Somewhat predictably, I wasn’t blown away by the Inception teaser trailer. I guess if I had more faith in Nolan as anything more than a middle of the road talent I would have been excited by the very vague glimpses at the film, but all I could think was ‘I’ve already seen The Matrix and movies based on Philip K Dick novels.’
Turns out I was wrong, though! Nolan’s actually remaking 1980s scifi ‘classic’ Dreamscape, with some new twists. InContention.com has a plot breakdown of the story (which apparently has been online for a little while, but since nobody picked it up before now, it’s essentially a new story. Sometimes the guy who brings the rumors together is the guy who gets the credit), and while they go into more spoilers than I will (although I don’t think they’re all that spoiler heavy – the plot breakdown they have reads like it goes up to the end of the first act, so basically it’s the film’s premise and what gets the plot going), they do reveal that the film is about people who travel into other people’s dreams.
If you want more info, hit InContention. For those of you unwilling to be spoiled, I’d imagine that ‘Leo uses a machine to go into people’s dreams’ will be just about enough info to keep you sated until more official information hits.
As a sidenote: some folks are already mad at InContention for revealing even this stuff. That’s pretty hilarious – Kris Tapley at InContention has spoiled nothing. In fact, he’s held back bigger info that is already out there on the web, info which could be spoilery. The premise of a movie is not now nor ever has been a spoiler… except when the premise is the big reveal, as in The Matrix. But nothing I have seen about Inception tells me that the dream warriors idea is a reveal; rather it’s the basic set-up of the world, and then there’s stuff that happens that sets a larger plot in motion. Hell, even that plot wouldn’t be a spoiler in the real world. It’s just in the fanboy world of Chris Nolan hardcores that any info is jihad-worthy.
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Inception vs. Dreamscape
I have watched both movies.
Aside from the fact that in both films it is to penetrate a particular person's dreams, they are entirely different.
Different both in plot and with questions that raise.
I notice that many people compare "Inception" with films like "The Matrix", "Dreamscape", and have not even seen it – by this logic it looks like "Repo Men" too
Here's where the relationship between Dreamscape and Inception goes.
– A group of people have found a way to penetrate into people's dreams.
From there onwards the concept of both movies is changing.
To what extent Dreamscape talks about generating ideas, secrets and these are the main threads of the film. Where in Inception we saw killer?
Inception is a multi-faceted as the genre, plot and ideas that awakens.
While Dreamscape is a classic fiction, have some similarity, but it is a completely different films – even less for a remake of Dreamscape
What is its similarity to The Matrix?
– Slowmotion shootouts.
Consider that this is a sign placed by the director to be able to distinguish dreams! Imagine what mess would happen if all dreams seemed in one way. Also in the movie was said that in any dream level time runs slower, right;)
These are movies from different classes, Dreamscape was the first with the idea of dreams, but it costs nothing to Inception and everything that film is!
Consider even the atmosphere of these films and feel the difference.
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