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Summary: Thanks robe4, for the spoilers...
Review: This movie wasn't very good, and not nearly as good as I thought it would be. Read the above guy's review and you wan't have to waste your money on this pseudo-intellectual pig. If you want something to wrap your mind around, get Waking Life by Richard Linklater.
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Summary: Good Ride
Review: The narrative device sounds iffy, but it works. As you follow the main character through his life you learn more and more of the truth, until the movie comes to its shattering climax, and you finally understand it all. The only problem is that you wind up watching the entire movie twice in one sitting -- it's just the way the story is told, and it's, well, kind of annoying. Still, a compelling story, and worth watching, at least once -- er, twice.
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Summary: Memories of Tomorrow
Review: Eliot wrote in the Four Quartets that time past and time future are present in time present. Bergson and Proust recognized two types of time: chronological and the kind made of a pontillistic stream of eventful moments in our lives. Leonard Shelby is caught in a nightmare of variations on these abstract themes gone concrete. He's a 21st Century version of George C. Scott and his "Dr. Watson" chasing after "Moriarty" in They Might be Giants."Joe Pantoliano, one of our country's fine character actors (fine actors unqualified, actually) along the line of Ratso Rizzo, is a sort of warped Dr. Watson and ,perhaps, Moriarty, too. Nice twist in a Chubby Checker ballet. The two ride a grandfather clock gone mad midst a world adrift in our sleazy American culture, a noticeable decline from what Nabokov captured in Lolita. And like the lost-forever Delores Haze, Shelby's dead wife puts the focus on "What really happened here?" The thrill is as much in the toying of Kantian conceptions of space and time in the way we reason as it is in shelby's heroic effort to hold enough similar bits of trace evidence together to make any kind of inductive argument as to what happened at all.
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Summary: A great "mess with your mind movie"
Review: I thought this movie was very creative and also very well done for such a "different" premise. Christopher Nolan and his brother ( the writer ) did an great job and i think great things are to come of them.As for the movie....A tour de force of creative imagery and it keeps you interested throughout the whole movie no matter if it goes im complete reverse.I highly reccomend it to anyone with a working brain.
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Summary: Imaginative, unique.
Review: This was brilliant, with the elements of a good short story. It had a lot of foreshadowing, and was very suspenseful as well. The movie is told backwards with the climax happening first, and the expository happening last! It took me five or six minutes to realize this in the movie. It tells the story of a man who loses his wife to a murderer and seeks revenge. The murderer who killed his wife also left him with a disorder so severe that he can't remember anything in the immediate past. This makes it especially hard for him to be able to remember the clues he picks up in his investigation on who murdered his wife... Many People also decieve him, and take advantage of him because of his memory problem. He tattoo's notes on himself so that he won't forget what he has discovered, he also keeps pictures of those that he knows as 'friends' so that he wouldn't recognize them as enemies. IN conclusion, this is a fine movie, and I would reccomend it to anyone who's tired of the mainstream.
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Summary: What a great idea for a movie
Review: On the first viewing, I was confused to say the least. But after watching Memento a 2nd and 3rd time, I found myself liking it better and better. What a great idea to run a movie backwards!
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Summary: A GREAT MOVIE!
Review: This film was a breath of fresh air in a sea of mediocrity and sameness. You do need to pay attention, but it's well worth the effort. One of my favorite movies!
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Summary: Otnemem
Review: Just watching the innovative style of the film, being played backwards, is enough to behold. Though it's seems unnatural at first, the way director Christopher Nolan pieces the film together flows really well. If the unique style wasn't enough, the plot and message of this indie film are both superb. Here Nolan takes the mystery genre to a fresh level that has yet to be discovered. A man who's condition cripples him of gaining new memories tries to learn who killed his wife. This movie also tackles many thought-provoking themes-purpose in life, the selfishness in mankind, trust, and memory. I really gained a great respect for Christopher Nolan, this being his sophmore film. I also recommend watching his first feature "The Following." The performances by Guy Pierce, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Joe Pantoliano are all noteworthy. All three are very believable and do a remarkable job. This two-disc dvd package is satisfactory, but nothing great. They make it somewhat of a hassle to find things and none of the extras are spectacular. Either way, this dvd is definately worth the buy and definately worth repeat viewing.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This review is mainly about the Limited Edition of Memento. What an excellent package! it is truly something anyone who thought anything good of this movie to get. this movie makes you think and the DVD packaging does the same. Great work Mr. Nolan!
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Summary: Tight, clean, and thought-provoking
Review: I imagine everybody knows what "Memento" is about by now, so I will be brief: Leonard, who can't make new memories due to a brain trauma, is on the trail of his wife's killer. The movie is told in a series of two tales: One, working backward, is the "current" storyline, filmed in color, told in 10-minute increments that jump backward. The second, filmed in b/w, which takes place well before the "current" storyline, is interspersed between each "current" segment, and it runs forward. At the end, both storylines meet. It's brilliant. The characters are fascinating, with constant surprises (who CAN you trust, the movie asks). There's a delicious sense of disorientation caused by the backward movement, because we don't know any more than Leonard does how he got into each new situation. We, the audience, also see that Leonard trusts his intuition and his skills more than he should (he thinks he's a great read of character, but he makes several very key misjudgments; he thinks he's terribly organized, but he doesn't have photos of nearly everybody he should, and he doesn't even carry a pen in one crisis situation to write something down before it's lost), things that are revealed slowly through the backward takes. In the end, the movie is an expose of how unreliable memory is. Leonard's own memories of his pre-trauma days are not reliable, but his belief in them is crucial to his well-being. Even when told a very plausible story of what *really* happened, at the end, the audience realizes, with a pang of loss, that this is the beginning of the "current" storyline and that Leonard will go the rest of the storyline not remembering what he has gone to so much trouble to discover.
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