Memento

Pros: Original way to tell a movie. Unique
Cons: Very confusing at times. A few violent scenes

How many of you have forgotten things? Like where you left your car keys, your purse/wallet, or someone's name? Everyone forgets things at times. Think about how annoying it is when you can't remember something. Now imagine not being able to remember ...

Pros: Novel direction
Cons: Guy Pearce, Story

Memento (2000) Did you ever have a memory so bad you repressed it? - and when you repressed it, it took so much effort that it fried your brain? Well, that’s the idea I got out of Memento, a film by Christopher Nolan (...

Pros: brilliant writing, powerful direction, cinematography that goes for realism, amazing performances
Cons: violent, challenging, a bit talky, full of profanity, not for children or the squeamish

People either love or hate Memento - with its plunge into despair, its backwards plot, its hateful characters and its combination of F-bombs, moments of carnage and cinematography that chose realism over style. Although two of its characters are best ...

Pros: Imaginative plot, great acting, camerawork, it's still burning my brain
Cons: May be too violent for some

I went and saw "Memento" the other night with my friend Tim (AKA JediGonk), after wanting to see it since I heard the premise several months ago. I don't want to give anything away--I loved this movie. So here's what's up. At its most basic:
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Pros: Cornfusin', puzzlin', and I forgit wot else I liked
Cons: Starts at the end and kinda mooves backards

Wull, I ben gone a while into the inner parts of Mike.Holmes brane but after he saw this here moovie he kinda figgered that I cood rite about it 'cause I reely don't have no memory at all much less a short term one.

Mike.Holmes also chickuned...

Pros: Intelligent, fascinating, terrific themes
Cons: Slick; not a style masterpiece like Last Year at Marienbad

So I've just watched Memento and I turn to my friend and say, "Do you think he saw Last Year at Marienbad?"

By he I mean the writer-director, Christopher Nolan.

"Of course," my friend says, "he copied the...

Pros: Pearce, Pantoliano, Moss, unique storytelling
Cons: Not every detail makes sense

"Memento" begins with a murder, ends with another, and centers around the investigation of a third death. Guy Pearce ("L.A. Confidential," "Rules Of Engagement") stars as Leonard Shelby, a man who has come from San Francsico to a small town to track down...

Pros: Risk-taking movie-making at its finest; extraordinary screenplay, direction, premise, acting that fulfills viewing experience.
Cons: Very hard work to follow, though worth it. Ending somewhat of a letdown.

First of all, I wish to tip my hat to epinionator SusanGranger for her unbeatably clever and apt “Memento” movie review title: “Milk of Amnesia.” If I didn’t feel so strongly about this movie, I would have just passed on writing anything...

Pros: Memento applies the "short-term memory loss" to its audience by playing out backwards.
Cons: Leaves much to be speculated, but you might call this a good thing.

So it's a movie that is supposed to go backwards. How in the world can you possibly follow the plot of a movie like that? Wouldn't the sound go backwards too? How could you understand what they were saying? Or would there be subtitles or something...

Pros: One of the cleverest and most ingenious movies...maybe ever made.
Cons: May be a bit too heady for some, but I doubt it.

The history of modern movies is littered with titles that have boggled the minds of moviegoers everywhere and has left people arguing, debating and wondering "What does it mean?" Films like A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Pink Floyd -...

Pros: Ingenious script and plot; Makes you think
Cons: A few inconsistencies; May be confusing to some

Christopher Nolan's MEMENTO is a rare find these days: a movie that actually challenges its audience to use their brain. In an era where so many popular films are just mindless trash, MEMENTO is one where you are guaranteed to leave the theater...

Pros: Unconventional twist on a conventional plot; superlative performances; twists that keep on licking; strong direction.
Cons: Ending was a slight letdown; sometimes difficult to follow.

Imagine what it feels like when your memory—the function that allows you to retain and recollect your past experiences, a.k.a. the very essence of your livelihood—is no longer reliable. You happen to suffer from acute short-term memory loss. Yes, you...

Pros: Incredibly complex intricate job of editing. Acting, story...Guy Pearce, Guy Pearce's butt.
Cons: None....

Memento (2000) Directed by Christopher NolanNatalie: What's the last thing that you do remember? Leonard Shelby: My wife... Natalie: That's sweet. Leonard Shelby: ...dying.Take a two hundred ...

Pros: Radically different.
Cons: Radically different.

"Last night I had the strangest dream…"
- Bob Dylan

Last night I had the strangest dream of my own. I rented the DVD version of MOMENTO and watched it. Then I went to sleep and dreamed that I was watching the movie all over...

Pros: great acting, great movie making, great everything!!!
Cons: gets confusing

Every once in a while a movie comes along that is so good that it leaves you speechless, puzzled, and wanting to see it again. Enter Memento…

After watching the Mummy Returns and A Knights Tale, which were both totally horrible, I was done...