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Summary: Ground breaking, innovative and intelligent
Review: In what must be one of the best movies in years, Christopher Nolan has directed a story that is both intelligent and surprising to the viewer. Nothing in the story is neatly lain out for the film goer. There are twists, turns and dead ends in the plot that lead you to suspect one chain of events, while another is the actual truth. The director insists that the viewer pay attention. Guy Pearce is excellent in the lead role as are all the supporting cast, especially Carrie-Ann Moss as the bartender with ulterior motives. No one is what they seem as Pearce's character reveals his quest in a reverse chronology. The combination of short-term memeroy loss and reverse chronology of the storytelling work wonderfully, surprising you and challenging you pre-conceptions. The editor, who's name escapes me, is certainly to be commended for their work. One of the best films to come out of Hollywood in years. Highest of recommendations.
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Summary: Excellent film, pain-in-the-derriere DVD
Review: I'd like to begin by saying this is one movie that should not be missed. The film itself is a milestone in the annals of innovative storytelling. HOWEVER, I recommend anyone interested in purchasing this DVD to avoid the Limited Edition at all costs and settle for the original version instead, unless you enjoy spending hours navigating through the pointless and stupid puzzles you are required to solve before you can access ANY of the features on the discs! I've heard some refer to this method as "cute" and "amusing," but I'll wager anything most find it nothing but pure aggravation.
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Summary: Great Movie,Baffling DVD
Review: Ok,first of all,Memento is a very intriguing movie,with a first rate cast,led by Guy Pierce.
It's a movie that really keeps you guessing. However,I am very dissapointed with this 2 DVD set.When I pop in a DVD I'm not interested in how "clever" the menus can be.I want to get right down to business.So I was very perplexed when I popped in the 2 discs only to find out they are set up like a psychiatric evaluation,and you have to answer all kinds of crazy questions to get to the features,and you don't even know where they will lead you!
I guess I'm just not patient enough for such nonsense.When I want to watch a movie,that's what I want!Not a bunch of "clever" menus.
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Summary: The extras are weak.
Review: The extras aren't hard to find. They take some noodling but aren't very complicated to get at, if you pay attention. But still, they seem chintzy. The director's commentary is okay. I always like the "Anatomy of a Scene" extras, but this one is just mediocre. The photos of props and posters is boring. The fabled backward version is not what you think it is; and it's not very interesting. For two discs, I wanted better stuff. For example, the IFC interview on the single-disc version, deleted scenes, perhaps an interview with the director's brother about how he thought his short story translated to the big screen, and maybe even a documentary on the very real illness suffered by Guy Pearce's character. No need to upgrade to this version if you've already got the single-disc. Love the movie, though.
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Summary: Tribute to a great Movie!
Review: Memento was one of the most talked-about movies in the year it was released. That was how it got popular - people talked about how good it was - not from excessive hype. That is a decent measure of the quality of a film - not box office takings. Memento was made on a shoestring budget. It is fortunate that the creators were able to release a limited edition. The additional features are well worth the extra amount.
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Summary: give me a BREAK !
Review: I love this movie,its one of the best.I am sick and tired of these greedy people pumping out limited editions of films that have already been given this status.When memento was released on dvd I purchased it right away.My point is wait until you get all the special features you can put on the dvd,THEN sell it.I love special features but ill be damned if im going to buy this thing twice.
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Summary: Remember Sammy Jankis...
Review: Certainly the best picture of 2001. The cast is great and the story is one of the most originals I've seen. But if Leonard can't remember anything later of the incident, why he knows his illness? That makes the story impossible. The DVD is very poor, specially in the spanish version.
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Summary: What? No Oscar?!
Review: First, a word of warning, if you decide to buy this film, make sure that you're in the right frame of mind to sit down and watch it. Clear a two hour space in your schedule to watch it, and then add an extra hour or so while you flick back through the film and attempt to come to terms with what you've just witnessed. It really does help to have the brain cells firing on all cylinders for this film! Memento is one of the most original and intelligent (not to mention funny and profound) films of the last decade. Possibly ever. The story revolves around the character of Leonard Shelby, (played wonderfully by Guy Pearce), a man who has no short-term memory. Since an attack in which his wife was brutally raped and murdered (Leonard's last memory is of this in fact), and in which he recieved a damaging blow to the back of his head, he has been totally unable to make new memories. Something of a problem when Leonard is utterly consumed by the desire for revenge. In order to place the viewer in a similar state to the protagonist, the film has a unique structure, beginning at the end of the movie chronologically, and working its way backwards through time in small (10 - 20 min) segments. Viewing the film, you find yourself in the same position as Leonard, desperately seeking the truth about what has happened to him, and willing him on in his strange investigation. There is also a wonderful kind of twist at the (actual) end of the film, which completely changes your views on what has transpired and no matter how good you are at guessing the ending of films, this one is going to catch you out. How Christopher Nolan managed to cultivate such an intriguing and intricate story as this is astonishing. The performances of the three main leads are superb. Guy Pearce plays Shelby with the perfect amount of bewilderment, ironic humour, and pathos. It is essential to the way the story works that we feel empathy for his character and his situation, and Pearce manages this brilliantly. Carrie-Ann Moss puts in a great performance as Natalie, one of the two main characters whom Leonard comes into contact with. She manages to remain ambivalent all the way through the film, and one is never sure whether to trust her or not. Joe Pantoliano puts in a scene-stealing performance as 'Teddy', the friend that Shelby can never quite trust. Pantoliano's performance, (like The Matrix co-star Carrie-Ann Moss'), is ambivalent throughout, but he manages to remain wonderfully charismatic. He keeps us guessing about what it is that he knows about Leonard and his past all the way through the movie. The movie in itself would be worth the purchase of the DVD, but the inclusion of an original story by Jonathan Nolan (the directors brother), an interview with Christopher Nolan, the entire shooting script (complete with notes and scrawls written over by various parties involved in the film), as well as a hidden feature by which you can watch the film re-edited in chronological order, it really is an essential purchase. I can't recommend this film highly enough, particularly to those who enjoy thrillers, or giving their brain a good work out during a film. How this film missed out in the Oscars is beyond me. Brilliant stuff.
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Summary: Very compelling storytelling and acting
Review:
This has to be one of the most original films of 2001. I am sure most of you would have known the storyline by now so I am not going there. I have two things to say. the first: the flashback technique employed by Nolan where each scene goes back 10 minutes before really brings on the suspense in the movie, they make you a want to know a little more as you'll never know what happened before until the scene unravels. The second thing is, of course, the very mastery acting of Guy Pearce who portrayed the role of an amnesiac who remembers through polaroids and various tattoes on his body.
Overall, there's some very compelling storytelling and acting here that keeps the audience glued to the story.
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Summary: FINALLY, a Chronological Option!
Review: ...I pre-ordered the Limited Edition...Disc 2 allows a chronological option. As you click through the menus, you'll be told to put a sequence of a woman changing her tire in order. Put it in reverse order, and you will be treated to Memento played forward sequentially, starting with the credits rolling backwards and ending on the photo of Teddy's shooting.
You heard it here folks. I don't care if you have the original release, buy this one before the first edition with the cool packaging gets snatched up.
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