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By: sooz
Date: 6/5/01 10:29:25 AM
# Replies: 100
Memento is one of those "art" movies that won't be playing at every MultiIncestualCinePlex in town. In circles of people more clever than us, they probably call it a "film." I don't usually go to these things, but several trusted friends urged me to view this thing.
I'm glad I did.
The plot line is as follows: An insurance claims investigator and his wife are attacked in their home. She's raped and murdered, and he suffers a brain injury that makes him unable to make new memories. His short-term memory is abysmal - we're talking minutes or hours, at best. He takes a lot of pictures and writes himself a lot of notes.
*****************POSSIBLE SPOILER, but not really, if you've read any reviews (and you'll figure it out in the first three minutes anyway):
The movie is shown backwards. Like, suppose the movie is the alphabet. First we see X-Z. Then we see T-X. Then R-T. It moves backwards, making your head spin, until the beginning, which is the end.
If anyone has seen this, I'd love to discuss it.
Response #1
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 6/5/01 7:55:16 PM
I meant to go see it, but...
...I forgot.
The ads and the reviews made it look intriguing.
Response #2
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 6/6/01 11:17:38 AM
I also keep meaning to see it. It's still showing at about a half dozen theaters here in town.
Response #3
By: Roxanne
Date: 6/6/01 7:01:06 PM
I can't believe they made a full-length movie about candy! Weren't the commercials annoying enough?
Oh wait, "Momento", not "Mentos"....sorry....
Response #4
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 6/7/01 9:44:26 PM
It really was good. Done very well.
I liked it alot.
Response #5
By: bob
Date: 6/10/01 9:04:37 AM
this movie was sick and twisted. perfect for me. it is the type of movie that i want everyone to see so that i can continue to discuss it. it leaves so much to the imagination that the more people i talk to the more twisted i realize it is.
Response #6
By: Capt. Spastic
Date: 6/10/01 8:37:42 PM
I thought the whole idea, as well as the way it was presented, was very good and interesting.
Just imagine if everything you believe to be real, really was a delusion.
Response #7
By: WitchHazel
Date: 9/24/01 2:47:39 PM
Just saw this last night. TRIP! Best movie I've seen in a long while.
Is it just ME, or was Guy Pearce actually HOT!? I wasn't too impressed with him in L.A. Confidential. (Plus, I would have sworn he was gay.) However, in Memento, he was a cross-between Brad Pitt and Val Kilmer. (Yum.)
Response #8
By: Roxanne
Date: 9/25/01 11:03:05 AM
Wow. Brad Pitt *and* Val Kilmer.
Dammit! Why did they have to ban human cloning?! I was looking forward to my very own "Hot Stud Celebrity Clone" for Christmas!!!
Response #9
By: bob
Date: 9/25/01 4:10:10 PM
i wouldn't say hot, but i think he did a fabulous job with his character
Response #10
By: WitchHazel
Date: 9/27/01 10:32:16 AM
Okay, Bob, I really didn't expect you to AGREE with me. (I was looking for FEMALE support here.)
Response #11
By: sooz
Date: 9/27/01 10:35:11 AM
Val Kilmer can melt me like no one else (except Kevin Bacon, of course.) Yummy. He was the BEST Doc Holliday. And Batman. And, well, anything else he decided to do.
Response #12
By: Roxanne
Date: 9/27/01 11:34:22 AM
So we need to band together in support of cloning so that we can all have our very own Val Kilmer clone!!!!
Response #13
By: WitchHazel
Date: 9/28/01 8:21:41 AM
Thank you, ladies. I feel validated now. I've loved that man since "Top Secret"!
Yeah, he ROCKED in "Tombstone"! Doc Holliday's best line was when Big-Nose Kate was sitting on his lap and he was feeling her up from behind and says "Kate! You're not wearin' a bustle. How dude!"
Damn. I gotta get that one on DVD.
Response #14
By: sooz
Date: 9/28/01 9:04:42 AM
"I'm your Huckleberry."
And "I've got two guns, one for the both of ya."
Response #15
By: bob
Date: 9/28/01 2:52:10 PM
i think the best part is when he shows up the gunslinger by "slinging" his whiskey cup. that was such a great movie....gotta love it.
Response #16
By: Roxanne
Date: 9/28/01 3:23:25 PM
And I thought I was the only person in the world who ever saw "Top Secret"! Of course, I liked all the current famous celebs way back in their days when they were making movies that nobody saw.
Jim Carrey in "Once Bitten"
Anthony Edwards in "Gotcha!" and "Revenge of the Nerds"
John Cusack in "Better Off Dead"
Maybe I should have been a talent agent. I knew even back then that some of the actors in those forgettable 80's films had a star quality about them...
Wonder if it's too long to open up a casting couch, er, agency! :)
Response #17
By: Da Sissop
Date: 9/30/01 5:00:24 PM
I've been told I look a little like Robby Benson.
Response #18
By: bob
Date: 9/30/01 9:44:12 PM
i have been given the unfortunate complement of looking like vincent van gogh....
Response #19
By: sooz
Date: 10/1/01 5:07:42 AM
And the only similarity you have with him is red hair. I saw you hesterday, and you definitely had all your ears.
Response #20
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/1/01 8:05:03 AM
*Laughs*
Hey now, Vincent was a hottie.
Response #21
By: bob
Date: 10/1/01 10:22:31 AM
right, vincent was gorgeous, just look at one of his self portraits
Response #22
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/1/01 2:08:37 PM
That's what I'm talkin' about. VVG's self-portraits show a very handsome (if disturbed) young man.
Response #23
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/1/01 2:16:36 PM
Oh! And I bought the Tombstone DVD this weekend! Wooooo!
I love the coffee cup scene Bob was talkin' about. ROCKS! And Val Kilmer, even when made up to look like a sick Doc Holliday, is just TASTY.
Response #24
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/1/01 3:01:33 PM
Er, whiskey cup, I mean...
Sheesh. I'm from Seattle, so I have COFFEE on the brain. So shoot me!
Response #25
By: sooz
Date: 10/1/01 3:49:25 PM
I'm thinking that Val Kilmer (like Kevin Bacon) is secretly in love with me.
Response #26
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/1/01 4:06:22 PM
You and me BOTH, honey.
Response #27
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/1/01 4:12:05 PM
Well, the Val Kilmer part. (Kevin Bacon can't have me.)
Response #28
By: sooz
Date: 10/2/01 5:56:32 AM
Does anyone remember my Kevin Bacon saga, where I weasled my way into interviewing him? The story where, years ago, my husband and I agreed that if Taylor Dayne ever showed up for him, or Kevin Bacon for me, we'd get a day pass? And then I got to interview Mr. Bacon...
Well, Taylor Dayne is playing in San Antonio on Sunday. I have a call in to her management office about an interview. I'm thinking Richie will have to be the reporter this time. Muhahahaha! What a faboo early birthday present that would be for him.
Response #29
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/2/01 12:54:29 PM
NO WAY! That's hysterical! Yeah, I BET it'd be a great b-day present. Heh!
Response #30
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/2/01 2:39:36 PM
Sissop does look a little like Robby Benson.
Response #31
By: sooz
Date: 10/2/01 3:03:16 PM
He does indeed. And if you turn the lites down low, Gowan can look like John Candy (see his www.xanga.com/gowan picture). However, in real life, Gowan is much more handsome than Mr. Candy.
Response #32
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/2/01 5:25:40 PM
Oh geez, now I've been outed!
Response #33
By: Cleotis
Date: 10/3/01 11:29:55 AM
As a real young'un, I looked like that little blond haired kid that showed up as a regular in the very last episodes of the Brady Bunch.
Then I went through my "fat guy trying to look like a punk" days in the 80's.
Now I've settled into the "three kids two cars and a big-ass mortgage" husbandly look.
Neither of the last two have hollywood equivalents, unfortunately.
Response #34
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/3/01 11:57:50 AM
The only famous person I've ever been compared to is Marlo Thomas of TV's "That Girl". My ex-boyfriend used to even greet me "Marlo looks hot tonight!" Ugh. :-) (I think he had a crush on her, and I was the next best thing.) Hee.
Response #35
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/3/01 12:47:55 PM
Oliver was the kid from The Brady Bunch.
He went on to do a lot of voice over work and also become
a rock n roll singer.
Marlo Thomas is married to Phil Donahue. I don't think there needs to be anything else said on that matter.
Response #36
By: sooz
Date: 10/3/01 12:50:21 PM
People have said my husband (Richie) looks like Lou Diamond Phillips in "La Bamba."
Response #37
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/3/01 4:42:38 PM
Gowan: Ouch!
Sooz: Oooh!
Response #38
By: sooz
Date: 10/4/01 6:55:31 AM
Witch: Husband is handsome, yes indeed.
Response #39
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/4/01 11:51:03 AM
My husband's handsomer than YOUR husband!!!
Response #40
By: Cleotis
Date: 10/4/01 8:39:53 PM
My wife is better looking than either of your husbands!
Response #41
By: sooz
Date: 10/4/01 8:50:56 PM
I've met Cleo's wife... about 13 years ago, of course, but she was lovely then.
Response #42
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/5/01 8:57:04 AM
I don't know any of you people.
Response #43
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/5/01 10:50:35 AM
Well, *I* know YOU. (insert Twilight Zone theme)
Response #44
By: Cleotis
Date: 10/5/01 6:00:44 PM
Biblically?
Response #45
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/6/01 1:07:20 AM
soon. SOON.
Response #46
By: sooz
Date: 10/6/01 8:59:35 AM
It's been said that Cleo and Gowan look a lot alike. Therefore, Witchfriend, if you've had one, you've had 'em both, I suppose.
Response #47
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/6/01 2:22:42 PM
Once, a woman I'd never met came up to me in a coffeehouse and told me I looked like Harold in 'Harold and Maude,' which is funny, because that's *exactly* what I was going for.
Response #48
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/6/01 8:10:32 PM
I'm choking.
Response #49
By: bob
Date: 10/7/01 11:36:25 AM
ever been at home alowe watching a late night movie. oops, that popcorn went down wrong, you are chaking. you panically call your best friend, but since you are choking you can't speak in the phone. suddenly you remeber you have purchased the "home heilich" device.
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Response #50
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/8/01 8:26:05 AM
I'm better now. Thanks, Bob!
Response #51
By: Cleotis
Date: 10/8/01 6:41:23 PM
I see the resemblance between Gowan and myself.
...Which scares me some because I sometimes like looking at myself naked.
Response #52
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/8/01 9:08:44 PM
I actually have a picture of the two of us together.
I dunno if I see much resemblance. S00Z sez we don't look much
alike anymore either. (shrug)
*I'm* not scared. I sometimes like to look at Cleo naked, too.
(I didn't say what KIND of picture ;) )
Response #53
By: sooz
Date: 10/9/01 9:07:40 AM
I think I have that picture of y'all together. I think I took it in Houston a few years ago at the Ale House (RIP).
Response #54
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/9/01 2:37:58 PM
i have a picture of tess rubbing my nipples at the ale house :)
Response #55
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/9/01 5:54:02 PM
That one, I gotta see. ;-)
Response #56
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/10/01 6:06:17 AM
(or is it just of me rubbing my own nipples as tess watches? I can't remember.)
Response #57
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/10/01 8:46:01 AM
Or maybe you're rubbing Tess's nipples while she watches?
Response #58
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/10/01 10:52:50 AM
I have pictures of me, Zane, Tess, Sissop, Gowan, etc. at the Ale House (RIP) circa spring 1998. I meant to send them to Sissop to scan and post here, but never got around to it...
No nipple rubbing that evening, but lots of merry making!
Response #59
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/10/01 11:49:16 AM
Speaking of the Ale House...
Any word on the progress of the new bar those folks are opening, Master Fang?
Response #60
By: bob
Date: 10/10/01 4:28:38 PM
wow, all of you guys are really into pictures....maybe i should keep this as a strictly online relationship.
Response #61
By: sooz
Date: 10/10/01 5:13:14 PM
Too late. Remember, I have the picture of you in a kilt.
Response #62
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/10/01 5:41:54 PM
Nobody has any pictures of me.
Oh wait, some of you on Xanga have access to one. But certainly no COMPROMISING photos. (Those are hidden.)
Response #63
By: Da Sissop
Date: 10/10/01 7:18:46 PM
Last I heard, the new pub, The Stag's Head, is due to open in November. Sadly, there will be no patio. HOWEVER, if a patio is required, there is a decent one across the street at McElroy's pub.
For those of you feeling nostalgic, I have added to the Ale House's web page three digitized videos of local newscasts covering the closing: http://www.webnuns.org/alehouse. The more observant among you may recognize Jay (Capy Toad Blast) being interviewed in not one but TWO of the clips. The *really*really* observant may even catch a glimpse of Mine Truly in the channel 26 clip.
Response #64
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/10/01 7:57:13 PM
If it's where I think it is (used to be an Italian restaurant named Cezanno or something), I didn't like what I saw when I drove by there.
Only time will tell.
Response #65
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/11/01 10:22:21 AM
I feel kinda left out. I've never been to the Ale House and never will. *Sob*
Response #66
By: bob
Date: 10/11/01 11:06:47 AM
you and me both witch....
sooz: well, yeah, so
Response #67
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/11/01 1:21:34 PM
I wanna see the KILT pic.
Response #68
By: sooz
Date: 10/11/01 7:08:12 PM
It's at work. I'll scan it in the morning, and take bids.
Response #69
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/12/01 11:15:24 AM
I would be happy to place a bid.
Response #70
By: bob
Date: 10/12/01 2:36:32 PM
sooz: i bid 100 bucks (ok ror, this is an inside joke)
Response #71
By: sooz
Date: 10/13/01 10:56:06 AM
Damn you and your $100 bucks, Bob. Damn you to Irish kilt hell, where they play bagpipes day and night.
Response #72
By: bob
Date: 10/13/01 4:41:19 PM
i think i am one of the few people who like bagpipes....they are great at parties
Response #73
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/13/01 6:45:13 PM
It's cheaper to just keep stepping on the cat.
Response #74
By: sooz
Date: 10/14/01 1:03:03 PM
Ok, boys and girls. Jimmy was just asking me "What's Webnuns about, anyway?" and I was explaining. I said "See here, I started a discussion about the film Memento, and now people wanna see a picture of Bob, and..." we get to Gowan's "stepping on the cat" response and, well, hell.
Response #75
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 10/14/01 1:59:56 PM
we're not exactly following a linear train of thought in any of these threads, ya know.
Response #76
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/14/01 3:54:16 PM
it's a wiggly thread. got to keep the girls happy, you know.
Response #77
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/14/01 10:01:24 PM
Girls love wiggly threads! Woo-Hoo!
Response #78
By: bob
Date: 10/14/01 10:59:00 PM
if girls like wiggly threads, why is viagra so popular?
Response #79
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/15/01 3:27:45 AM
"Wiggly, for her pleasure!"
Response #80
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/15/01 6:47:02 AM
we can call it a "wiggly backside" and keep the men happy as well.
Response #81
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/15/01 8:20:38 AM
Hey! I like bagpipes!
Response #82
By: bob
Date: 10/15/01 12:46:34 PM
i don't think i want to know, sos
Response #83
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/15/01 1:25:19 PM
Wiggly is just such a fun word, isn't it?
A grocery store called "Piggly" just doesn't sound as promising until you add "Wiggly"; then it's fun for the whole family!
Response #84
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/15/01 1:27:09 PM
That's why I tried to change the topic.
Response #85
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/15/01 6:13:52 PM
mr. bob, keep your eyes off the nature channel and see the life in motion in front of you!
or is this a jamaican thing, to be attracted to wiggly bottoms?
Response #86
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/16/01 10:51:45 AM
Oh brother, are wiggly bottoms still hangin' out around here?
Response #87
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/17/01 5:00:52 AM
i'm sorry, maybe not. it seems that wiggly bottoms are not accepted in this culture. what a shame.
Response #88
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/17/01 11:33:50 AM
Go ahead. Be wiggly. We'll make an exception for you, SoS! :-)
Response #89
By: bob
Date: 10/17/01 1:50:03 PM
sos, wiggle backsides are fun, somehow when i first read it, i thought you said "wiggle backslides" which sounds completely different.
Response #90
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/17/01 11:07:04 PM
Hmmmm. Bob, you scare me.
Response #91
By: bob
Date: 10/18/01 12:42:19 AM
don't worry, i scare me too
Response #92
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/18/01 5:53:14 AM
ugggh. no i had that too, and it was no fun.
Response #93
By: Roxanne
Date: 10/18/01 12:05:10 PM
I think Immodium helps get rid of "wiggle back-slides".
Response #94
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/18/01 12:30:27 PM
Eeeeeeeew!
Response #95
By: bob
Date: 10/18/01 2:24:32 PM
hahahahahahhahahahahahahaha
Response #96
By: Seventh of Seven
Date: 10/19/01 5:43:16 AM
it's all fun and games until it happens to you :(
Response #97
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/19/01 10:18:57 AM
SoS, are you having backslide trouble today?
Response #98
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 10/20/01 3:01:47 AM
Allow me to interject: I watched 'Memento' last night and it was good. Lots of interesting moments, but I found myself not really caring how it would all resolve, since a person with no memories wouldn't ever see that kind of resolution.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled wiggling.
Response #99
By: bob
Date: 10/20/01 11:11:49 AM
but see, that is what i loved about it, trying to figure out if he would ever know that his quest was complete, or if he would just keep searching for someone.
Response #100
By: WitchHazel
Date: 10/20/01 1:51:45 PM
Yeah. Exactly. That was the WHOLE POINT.
Thumbs up. And toes, too.