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This one was actually quite tough to find. Fortunately Memento doesn't require you to trawl through forty sub menus, wait 40 secs and then press left on your remote while balancing a jug of water on your toe. No Memento's easter egg only requires a cretin's sense of timing.
First things first the menus on this DVD are as interactive as they come, in fact I have never seen this done on any other DVD. I've only looked at the extra features menu, but that is a rotating series of polaroids, where each polaroid contains a photo of a polaroid at a different angle, which contains a photo of a polaroid at a different angle, and so on and so forth. Anyway the menu works by rotating though these independantly, and flashing up on the white bar of each polaroid which extra it is. See one you like and press select. Thing is that you can't do the cycling yourself, you just let the DVD do it for you. I think it's rather cool at the moment, but it'll annoy the hell out of me in a few weeks :-)
Anyway, to get the extra feature, a chronological version of the film, simply wait until the cycle of polaroids finishes on a different picture of Leonard with a polaroid on his chest. At this point press select. Et voila, bonus feature activated. If you miss it then the screen will simply rotate into the polaroid on Leonard's chest, which is the first special feature again.
Thing is, Memento is only a single DVD so I very much doubt that this "re-edit" will be anything more than the scenes played in backwards order. I hear you cry "doh!" at me.. Well, I can do that on my remote, and I did it when I got memento out on rental DVD, and it doesn't really work very well. So maybe the re-edit will contain some transitions between scenes and stuff like that. Well, that's all for now. I've not actually watched the film again or looked at the special features, because i now have to go and finish my essay on Volpone. Joy of joys.
Take it from me though, on first looks the menu screens rock. But then the competition is hardly staggering.
First things first the menus on this DVD are as interactive as they come, in fact I have never seen this done on any other DVD. I've only looked at the extra features menu, but that is a rotating series of polaroids, where each polaroid contains a photo of a polaroid at a different angle, which contains a photo of a polaroid at a different angle, and so on and so forth. Anyway the menu works by rotating though these independantly, and flashing up on the white bar of each polaroid which extra it is. See one you like and press select. Thing is that you can't do the cycling yourself, you just let the DVD do it for you. I think it's rather cool at the moment, but it'll annoy the hell out of me in a few weeks :-)
Anyway, to get the extra feature, a chronological version of the film, simply wait until the cycle of polaroids finishes on a different picture of Leonard with a polaroid on his chest. At this point press select. Et voila, bonus feature activated. If you miss it then the screen will simply rotate into the polaroid on Leonard's chest, which is the first special feature again.
Thing is, Memento is only a single DVD so I very much doubt that this "re-edit" will be anything more than the scenes played in backwards order. I hear you cry "doh!" at me.. Well, I can do that on my remote, and I did it when I got memento out on rental DVD, and it doesn't really work very well. So maybe the re-edit will contain some transitions between scenes and stuff like that. Well, that's all for now. I've not actually watched the film again or looked at the special features, because i now have to go and finish my essay on Volpone. Joy of joys.
Take it from me though, on first looks the menu screens rock. But then the competition is hardly staggering.
I watched it twice in the cinema and I'm still keen to get my hands on the disk! Not many films I can say that about.
Mine popped though the door this morning courteousy of Amazon. It actually looks like a worthwhile DVD for even people who have seen the film, which is surprising as it looked as though it was going to be pretty lame on the extras front. Also the menu screens have to be seen to be believed...
If the bloody postal workers in Belfast weren't striking I might have my disk by now :/
This one was actually quite tough to find. Fortunately Memento doesn't require you to trawl through forty sub menus, wait 40 secs and then press left on your remote while balancing a jug of water on your toe. No Memento's easter egg only requires a cretin's sense of timing.
First things first the menus on this DVD are as interactive as they come, in fact I have never seen this done on any other DVD. I've only looked at the extra features menu, but that is a rotating series of polaroids, where each polaroid contains a photo of a polaroid at a different angle, which contains a photo of a polaroid at a different angle, and so on and so forth. Anyway the menu works by rotating though these independantly, and flashing up on the white bar of each polaroid which extra it is. See one you like and press select. Thing is that you can't do the cycling yourself, you just let the DVD do it for you. I think it's rather cool at the moment, but it'll annoy the hell out of me in a few weeks :-)
Anyway, to get the extra feature, a chronological version of the film, simply wait until the cycle of polaroids finishes on a different picture of Leonard with a polaroid on his chest. At this point press select. Et voila, bonus feature activated. If you miss it then the screen will simply rotate into the polaroid on Leonard's chest, which is the first special feature again.
Thing is, Memento is only a single DVD so I very much doubt that this "re-edit" will be anything more than the scenes played in backwards order. I hear you cry "doh!" at me.. Well, I can do that on my remote, and I did it when I got memento out on rental DVD, and it doesn't really work very well. So maybe the re-edit will contain some transitions between scenes and stuff like that. Well, that's all for now. I've not actually watched the film again or looked at the special features, because i now have to go and finish my essay on Volpone. Joy of joys.
Take it from me though, on first looks the menu screens rock. But then the competition is hardly staggering.
First things first the menus on this DVD are as interactive as they come, in fact I have never seen this done on any other DVD. I've only looked at the extra features menu, but that is a rotating series of polaroids, where each polaroid contains a photo of a polaroid at a different angle, which contains a photo of a polaroid at a different angle, and so on and so forth. Anyway the menu works by rotating though these independantly, and flashing up on the white bar of each polaroid which extra it is. See one you like and press select. Thing is that you can't do the cycling yourself, you just let the DVD do it for you. I think it's rather cool at the moment, but it'll annoy the hell out of me in a few weeks :-)
Anyway, to get the extra feature, a chronological version of the film, simply wait until the cycle of polaroids finishes on a different picture of Leonard with a polaroid on his chest. At this point press select. Et voila, bonus feature activated. If you miss it then the screen will simply rotate into the polaroid on Leonard's chest, which is the first special feature again.
Thing is, Memento is only a single DVD so I very much doubt that this "re-edit" will be anything more than the scenes played in backwards order. I hear you cry "doh!" at me.. Well, I can do that on my remote, and I did it when I got memento out on rental DVD, and it doesn't really work very well. So maybe the re-edit will contain some transitions between scenes and stuff like that. Well, that's all for now. I've not actually watched the film again or looked at the special features, because i now have to go and finish my essay on Volpone. Joy of joys.
Take it from me though, on first looks the menu screens rock. But then the competition is hardly staggering.