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Memento by Christopher Nolan
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DVD detailsActor: Carrie-Anne Moss, Guy Pearce, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior, Russ Fega Director: Christopher Nolan Writer: Christopher Nolan Producer: Aaron Ryder Producer: Christopher Ball Producer: Elaine Dysinger Producer: Emma Thomas Producer: Jennifer Todd Writer: Jonathan Nolan DVD: Region Code 99 Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 113 minutes DVD Release Date: 2001-09-04 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of MementoDVD Review: this movie is very weird Summary: 1 StarsI choose to watch this movie, based on the good reviews of this movie in amazon.com.
But this movie is very confusing, like a puzzle, scenes in the movie repeat
back and forth.
It is very hard to understand.
After you come back from a good day of work, you want to relax with a nice movie, and after watching this movie, I feel terrible.
How come so many good reviews of this movie, I don't understand these people.
There is a pain in the butt peron in the office, I am going to recommend and give this movie for her to watch. HAHA
DVD Review: You must get this version Summary: 5 StarsFind info on the "Easter Egg", watch the movie in chronological order. It's a totally different experience to an already amazing movie. Enjoy!
DVD Review: Overhyped & Overrated Summary: 1 StarsI seem to be one of few in my opinion of this movie which is that it's not a good movie. I felt the movie was boring and lacking of a good plot. I bought the movie believing it was a really good movie based on what I had heard but was really disapointed once I watched the movie. This movie in my opinion is very overrated.
DVD Review: A (Dyslexic) Film Noir! Summary: 5 StarsChris Nolan movies are starting to grow on me. The director of Following, Batman, etc., tells a story of a guy who has no short-term memory, who keeps notes all over the place, even tattooing the more important ones, to remember what happened an hour or even ten minutes before. It's also about a drug-dealing gal who wants to get back at her boyfriend and a few other guys and uses our hero's lack of memory to use him for her own vengeance.
It's a story about vengeance and the blocks in the road to achieving it, that even with your handicap you can stay the course. But what if the course is twisted and you can barely remember the whys and hows of it all?
It's about a guy who feels guilty for what he did to a guy who had the same condition and also had a wife who died.
Nolan's film is the most unusual cinematic adventure I've ever seen. It's not your basic action thriller, though there's plenty of both. It plays backwards. You get the ending right from the start and then find how he got there.
I heard that there is a "linear" version that goes from the "end" and moves to the "beginning", but that would be really dumb. That defeats the whole premise!
Get the DVDs on Amazon, it's a must-own for sure.
Other Nolan films:
Following
The Prestige
Batman Begins, Two Disc Deluxe Edition, Hologram Cover
DVD Review: My favorite movie Summary: 5 StarsThis is my favorite movie. It's thrilling, mind-bending and makes you think and question the story just like Guy Pearce's character. The icing on the cake is that it's presented with a crystal clear picture. I usually care just about the movie, but this disc could've used a little more extras.
Description of MementoGuy Pearce (L.A. Confidential) and Joe Pantoliano (The Matrix) shine in this absolute stunner of a movie. Memento combines a bold, mind-bending script with compelling action and virtuoso performances. Pearce plays Leonard Shelby, hunting down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The problem is that "the incident" that robbed Leonard of his wife also stole his ability to make new memories. Unable to retain a location, a face, or a new clue on his own, Leonard continues his search with the help of notes, Polaroids, and even homemade tattoos for vital information. Because of his condition, Leonard essentially lives his life in short, present-tense segments, with no clear idea of what's just happened to him. That's where Memento gets really interesting; the story begins at the end, and the movie jumps backward in 10-minute segments. The suspense of the movie lies not in discovering what happens, but in finding out why it happened. Amazingly, the movie achieves edge-of-your-seat excitement even as it moves backward in time, and it keeps the mind hopping as cause and effect are pieced together. Pearce captures Leonard perfectly, conveying both the tragic romance of his quest and his wry humor in dealing with his condition. He is bolstered by several excellent supporting players, and the movie is all but stolen from him by Pantoliano, who delivers an amazing performance as Teddy, the guy who may or may not be on his side. Memento has an intriguing structure and even meditations on the nature of perception and meaning of life if you go looking for them, but it also functions just as well as a completely absorbing thriller. It's rare to find a movie this exciting with so much intelligence behind it. --Ali Davis
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