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Memento (2001)
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Memento
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"I got to see Memento for the first time not too long ago. This was after I saw Batman Begins and The Prestige, so Nolan's style was well known to me, but I wasn't expecting what I got with Memento. It was disorienting, bizarre, funny, and most importantly thought provoking. My second time around I was aware of the full story. Where your first viewing experience of Memento is living main character Leonard's (Pearce) life, the second time around it is watching him live his life as his family and friends do. For those already lost, Leonard has anterograde amnesia. He can't form new memories and can only remember the events of his life leading up to the accident that caused his illness. To illustrate this disability, Memento's scenes play out in backwards order. The last chronological plot event is seen first, and we work our way back from there. This makes sure the audience, like Leonard, doesn't know what happened before what they're viewing and have to piece together information and ... "
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"If you are interested in cinematography, great cinematography, and great cinematographers, Cinematographer Style would probably be both a highly interesting and highly frustrating experience. Keep reading to find out why! First of all, as an irrelevant piece of information (you can skip this paragraph if you just want to hear about the movie itself) I first heard about this movie from one of my former roommates. He was quite a young guy that I found on craig's list who was studying cinematography at Columbia College in Chicago. He mentioned that he knew a guy who was working on this production, and I think he may have even visited the set one day they were filming one of the cinematographers in the film. Anyways he made the whole thing sound very exciting and epic. A couple months later, after never moving anything else into the apartment except for a few articles of clothing and his guitar and sleeping on our couch until 2 PM every day, and after failing to pay any rent, he s ... "
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"Over the past decade or so, the film community has watched a surge of independent directors make outstanding films that get absolutely no awards recognition except perhaps on the festival circuit. Some of these directors include David Fincher, Darren Aronofsky, Christopher Nolan, and Danny Boyle. Their movies prior to this year's releases expressed their talent significantly, and yet have been largely ignored by most "major" organizations, most notably the Academy and the Golden Globes--however, they have received awards or nominations from several of the other prestigious associations: aside from various critics awards, Christopher Nolan has a DGA nomination under his belt for Memento; Danny Boyle has been praised and awarded multiple times in the UK, most notably the BAFTA awards; David Fincher, apart from critics awards, has won a DGA for commercials (of all things); and Darren Aronofsky has tragically been shut out of all major awards circles. And then there's this year. Ch ... "
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"This is the film that got Christopher Nolan the reputation of being one of the most creative talents out there. Though it's a bit implausible, do love the way Pierce writes clues that the audiences find out the same time he does. Inventive as it is, it's also a bit confusing. I keep meaning to see it again because of that reason. However, Nolan has since proven he can straight forward stories very well, such as Insomnia, Batman, etc. "
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5 Favorite Amnesia Movies
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"Over at the AMC blog SciFi Scanner, there’s a post about the accuracy of Jason Bourne’s condition in the Bourne movies. At the World Science Festival, held last weekend in NYC, there was a panel titled The Brain and Bourne: Neuroscience in the Bourne Trilogy that featured Bourne Identity director Doug Liman and psychiatrist and neuroscientist Giulio Tononi. And according to Tononi, the sort of amnesia that Bourne suffers from, which includes the ability to retain certain skills despite an overall loss of memory, is rare but does exist. Interesting, but does it really matter? Nobody making the Bourne movies seems to have known its accuracy, and they probably didn’t care. And neither do most moviegoers. Amnesia is simply a good plot device for movies, and oftentimes they’re more ab "
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"After much deliberation, I have created a comprehensive list of my current 30 favorite movies ever made. I am still debating about it in my head, considering there are still so many more movies that I want to include on it. However, I widdled it down to 30. I'll reveal them periodically over the next few days, with my absolute favorites (1-10) having long explanations, and then after that getting shorter and shorter. Here's numbers 21-30 with brief explanations.21. The Shining Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece of horror is in my humble opinion the scariest film ever made. I have never seen anything that has contained as much suspense and as much sheer terror as this movie. And while I usually don't like the genre a whole lot, I love this movie.22. The 40 Year Old Virgin/Knocked Up There was a tie here, and I figured I could group them together since it's the same crew. Apatow's movies have changed comedy, and both of these films are almost beyond hila ... "
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The Midnight Sun
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"Something about Insomnia just did not work. I mean, it had the makings of a great movie, and to be honest, it almost was a great movie. But there was just something missing, something lacking from the basic feel of the movie that couldn't really be made up for, no matter how hard Pacino, Williams, and director Chris Nolan tried. The story is pretty obviously a remake of a Norwegian film made in the 90s, which apparently is pretty superior to this; one thing that this film succeeded at was making me put that film on the top of my list of films to see. The general idea of the story is excellent, with the guilt and insanity of the murder case thrown in with Dormer's (Pacino's) own guilt for the accidental murder of his partner and his shady tactics used to put a child murderer behind bars in LA. The insomnia of the midnight sun is absolutely perfect. It seems as though insomnia is a great subject for Nolan to tackle, since in each and every one of his movies to date involves his d ... "
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"I'm finally going to get out to see the Dark Knight tomorrow. My buddy is taking me to go see it on the IMAX for my birthday. The film looks amazing. I love what Christopher Nolan did to Batman Begins. Someone made a brilliant decision in handing off a floundering franchise to a bold and dynamic storyteller like Nolan. It was a big risk, with his only known work to be such a bizarre and unconventional story that is Memento. It will be interesting to see what happens to the franchise if Nolan does not come back for another film. Will the pendulum swing back the other way? Will the grittiness of the last two Batman films yield to its campy television days as it did with Schumaker? I hope not, but we'll see... "
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"The Dark Knight, the most anticipated picture of the year for myself and innumerable others, has finally arrived following a trail of hype that would crush almost any film. But miraculously, just as Moses wielded his stone tablets, Christopher Nolan has handed us a true gift from the cinematic gods. His second Batman is so visceral, so propulsive, so maddeningly perfect in its execution that it should come with a warning; you do not simply watch The Dark Knight, you surrender your pulse to Christopher Nolan. And even if an intended triptych has been tragically cut short (as Mel Brooks might contend those aforementioned commandments were) what remains is wholly qualified to stand on its own not as a great Batman film, not as a great superhero film, and not as a great action film, but as one of the most distiguished pieces of filmmaking of its generation. This decade, more so than any other, has seen comic-to-film adaptations mature from vacuous thrills to serious art. Sam Raimi ... "
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"I get suspicious when a movie becomes famous for its twist. Sure there’s the kind of twist that makes you want to watch the whole thing over again right away (like in The Sixth Sense, Memento, and A History of Violence). But when the best running gag in a movie is the character doesn’t like to be called an “asshole,” you can’t rely on a twist to give the film more juice. Hancock hits a point where you can practically feel the filmmaker say, “Oh shit, this is going nowhere, so we better surprise them.” And then the twist comes with the subtlety of saying “Oh by the way, I forgot to mention…” M. Night Shyamalan has become the master of the BTW twist. “Oh by the way, Samuel L. Jackson’s a bad guy,” (“They called me Mr. Glass!” Scary.) “Oh by the way, this Village is in modern times.” And now Peter Berg pulls a Shyamalan: “Oh by the way, Will Smith and Charlize Theron have been married for 3,000 years.” (Any reason for 3,000? It’s longer than shit, but just shy of eternity?) So, the tw ... "
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