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"Memento - and people who are wise to its DVD release"

Comes out on Monday right?

Also, its the best film ever.

Ok, now on to the point of the topic;

Do any of you film geeks out there know if there is an option on the DVD to watch the film with the scenes in chronological order rather than the backward way they are originally put together?

Its just I heard a rumour, thought it might just be wishful thinking.

Anyone?

BradW wrote:
> Huh, what a tedious little boy you are. getting wound up over a stupid feature
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You claim to be a film student, but take any of the film fans on this forum and we'll tell you what a valuable feature this would be. Which means we know more about films than you :-D

If you hurry, you might be able to catch Notting Hill on Sky Premier, or something like that. And how many times have you seen The Princess Diaries?

The_Vottanator wrote:
> Okay then tough guy!

I've got Arlington Road in the post which should arrive
> any day now. Memento should arrive Thursday. I've got ahem....GI Jane also in
> the post. :-D And Outland arrived just the other day.

Nur nur. :-D

Memento arrived at my sisters today, I bought Charlies Angels for a fiver off some kid at my school, I ordered Heat 2 days ago, Matrix came on Monday, and I bought Antitrust on Saturday.

So ha.

I am the Tarrant wrote:
> it could save me valuable minutes!

Come on now, there's no need for modesty. A man with neither arms nor legs nor even a DVD player could find the hidden easter egg in a matter of seconds :-)

Speaking of which, I don't quite see the point in putting a "hidden" feature on a disc and then telling everyone by putting a big sticker on the front saying "contains hidden feature". The whole point is your meant to stumble across them in a drunken moment of wrong button pressing on the remote.

Same bloody thing with traffic and all the lack of effort for a two second clip of Catherine Zeta Jones being talked to by a real person. Ooh wow, excuse me while I die of an excitement-induced heart attack.

Too true misterhappy!

I'm glad to see you understand the interesting nature of the chronological screening. It is a good feature to include on a film like this!

Apparently BradW doesn't understand, but hey... his loss.

Also, cheers for the info on how to get the hidden feature, I'd not actually looked for it, but now I know how to get it, it could save me valuable minutes!

:-)

I've just started watching it in order, and it is a very good feature. I admit that certain parts of the film did become clearer to me when I watched the first chapters. Believe me, I am far from stupid and I missed what seems like a lot in the film. Personally I think that was the point though, you are meant to be confused because Leonard is. However, it is a nice feature to put on. And it proves that the film was intended to be made that way, as all the twists now come at the start of the film. There's also been a lot of jigging about so that all the Sammy scenes form one continuous sequence at the start of the film, then it kicks out of Leonard's memory, and black and white, and into the present and colour.

Only thing that annoys me about this DVD is that it has letterboxing, and I have a widescreen TV. Why, oh why?

THe other cool feature is the website extra. Normally these are fairly boring screens telling you about a site you'll never visit. Memento actually has the website on the DVD, which is cool, particularly as it's a good site. Let's just say you get to do your own investigation...

It's an extremely good DVD, great extras and menus, to go with a great film. You know what, I actually think it was worth the enormous wait.

The order is backwards. Not random.

I've grown weary of you. Let it rest.

yeah, whatever. I just think that the film only work in a random order. Any other way just makes it a film. It stops the film from being special.

Of course I can figure it out, I just thought it would be interesting. As did the Director, as did a lot of other people, thus its included on the DVD.

I'm not worked up.

I keep being irritated, ney, attacked by a gimp, but its not getting me worked up.

You sound a little worked up though. Maybe you should take a "time out", see how you feel?

Go ahead, I don't mind.

Huh, what a tedious little boy you are. getting wound up over a stupid feature to see a film in straight forward fashion just becuase you whould like to see what the film is like in that way.

I am sure it will very interesting to see the films beginning, middle and end in a perfect manner. Becuase obviously you cannot just figure them out for yourself.

BradW wrote:

>So who's a gimp now?



Hmm... seeing as the DVD does have the option to view the scenes in chronological order, I'm going to assume that this means one of two things:

Either

1) The desire to see how the film would run in chronological order is quite a common one and thus has been included in the DVD release, just as a special feature, a bit of fun for those who'd find it interesting to compare - but are no doubt aware that the film will work better in its original format.

Or

2) Chris Nolan, despite the fact that the rest of the world had no interest in it at all, decided to include the chronological screening on the DVD... for my benefit only.

Good ol' Chris.






Also, in answer to your question, I now firmly believe that it is you who is the gimp. Thankyou for confirmation of this.

You gimp.