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Dansariki Higher Spirit
13 Aug 10 - 20:00
Lilith wrote:Hey guys. Went to see Inception yesterday (or was it the day before?) and I noticed something unusual which I don't think has been mentioned yet... Feel free to flame me for idiocy if it has.
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When they get off the plane at the end and Cobb gets his passport checked, the guy says "Welcome Home" and stamps a page of his passport... He doesn't stamp it with a "Welcome to LA" thing or whatever it should be - he stamps it with the symbol Cobb drew on a napkin at the beginning when he was trying to explain to that girl about perception and creation in dreams. You know the one I mean, right? Two arrows, one line.
I haven't decided either way, so... Enjoy!
I'm... not... convinced... yet. Now I really need to go see it again.
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I thought it was odd Fisher wouldn't recognize Saito, a supposed rival. I chocked it up to just not noticing, his father had just died, after all.
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14 Aug 10 - 08:36
Lilith wrote:Hey guys. Went to see Inception yesterday (or was it the day before?) and I noticed something unusual which I don't think has been mentioned yet... Feel free to flame me for idiocy if it has.
[+] Spoiler
When they get off the plane at the end and Cobb gets his passport checked, the guy says "Welcome Home" and stamps a page of his passport... He doesn't stamp it with a "Welcome to LA" thing or whatever it should be - he stamps it with the symbol Cobb drew on a napkin at the beginning when he was trying to explain to that girl about perception and creation in dreams. You know the one I mean, right? Two arrows, one line.
I haven't decided either way, so... Enjoy!
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I didn't notice that. Hope that doesn't mean it is a dream.
And Datsyuk, he just didn't notice.
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Dansariki Higher Spirit
14 Aug 10 - 18:34
Pfft. Evidence all around. There'll be a compendium soon.

Gimme a screenie of Lilith's and I'll go with it :D
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
~Benjamin Franklin
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
~Medgar Evers

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16 Aug 10 - 21:39
Give a jackass an education and you get a smartass.
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Lilith Foliot
17 Aug 10 - 00:10
I SO do.
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17 Aug 10 - 10:41
Lilith wrote:I SO do.
Seconded.
Bartimaeus: It won't be the only mad thing about if you let this lot go. Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style.
Nathaniel: That is a footstool. No one's using that Pentacle.
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Nero Higher Spirit
17 Aug 10 - 13:10
Damonenkopf wrote:
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17 Aug 10 - 14:09


:pirate1:
Give a jackass an education and you get a smartass.
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17 Aug 10 - 14:19
Haha. All good ones =D.
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Dansariki Higher Spirit
18 Aug 10 - 00:52
Nice. 4Chan regularly has threads for verticals. I saved tons, but they're on the girlfriend's computer :(
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
~Isaac Asimov
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
~Benjamin Franklin
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
~Medgar Evers

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18 Aug 10 - 11:06
Haha these are great! :D
Bartimaeus: It won't be the only mad thing about if you let this lot go. Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style.
Nathaniel: That is a footstool. No one's using that Pentacle.
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Sentynel One with The Other Place
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23 Aug 10 - 23:11
AWESOME.
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I'm pretty sure the top was about to fall, and therefore it was real. This said, I didn't notice the symbol in the passport - it just looked like a visa stamp to my brief glance. Now I want to see it again. Argh.

Other thoughts: music wasn't great, but otherwise the sound was brilliantly done.
Also, the scene with the gravity in the corridor rotating was quite possibly the best shot I have ever seen in a film. It was done with a 100ft long rotating corridor set, apparently.
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Dansariki Higher Spirit
24 Aug 10 - 06:37
Ah, the official report from Sent comes in :D
Knowledge is Power, Power Corrupts, and Corruption Destroys.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
~Isaac Asimov
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
~Benjamin Franklin
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
~Medgar Evers

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5 Sep 10 - 04:41
Finally saw it. Luckily it was with my mom, who is both smart and has seen it once before, she helped me through the parts I didn't understand. I thought the bit about not recognizing his rival was odd too. Nice catch who ever caught the bit with the symbol, uh-oh. I'm also conflicted about the dream y/n part. The top did wiggle but it also went for an unusually long time.
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5 Sep 10 - 10:32
I'm planning to kidnap Christopher Nolan and ask him about it. All my friends say it is a dream, but I think it is real. Though their reasons are actually better.
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5 Sep 10 - 12:01
nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:I'm planning to kidnap Christopher Nolan and ask him about it. All my friends say it is a dream, but I think it is real. Though their reasons are actually better.
We know that dying in limbo wakes you up, because it's happened before. We also know that earlier parts of the film were not a dream, because we've seen the top fall. Therefore, something would have had to have changed for the end to be a dream, and there's no evidence that this is the case. --> the top was about to fall --> not a dream.
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5 Sep 10 - 13:50
Sentynel wrote:
nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:I'm planning to kidnap Christopher Nolan and ask him about it. All my friends say it is a dream, but I think it is real. Though their reasons are actually better.
We know that dying in limbo wakes you up, because it's happened before. We also know that earlier parts of the film were not a dream, because we've seen the top fall. Therefore, something would have had to have changed for the end to be a dream, and there's no evidence that this is the case. --> the top was about to fall --> not a dream.
Actually, since they were so deep into Fisher's mind, dying wouldn't have woken them up. One can say that Cobb got lost in limbo when he found Sato (if Sato had woken up after he was shot dead, there would have been no need for Cobb to go and find him) and dreamed everything else up.
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"I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you." - Studs Terkel.
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5 Sep 10 - 13:59
nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:Actually, since they were so deep into Fisher's mind, dying wouldn't have woken them up. One can say that Cobb got lost in limbo when he found Sato (if Sato had woken up after he was shot dead, there would have been no need for Cobb to go and find him) and dreamed everything else up.
Except that the other dreamers had already woken up, thus they were only within their own minds, precisely the same as Cobb and Mal.
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5 Sep 10 - 16:06
Sentynel wrote:
nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:Actually, since they were so deep into Fisher's mind, dying wouldn't have woken them up. One can say that Cobb got lost in limbo when he found Sato (if Sato had woken up after he was shot dead, there would have been no need for Cobb to go and find him) and dreamed everything else up.
Except that the other dreamers had already woken up, thus they were only within their own minds, precisely the same as Cobb and Mal.
Didn't we get the whole movie from Cobb's perspective? So we can't really say the other dreamers woke up. Oh, they very well might have (since they weren't killed), but Cobb could have dreamt of them all having gotten up too.
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"I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you." - Studs Terkel.
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Sentynel One with The Other Place
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6 Sep 10 - 00:38
nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:Didn't we get the whole movie from Cobb's perspective? So we can't really say the other dreamers woke up. Oh, they very well might have (since they weren't killed), but Cobb could have dreamt of them all having gotten up too.
Them waking up can't have been from Cobb's perspective, because he can't see other layers of the dream. Besides, they'd have woken up when the sedative wore off anyway, even if some of the waking up stages failed. It wouldn't have taken as long for the rest of them as for Cobb to get that far.
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