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Re: Inception Explained: a really cool scrolling animation of the plot

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Post by evincarofautumn »

Cushman wrote: post #22
evincarofautumn wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’re not alone. If you want a movie with actual complexity, watch Primer. Oh, you’ll probably think you get it the first time through, because the writing is great. Then you’ll rewatch it a couple times and see just how much you missed, because the writing is brilliant .

> Then you’ll rewatch it a couple times and see just how much you missed, because the writing is brilliant. ...and the audio is pretty inconsistent :P But seriously, seconded. One of my absolute favorite films of all time, and made on a budget in the thousands . Completely stunning.

I would go so far as to say it’s my favourite film bar none, and I don’t say such a thing lightly. It has its flaws, but it speaks to me.

What’s more stunning still is that most of the $7,000 budget was film stock. Because it was filmed. On film. Ain’t nothing like the 16mm look, truly.

Re: Inception Explained: a really cool scrolling animation of the plot

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Post by rhplus »

kyasui wrote: post #2

This froze my entire computer (newish macbook pro) and and I had to restart. Also didnt have that much stuff open, anyone else?

Chrome.exe used 6% CPU while scrolling and 3% while not scrolling. This was on a 16 core machine! One of my cores hovered around 75% while scrolling and around 35% while not scrolling, which went down to zero when I closed Chrome.

Re: Inception Explained: a really cool scrolling animation of the plot

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Post by sp332 »

evincarofautumn wrote: post #13
irishcoffee wrote: post #8

Am I the only one who gets annoyed when people think inception was some stupid-deep, hard-to-understand movie? It was (I thought) very straight-forward. The bigger problems with the movie come from the plot holes pointed out by Pewpewarrows. Do those holes perhaps contribute to the confusion?

You’re not alone. If you want a movie with actual complexity, watch Primer. Oh, you’ll probably think you get it the first time through, because the writing is great. Then you’ll rewatch it a couple times and see just how much you missed, because the writing is brilliant .

Completely relevant https://xkcd.com/657/ Edit: This is completely on-topic, why the downvotes?

Edit2: originally said "obligatory" but maybe that's too meme-ish for HN.

Re: Inception Explained: a really cool scrolling animation of the plot

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Post by onemoreact »

corford wrote: post #16
kyasui wrote: post #2

This froze my entire computer (newish macbook pro) and and I had to restart. Also didnt have that much stuff open, anyone else?

No problems here but I'm on a beefy machine: FF11, 64 bit Win7, quad core i5, 8GB ram, SSD drive - frankly I'd cry if a website was able to slow/crash that.

I use chrome on an 64 bit Win7, i7 2600K with 16GB ram and a 35/35 FIOS connection and plenty of flash sites slow things down to a crawl. Honestly, I cant help but wonder what exactly some developers expect people to use.

Re: Inception Explained: a really cool scrolling animation of the plot

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Post by Avshalom »

irishcoffee wrote: post #8

Am I the only one who gets annoyed when people think inception was some stupid-deep, hard-to-understand movie? It was (I thought) very straight-forward. The bigger problems with the movie come from the plot holes pointed out by Pewpewarrows. Do those holes perhaps contribute to the confusion?

A couple years back one of the people on the Writing Excuses podcast described reading science fiction as a skill and used as ancedata his friend who spent the entire length of a space opera book wondering how the teleporter worked.

Similarly my mother (not a dumb woman by and large) got tripped up because there was a line in the movie that the dream machines were military technology, instead of taking this a handwave she spent the rest of the film assuming that it was a secret CIA sting operation.

Basically not recognizing which parts of a universe you're supposed to just roll with and which parts you're supposed to puzzle out yourself.

Possible side effect: you spend the whole movie/book trying to solve it through a completely broken lens and nothing ever adds up or you're too busy (mentally) to notice the real- straight forward- breadcrumb trail and you come out thinking it was much twistier than it was.

Re: Inception Explained: a really cool scrolling animation of the plot

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Post by maaku »

evincarofautumn wrote: post #31
Cushman wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Then you’ll rewatch it a couple times and see just how much you missed, because the writing is brilliant. ...and the audio is pretty inconsistent :P But seriously, seconded. One of my absolute favorite films of all time, and made on a budget in the thousands . Completely stunning.

I would go so far as to say it’s my favourite film bar none, and I don’t say such a thing lightly. It has its flaws, but it speaks to me. What’s more stunning still is that most of the $7,000 budget was film stock. Because it was filmed. On film . Ain’t nothing like the 16mm look, truly.

> What’s more stunning still is that most of the $7,000 budget was film stock. Because it was filmed. On film. Ain’t nothing like the 16mm look, truly.

And what's even more stunning is that most of it was done in one take because, well, they only had $7,000 to budget on film stock.

Re: Inception Explained: a really cool scrolling animation of the plot

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Post by CWIZO »

kyasui wrote: post #2

This froze my entire computer (newish macbook pro) and and I had to restart. Also didnt have that much stuff open, anyone else?

It spins the fans on my i5 2011 air like there's no tomorrow, kinda like if I open a badly programed flash file. No crash though. And the whole thing is kinda slow when you scroll.

Re: Inception Explained: a really cool scrolling animation of the plot

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Post by Cushman »

sp332 wrote: post #33
evincarofautumn wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’re not alone. If you want a movie with actual complexity, watch Primer. Oh, you’ll probably think you get it the first time through, because the writing is great. Then you’ll rewatch it a couple times and see just how much you missed, because the writing is brilliant .

Completely relevant https://xkcd.com/657/ Edit: This is completely on-topic, why the downvotes? Edit2: originally said "obligatory" but maybe that's too meme-ish for HN.

Didn't downvote you, but generally speaking people on HN prefer comments which are insightful and implicitly constructive, and not well-known links reposted out of some weird sense of non-existent internet obligation.

Re: Inception Explained: a really cool scrolling animation of the plot

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Post by rthomas6 »

evincarofautumn wrote: post #13
irishcoffee wrote: post #8

Am I the only one who gets annoyed when people think inception was some stupid-deep, hard-to-understand movie? It was (I thought) very straight-forward. The bigger problems with the movie come from the plot holes pointed out by Pewpewarrows. Do those holes perhaps contribute to the confusion?

You’re not alone. If you want a movie with actual complexity, watch Primer. Oh, you’ll probably think you get it the first time through, because the writing is great. Then you’ll rewatch it a couple times and see just how much you missed, because the writing is brilliant .

I sort of disagree. I've seen Primer several times, and am a fan of the movie, but I get the feeling that the writers purposefully made the movie confusing just for the sake of being confusing.

The complexity doesn't seem to arise organically out of the plotline. A lot of the confusion is generated out of not hearing the one time in the movie someone explained something, or from the movie not explaining something that is easily explainable. It's almost as if the writers could have made the plotline easier to follow while keeping the plot the same, but at times purposefully chose to obfuscate it solely for the purpose of making a "complex" movie.

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