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Will Ferrell disappointed me and surprised me at the same time. He wasn't funny, hell I actually wasn't expecting him to be all that funny in his new movie Stranger than Fiction, but I expected something else. The movie was however, oddly "good" in a sense. I happened to enjoy the wide vocabulary used in the narrator's book. This movie made me actually aspire to become literate, or at least try a career that involves literacy and hopefully write and publish a novel. It's not everyday you see a movie as "quirky" (ktincu) as this, but it's pretty damn satisfying. I watched it twice, back-to-back to find something in this movie, but could not. I don't know what, but it's not the greatest movie ever made, I figure that. It's a pretty straight-forward movie which I like and doesn't lose you with a complex storyline like in a lot of movies of today. It's quick-witted or most of the characters are, and I especially enjoyed the narrator's performance in being a neurotic author as most author's are or at least I'd like to believe so (writer's block...a classic). I think it could've been better, and to be honest, I did see the poeticalness in the narrator's original ending to the story and would probably of liked the movie or have given it a better rating if it did go that way. I don't want to give out any spoilers, perhaps I already have, but if there is honestly nothing else to rent, I don't think you would mind picking up Stranger than Fiction. How can I put this, it's a smart movie.  I give it a 3 out of 5.

Christopher Nolan did a great job on this title, seeming how it quickly climbed it's way into my all-time favorite movies list. I watched this movie last year around summer time and still can not shake its brilliance. I was stunned by its backward-pace memory game. It's one of the only movies I've seen to this date that mastered the end-to beginning-to end order of events. This movie inspired me to get a tattoo, hell...tattoos  and got me to write notes all over myself. The day after I saw this movie I jumped into the bathtub with sharpie written all over me with reminders for the day. Some mimicking the tattoos of Guy Pearce in Memento. The horrific state of the main character astonished me and caused me to watch the entire movie jaw-dropped. It never even occured to me that the entire movie was in black-n-white, and that says something.

It is an amazing movie that I found to be unmatchable in its suspense. If you have the time I strongly recommend picking up this movie at your local blockbuster or video store. It will leave you wanting more. I am mesmerized, I fell in love again for the first time all over again. Memento is a "MUST SEE!"