r/FilmTalk • u/trinity_nolanite12 • 5d ago

Movies What do you think of Memento (2000)?

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(Photo of the Memento character Jimmy Grantz I took for no reason other than because he’s my favourite character)

Still been my fave film for 10 months straight now!

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u/burgerking4 4d ago

To me, it’s a masterpiece for what it does to the viewer. The main character keeps arriving in these scenarios with no idea of how he got there, who the people around him are, or why he is where he is - and because of the movie’s staggered timeline the viewer also has no idea why this guy is here, who the people around him are, or why he is where he is. It’s brilliant, immediately makes the viewer feel like they are afflicted with the main characters disorder.

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u/BandanaWaddleDee0 4d ago

Phone call tattoo reveal scene gave me actual goosebumps and sent a chill down my spine first time I saw it

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u/trinity_nolanite12 4d ago

Same here. Also happened when I actually heard Jimmy say “Sammy” (which for me took a while to actually hear).

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u/SnooStories8217 4d ago

My favorite movie of all time.

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u/trinity_nolanite12 4d ago

Same pal!
Who’s your fave character?

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u/schodown 5d ago

Its not as good the second time

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u/SirGuy11 5d ago

Not if you forget you’ve seen it before.

🤓

I’ll see myself out.

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u/theglenlovinet 5d ago

Thanks Stan

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u/schodown 5d ago

Finally! Someone got it lol

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u/Not_A_Frittata 5d ago

Saw it in the theater - loved it!

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u/trinity_nolanite12 4d ago

Lucky you! Wasn’t even here yet when it came out :(

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u/irrevocable_discord9 5d ago

Classic film with great performances from Pearce and Joey Pants. Compelling and brave storytelling with trusting the viewer to understand the timeline.

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u/trinity_nolanite12 4d ago

What about all the others :(?

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u/irrevocable_discord9 4d ago

Carrie was good? Do you really want me to list all the supporting actors?

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u/trinity_nolanite12 4d ago

I could but not today

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u/irrevocable_discord9 4d ago

Well this is my first time engaging a nolanite. Go back into your cave, nolan-gollum.

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u/trinity_nolanite12 4d ago

👋 bye 👋

But maybe don’t use me as an association to all Nolanites. Every Nolanite is different. We aren’t Swifties.

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u/irrevocable_discord9 4d ago

I'm a swifty. Stay out of my my sky, nolanite! She wrote a song about me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxxswu7V1Us

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u/Apart_Fudge1224 4d ago

So the dolly grip is what? Chopped liver to you?!?!? Elitist scum

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u/irrevocable_discord9 4d ago edited 4d ago

This isn'nt r/okbuddycinephile take it easy friend

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u/irrevocable_discord9 4d ago

And lets face it: he's nothing compared to the best boy

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u/Apart_Fudge1224 4d ago

Gotta keep him high and dry

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u/irrevocable_discord9 4d ago

jesus you make that sound so dirty

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u/Apart_Fudge1224 4d ago

https://youtu.be/8BvhqXCIJCA?is=o6bTtWv2ZemZXep9

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u/irrevocable_discord9 4d ago

So you are contending that I shot your best boy in the buttocks region?

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u/Apart_Fudge1224 4d ago

Does the NDA mean nothing to you?

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u/irrevocable_discord9 4d ago

Sad part is not a dolly grip or a best boy or even a key grip has come to their recue. Let's face it freindo : NDAS's

Contact me in DMS and we can talk about this

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u/CursedSnowman5000 5d ago

Probably Nolan's best movie. Guy peaked early.

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u/trinity_nolanite12 4d ago

Yep I agree <3

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u/Apart_Fudge1224 4d ago

Guy Pearce ?

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u/trinity_nolanite12 4d ago

…I actually dk lol. Probably yes.

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u/Any_Apartment4448 5d ago

It's little backwards

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u/Anthrogynous 5d ago

I didn’t care for it. The gimmick got tiresome

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u/rice-a-rohno 5d ago

I think it's a very cool idea (as all of his movies tend to be), and is a film made in an interesting way, and then... kinda ends up sacrificing a lot of that coolness for melodrama? (As all of his movies tend to do.)

That's the best way I can think to put it at this moment.

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u/Im40PercentUsername 5d ago

Fantastic movie.

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u/Thick-Persimmon2058 5d ago

Let me check my tattoos I’ll be right back

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u/chartrespope 5d ago

I forget…

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u/PigFaceWigFace 5d ago

I can’t remember it.

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u/Apart_Fudge1224 4d ago

Write it down! Here's a tattoo gun

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u/Ok-Object-1610 4d ago

I still don’t understand it.

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u/CallMeStrechNuts 4d ago

I thought it was lame.

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u/Unable-Main4172 4d ago

I like this movie, but most of people who had that kind of disorder require full-time care. So the idea that he's able to write things down, and just live even .02% of a normal life was a bit silly

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u/HiAndStuff2112 3d ago

It's one of my very favorite films! Also, the bar scene was filmed in my favorite bar, so that's fun too.

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u/trinity_nolanite12 3d ago

Yay! Would love to visit one day (but I’m not 21 and I’ll have to travel from the UK 😢)

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u/TemperatureTime1617 3d ago

I can’t remember it exactly, but the scene when he’s running and talking to himself. “ Why am I running? Oh, I’m chasing this guy.” Gunshot. “No, I’m running from him.”

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u/trinity_nolanite12 2d ago

lol that was hilarious

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u/Spikeantestor 2d ago

Nolan is a great director with a lot of great movies under his belt. That said, for my money, this is his only perfect film.

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u/kissedbyvice 1d ago

I haven’t watched it yet, it must be great

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u/Kid_Icarus_80 1d ago

Absolute cinema

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u/Mt548 5d ago

A needlessly baroque scenario like in so many other of his films. I find it tiresome. He's better when someone else does the writing/conceptualizing.

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u/trinity_nolanite12 4d ago

What scenario?

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u/Apart_Fudge1224 4d ago

The world scenario

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u/Mt548 4d ago

The entire plot of the film.

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u/trinity_nolanite12 4d ago

Ah OK. I thought you meant the scene I posted the photo of.

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u/AltruisticLab5252 3d ago

His brother wrote it.

But well done in trying to appear intellectual