Another banger of a film from Nolan and crew! Ok.... Was totem falling at the end???? Thank you @nicholasdyee for your cover of Hans Zimmer's "Time" for more check out his awesome channel www.youtube.com/@nicholasdyee Early Drops & Full Reactions on Patreon: www.patreon.com/baddmedicine Backup channel Subscribe here ua-cam.com/channels/1CLUwA27dz-94o3FR0o3xg.html
You should watch Satoshi Kohn’s Paprika. Nolan actually steals a lot from that movie to make Inception. In fact they have a similar story and both deal with dreams, but in my opinion Paprika does it way better
The best part of whether the totem falls or not after the movie ends doesn’t matter- it’s the fact that Cobb finally accepted whatever world he was in as reality. He’s spent years constantly questioning if what he does to get back home matters because what if it turns out this world is just a dream one, and all those “actions” were meaningless, if he was still a layer deeper. But he lets go, and chooses to move on, because whether or not the world around him is real, this reality allows him to be with his children, and he’s going to cherish that. (There’s also in recent years been a fact of the movie revealed that can tell for fact how certain scenes are 100% reality SPOILER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW‼️ Around the ten year anniversary of the movie’s release, Michael Caine mentioned how Nolan told him that ANY scene he’s in is reality)
My favorite theories: 1. The top was never Cobb’s totem. It was Mal’s. What Cobb’s original totem was we never know, but in a way I think he used his kids as his totem - he knew them well enough that he also recognized when it was a fake version of them. That would potentially explain why he no longer cares about Mal’s totem when he gets back to them. However I expect he also had a different totem of his own originally. Maybe he just never tells anyone what it is because that would aid them in trying to fake it. 2. Ariadne had already been hired by Miles before she even met Cobb. She was hired to incept the idea that Cobb needed to fully let go of his dead wife so that he could be with his kids rather than ending up old and alone. She constantly reinforces this fact in multiple ways but it ends up being regarded by Cobb as his own idea.
Here's my take 1. Leo didn't care if it was reality or not. He had accepted it as his reality. 2. Leo's ring was his actual totem , pay attention to the scenes he has it on and the ones he doesn't. 3. Michael Cain claims Nolan told him that he is only in the scenes that are real. He is in none of the dreams. Still I like the idea of an ambiguous ending
There is a theory that Cobbs totem wasn't the spinning top, that was Mals as he originally said. His totem is his wedding ring, it's a specific shape and weight that only he would know and no one else would touch. Cobb doesn't wear his wedding ring in reality but he does wear it in dream sequences, so at the end scene he isn't wearing his wedding ring suggesting that he is back in reality.
Michael Caine was quoted that any scene he is in it is reality. Caine was even confused and Nolan explained that to him. So maybe that theory isn't to far off.
I think that theory has be debunked, though, because totems are for reality, not dreams. He needs something to prove he’s in reality, and a lack of something doesn’t do that
I personally think that he’s not in reality at the end, and that almost the whole movie is a dream. When he first goes to the chemist and goes under the drugged induced sleep, when he “wakes up”, he starts to spin the totem in the bathroom, but he fumbles it and it falls. He gets interrupted, and just picks it up and walks out, without ever confirming that he’s in reality. After that, we never see him spin his totem again until the very last scene. I think everything in that scene and after (including the whole inception job) is a dream.
One detail I always loved is that the new architect is named Ariadne. In Greek mythology, Ariadne helped the hero Theseus escape a labyrinth after he fought and killed a minotaur. I just always liked that nod to the myth since this movie's Ariadne is tasked with creating the levels and teaching the team how to navigate them.
That's what happens when writers are in awe of the human condition expressed in our mythologies - they create glorious beautiful art. Unlike the modern human-hating weirdos pushing THE MESSAGE...
@@AleksandarIvanov69Not sure I understand this comment tbh. The amount of rape, kidnapping, and murder in the mythologies did a pretty good job at human-hating by exposing humanity's darker sides, and every myth pushed a moral or message.
Outside of his Dark Knight Trilogy, this is my favorite Nolan movie! The complex rules of dreams, amazing visual effects that still hold up over a decade later, amazing score by Hans Zimmer. Simply one of Nolan's best
My favorite piece of acting: Cillian Murphy when he shows, in the plane, that the idea has indeed been implanted. So subtle, so cathartic. Magnificent. Clip left out of this reaction. It's OK, i forgive you guys 😂
If you take the first letters of the main characters' names, Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mal and Saito, they spell "Dreams". If you add Peter, Ariadne, and Yusuf, the whole makes "Dreams Pay", which is what they do for a mind thief.
I remember I went to see this with a guy I was interested in as this was his choice for a movie. I was ambivalent about seeing it but I was so blown away, I ended up annoying him afterwards with all my theories lol. Safe to say I didn’t see him again hahaha
We did read a quote after watching the film from Michael Caine saying he spoke to Nolan as he was confused a bit, Nolan told Caine any scene he is in it is reality.
@@BaddMedicine plus, remember when Joseph Gordon Levitt says he can't explain his totem to Ariadne? While Cobb explained how the top worked as a totem. He was able to reveal how it worked because it wasn't actually his totem, it was Mal's. His totem is his wedding ring. He knows he's not in a dream when he doesn't have his wedding ring.
Inception was one of the best movies I've seen. It's overly convoluted, but he ties it together no matter how out of control it gets. The cast was amazing but through it all you could follow what they were saying and doing, without it ever feeling too contrived. None of it makes sense, but they made you BELIEVE it made sense and it kept you in the movie through all of it.
I think Inception is the perfect example of a complex film that gets better every rewatch. There are movies that are way too complex and co confusing, but this one gets it right. One of my favorites.
I watched this movie with my girlfriend in the theater. Then we _immediately_ went right back in to the theater and watched it again. Literally the only time I've ever done that in my life. Absolutely spectacular movie.
I remember watching this in the theatre when it just came out and the resounding shock everyone in the audience had at the ending. The whole train ride home I felt like I was in a dream. Such a visceral and unique experience I still remember so vividly to this day.
I was obsessed with this movie for some time, the concepts are just so fascinating. Idea planting and stealing, dreams within dreams, the soundtrack the great cast, it's just all so cool! It's one of those great movies that leaves you thinking about all the possibilities. 5/5
Cobbs totem is his wedding ring. Micheal Caine also said an interview a couple years ago that any scene he is in is reality. Also Cobb never sees his kids faces in a dream, since his dreams are reconstructed memories, his last memory is of his kids facing away in the yard. In the end his kids turn around and Michael Caine is there, sooo reality!! Such a great reaction, per usual!!!
I remember watching this in theaters, and at the end everyone in the audience sarcastically groaned in unison, and then clapped and applauded at the top scene. Everyone understood and appreciated the bit of trolling Nolan did with that final moment of doubt and questioning, it giving us just enough wobble to not feel cheated 😂😅😊
@israymervalentin-arias6313 completely incorrect lol, but nice job at being confidently incorrect. It's been confirmed by Nolan and Michael Caine that the top does indeed slightly wobble, meaning the world is indeed real--hence the older kids, wearing different clothes, and oh yeah--no Mal showing up trying to ruin everything. If Cobb was ever still dreaming, then she would pop up somehow to try and kill him or ruin the dream. It's very simple to know if he's dreaming or not.
This movie is a masterpiece and the score is perfect. As far as the ending goes it’s ambiguous so it’s up to the viewer, but Nolan left clues as to wether or not he was dreaming.
You were spot on about how trippy it was to see in theaters Oak!! Me and my group of friends walked out of the theater still discussing what really happened, and continued the whole car ride home. After a few watches it's still mindblowing.
I like the trippy aspects in this movie. When its used in Dr Strange (and the Spiderman one), it's too much and makes me 🤢🤢. The hands of hands is particularly awful 😭😂😣😩🙈.
I saw an interview with Christopher Nolan where he stated that everyone was getting the end wrong wondering if the totem fell or not...The point is that Cobb doesn't watch to see if it falls but goes to his kids...signaling he no longer cares if it's real or not. Amazing storytelling. I would recommend Nolan's film Memento...another brilliant story.
My favorite interpretation of the spinning top at the end is a theme that was present throughout the movie: that reality is something we choose. Someone else commented that the top wasn't a symbol of reality or not but rather a symbol of Dom's obsession with being able to distinguish dream from waking life, and that at the end, him running away while the top spins isn't meant to provoke the question of "is he still dreaming", but rather to signify that he is no longer held back by his guilt and anxiety over what happened with Mal. I'd take that last part but add a little of my own personal perspective. I think it's both a symbol of him letting go of his grief, but also a symbol to us that it actually doesn't matter whether the top falls or not, because he chose to accept this life, one where he's with his family again and free, as his reality. I think that is a concept that people don't consciously think through, but do quite frequently throughout our lives. If you're religious, you choose to accept your god(s) as reality. People of science trust science. People choose to believe we are or aren't in a simulation. We live in our own bubbles of suburbia or country or city in our own countries and know the limited amounts that an individual can know about the world, and we accept our views as reality. This has gotten really long, but I love this movie, and it changed the way I think about everything. I view reality and beliefs and trust as a choice I get to make.
I watched this when it came out with my group of buds and when that ending happened one of my buds jumped up and was like "NOOO WTF COMMON MAN!" Breaking a crazy silence that was happening and the whole theater laughed because we all felt the same stuff lmao. It was so dang intense in theaters. Memorable moment and a great movie.
It's amazing how Answer and Oak ended up portraying both groups of people after watching the movie. Oak thought it had started to collapse and Answer thought it was still spinning.
I saw this movie in the cinema. The last clip of the totem made me break out in a sweat. I left my seat, paid for another ticket and watched it again to make sure I understood what I had just watched. There is a lot more in this film than we think and is worth watching multiple times to realise something else I missed. Great reaction as always.
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I love the inevitable argument about the wobble at the end. I like to believe whatever the reality was, he chose to stay with that version of his kids and it didn't matter if it was the correct reality or not anymore. Beyond that, he explains his totem is not the top. That was Mal's totem.
I think its good for a movie to be complex, but the sweet spot is where you still understand and enjoy it the first time, but then in later watches it continues to blow your mind as you start to understand it deeper and more complexly. Which makes you love it every time even more. In my opinion this movie does that, but movies like tenet or interstellar are almost too complex for the first time viewing
Love this movie. It's so complex that it's almost spoiler-proof because you won't really understand the end unless you follow how the film gets there. It's a movie that begs to be watched from start to finish.
Despite using Mal's totem through out the movie, there's an extra detail almost imperceptible unless you're activelly looking for it. In real scenes he's always without a wedding ring while wearing it in the dreams That leaves no doubt about the last scene, unlike the spinning top
@@carolinaa.4407 Nolan telling Michael Caine something has zero bearing on the functionality of a totem. I don't care whether it's dream or reality. I'm saying the whole point of a totem is to differentiate between dream and reality, so it would need to be on his person in both.
Oak's 4.95 is definitely the result of the wobble. Somewhere in his subconscious lies an idea. An idea that the top never fell. So, he buried the extra .05 deep down in limbo, awaiting the truth to be uncovered.
This movie separates the optimists from the pessimists with that ending. 😂 Such a great film. I love Nolan’s movies, can’t wait for his next one. At the beginning you were worried about following this one but my first thought was: If y’all can follow TENET, you can definitely follow this one. lol
Excellent film, great cast! That rotating hallway scene is unbelievable to watch how they filmed it. P.S. Warner Brothers wanted Nolan to use DiCaprio as The Riddler in his third Dark Knight movie after this movie was released, though he long already had his plans with Bane.
I would absolutely love for you guys to react to The Prestige. In my opinion, it’s the best Christopher Nolan movie! Also, Memento is another great Christopher Nolan movie.
Chris Nolan hasn’t missed yet. Whether you LIKE, LOVE or don’t LIKE (that’s on you) his films they’re all masterpieces of cinema and each soundtrack is absolutely gorgeous! He’s just an amazing screenwriter along with his brother and a director along with his wife as producer
I remember when I saw this in theaters, my friend and I were going back and forth with that last top scene. I was convinced it would keep spinning while she was sure it would fall over. We were loud enough that all the surrounding audience were enraptured, me with my "It's totally gonna keep spinning!" and her with her "No, this is real now; it's gonna fall!" Then of course it faded to black and we both were like 'NOOO!" and people started laughing around us. Such good times.
i loved Mason Quinn breaking the fourth wall there at the end with the top 🤣 also i saw Micheal Cain interview and he said any scene he was in was real
The low blasting bass sound is actually the "Je ne regret rien" wakeup song slowed way down because time is slowed down in the dream compared to the upper levels where the music is playing.
Inception is an all time favourite!! From the effects, cast, acting, MUSIC, story & concept - its a 5 star all around the board! Fun fact: Michael Caine once in an interview said that Nolan told him if he was present in a scene, it was reality and not a dream! So that confirms that at the end Cobb wasn’t dreaming and actually reunited with his children It’s interesting to see the change from man with a gun in his hand ready to shoot himself if the top does not topple over to the end where he doesn’t care anymore
I definitely had a dream, where I woke up twice before really waking up, and each time I was convinced that that's now real, until later when I noticed that there were definitely faults in that, but you don't notice during the dream. When I was finally awake, I stumbled around still questioning my reality :D
Please watch Cloud Atlas! That film changed my life. It is brilliant and a film that makes you think deeply about life and many other themes like old age, freedom, love, oppression, religion, power, cannibalism, and much more!
This movie is just amazing... so many ways you can understand it. My understanding is the following and it might not be the most popular one (I went too deep lol): In my opinion the main question isn't just if he was in a dream or not in the end, the main questions was - what if the whole movie was a dream? The reason why Cobb got to see his children in the end was Saito and his actions. When the movie started we already saw the action and Saito but... did we see the beginning? Remember what Cobb said? You don't really remember the beginning of a dream, you just wind up in the middle. The main ending wasn't whether it was real or not. It's just that Cobb doesn't really care. He doesn't really want to know because he is finally with his kids. PS: He had been in dreams for so long that maybe even he forgot what reality was and this whole movie was just his dream where he decided to forget and go back to his kids. This movie is in my top 3 favorite movies of all time. It's just a beautiful masterpiece. Christopher Nolan + Hans Zimmer... Can't really go wrong with this.
Outside of film festivals and preview screenings, this is still the only time I’ve been in a regular cinema screening and the audience spontaneously clapped at the end. It was such an original film on release. I also love how people still Debate this film. To me, the fact they deliberately tell us no one should touch your totem and it’s specific to one person and also tell us the top was Mal’s makes me believe that can’t have been Cobb’s totem, but I love that it’s still open to debate.
This might be the most technically impressive Nolan film, but I'd still say that Memento is his best as the story for me has the richest emotional complexity. I hope that now you've watched it, you can all watch the making of bits which show what they did to put together that spinning hallway scene
I made a copy from the video store and it cut off the last fifteen minutes. That was the only version I'd seen. Was super confused about it for years until I saw it on tv. lol. I mean I was confused about it anyways...but it made more sense.
I dont think it was the real world because the image of the kids digging in the backyard never changed throughout the movie. Also it doesn't seem they've aged at all throughout the years and he supposedly was gone for years.
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This movie is amazing, I'm so glad you guys got around to watching it on here. I saw this movie when it came out in theaters when I was a kid, it had me and my dad talking for DAYS theorizing what happened & the meaning behind everything. This movie is actually the reason I had wanted to start making videos & short films as a hobby & possibly a career b/c of how impressed I was with the story, effects, the characters, the music, the rules that they set up & kept consistent throughout. Also because I am a very lucid dreamer, seeing a movie like this felt dope b/c sometimes my dreams can be just as intense that I have to process what happened for a bit after I wake up. But this movie now always reminds me of a dream I had years ago... This will sound crazy but I've actually done multiple level dreaming before (in the movies terms, I've been to the 2nd level) but I was was only able to ever do it once when I was a teenager & it was totally by accident. I had just seen one of the new Insidious movies that came out (I think the 2nd movie) the night before I had this dream. In my Lvl 1 dream, I was going to some boarding school and their school colors were purple & yellow & had a Buffalo Wild Wings in the cafeteria, completely normal haha, but I was somehow getting tired & went to sleep in my dorm in my Lvl 1. When I woke up into the 2nd level, I was in the middle of a random empty house in it's living room, beige carpet floor, white painted walls, it had a dinning room & a kitchen with no furniture or appliances at all but then I turned around to look behind me, and I saw an exact copy of myself sleeping on a grey couch & I was stunned for a bit because I was trying to process how that would even be possible. I was wearing a blank white t-shirt & black shorts, but I was watching myself sleep & it felt so weird. I then went to nudge that version of myself on the couch, and as soon as that happened, I woke up in my original (Lvl 1) dream & then continued about the dream for a bit until I woke up into reality. I had to process what happened for a bit that morning cause I was use to lucid dreaming @ that age already, but something about going into a 2nd level of a dream & seeing a version of myself just freaked me out, even though I was in my own mind, I felt like I was invading someone's privacy. I got over it pretty fast thankfully cause I had school the next day haha When I told my friend this story the next day, she got mad & worried for me xD lol but all I could think about was this movie, so it holds a special place in my heart lol
Watching it as someone who learned lucid dreaming when I was in my teens, gave it an even crazier vibe, than for anyone who doesn't know that experience.
When I saw this movie (in theaters) my jaw hit the floor at the ending and I felt like my brain had been scrambled. I went back the next day and saw it again and the same feeling was there. It's truly a masterpiece of a movie.
@CT I absolutely do! I think that it's intentionally left vague for us to have discussions about whether or not he's dreaming, and since we don't see if it falls or not, we're left to decide for ourselves. BUT, I've also Loooooong wondered if it was ALL a dream, because he isn't using his own totem, but his wife's (and it's mentioned, multiple times, that the totem needs to be special to the person and one that only they know).
Short and simple top explanation based on Nolan - Whether or not the totem falls is not the point. The point is that Cobb is FINALLY able to see and be with his children, and so it no longer matters to him. He has found his happiness there, real world or not.
This was the movie that Christopher Nolan had been planning to make ever since he became a director. Also although they did win the award for Visual Effects, they never used CGI or other special effects in the movie
my favorite movie ever! also, Michael Caine revealed a few years ago that every time that he is in the scene it's reality, meaning that Cobb was not dreaming at the end of the movie. yay
If you guys enjoyed this movie, definitely look into the idea that this is Nolan’s love letter to filmmaking and the parallels between dreams and films and how this film can be interpreted as the filmmaking process
Another banger of a film from Nolan and crew! Ok.... Was totem falling at the end????
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You should watch Satoshi Kohn’s Paprika. Nolan actually steals a lot from that movie to make Inception. In fact they have a similar story and both deal with dreams, but in my opinion Paprika does it way better
The best part of whether the totem falls or not after the movie ends doesn’t matter- it’s the fact that Cobb finally accepted whatever world he was in as reality. He’s spent years constantly questioning if what he does to get back home matters because what if it turns out this world is just a dream one, and all those “actions” were meaningless, if he was still a layer deeper. But he lets go, and chooses to move on, because whether or not the world around him is real, this reality allows him to be with his children, and he’s going to cherish that. (There’s also in recent years been a fact of the movie revealed that can tell for fact how certain scenes are 100% reality SPOILER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW‼️ Around the ten year anniversary of the movie’s release, Michael Caine mentioned how Nolan told him that ANY scene he’s in is reality)
My favorite theories:
1. The top was never Cobb’s totem. It was Mal’s. What Cobb’s original totem was we never know, but in a way I think he used his kids as his totem - he knew them well enough that he also recognized when it was a fake version of them. That would potentially explain why he no longer cares about Mal’s totem when he gets back to them. However I expect he also had a different totem of his own originally. Maybe he just never tells anyone what it is because that would aid them in trying to fake it.
2. Ariadne had already been hired by Miles before she even met Cobb. She was hired to incept the idea that Cobb needed to fully let go of his dead wife so that he could be with his kids rather than ending up old and alone. She constantly reinforces this fact in multiple ways but it ends up being regarded by Cobb as his own idea.
Ohhhhhhhh nice! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Here's my take
1. Leo didn't care if it was reality or not. He had accepted it as his reality.
2. Leo's ring was his actual totem , pay attention to the scenes he has it on and the ones he doesn't.
3. Michael Cain claims Nolan told him that he is only in the scenes that are real. He is in none of the dreams.
Still I like the idea of an ambiguous ending
The insistence at “YOU SAW THE WOBBLE” at the end there. I felt that on a soul deep level 😂
Oak really wanted that ending to be true, huh 😂
@@AleksandarIvanov69 spoiler: they announced later on, that the wobbling does indeed mean its not a dream
It can't be a dream because if it was, Mal would constantly go back in the dream and try to get Leo to wake up
@@AleksandarIvanov69 also he wasnt wearing his wedding ring at the airport.
@@Salzui who announced it?
There is a theory that Cobbs totem wasn't the spinning top, that was Mals as he originally said. His totem is his wedding ring, it's a specific shape and weight that only he would know and no one else would touch. Cobb doesn't wear his wedding ring in reality but he does wear it in dream sequences, so at the end scene he isn't wearing his wedding ring suggesting that he is back in reality.
Michael Caine was quoted that any scene he is in it is reality. Caine was even confused and Nolan explained that to him. So maybe that theory isn't to far off.
I think that theory has be debunked, though, because totems are for reality, not dreams. He needs something to prove he’s in reality, and a lack of something doesn’t do that
I personally think that he’s not in reality at the end, and that almost the whole movie is a dream. When he first goes to the chemist and goes under the drugged induced sleep, when he “wakes up”, he starts to spin the totem in the bathroom, but he fumbles it and it falls. He gets interrupted, and just picks it up and walks out, without ever confirming that he’s in reality. After that, we never see him spin his totem again until the very last scene. I think everything in that scene and after (including the whole inception job) is a dream.
@jennv2948 yes but the point is that the spinning top is not his totem so the ending of it waiting to fall means nothing
@@Ronocos But if Mal died, why wouldn’t that stop being her totem?
"- They come here every day to sleep?
- No. They come to be woken up. The dream has become their reality"
Hits different man
My favorite movie of all time. The last 5 minutes is cinematic perfection. I literally almost cried after seeing it for the first time
Mine too
Saaaame!!!
Same got excited
ye the end really feels like waking up after a long dream
Same mine too
The most underrated performance in this movie is Cillian Murphy by a mile. That scene in the hospital is so raw and amazing, makes me teary every time
One detail I always loved is that the new architect is named Ariadne. In Greek mythology, Ariadne helped the hero Theseus escape a labyrinth after he fought and killed a minotaur. I just always liked that nod to the myth since this movie's Ariadne is tasked with creating the levels and teaching the team how to navigate them.
That's what happens when writers are in awe of the human condition expressed in our mythologies - they create glorious beautiful art.
Unlike the modern human-hating weirdos pushing THE MESSAGE...
@@AleksandarIvanov69Not sure I understand this comment tbh. The amount of rape, kidnapping, and murder in the mythologies did a pretty good job at human-hating by exposing humanity's darker sides, and every myth pushed a moral or message.
It’s also my middle name!
@@AleksandarIvanov69what is The Message?
@@Babygorl1209 The Critical Drinker will explain it best
Outside of his Dark Knight Trilogy, this is my favorite Nolan movie! The complex rules of dreams, amazing visual effects that still hold up over a decade later, amazing score by Hans Zimmer. Simply one of Nolan's best
The score was awesome!!!! Good ol Hans!
My favorite piece of acting: Cillian Murphy when he shows, in the plane, that the idea has indeed been implanted. So subtle, so cathartic. Magnificent. Clip left out of this reaction. It's OK, i forgive you guys 😂
Saito's "I bought the airline" has the same energy as Bruce Wayne's "I bought the bank".
If you take the first letters of the main characters' names, Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mal and Saito, they spell "Dreams". If you add Peter, Ariadne, and Yusuf, the whole makes "Dreams Pay", which is what they do for a mind thief.
Mindblown.
This was so damn good in theaters. Utterly INSANE this came out 13 years ago.
It’s aged so well cuz everything is done practically
I remember I went to see this with a guy I was interested in as this was his choice for a movie. I was ambivalent about seeing it but I was so blown away, I ended up annoying him afterwards with all my theories lol. Safe to say I didn’t see him again hahaha
I love how he just kept repeating "it was wobbling" 😂
Oak was really invested into that ending being true 😂
We did read a quote after watching the film from Michael Caine saying he spoke to Nolan as he was confused a bit, Nolan told Caine any scene he is in it is reality.
@@BaddMedicine plus, remember when Joseph Gordon Levitt says he can't explain his totem to Ariadne? While Cobb explained how the top worked as a totem. He was able to reveal how it worked because it wasn't actually his totem, it was Mal's. His totem is his wedding ring. He knows he's not in a dream when he doesn't have his wedding ring.
@@BaddMedicine Insert The Incredibles' "WOBBLING IS WOBBLING" meme.
Can't wait for the "It was wobbling" merch
Inception was one of the best movies I've seen. It's overly convoluted, but he ties it together no matter how out of control it gets. The cast was amazing but through it all you could follow what they were saying and doing, without it ever feeling too contrived. None of it makes sense, but they made you BELIEVE it made sense and it kept you in the movie through all of it.
I think Inception is the perfect example of a complex film that gets better every rewatch. There are movies that are way too complex and co confusing, but this one gets it right. One of my favorites.
I LOVE the relationship between Arthur and Eames. There is so much history in so few lines and moments. Expert storytellingA
Just a few moments launched a thousand fanfics :D
this is so real gay ppl are wild
@@saturated3821it’s been like 12 years since this movie and fanfics are still being written to this day😂😂😂
Such well-realized characters for having such little screen time
I was completely obsessed with this movie when it first came out. The acting, the cinematography, the story -- such a fantastic film.
"Finally got off that door" XD this is the why i love watching you giys. The commentary is always peak humor
I watched this movie with my girlfriend in the theater. Then we _immediately_ went right back in to the theater and watched it again. Literally the only time I've ever done that in my life. Absolutely spectacular movie.
Cool! 🥰🥰🤩
I remember watching this in the theatre when it just came out and the resounding shock everyone in the audience had at the ending. The whole train ride home I felt like I was in a dream. Such a visceral and unique experience I still remember so vividly to this day.
I was obsessed with this movie for some time, the concepts are just so fascinating. Idea planting and stealing, dreams within dreams, the soundtrack the great cast, it's just all so cool! It's one of those great movies that leaves you thinking about all the possibilities. 5/5
Absolutely agree
Cobbs totem is his wedding ring. Micheal Caine also said an interview a couple years ago that any scene he is in is reality. Also Cobb never sees his kids faces in a dream, since his dreams are reconstructed memories, his last memory is of his kids facing away in the yard. In the end his kids turn around and Michael Caine is there, sooo reality!!
Such a great reaction, per usual!!!
I remember watching this in theaters, and at the end everyone in the audience sarcastically groaned in unison, and then clapped and applauded at the top scene. Everyone understood and appreciated the bit of trolling Nolan did with that final moment of doubt and questioning, it giving us just enough wobble to not feel cheated 😂😅😊
sorry to break it to u but Cobb is still in his dream and hes stuck there forever. He doesnt care anymore hes accepted he's in hell.
@israymervalentin-arias6313 completely incorrect lol, but nice job at being confidently incorrect.
It's been confirmed by Nolan and Michael Caine that the top does indeed slightly wobble, meaning the world is indeed real--hence the older kids, wearing different clothes, and oh yeah--no Mal showing up trying to ruin everything.
If Cobb was ever still dreaming, then she would pop up somehow to try and kill him or ruin the dream. It's very simple to know if he's dreaming or not.
It reminded me of 12 Monkeys (show) finale. :) The same level of bittersweetness...
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Oak's knowledge through memes never fails to entertain me. I love this movie, excited to watch the reaction!
"It was wobbling" is also my response to that final scene.
I love how you can tell you've been watching pitch meetings with the "super easy, barely an inconvenience" 😂
This movie is a masterpiece and the score is perfect. As far as the ending goes it’s ambiguous so it’s up to the viewer, but Nolan left clues as to wether or not he was dreaming.
Nolan+Hans=Magnificence
Top 3 movie theater going experiences of all time - the crowd reacted so viscerally to the spinning top at the end. An absolute masterpiece
You were spot on about how trippy it was to see in theaters Oak!! Me and my group of friends walked out of the theater still discussing what really happened, and continued the whole car ride home. After a few watches it's still mindblowing.
I like the trippy aspects in this movie. When its used in Dr Strange (and the Spiderman one), it's too much and makes me 🤢🤢. The hands of hands is particularly awful 😭😂😣😩🙈.
I saw an interview with Christopher Nolan where he stated that everyone was getting the end wrong wondering if the totem fell or not...The point is that Cobb doesn't watch to see if it falls but goes to his kids...signaling he no longer cares if it's real or not. Amazing storytelling. I would recommend Nolan's film Memento...another brilliant story.
I don't know if it is for everyone but that 5min reality and an hour while dreaming. That happens to me all the time, feels like an eternity.
My favorite interpretation of the spinning top at the end is a theme that was present throughout the movie: that reality is something we choose. Someone else commented that the top wasn't a symbol of reality or not but rather a symbol of Dom's obsession with being able to distinguish dream from waking life, and that at the end, him running away while the top spins isn't meant to provoke the question of "is he still dreaming", but rather to signify that he is no longer held back by his guilt and anxiety over what happened with Mal. I'd take that last part but add a little of my own personal perspective. I think it's both a symbol of him letting go of his grief, but also a symbol to us that it actually doesn't matter whether the top falls or not, because he chose to accept this life, one where he's with his family again and free, as his reality. I think that is a concept that people don't consciously think through, but do quite frequently throughout our lives. If you're religious, you choose to accept your god(s) as reality. People of science trust science. People choose to believe we are or aren't in a simulation. We live in our own bubbles of suburbia or country or city in our own countries and know the limited amounts that an individual can know about the world, and we accept our views as reality.
This has gotten really long, but I love this movie, and it changed the way I think about everything. I view reality and beliefs and trust as a choice I get to make.
I watched this when it came out with my group of buds and when that ending happened one of my buds jumped up and was like "NOOO WTF COMMON MAN!" Breaking a crazy silence that was happening and the whole theater laughed because we all felt the same stuff lmao. It was so dang intense in theaters. Memorable moment and a great movie.
It's amazing how Answer and Oak ended up portraying both groups of people after watching the movie. Oak thought it had started to collapse and Answer thought it was still spinning.
I can't believe he didn't do 5. This movie is literal perfection. I'm obsessed with it.
"It was WOBBLING!" 😁👍
I saw this movie in the cinema. The last clip of the totem made me break out in a sweat. I left my seat, paid for another ticket and watched it again to make sure I understood what I had just watched. There is a lot more in this film than we think and is worth watching multiple times to realise something else I missed. Great reaction as always.
My dreams are insane. This concept helped me understand their chaotic nature a little better. I go with the flow a little easier than i used to.
I want to write a comment to show you guys some love and appreciation. All 4 of you are cool, great channel, amazing quality. I never get bored watching you guys react.
We appreciate this and thanks for watching with us! 🤜🤛
One of my fave movies. The music is just fantastic. I always tear up the last 5 mins of the movie with the music. Great reaction 😊
My all time fave, absolute master piece by nolan and the soundtracks by zimmer, and the cast and their acting, genius ❤️
I love the inevitable argument about the wobble at the end. I like to believe whatever the reality was, he chose to stay with that version of his kids and it didn't matter if it was the correct reality or not anymore. Beyond that, he explains his totem is not the top. That was Mal's totem.
I think its good for a movie to be complex, but the sweet spot is where you still understand and enjoy it the first time, but then in later watches it continues to blow your mind as you start to understand it deeper and more complexly. Which makes you love it every time even more. In my opinion this movie does that, but movies like tenet or interstellar are almost too complex for the first time viewing
Love this movie. It's so complex that it's almost spoiler-proof because you won't really understand the end unless you follow how the film gets there. It's a movie that begs to be watched from start to finish.
Despite using Mal's totem through out the movie, there's an extra detail almost imperceptible unless you're activelly looking for it.
In real scenes he's always without a wedding ring while wearing it in the dreams
That leaves no doubt about the last scene, unlike the spinning top
you would need it in both reality and the dream - otherwise, it's not serving its purpose as a totem
Right. He even says "in my dreams, we're still together" aka married.
@@carolinaa.4407 Nolan telling Michael Caine something has zero bearing on the functionality of a totem. I don't care whether it's dream or reality. I'm saying the whole point of a totem is to differentiate between dream and reality, so it would need to be on his person in both.
I got to see this movie on the massive IMAX screen.🍿 OMG. 1000% Amazing!!! Just wow, stunning!!
Nolan's best and what a extraordinary casts, everyone nailed it.
I love how more than a decade later people are still arguing about the ending and what it meant. epic stuff 🤣🤣🤣
Oak's 4.95 is definitely the result of the wobble. Somewhere in his subconscious lies an idea. An idea that the top never fell. So, he buried the extra .05 deep down in limbo, awaiting the truth to be uncovered.
Thanks for reacting to this movie! One of my all-time favorites. LOVE Christopher Nolan and so many of the actors he likes to work with. ❤
The Hallway fight scene is the best action scene of all time (for me). Nolan does practical effects, like no other.
This movie separates the optimists from the pessimists with that ending. 😂 Such a great film. I love Nolan’s movies, can’t wait for his next one. At the beginning you were worried about following this one but my first thought was: If y’all can follow TENET, you can definitely follow this one. lol
Or, you could just look up what Nolan meant and find out for sure...
@@MrBrock314 OR, you could be like me and know that it was obviously left up to interpretation without needing Nolan to tell me. 😂
Excellent film, great cast! That rotating hallway scene is unbelievable to watch how they filmed it.
P.S. Warner Brothers wanted Nolan to use DiCaprio as The Riddler in his third Dark Knight movie after this movie was released, though he long already had his plans with Bane.
hans zimmer's soundtrack on this movie is one of my ALL TIME favorites
I would absolutely love for you guys to react to The Prestige. In my opinion, it’s the best Christopher Nolan movie! Also, Memento is another great Christopher Nolan movie.
Chris Nolan hasn’t missed yet. Whether you LIKE, LOVE or don’t LIKE (that’s on you) his films they’re all masterpieces of cinema and each soundtrack is absolutely gorgeous! He’s just an amazing screenwriter along with his brother and a director along with his wife as producer
What caught me in this film is how Cillian Murphy nailed the role of oblivious preppy son-of-the-CEO
Cillian Murphy nails everything he's ever done even when the movie doesn't quite get there! He's a phenomenal actor .. brilliant stage actor too ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Inception is definitely a one of a kind movie. Its hard to find movies like that now a days.
I appreciated you putting "Time" at the end. That piece of music is phenomenal.
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I remember when I saw this in theaters, my friend and I were going back and forth with that last top scene. I was convinced it would keep spinning while she was sure it would fall over. We were loud enough that all the surrounding audience were enraptured, me with my "It's totally gonna keep spinning!" and her with her "No, this is real now; it's gonna fall!" Then of course it faded to black and we both were like 'NOOO!" and people started laughing around us. Such good times.
i loved Mason Quinn breaking the fourth wall there at the end with the top 🤣 also i saw Micheal Cain interview and he said any scene he was in was real
A movie inside a movie inside a movie inception is just a metaphor for making a movie
The low blasting bass sound is actually the "Je ne regret rien" wakeup song slowed way down because time is slowed down in the dream compared to the upper levels where the music is playing.
Inception is an all time favourite!! From the effects, cast, acting, MUSIC, story & concept - its a 5 star all around the board!
Fun fact: Michael Caine once in an interview said that Nolan told him if he was present in a scene, it was reality and not a dream! So that confirms that at the end Cobb wasn’t dreaming and actually reunited with his children
It’s interesting to see the change from man with a gun in his hand ready to shoot himself if the top does not topple over to the end where he doesn’t care anymore
I definitely had a dream, where I woke up twice before really waking up, and each time I was convinced that that's now real, until later when I noticed that there were definitely faults in that, but you don't notice during the dream. When I was finally awake, I stumbled around still questioning my reality :D
Please watch Cloud Atlas! That film changed my life. It is brilliant and a film that makes you think deeply about life and many other themes like old age, freedom, love, oppression, religion, power, cannibalism, and much more!
This movie is just amazing... so many ways you can understand it. My understanding is the following and it might not be the most popular one (I went too deep lol):
In my opinion the main question isn't just if he was in a dream or not in the end, the main questions was - what if the whole movie was a dream? The reason why Cobb got to see his children in the end was Saito and his actions. When the movie started we already saw the action and Saito but... did we see the beginning? Remember what Cobb said? You don't really remember the beginning of a dream, you just wind up in the middle.
The main ending wasn't whether it was real or not. It's just that Cobb doesn't really care. He doesn't really want to know because he is finally with his kids. PS: He had been in dreams for so long that maybe even he forgot what reality was and this whole movie was just his dream where he decided to forget and go back to his kids.
This movie is in my top 3 favorite movies of all time. It's just a beautiful masterpiece. Christopher Nolan + Hans Zimmer... Can't really go wrong with this.
It doesn't matter whether the top fell or not - it wasn't Cob's Totem. His was his wedding ring.
Outside of film festivals and preview screenings, this is still the only time I’ve been in a regular cinema screening and the audience spontaneously clapped at the end. It was such an original film on release. I also love how people still Debate this film. To me, the fact they deliberately tell us no one should touch your totem and it’s specific to one person and also tell us the top was Mal’s makes me believe that can’t have been Cobb’s totem, but I love that it’s still open to debate.
So happy to see you watching another one of my favourite movies!!! One of the greatest films of all time!
This might be the most technically impressive Nolan film, but I'd still say that Memento is his best as the story for me has the richest emotional complexity. I hope that now you've watched it, you can all watch the making of bits which show what they did to put together that spinning hallway scene
I made a copy from the video store and it cut off the last fifteen minutes. That was the only version I'd seen. Was super confused about it for years until I saw it on tv. lol. I mean I was confused about it anyways...but it made more sense.
Memento was my favorite movie before wow thanks for mentioning this masterpiece of a movie.
My number one favorite movie.
I dont think it was the real world because the image of the kids digging in the backyard never changed throughout the movie. Also it doesn't seem they've aged at all throughout the years and he supposedly was gone for years.
The Appleton Oak: "It was wabbling, it was wabbling"
Mason Quinn: 👀👀
I loved watching Mason Quinn's reaction while waiting for the other guys to watch the last scene 😂😂
This movie is amazing, I'm so glad you guys got around to watching it on here. I saw this movie when it came out in theaters when I was a kid, it had me and my dad talking for DAYS theorizing what happened & the meaning behind everything. This movie is actually the reason I had wanted to start making videos & short films as a hobby & possibly a career b/c of how impressed I was with the story, effects, the characters, the music, the rules that they set up & kept consistent throughout. Also because I am a very lucid dreamer, seeing a movie like this felt dope b/c sometimes my dreams can be just as intense that I have to process what happened for a bit after I wake up. But this movie now always reminds me of a dream I had years ago...
This will sound crazy but I've actually done multiple level dreaming before (in the movies terms, I've been to the 2nd level) but I was was only able to ever do it once when I was a teenager & it was totally by accident. I had just seen one of the new Insidious movies that came out (I think the 2nd movie) the night before I had this dream. In my Lvl 1 dream, I was going to some boarding school and their school colors were purple & yellow & had a Buffalo Wild Wings in the cafeteria, completely normal haha, but I was somehow getting tired & went to sleep in my dorm in my Lvl 1. When I woke up into the 2nd level, I was in the middle of a random empty house in it's living room, beige carpet floor, white painted walls, it had a dinning room & a kitchen with no furniture or appliances at all but then I turned around to look behind me, and I saw an exact copy of myself sleeping on a grey couch & I was stunned for a bit because I was trying to process how that would even be possible. I was wearing a blank white t-shirt & black shorts, but I was watching myself sleep & it felt so weird. I then went to nudge that version of myself on the couch, and as soon as that happened, I woke up in my original (Lvl 1) dream & then continued about the dream for a bit until I woke up into reality. I had to process what happened for a bit that morning cause I was use to lucid dreaming @ that age already, but something about going into a 2nd level of a dream & seeing a version of myself just freaked me out, even though I was in my own mind, I felt like I was invading someone's privacy. I got over it pretty fast thankfully cause I had school the next day haha
When I told my friend this story the next day, she got mad & worried for me xD lol but all I could think about was this movie, so it holds a special place in my heart lol
Watching it as someone who learned lucid dreaming when I was in my teens, gave it an even crazier vibe, than for anyone who doesn't know that experience.
Great reaction guys, thanks for the edits Dave🤟
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Of all the Nolan films this is my favourite. It is a perfect film in my eyes
When I saw this movie (in theaters) my jaw hit the floor at the ending and I felt like my brain had been scrambled. I went back the next day and saw it again and the same feeling was there. It's truly a masterpiece of a movie.
Do you think Nolan intended for us to think that maybe he was still dreaming?
@CT I absolutely do! I think that it's intentionally left vague for us to have discussions about whether or not he's dreaming, and since we don't see if it falls or not, we're left to decide for ourselves. BUT, I've also Loooooong wondered if it was ALL a dream, because he isn't using his own totem, but his wife's (and it's mentioned, multiple times, that the totem needs to be special to the person and one that only they know).
A underrated masterpiece 💪🍺
Nolan is a mastermind
Masterpiece of a film
Nolan doesnt disappoint. cant wait for Oppenheimer
Short and simple top explanation based on Nolan - Whether or not the totem falls is not the point. The point is that Cobb is FINALLY able to see and be with his children, and so it no longer matters to him. He has found his happiness there, real world or not.
Love the shout out to Solar Babies! One of these 80's movies I watched over and over again on HBO when I was a kid.
Yay! Let's go! Looking forward to Oak and Answer's minds being blown 😂
Love a movie with an ambiguous ending and swirly plot...you guys rock!
I keep forgetting how amazing this movie is/was. I'd love for it to come back to IMAX theaters in 2025 for a 15 year anniversary
U guys should react to Dunkirk next! My personal fav from Nolan
"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling."
You guys should watch Paprika, an animated movie. There's definitely imagery that Inception took from it. And The Matrix too.
Such a fun movie. Love you guys
one of my all time favorite
You guys have to see The Prestige soon! Possibly the least well-known of Nolan’s films, but my personal favorite.
This was the movie that Christopher Nolan had been planning to make ever since he became a director. Also although they did win the award for Visual Effects, they never used CGI or other special effects in the movie
my favorite movie ever! also, Michael Caine revealed a few years ago that every time that he is in the scene it's reality, meaning that Cobb was not dreaming at the end of the movie. yay
The fight scenes in the hall was done by building a hallway set that could be literally rotated. They had that room and spun it. Insane.
If you guys enjoyed this movie, definitely look into the idea that this is Nolan’s love letter to filmmaking and the parallels between dreams and films and how this film can be interpreted as the filmmaking process
IT. WAS. WOBBLING!! 😆 #cantunthink
My favorite Christopher Nolan movie so far!
Remains my favorite Christopher Nolan film.