Is Memento really that good?

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01-24-03 | 02:34 AM

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You have to hand it to this guy .... he turned the *is ------ worth a blind buy?* type thread up one notch.

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01-24-03 | 03:17 AM

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01-24-03 | 08:11 AM

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Originally posted by RyoHazuki7
It seemed that most people liked it because the movie was backwards. Its like "Wow that was backwards. SO COOL." Does it make you think because its backwards? Also i felt it kind of cheated with the ending(or should I say beginning). Do if you are watching it for the first time watch it forwards first. Then you will see it for how it is and not as some novelty.

It's not like the movie was written to be chronological and a letdown. The decision was made before filming started to make it that way. I.E. it's part of the design. It doesn't work as well watching it forward because it's not intended to be watched forward. Hence, the necessity of the backwards framing.

You take something like Pulp Fiction and put it in chronological order, and I think it would still work (if having a lesser ending), because it doesn't really HAVE to be that way. Others will disagree I'm sure.