My girlfriend watches Inception for the FIRST time 

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Got to watch Nolan's The Prestige. "It's Juicy"

Inception was the movie that changed my entire outlook on movies. From 2010 on, I was constantly looking for that “high” I felt afterward watching Inception for the first time. It’s a movie where everyone involved (director, actors, composer, etc.) are at their absolute best.

fun fact: Dom Cobb is seen wearing a wedding ring in each scene in which he's dreaming, in the end he was not wearing one, so the ending is probably real.

I was a concept artist on Inception, so I'm biased! I loved the movie. Haha- I do remember in early meetings how lost I was in Christopher Nolan's genius. I was confused, excited, and at times, blown away at the things he wanted to create. He was influenced by MC Escher mazes and puzzles as well as other influences I had never even heard of. I'm so proud to have been a part of that film, and I'm glad you both liked it, Holden and Jen. Cheers!

That hotel hallway sequence is still one of my favorite action scenes - why? Because it is not just CGI. It feels so much more real than most blockbuster CGI. I love Nolan for that.

Michael Caine already confirmed via Nolan that the ending is real. Basically, Caine explained that Nolan told him that any scene with Caine’s character is the real world. Nolan apparently thought this would be obvious to audiences.

I’ve been dying for Jen to start LOTR but I’m happy this one is finally here!

A good theory is that the spinning top can't be trusted, since it was mal's totem, and that it never became cobb's totem. Cobb's totem was, is and always will be his wedding ring, which appears or dissappear given the scene. Meaning the ending's real despite whatever the spinning top says

The ending was that Cobb really made it back to his kids. I read somewhere that when the actor Michael Caine read the script he was amazed but was confused and asked the director how he would know if the scene he was in was a dream or reality. the director said all the scenes that Michael Caine was in are in the real world. We would never see Michael Caine in any of the dream sequences. He’s sort of the “anchor to reality” Edited: Also, most the cast from Inception were in the Dark Knight Rises 😊

Holden saying "bitches be crazy, that's why" just made my fucking day. Thank you Holden, my man🤣🤣

This movie always reminds me how underrated of an actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is. After seeing the fight scenes in this movie, I was always hoping he'd get his own action film.

The “Jesus Christ” when Mal jumps gets me every time.

Christopher Nolan spent 10 years writing the script for this movie.

Would totally be on board with you guys reacting to everything from Nolan. From Memento, to The Dark Knight Trilogy, to this, Interstellar, Dunkirk and Tenet. Even The Prestige and Insomnia. He just doesn't miss with his films

Prestige is my favorite of the Nolan movies. It's "easier" to follow and story is veeeery juicy indeed.

Inception was such a dope movie. I thought it was cool how the deeper they went the more steps they had to synchronize. I loved how Joesph Gordon-levitt had to manufacture a kick in zero gravity by putting everyone in an elevator and using a C4 charge as rocket propellant so that everyone would get pushed by the elevatorup to least a few G's and then when it stops pushing it would be like getting dropped back into zero G which works as the kick.

Jen: "I'm glad she's dead" Holden: "Bitches be crazy, that's why" 🤣🤣

Old souls, Mombasa, and Time are fantastic piece of music. A masterpiece of a film.

Jen: This is Juicy. Nolan: We Must go deeper.

I love the metaphor of inception to movie making. Most of the main characters represent movie role like writer, director, actor, special effects. And they go through all this work to inspire the character representing the audience.

People don't give Jonathan Nolan credits. He was the co writer with his brother on most of these movies.

No one's mentioning the fact that Holden's eating a Lunchable? Oh, and it doesn't matter whether the top falls in the end or not. Cobb believes he's returned to his kids -- whether he actually did is irrelevant. Cobb himself has been incepted.

Michael Caine once shared in a panel that Christopher Nolan told him that if he was in the scene, it was reality. This means that the ending is reality, not a dream. Thank god!

The soundtrack of this movie is phenomenal, and it does get a lot of praise and attention. Time - inception has 120 million views on youtube, which is more than any other hans zimmer score, and zimmer has done a lot of iconic soundtracks so that says a lot Edit: it has even more views than imperial march

Mal: I filed a letter with our attorney, explaining how I'm fearful for my safety... Jen: Why? Holden: Bitches be crazy, that's why... LOL, Holden wins the "most unhelpful answer of the year" award...

You should watch Paprika, it's an animated movie about a machine that can control dreams. The visuals are bizarre and amazing.

I remember going to see this having no idea what it was and leaving the theater with a massive headache but realizing what a genius Christopher Nolan truly is

Fischer wouldn't recognize that they were in his dreams the same way we never really remember the faces of other strangers on our own dreams. Our brain just takes faces we've seen and uses them to fill out a crowd in our subconscious, they don't really represent anyone in particular.

I can’t help but LOVE (1) Jen’s brain exploration and (2) Holden holding onto the idea that the ‘husband’ was in the right…. 😂😂 Get ready for marriage, brother! Fold ‘em when you’re losing, brother - and congrats on the engagement. ❤️❤️

Funny Jen mentioned it -- this movie was often compared to Matrix when it first came out in terms of its importance (and how this movie is "superior" to Matrix, according to some). And Leo worked with Nolan to help flesh out the "emotional" component to the film in general with his character's arc. So it's nice that those touches were acknowledged in the commentary. :)

I have a theory that all of Nolan's films that include: The Prestige, Inception, Interstellar, and TENET are all linked in the same universe.

3:02 one of my favorite bits in the movie is this part, and it took quite a few rewatches for me to notice it. Here, after Cobb's left, Saito and Mal are discussing Cobb's next actions, and Mal's face is blank. Expressionless. As Saito opens the envelope to make sure the information is still there, we get another shot of her face, and it's still blank. After Saito opens the envelope, and realizes he's been duped, he screams in anger, and we get another shot of Mal. This time, she's smiling warmly toward where Cobb left. Even as she betrays him, she can't help but admire Cobb for pulling one over on Saito that quickly.

This is definitely one of those mind bending movies for sure. Sooooo good.

I believe his best movie is The Prestige, also Interstellar is a really good one, it gets emotional in many points of the movie

You should show Jen interstellar if she hasn’t seen it yet

If Jen wants to watch more content about "shared dreams/shared realities", you should definitely watch the "San Junipero" episode from Black Mirror

I literally laughed out loud when the animation of Jen's head exploding happened. That was hilarious. Nice edit.

I absolutely love that you guys were in the middle of a remodel or appliance swap or whatever when you made this. That is so real and wholesome. Your high quality video and tight production format could make your vids seem contrived (not your fault, just the reality of high quality production), but the real life stuff in the background brings the audience in with you. Great decisions and great review.

This is my favorite movie of all time. Glad Jen enjoyed it. And the score for this movie is just masterful. Time (the song that plays during the end sequence of the movie) is my favorite score of all time, it fit so perfectly and stirred so many emotions.

Remember: the spinning top was Mal's totem. Cobb's totem was his wedding ring. When he's dreaming he wears it, when he's awake he didn't. In the end he was not wearing, so it was real

I'm SO glad that it's done well in theaters, and I encourage everyone still to go support the theatrical release.. but might we get a Dune reaction on the channel Holden?? :D lol. Would be curious to see the different levels of investment from the group. :) have a good one!

Even though everyone believes the ending is open ended, from what I see it is supposed to be real because of two things: - The spinning top wobbles in the end. Just like it should do before stopping. We never see the top wobbling in the dream. - Cobb sees the faces of his children. Although Nolan's intention is that in the end it doesn't matter because finally he is with his children.

Holden love all your videos. After 5 times watching this movie the errors are just so hard to ignore, the logic of the kick and how to wake up just goes out the window once the mission starts.

Do you do TV shows? Westworld, especially season 1, has a similar confusing vibe where you really have to pay attention, every answer they give also raises two more questions and it all comes together at the end and changes your perspective on the entire show. Also it can provoke existential thoughts like this movie. If Jen likes this then she'd probably like Westworld too, I'd love to see it!

I like the theory that Mal is actually alive and we don't see her in the actual real world while Cobb is the one still stuck in his multi-layer dreams. The whole movie is still in Cobb's dreams and we never see the real world where Mal woke up. The real tell is that Cobb and Mal's kids never aged and are wearing the same clothes even at the end.

This is my favorite movie ever! Seeing you and Jen talk about it made my day!

Absolutely love this movie. I've seen it I don't know how many times now, and I was still getting goosebumps at some of these scenes here (especially the ones where Jen had the biggest reaction). Can't go wrong watching any Christopher Nolan film...the man is a genius. Should definitely give Tenet a watch at some point...I think Jen would appreciate it having that Inception trippyness to it.

"Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?" -Edgar Allan Poe

Love the soundtrack to this. Hans Zimmer in general is incredible.

One of my favorite movies from Nolan. Glad you guys picked this for reaction!

Great video as always and I just had to say that I'm verrrry excited for Jen to watch the Dark Knight Trilogy

Lol the venom voice when Tom hardy's character was fighting caught me off guard.

Interstellar has to be on the horizon!

Nolan never gave us the short stick of his cinematographic inventiveness, can't blame for that, but can't help but wish he'd give us as emotionally gripping story as this one ever again (looking at you, Tenet). Thanks for the reaction and happy New Year!

Couple of things to mention here. First, when I saw this movie in the theater with my wife and the hallway sequence with JGL played out, I immediately turned to her and said "Did you just see that?" as if she wasn't sitting next to me watching the same movie, my jaw was on the floor so much after seeing that. Second, the end of this produced an incredible reaction in me just as the end of Prestige did when the screen cut to black and the credits rolled as Thom Yorke's Analyse played. Nolan is a premier filmmaker , and Black Swan by Aronofsky similarly amazed me with its dynamic camerawork in the ballet scenes, man we are fortunate with our directors these days. Nolan, Aronofsky, Paul Thomas Anderson, Edgar Wright, Fincher, Denis Villenueve, good God I wish each of them would get as much hype as superhero movies, they are all amazing and their work isn't getting the attention it deserves

An amazing amazing movie and the music score is just jaw dropping!

“A dream within a dream…” “ᵍᵒᵒᵈⁱᵉ”

Christopher Nolan is absolutely a master of his craft. In my personal opinion, The Prestige is my favorite movie of all time. Not just the story itself, but the way it is told. Another movie that you really have to pay attention.

One of my all time favorite movies! Love the originality behind it. Even the ending (where the director leaves the results in the viewers hands). Although sometimes I just want to ask the director how he envisioned it ending, so I can get some closure.

“Audriandre” 😂 Holden butchered that lmao

It's been debated that everything from the scene where Cobb tests the sleeping drug on through the end of the movie was ALL a dream. The thing is, the top wasn't Cobb's totem, it was his wife. His totem was his wedding ring, which is why it appears and disappears in different scenes. When he is wearing it, he is in a dream. It's missing when he is awake.

@22:35 when Jen found out Cobb incepted Mal and was shocked, the epic gopher cinematic music popped in my head! Great reaction / review as always guys. Love the channel!

I remember seeing this in the theatre in high school and it blew my mind. Still one my favorite Nolan movies

When will you y’all do more clone wars?

Ok. It looks like they gave up on Clone Wars.

This movie and V for vendetta really delve into the thoughts behind how powerful an idea can be

Loved this movie myself and it was nice to see you react to that. Since seeing the movie for the first time, my dreams have changed, after seeing it many other times, it just continued, dream within the dream started naturally happening to me, sometimes it was so real and long, that I questioned my reality.

The inception joke when the movie starts playing and the screen is just you guys is so underrated and I’m mad no one else has mentioned it😂

Love the Venom voice at 21:58! Great editing!

33:23: weeeeell, there’s “Dreamscape”…from the early ‘80s. I honestly can’t remember much about it…I watched it once as a kid. I do remember that Dennis Quaid and Steven Spielberg’s wife is in it. And it had something to do with politics and going into other’s dreams.

Clicked so fast. I love this movie and I always love you guys' reactions

You know you are a talented content creator when I see a video and immediately drop everything to watch it. Accompanied by me saying "aww sweet they're watching Inception!"

Jen was literally me when I saw this movie in high school it only gets better with occasional rewatches

Random fact I haven't seen anyone mention yet: When Cobb go meet Eames (aka "Venom"/Tom Hardy) he's holding a Casino chip and Cobb tells him something like "no matter how much you rub them they won't multiply", because that's Eames' totem. He rubs his chip in his dream and it "split" into two chips.

Remember: the totem thing wasn’t Cobb’s totem. It was Mal’s. Cobb’s totem was actually his ring. He would have it in all the dream sequences and not in real life. But in any case all the scenes with Mal’s totem in the dreams it would never wobble at all. It would always spin perfectly straight. In the last shot, right before we cut to black, the totem starts to wobble slightly. PS. But if you really, really want to cheat: the actors that played the kids throughout the movie and the actors that played the kids at the very end were different factors. The kid actors at the end were several years older in real life matching the time Cobb spent away from his kids. 😃

Juicy, need to watch all the Nolan movies!

Hi Holden. Love "Girlfriend Watches", love the discussions you and Jenn have at the end. I have one request - would you do a "Girlfriend Watches" of "Scott Pilgrim VS The World"? Keep up the awesome content.

I'm in the camp that Maul was right. She's not dead and woke up when she jumped out the window. Because in that scene when Cobb is trying to prevent her from jumping, he says "Step back inside" which makes no sense. If she's across from him in another building, the sensible thing to say is "Go back inside." So she was probably hanging out the window of their suite, but in dreams sometimes things don't make sense like geography, but we accept it.

Cillian Murphy is such an amazing actor! If you want to see a movie with him, Chris Evans, and Benedict Wong (Wong from Dr. Strange) then check out "Sunshine". It's really good!

The Prestige next then Memento. Both are amazing Nolan movies! Memento is the movie that made Nolan famous

Some hints point to it all being a dream, unless they’re intentionally misleading you. Michael Caine saying “Come back to reality, Dom” at the university. When Dom is running away and gets stuck in that alley, that always made me think its a dream because it always feels like you struggle to run or break free in dreams.

Oh my god I love this film. I'm so happy to see this on the channel.

one of three movies i watched twice in the theaters when it came out, i love this movie.

The struttin Leo meme in the thumbnail is LITERALLY my favorite meme of all time to this day! Also you guess should check out a fantastic Danny Boyle film called Sunshine.

One of my all time favourites. I just love everything about it!

Finally I've been waiting for this

I recently watched this for the first time and it was so awesome and interesting. I need a sequel.

Jen figured out the plot of this movie right away. "What the heck is going on?" Also, the sound was off when she said something, right when I realized something I never thought of. So sorry if this is a repeat of Jens question but....how did Cobb and Saito wake from limbo? Did they kill each other? Wouldn't that send them even further down.....or maybe ACTUALLY kill them?

Yes. This was a nice surprise, loved this movie so much. Prestige and pretty much everything Nolan does.

Oooh I’ve been waiting for this one

This is my favorite movie of all time. I have done lucid dreaming before I know how the feeling is when something unreal feels real the emotions and feels of the dream looks real. I loved this concept very complicated I watched 3 times before I could understand the movie ever since then I have watched it more times than I can remember and every time I enjoy it more. I agree with Jen Nolan is one of my favorite directors his movies does require critical thinking which I enjoy.

The music was also perfect

One of the most mindblowing things about this Video was holden being so chill about not sharing his thoughts about this incredible movie.

Inception is such a good movie. I remember seeing it when it came out, and I don't think another movie had really given me the same feeling since maybe The Matrix.

Her small “whahhht” and confused face @ 20:52 is so funny🤣

I think that Fischer recalls the dreams, but because he has never seen any of them prior to the plane ride with them, he attributes them being in the dream to just having seen them in the plane. Its similar to how sometimes people will dream about something they saw/were thinking about just prior to going to sleep.

I love everything about this film. I remember the first time I watched this and being blown away.

Oh also gotta watch 'momento' It's a nolan classic! And you'll definitely see some common threads between it and his later movies.

First film I watched that involved the invasion of another person's dream was "Dreamscape". Special effects are not amazing but the story holds up well. Another is "The Cell" .... excellent special effects and a gripping storyline.