I love Memento a lot. I've never watched it played forward. I have the collector's DVD edition; does it have that feature?

It should have the option to play the movie in chronological order, IIRC.

Memento also made me a fan of Christopher Nolan.

I have the collector's DVD edition; does it have that feature?

The one where the interactive menus are presented as a series of psychological exams? Yes, it has that feature. It has lots of bonus features, but they can be difficult to find, since the entire menu system is one big, complicated easter egg.

If you want to find all the hidden features for that edition, I strongly recommend looking it up on an easter egg listing site. That's the only way I was able to operate that DVD.

And I recommend watching the movie through that way. A number of interesting questions about the film and about Leonard's story become a lot clearer when you watch the film in linear order.

I know Chris Nolan (the director) likes stories about unreliable narrators

that probably explains the presence of the scene that irked me. I mean, character-wise, I think it worked, but as a finish for the movie, not so much for this here gal.

I thought Memento was funny, and I admire Nolan's ability to keep twisty narrative threads straight. But putting him and Christian Bale in the same movie is the road to dourville. They both have a tendency to take themselves too seriously, which ruined Batman Begins for me, and made Prestige kind of unfun to watch. Bale is comparatively lighthearted in Rescue Dawn, where he's a frickin POW.

Related: Thinking about it, it’s entirely possible that sex symbol Christian Bale has never played a character who’d be worth the trouble of sleeping with.

Reign Of Fire: Too embarrassed about being in this movie to relax and open up emotionally.

I'm sorry, has she seen this movie? It's as cheerful a pile of melty cheese as ever graced a slice of toast! Surely if Michael Caine can see his way clear to Jaws 2, Christian Bale can show his face over a silly dragons-and-shirtlessness caper.

(I'm secretly convinced that British actors just don't have a sense of shame.)

Michael Caine was in Jaws 4, an even worse film than Jaws 2.

Velvet Goldmine: Gay. Oh, you lucky gay men, you.

HEE. Well, yeah.

Michael Caine was in Jaws 4, an even worse film than Jaws 2.

DH says he saw an interview with Michael Caine where the interviewer asked him if he had seen Jaws 4. He replied that he had NOT but that he HAD seen the very lovely beach house he purchased with the paycheck and he loved it.

Heh--I remember seeing that quoted in more recent Caine interview.

Sad thing is that he had to skip receiving his Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters since he was in the Bahamas making that movie.

Caine really does embody the "keep on working, regardless of the quality of roles" type of actor, doesn't he? I think one of my favorite of his less-noted films was The Fourth Protocol, costarring a pre-Bond Pierce Brosnan and Joanna Cassidy.