HardParking]

One of my favorite all time movies. A lot of people walked out of the theater at the time because they couldn’t handle the mind f&ck! Yeah no 16 year old could understand this. Hell many adults didn’t. Also, Nolan finally confirmed a decade later that it was in fact real life in the end.

[@Jabokrazy]

The answer to your question is Interstellar

[@GeneralWAITE]

Bingo

[@TheOnsieWithConverse]

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

[@praveenkreate]

You're amazing man, I love you!

[@vincentbrazeau8917]

33:20 there literally exists an Olympics Sport where they’re skiing with guns 😂

[@batmanslarynx]

Definitely one of my favourite ever films and one of the best films of all time. Christopher Nolan just doesn't miss. The thing with Leo, I have personally never seen him give a bad performance and I think that's why it was always hard for him to get an Oscar, there was no realisation that he's a great actor because he has always been great. Unfortunately the Oscar for Revenant seemed more out of pity than anything. He should've got it much earlier but then again he always had fierce competition. He didn't even get nominated for Titanic which is crazy to think about, Jack Nicholson won that year with a film I haven't seen but he beat out Matt Damon's performance in Good Will Hunting so he must've done something special.

[@wow_horac4663]

The movie you're referring to is "As Good as it Gets" and in my opinion Nicholson earned that award. The movie was good and his performance was a big part of why it was good. All the actors in that movie were great. Helen Hunt and Greg Kinnear were the other principal actors. It's a drama with a bit of comedic levity and I highly recommend it.

[@tphil5901]

Alot of people say that... That Leo was given the Oscar as a sort of pity win... But quite honestly he was a fucking force in the Revenant as well. He was great! I personally feel he should have won for blood diamond. But I still think the Revenant win was definitely warranted. And earned. Leo should probably have 2 best actor awards

[@JBM09]

1 The Dark Knight 2 The Prestige 3 Inception

[@justbuz]

Wow, this is a fun video. A nice slight variation from the standard first time reaction.

[@TheViper4Life]

This is still my favorite Nolan film...I've seen it so many times over the years and it never stops being gripping. You have to watch TENET now though...it weirdly gets a lot of hate (it's the movie Nolan decided to release in theaters in the dead of the Pandemic), but I thought it was another brilliant film from him.

[@uriadelavaro3956]

Tenet's a piece of shite. And that's that. If you wanna see another great Nolan film, watch Interstellar and Oppenheimer.

[@TheViper4Life]

@@uriadelavaro3956 I've seen every Nolan film, both of those are fantastic. But so is Tenet. Nolan has never made a bad movie.

[@uriadelavaro3956]

@@TheViper4Life He made Tenet. That was bad. Except from that, I agree with you. No other movie of his was bad, but a few were masterpieces.

[@TheViper4Life]

@@uriadelavaro3956 If you didn't like it, that's fine. But I thoroughly enjoyed it. Your opinion isn't fact.

[@uriadelavaro3956]

@@TheViper4Life If you like it, it's fine as well. But I thoroughly hate it. Your opinion isn't fact. 🤭

[@ofthenearfuture]

I think Inception is Nolan's most well crafted movie, I can't imagine how long it took to write and storyboard to figure it out. But I think Interstellar is his best movie overall.

[@alexman378]

Took about a decade or so to write this. He was writing about it before he even did Memento, and kept going back into it every now and then to polish it. He just never thought he’d get the appropriate budget for it, until The Dark Knight made a billion dollars for WB. And yeah, I think it shows, this isn’t a screenplay you write in 6 months.

[@TitusJudah]

Interstellar 😂😂

[@alexpereira7851]

such a great reaction video! Cant believe you havent seen Inception yet...amazing :)

[@LostPageWasTaken]

It's a dream in the end. He is stuck forever in a dream. That's the end

[@edgeneral7871]

Personally i don't believe he ever got out of Limbo, every time they make it seem like You need to die/kill yourself in Limbo to get out. That's how Mal and Cobb got out. But when he finds Sato you don't see how their interaction ends. Suddenly they're awake and from what the movie itself told if you don't remember how you got there it's a Dream. Also interesting he kept using Mal's totem to check if he was awake.

[@jacobcenter7374]

I personally buy into the wedding ring theory and that they did actually make it out and he's not dreaming, but that's what's so good about the ambiguous ending

[@vinnicinhus44]

It's a good point to have, but Michael Caine already told us that it's the reality.

[@pewburrito]

Ariadne was hired by Michael Caine's character to incept Cobb so he'd forgive himself for Mal's suicide

[@vinnicinhus44]

@@pewburrito that's another good theory

[@RolandDeschain19]

To me, Inception is the better movie, as it is more original than Dark Knight.

[@uhuhuh1966]

Dark Knight is pretty boring when Ledger isn’t on screen

[@Reiggn_]

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.

[@kryse4944]

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.

[@elfhchan]

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.

[@SpotlightKino]

It's been 5 hours and the video is still available. WB's generosity knows no bounds.

[@maximillianosaben]

33:21 - "Skiing with guns; imagine that Olympic sport." Reminds me that Robin Williams said the Biathalon is like a Norwegian drive-by, haha.

[@ivanbragato1047]

And the music from Hans Zimmer is beyond amazing.