Memento

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Summary: Dvd is as confusing as the film
Review: I love this movie and I'm very happy about this limited edition. But unlocking the special features has me tearing my hair out. I got most of them but I think there's more to be seen. The dvd gives you a series of questions which may or may not get you closer to the features. The point is, if your memory is bad... forget it!!! If anyone out there has sucessfully unlocked all the features please write in and help us out.
Aside from that, the film looks great. The DTS is as always, the only way to listen. The commentary is essential to understanding some of the meanings behind the movie that you don't always pick up. Thought provoking, bewildering, and any other big word there is. Guy Pearce not only has a memory problem but he's also blonde. If you've found this review confusing, I'm just trying to fit in with the film and the dvd. So I appeal to everyone who reads this. I need help! This dvd has proven to me that my memory is completely in question. Thank you for listening. I've just spent 4 hours trying to unlock these bloody features and now I need a ... Cheers.

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Summary: Best Murder Mystery of the Decade
Review: Leonard Shelby's life has turned into a quest to find the man who raped and murdered his wife. But Shelby (Guy Pearce) cannot make new memories. He relies on post-it notes, tattoos, and Polaroids to help him remember the essentials of what he needs to know about his discoveries. "Memento" shows us his search in reverse, taking us further and further into memories that Pearse no longer has. This storytelling technique works brilliantly, and never becomes confusing. If you are a fan of Hitchcock or "The Usual Suspects," you will absolutely love "Memento"!

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Summary: WARNING :LETTERBOXED VERSION
Review: i love this movie! it's ok, but i am so disapointed the new limited version is NOT a widescreen version! despite all previews said it is an anamorphic version, IT IS NOT!
i bought the limited version and i am not happy! SO I WANT TO TAKE CARE ABOUT PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO SELL THEIR OLDER VERSION TO BUY THIS ONE : IT IS A BAD IDEA(to watch the film in high condition)!
bonuses are amazing and very interesting and the packaging is the best i ever seen after FIGHT CLUB and SE7EN! but the aspect ratio is still very important because the film itself is the most important thing in a DVD!!!!!!!

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Summary: From The Admission File Of Leonard Shelby...
Review: MEMENTO, is without a doubt, the BEST film I have seen in the last few years. Lately, most movies are just "by the numbers", and put flash over substance. Just when I thought all was lost...Along comes this innovative thriller. Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) wakes up to find his wife murdered. As he struggles to find out what happened, he discovers that he has lost the use of his short term memory, using snapshots and information he has written on his body, he continues the search. In his travels, he meets (again?) people who may or may not want to help him. Natalie (Carrie-Anne Moss), a mysterious woman who claims to want to help Leonard. While, Teddy (Joe Pantoliano), is a man who claims to be a friend of Leonard's. If a man can't trust his own memory, how is he to trust anyone else around him? The film is the kind of movie that doesn't "dumb" down its viewers. As Shelby is directed and mis-directed, so are we. Thanks to an excellent performance from Pearce, we are drawn into his circumstances from the start. Directed by Christopher Nolan, the movie is like a real life jig-saw puzzle, its non-linear style only enhances the film. Finally, someone has figured out how to use this style properly. The great script is based on a short story by Johnathan Nolan (the director's Brother) and was nominated for a best original screenplay Oscar, too bad it didn't win, because it deserved to win, that's for sure.

Like the film itself, the LIMITED EDITION 2 disc DVD is unique as well. I must confess that even though that I have now watched the film again and some of the special features, I haven't seen everything yet. The menus are cleverly set up like a psychological admissions test-one choice may lead you to where you want to go, or another choice may take you somewhere else entirely. While this layout may serve to frustrate some, I find the challenge fun and it beats the layout of most other discs. If you have patience, think it through and you should have fun. I am not saying that I didn't get frustrated at times, but as I said, it's all for fun. The set is a vastly improved over the previous release of the film on DVD The set includes commentary from the director (NEW) and the other standout extra on this edition (so far..) is both the shooting script/original short story (NEW). It also has the Independent Film Channel's look at the movie (not new). Fans of the film will like this latest reissue and folks new to the movie are certainly in for a unique experience. I HIGHLY recommend the film and the set.

If you like MEMENTO, I also suggest that you also check out the film, THE FOLLOWING, also by Christopher Nolan.

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Summary: Limited Edition A must for Collectors
Review: Not only is the packaging excellent it has a number of special features just waiting for you to access. Disc two is loaded with an array of questions which upon answering you are either allowed to move forward or sent back to the previous page. For those who haven't seen Memento please watch this movie. You will thank me later. I always recommend this movie as a must see. Anyone going to buy or rent a movie needs to check out Memento. It is pure movie enjoyment.

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Summary: Memento: Limited Edition Review (Without spoiling anything)
Review: Well I just got arguably one of the best DVD's ever made. This DVD is right up there with the Special Editions that we're served up for Fight Club & Seven (except there aren't 4 commentaries), but here 1 commentary from the MAN - Christopher Nolan, is all you need. As soon as you put in the movie the fun begins. I won't go into detail, but it gets you REALLY geared up and in the perfect mood to watch the movie.

So I pop in the first disc and I get the movie playing, which I haven't watched in about 4 or 5 months. When I first saw this movie - I couldn't stop watching it. Now after having not seen it for awhile, it was all slowly starting to come back to me as I watched and tried to put this puzzle of a movie together again but came up a little short. I felt exactly like Leonard Shelby, I forgot little details and therefore couldn't remember how the story was going to finish(start?) - but I had a vague idea - I just needed my memory to be refreshed by seeing it again.

All I did was watch the movie so far (worth the price by itself) but can't wait to watch the track with Nolan's commentary which I'm going to make the last thing on this DVD that I watch, because I want to psycho- analyze and have more fun with this movie before Nolan tells me everything and puts all my theories to rest. So you get the movie, a commentary track from Nolan - and the rest of the Special Features you will have to find yourself. But rest assured, this DVD will keep you very, very busy.

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Summary: Superficialy boosts ego with repitition...
Review: I realize I am among the few who particularly disliked this movie. That's not to say I didn't find it intriguing, or thought provoking -- nor do I insinuate that it was acted poorly, but this movie is lazy. If you were to piece together the unique scenes of the movie, you would have barely a half hour's worth of cinematic production and it would read like a Judy Blume novel. The only beauty this film clings to is in its editing, but I'm sorry if I'm not impressed by watching the same scene over and over again, that is not my idea of entertainment. If it was, I would simply buy DVDs with but a few good scenes and continually watch only those scenes. The premise this movie laid was solid, but it needed more work than they were willing to give it. It gives viewers a false sense of victory when they are successful in their endeavor to follow and understand the chronologically challenged sequence of events. It appeals to those who believe they've triumphed at the conclusion of the movie. However, they've simply been victims of repetition. When forced to endure the same scene, in some cases, 4 or 5 times, one is more inclined to remember it when the movie climaxes. For those who pursue a pseudo-stimulating movie, this is a winner. For everyone else, enjoy watching a half hour movie for an hour and a half.

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Summary: Not worth sitting through
Review: The concept of this movie is a good one, but it fails to keep you entertained.
It is annoying and boring. Not to mention this is not one of Guy Pearce's best work.

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Summary: Find another movie to view
Review: I positively hated this movie. I do not know how Hollywood puts money behind such awful stuff. I understand the premise, but I hated nonetheless. Utterly incomprehensible with characters you could care less about. If you buy or rent this movie, prepare yourself for a downer.

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Summary: Wonderful Movie
Review: This was an absolutely wonderful movie, even if I was completely lost the first time I saw it. (My friends had rented it, and I came 20 minutes into the start of it.) I guess the only thing that would make this movie [bad]is if you don't focus completely on it. Most of the movie (the part in color) works backwards in 5-10 minute scenes, so it is a bit hard to follow if you have a short attention span, but all-in-all it's a great movie with an even better ending.