Polls Within Polls - Inception Showdown

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I couldn't find another one of these, I even searched for "Pollception".

Anyway, 18 months down the line and the argument still rages. Time to get some hard stats I reckon.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
This film is fucking brilliant	31
This film is fucking shit	27
I'm so stupid I can't even decide whether this film is fucking shit or not	7

― Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:14 (fourteen years ago)

i like the movie

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:15 (fourteen years ago)

its good

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:15 (fourteen years ago)

its fun

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:15 (fourteen years ago)

well we'll let the poll be the judge of that.

in future everybody has to believe whatever the final outcome of this poll is btw.

― Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:16 (fourteen years ago)

I need a fourth option along the lines of "I really enjoyed this movie but it could have been a little bit better and 30 minutes shorter".

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:21 (fourteen years ago)

In the absence of that I'll vote "fucking brilliant" though.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:21 (fourteen years ago)

no I believe you vote for the you're fucking stupid option

― dayo, Monday, 24 October 2011 17:22 (fourteen years ago)

i included the 3rd option for people who don't know their own minds

― Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:22 (fourteen years ago)

http://cdn.buzznet.com/media-cdn/jj1/headlines/2010/05/leo-dicaprio-inception-movie-poster.jpg

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:25 (fourteen years ago)

this film is f**king brilliant

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:27 (fourteen years ago)

None of the above. Not brilliant, not shit, merely okay. But the attention lavished on it is shit so "This film is fucking shit" gets my vote.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 24 October 2011 17:30 (fourteen years ago)

i voted "I'm stupid" because I'm not entirely convinced I "get" the movie.

― ryan, Monday, 24 October 2011 17:31 (fourteen years ago)

i "get" it. i think.
i just think there some logistical holes in the "rules" they possibly made up as they went along.
that or i didn't "get" it...

ok, voted option 3.

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:33 (fourteen years ago)

well you can either think they broke or dont understand their own rules or maybe there's something else going on. i mean, its clear to me (with the final shot) that the movie wants you to go back over it a few times.

― ryan, Monday, 24 October 2011 17:35 (fourteen years ago)

I think this was a pretty good, but not great by any means, movie.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 24 October 2011 17:36 (fourteen years ago)

that's not quite what i got from the ending.

xpost

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:36 (fourteen years ago)

this film is fucking autistic

― caek, Monday, 24 October 2011 17:45 (fourteen years ago)

guys it's a movie

― dayo, Monday, 24 October 2011 18:03 (fourteen years ago)

I voted shit, but really it's just mostly shitty.

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:06 (fourteen years ago)

guys it's a movie

OR... IS IT?

*fires machine gun*

― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:06 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOJqicM6x84

― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:08 (fourteen years ago)

I watched The Prestige the other night and I think Nolan mostly just makes shitty parables about filmmaking that he thinks are very clever

― dayo, Monday, 24 October 2011 18:08 (fourteen years ago)

None of the above. Not brilliant, not shit, merely okay. But the attention lavished on it is shit so "This film is fucking shit" gets my vote.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 24 October 2011 18:30 (42 minutes ago)

― nakhchivan, Monday, 24 October 2011 18:13 (fourteen years ago)

i found that on the surface its fucking shit but when you dig deeper its turds all the way down

― lol waggoner (am0n), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:14 (fourteen years ago)

it's not the best film ever made but i don't really get the hate here

― Once Were Moderators (DG), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:25 (fourteen years ago)

take an onion apart and put it back together for 148 minutes while somersaulting around a room

― turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:26 (fourteen years ago)

^ Yoko Ono

― Food! Trends! Men! Hate! (Phil D.), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:29 (fourteen years ago)

sounds good

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:30 (fourteen years ago)

sounds like a good movie

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:30 (fourteen years ago)

remy we are talking about Inception, not Bloomin' Onion

― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:30 (fourteen years ago)

that sounds fun tho

at least compared to 'celebrity antiques road trip'

― Once Were Moderators (DG), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:30 (fourteen years ago)

that sounds fun tho

at least compared to 'celebrity antiques road trip' xxxxp

― Once Were Moderators (DG), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:30 (fourteen years ago)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ko2cc6VspjQ/R-MD6aNl4KI/AAAAAAAAAIA/Yx0Xo00oxm4/S660/BloominOnion.jpg

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:36 (fourteen years ago)

i would eat that movie

― turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:36 (fourteen years ago)

Onception

― Food! Trends! Men! Hate! (Phil D.), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:38 (fourteen years ago)

nomception

― dayo, Monday, 24 October 2011 18:38 (fourteen years ago)

we have secretly replaced leonard dicaprio's head with a bloomin' onion. will the audience notice? who's hungry for some barbies?

― dayo, Monday, 24 October 2011 18:38 (fourteen years ago)

tbh i don't hate this movie, i just really like making fun of it

― turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:39 (fourteen years ago)

yes but how do you feel about that malignant sunflower I posted a couple minutes ago

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:39 (fourteen years ago)

I am glad though, that there is one person out there, congratulations (n/a), who thinks that this is a good movie, I am glad

― dayo, Monday, 24 October 2011 18:41 (fourteen years ago)

alfred, it made me wish i were eating chicharrónes

http://www.lurebogota.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/chicharrones.jpg

― turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:41 (fourteen years ago)

i like the movie

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:42 (fourteen years ago)

those are goddamn doggy biscuits.

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:42 (fourteen years ago)

Here we are:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4033/4457486006_b743461a44_o.jpg

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:43 (fourteen years ago)

I thought we were going to get to vote for favorite Inception level: level 1, level 2, or level 3.

― your way better (Eazy), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:43 (fourteen years ago)

LEVEL 2

― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:44 (fourteen years ago)

someone should incept christopher nolan and get him to leave out the subplot he personally considers the most meaningful in each of his movies

― generation lmbo (darraghmac), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:45 (fourteen years ago)

i think leonardo dicaprio would would best be served by wearing a red rubber clown nose in every movie

― turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:46 (fourteen years ago)

I think we should ask noted inception-liker congratulations (n/a), which level did he like, of the movie, inception, that he, ILX poster congratulations (n/a), really liked

― dayo, Monday, 24 October 2011 18:47 (fourteen years ago)

I think Leo would best be served incepted into a chicharron de pollo over a bed of jasmine rice.

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:47 (fourteen years ago)

it was ok

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 24 October 2011 18:50 (fourteen years ago)

Alfred, Lord Cannibal

― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:50 (fourteen years ago)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltksb1SFMn1qmtsiho1_500.jpg

― DaTruf (Nicole), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:52 (fourteen years ago)

hahahahahahaha

― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:53 (fourteen years ago)

WADDUP PEEPS

http://jessicalaird.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/bloomin-onion.jpg

INCEPT THIS

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 October 2011 18:54 (fourteen years ago)

http://urlybits.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Inception-can-I-get-a-blowjob.jpg

― dayo, Monday, 24 October 2011 19:01 (fourteen years ago)

We love films of this type.

― caek, Monday, 24 October 2011 19:07 (fourteen years ago)

^^^thought that was banaka for a second

― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 October 2011 19:44 (fourteen years ago)

I really do think whether or not you like this movie is a question of whether or not you mind a lot of expository dialogue explaining premises.

― fried chicken makes Alex cry, who'd vote for such a wimpy guy? (Abbbottt), Monday, 24 October 2011 19:45 (fourteen years ago)

I will give this movie the same review that my sister gave Oceans 12: "It has all of the hot guys in it."

― fried chicken makes Alex cry, who'd vote for such a wimpy guy? (Abbbottt), Monday, 24 October 2011 19:47 (fourteen years ago)

whether or not you mind a lot of expository dialogue explaining premises

yes I mind

― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 October 2011 19:49 (fourteen years ago)

i probably lean more towards this being a bad film but these poll options are dumb.

― call all destroyer, Monday, 24 October 2011 19:50 (fourteen years ago)

need to have a scene at the end with juno in a fuckin cinema gettin explained at

― generation lmbo (darraghmac), Monday, 24 October 2011 19:50 (fourteen years ago)

I can't handle expository overload when it is the high school play my high school teacher wrote about Dracula, which spent a whole 15 minutes explaining how vampire mitochondria work zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz sorry I fell alseep I like Inception though≤

― fried chicken makes Alex cry, who'd vote for such a wimpy guy? (Abbbottt), Monday, 24 October 2011 19:50 (fourteen years ago)

I think we should ask noted inception-liker congratulations (n/a), which level did he like, of the movie, inception, that he, ILX poster congratulations (n/a), really liked

― dayo, Monday, October 24, 2011 1:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

level 1: liked it
level 2: liked it
level 3: liked it

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 24 October 2011 19:52 (fourteen years ago)

i'm available to answer any of your other inception questions

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 24 October 2011 19:52 (fourteen years ago)

whether or not you mind a lot of expository dialogue explaining premises

When the premise is as heady as this one, no: that's part of the excitement.

― A Lip in the Blandscape (jaymc), Monday, 24 October 2011 19:55 (fourteen years ago)

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/14700000/Inception-Memo-CobbxFischer-inception-2010-14731975-422-700.jpg

― lol waggoner (am0n), Monday, 24 October 2011 19:57 (fourteen years ago)

Leonard deChippewa is a weird looking dude.

― A Lip in the Blandscape (jaymc), Monday, 24 October 2011 19:58 (fourteen years ago)

ugh he's so terrible

― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 October 2011 19:59 (fourteen years ago)

Voted for the 'stupid' option - seemed like the best one.

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 24 October 2011 20:01 (fourteen years ago)

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfrixjoM3a1qd4gpjo1_500.png

― pplains, Monday, 24 October 2011 20:07 (fourteen years ago)

filmsplaining is like mansplaining, right?

― Martyr McFly (WmC), Monday, 24 October 2011 20:08 (fourteen years ago)

then what is filmscaping

― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 20:08 (fourteen years ago)

it's like foolscaping

― Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 October 2011 20:09 (fourteen years ago)

i'm sorry that i didn't give more nuanced poll options for this fucking shit film btw

― Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 October 2011 20:10 (fourteen years ago)

^^ best poll starter

― dayo, Monday, 24 October 2011 20:11 (fourteen years ago)

secret of a good poll is to have an initial premise that's not as clever as it thinks it is, then to spend most of the poll talking about the premise of the poll

― Baobab Galliwasplie (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 October 2011 20:15 (fourteen years ago)

Mark cousins would be proud of those options, NV!

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 24 October 2011 20:16 (fourteen years ago)

:) ha

― Baobab Galliwasplie (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 October 2011 20:17 (fourteen years ago)

i will now explain why Inception is a piss-poor copy of the 2007 Nollywood classic Jadon the Gangster

― Baobab Galliwasplie (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 October 2011 20:19 (fourteen years ago)

http://video.greatlakesmix.com/uploads/thumbs/4csc74f73ao3qepi.jpg

Pawpaw, Nigeria's Leo diCaprio

― Baobab Galliwasplie (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 October 2011 20:21 (fourteen years ago)

i liked this, i also liked the prestige

― max, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:31 (fourteen years ago)

^^^ my man

― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:32 (fourteen years ago)

Either 2 or 3 - might've understood it more if I saw it more than once. (Can't see myself caring any more tho.)

― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:32 (fourteen years ago)

a fastidiously crafted piece of shit, but a piece of shit nonetheless.

― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

^^^ boo

― do not wake the dragon (DJP), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:40 (fourteen years ago)

nolan's movies are worth watching in a cinema, tbf

So was 2012 tbf

― generation lmbo (darraghmac), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:42 (fourteen years ago)

sorry, dan. i'm getting too old for the middlebrow. its all "berlin alexanderplatz" or "nympho zombies blood feast" from here on out.

― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:43 (fourteen years ago)

^^^^ banning you from Oscar threads

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:44 (fourteen years ago)

i really enjoyed it when i went to see it in the cinema but im not sure i ever want to watch it again in case it turns out to be shite

― Michael B, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:45 (fourteen years ago)

i had several quibbles with it and it could've been better but basically i enjoyed it a lot

― lex pretend, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:54 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

agree with previous posters: inception is a fastidiously crafted autistic middlebrow piece of shit.

― SBLTRN (fennel cartwright), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 01:11 (fourteen years ago)

I was never bored when watching this but I thought it was 'a bad movie'

― iatee, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 01:15 (fourteen years ago)

not as bad as the prestige tho

― iatee, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 01:15 (fourteen years ago)

neither brilliant nor shit so i guess i vote for 'i'm so stupid'

― mylo & xylotis (some dude), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 01:22 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

closer than i thought tbh

― Agyness Dei (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 07:35 (fourteen years ago)

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