[enchi-elm]

Inception is funny because the final heist is a wildly different experience for everyone involved.

Yusuf drives across town under gunfire and voluntarily drives off the edge of a bridge. He probably has a resting heart rate of 180 for the duration and it’s over in, say, 15 minutes.

Arthur finally gets to snap at his boss, something we get the sense he’s been wanting to do for a solid year now. He vents the rest of his frustrations on unsuspecting goons, then spends the rest of the heist quietly problem solving around his unconscious and therefore uncomplaining teammates. This is probably his preferred way of dealing with people.

Saito gets shot and dies an agonizing death for anywhere from a few minutes to about an hour. Instead of being allowed to peacefully suffer, he volunteers to lead his business rival on a mountain expedition that involves driving pitons into rock, then survives a free fall down the same mountain before holding off enemy fire with his dying breath. His reward for finally kicking the bucket is aging fifty fucking years.

Cobb literally goes through every stage of grief and dies twice. I mean he’s not my favourite but he’s certainly suffering for his art.

Ariadne is on the steepest learning curve of her life: by the end of this learning abroad experience, she’s a certified psychiatrist and also she’s shot someone.

Eames is going through every single one of his employable skills like an intern hoping to be promoted at the end of term. This includes hitting on two billionaires and firing a grenade launcher to impress a coworker. By far having the most fun.

Robert Fischer has been the CEO of a Fortune 500 company for a week. He’s been sedated, kidnapped, conned, betrayed, led mountain-climbing, shot, resuscitated, and resolves an adult life time worth of daddy issues in the time it takes to order coffee. Possibly fires his uncle when he lands for reasons he can’t explain even to himself.

[adampvrrish]

everyone say thank you to joseph gordon levitt and tom hardy for imbuing their characters in inception with so much chemistry that it gave the impression of a tangled history of failed romance and repressed love and the desire to reignite the flame between them. and they did it for literally no reason. in 2010

[tacosouponthree-deactivated2026]

Gilear is to Emily Axford what wealwell is to Brian Murphy

[dogboymutual]

oh you wanted T as in testosterone. i thought you meant T as in T-virus resident evil. well the good news is that you're still gonna transform at least

[currentlyonstandbi]

the way mickey 18's attitude whenever mickey 17 was in trouble started out as 'what an idiot' but by the end it was 100% 'hey wait that's OUR idiot'

[silme-lorien]

gandalf addressing the fellowship as “chat”

[supervillainarchaeologist]

Nasha Barridge loving every version of Mickey while fiercely protecting his personhood and also saving a baby alien creature with her TEETH. I adore her.

[tehcherrya]

Y'all can go ahead and celebrate the Ides of March and the assassination of Julius Caesar or whatever-- I will be celebrating the day that Merry & Eowyn Stabbed and Killed the Witch-King of Angmar like a normal person, thank you.

[susiephone]

nasha barridge is the character of all time. she's a firefighter and a security guard and a martial artist. she loves her pathetic ass boyfriend more than anyone. dating two clones at once isn't a dealbreaker for her. she can snap a fascist's neck with her legs while holding onto a rope with her teeth. she breaks down giggling over doodles of stick figures having sex. she starts a riot in the cafeteria to defend her boyfriend from bullies. she's stayed with her boyfriend while he dies more than once. she's compassionate and wise and supportive and also jealous and hotheaded and messy. and she's in space!

[chillyfeetsteak]

this is what i mean when i type 👀 btw

[pinkponygrl]

need to string together my thoughts more on this but reeeeeally interesting to see the influx of media - severance, the substance, mickey 17 - centered on the idea of a double/expendable iteration of yourself.

the dehumanization of workers by the way of non-livable wages, unsafe working conditions, and identity based discrimination (and the current removal of dei initiatives), all drive a wedge between our personhood and the value we are prescribed as a member of the workforce. something something the effects of ai and deepfakes already putting people in danger, the way we live and present our lives online vs in reality, there’s a lot to unpack here. but it’s fascinating to see this trope so widely translated as a storytelling vehicle for these ideas, and that this is the story that people are interested in telling.

[bookwormen]

The movie Companion is also part of this. I watched both Mickey 17 and Companion with my 17 year old nephew and the kid was so angry about the disregard of Mickey's and Iris' emotions because they don't matter/aren't "real."

As he said "It doesn't matter if they're just going to reprint him or if they've just coded her emotions. They still FEEL the emotions. Those fucking bastards! How can they treat other people that shitty?!

[joeynewgarden]

everyone has been saying nasha was the only person to not ask mickey what it was like to die, but no one is making the connection that she didn’t have to ask bc she already knew. on presumably 3 or 4 occasions, nasha held him as he died an agonizing, horrid death. she was the only person who even thought to give him comfort in those moments. she’d never ask him how it felt, she knows.

[supremeeggs]

The way that they present that question from the throughout the whole of the movie from a variety of characters is really interesting. Even at the start as a point where Timo literally abandons Mickey and asks that question and its a full circle moment in the first scene to see how he got in the fissure. His expression when asking the question was quite narcisisstic i'd say, belittling Mickey 17 at the beginning set the tone for the rest of the movie where everyone kind of looks down on him. Even when Kai asked the question it felt quite detached and more she was using him as she wasn't asking to comfort him, more so to cure her curiosity to how Jennifer must have felt. The rest of the characters use that question as a weapon to cut down Mickey's self worth. It just gets to a point where he gets mentally exhausted from this abuse, I feel like thats part of the reason why Mickey 18 was a really no-BS kinda guy.

Using the question repeatedly throughout the movie really emphasises how alone Mickey must have felt but Nasha is a real trooper for being there helping him through it. She definitely experienced "death" through his pain 100%

[cannibalchicken]

[spones-in-my-bones]

@robinade YOU CANT JUST LEAVE THAT THERE hdhddhdydhdndhhfnff

[dwarvishring]

ian mckellen directed these movies actually

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Ian McKellen was not going to stand idly by and allow these movies to be heterosexual <3

[breelandwalker]

Sir Ian McKellen understanding how much two men holding hands means because he remembers when it was a forbidden act.

[rythyme]

i'm not a kpop fan but i respect their beliefs (wonho wednesday)

[kabber]

nasha was THE highlight of Mickey 17 she actually felt like a character and not just the demure, loving girlfriend, she was messy and jealous and obsessive and it was such a fun watch, like she was literally this

[podcastwizard]

my most toxic trait is i fucking love work gossip. i play neutral not to be the bigger person or take the high road but to hear slander and hearsay from every side. two coworkers complained about each other to me in the same afternoon and i nearly blacked out from the rush