That's just another case of a fan wanting to push his own ideas onto a movie...
It's easy, mmkay?
Has NOONE written a fanfiction crossing this over with A Nightmare On Elm Street?
At first I didn't realize I needed all this stuff...
What would that even be like...?
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
Extractors mess with one of Freddie's future victims. Stuff gets fucked up. It'd be boring, but not impossible.
It's not exactly naive. And it can happen. But it's tough. And definetly worthwhile.
The Nightmare on Elm Street movies never really addressed the power of the subconscious in fighting intruders. Even Freddie would have trouble if random people in folks's dreams started breaking out assault weapons.
"The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules." - E. Gary Gygax
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This is pretty neat.
Odd.
So I watched this tonight.
Is it really that hard to understand? They go deeper, and then they come out. It may or may not all be a dream of Cobb's. Okay. Am I missing something here? Anything important?
He's the Doctor. He could be anywhere in time and space.
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I like happy ending so it's a reality. Nolan said the ending is whatever we wanted it to be, so why not.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
Odd.
I'm not sure why everyone gets so fixated on the ending. I mean, hey look there's a fight scene where gravity keeps changing! Isn't that cool? They roll and climb from wall to wall and things slide and it's generally very cool. And the fact that most of the movie takes place while a van is driving along a bridge, and good portion while it's in mid air, falling towards the water, is just... word-hiding. 
The tension in the movie just never lets up.
I'm here for our date, Rose!
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Because the action, while cool, was not open to interpretation.
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Necro.
This is a pretty neat soundtrack compilation.
You know, the more I think about it, the more I appreciate the movie. I don't remember seeing a science fiction movie so clever, so action packed, and so complex.
Say, has anyone watched this movie with some knowledge of psychoanalysis? I think this would have been really fun for people who understood subconsciousness' mechanics.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.
See ALL the stars!
(More seriously, it probably falls into Hollywood Psychology.)
edited 9th Sep '12 6:01:36 AM by Yej
Da Rules excuse all the inaccuracy in the world. Listen to them, not me.
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Well, that is a shame. Maybe.
Ooh, very helpful summary of the whole movie.
Nolan gave a graduation speech at Princeton, offers new commentary on the ending.
Saw that and went "yep, that's going on the trope page, passing it around here too (even if three years is quite the necro-bump).
edited 6th Jun '15 11:50:52 PM by Elle
Even apart from just a desire to know the answer, it's natural that audiences would want to know if it's a dream or not. They see Cobb realize the hollowness of his fantasy and so triumph. They see Fischer fall for his fantasy of his dad and so be fooled. So just from that, the audience wants to know because they want Cobb to succeed and his journey to be worth it. Nolan seems to be okay with the end not being real, but at the least he does understand that audiences view it as "no, it has to be black and white because reality matters."
Looking back, this is relevant.
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