if he had to mention Bill O'Reilly in order to make use of the line "seduced by her glamorous, tabloid-fueled image as the world's loneliest spinster", well, it was worth it.

I found the most obvious reference to be the hospital room at the end.

I think I'm going to start promoting "You Got Incepted!" as the modern "You Got Served!" It'll take a little creativity, but that'll make it all the more effective.

Ponce de Leon
Am I remembering correctly that they come up with a new pronunciation for this title every time they say it?

After seeing it the second time, I had only one pressing question: Why doesn't Cobb just live with his kids in Paris?

I guess it depends on whether dying wakes you up completely—in which case, since the sedation made waking up impossible, death would have dropped them into limbo from any of the dreams—or only wakes you up ONE dream, in chich case, since they were only sedated in the real world, they should have been able to die up…

Having Ariadne grant Cobb's wish, so to speak, does give her character more depth. But I think that it's at the expence if Cobb's arc, if he's not the one who ultimately decides to retreat into his dream world. It would be like if somebody else burned Guy Pearce's polaroid at the end of Memento. And while it would…

but—who? Will?
Playa', Dam!

There's no particular reason to believe that Michael Caine teaches architecture, or that an actual architect would necessarily be the best person for the job. It would help, but you'd also want some cryptology, psychology, computer programming…I'd just say Michael Caine's area of expertise is deliberately vague (I'll…

That was my first thought and it's still the much more probable one. The idea that Ariadne, realizing he wasn't going to get Ken Watanabe back, built him the environment without him knowing, was just one that hadn't occurred to me and didn't seem completely out of the question.

The very end, the last minute of the movie. I guess you could argue that it was ambiguous, but I thought it was pretty clear that that top wasn't going to stop spinning.

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It wasn't exactly shocking, but considering the subject matter something along those lines was more or less inevitable. If it had been a dream all along or something like that I would have been pissed, obviously, but I thought the one we got followed pretty naturally (thematically at least, I'm fuzzy on the…

It hadn't even occurred to me that Ariadne might have built Cobb's fantasy—those scenes you mention certainly argue for it, but it seems a little out of character for her. Wouldn't she have to be SURE Cobb couldn't bring Ken Watanabe back from limbo before she made that decision? On the other hand, once Cobb finds…

How do we feel about a Spoiler Free-for-All Thread?
Because I spent the train home trying to parse out the last 15 minutes of this movie (the one without Nicholas Cage), and I can't make it add up. Or, it was deliberately disorienting so that we couldn't be sure what had happened until the last shot?

Well, art is art, isn't it? On the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west, and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.*

What I find compelling about the Borg isn't that they're the antithesis of the Federation, but more like its evil twin—traveling the universe, ever-expanding, absorbing cultures, spreading its own values and beliefs…it hints at the troubling aspects of the Star Trek premise that Firefly made explicit.

SauronsEye
Mithril is Forever
On Lord Elrond's Secret Service

Yes, "Does God Exist?" is a moot question. It's worse than moot, actually, it's meaningless, because "God" connotes completely different things to different people. What exactly is it you deny the existence of?