Posted: 2/19/2004 4:16:06 PM EDT
I just picked up this on DVD today. Memento, starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano. Killer flick. Carrie-Anne Moss 
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Since he said killer flick, I will presume he saw it and [b][size=6]spoil[/size=6][/b]..... Ok, remember how he was an insurance investigator and had the client he felt so sorry for? He gave himself that disease, short term mem loss, to kill his wife and get away with it. Its been awhile, but, if he had short term mem loss, the pics would not have been enough for him to remember enough to keep going. I call BS. He did it and knew it and the detective was going to bust him thats why he killed him. Great flick BUT I HATE MOVIES SHOWN BACKWARDS! |
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Quoted: Ok, remember how he was an insurance investigator and had the client he felt so sorry for? He gave himself that disease, short term mem loss, to kill his wife and get away with it. Its been awhile, but, if he had short term mem loss, the pics would not have been enough for him to remember enough to keep going. I call BS. He did it and knew it and the detective was going to bust him thats why he killed him. Great flick BUT I HATE MOVIES SHOWN BACKWARDS! I don't think you could be any more wrong. Not only that but I wonder howmany movies you've seen that are shown backwards. This is the only one I've ever seen like this (well Pulp Fiction did it all out of order but not really backwards). I take it back if you're joking [BD] |
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Quoted: It's kind of gimmicky, but it's still good. BTW, the movie was designed so that you can watch it in linear form using your DVD player to watch the scenes in a certain order. Check around on the internet to find the right sequence. On my copy the dvd scene cuts don't match up with the cuts between timeframes in the movie so this wouldn't work. Maybe someone else has a different version? |
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Quoted: I don't think you could be any more wrong. Not only that but I wonder howmany movies you've seen that are shown backwards. This is the only one I've ever seen like this (well Pulp Fiction did it all out of order but not really backwards). I take it back if you're joking [BD] Well if you think I am totally wrong, please do tell us what really happened.... And I was not joking. While I like a challenge, not when watching a movie. I rarely remember movies, just not important for me to do so, this one called for logic and deduction, I liked it. BUT HATED THE BACKWARDS MOTION! Thanks raven, I will play with the DVD player and see if I can get it to play the RIGHT way. Maybe thats it, if its [b]not right[/b] its [b]wrong[/b]! [;)] |
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Quoted: Quoted: It's kind of gimmicky, but it's still good. BTW, the movie was designed so that you can watch it in linear form using your DVD player to watch the scenes in a certain order. Check around on the internet to find the right sequence. On my copy the dvd scene cuts don't match up with the cuts between timeframes in the movie so this wouldn't work. Maybe someone else has a different version? I don't know what the sequence is. Whether you watch the b&w scenes all together, color scenes, or if there is some combination thereof. Ahh, there's a special hidden feature in one of the menus that gets the movie to play chronologically. How clever. These interactive menus take a lot of sussing out. You have to pick the feature you want before the next one comes up on screen. You are taken into a set of Polaroids, one after the other, and unless you have butter on your fingers you're gonna miss the feature you want. Website material...words. What more can be said? Made-up articles taken from the Memento website, nothing more. The special hidden feature? Easy to find logically. As you reach the end of the Polaroids, click on the screen when there are no words up, and you will be taken to a feature which plays the whole film again, but in chronological order. This is the most awesome feature I have ever seen, and yet it is so simplistic. All of the black-and-white hotel room scenes have been collected together at the beginning and you will definitely want to watch it again and again, comparing them to the actual shooting sequence. This feature alone, combined with reading material, makes this disc well worth the money, and even if there is no Making Of doc, or Out-takes, the extras are so dense that you won't even notice. http://www.iofilm.co.uk/dvd/m/memento_2000.shtml |
| Short Story and Chronological Memento: To see the original Memento short story, go to the Clock and select "C" in the menus that come up until you get to the one where you have to put the pictures in sequence. Going left to right number them 1-4. To see the short story put in the sequence 2-1-4-3. You can also see Memento in chronological order. To do this, just flip the above around; 3-4-1-2. The movie begins with backwards credits and ends with the beginning going forward. |