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Can I have this movie removed from my memory please?


This movie had great potential, the premise was intriguing and the possibilities endless. So how could the makers of this... this celluloid sedative possibly have got it so wrong?

For me the entire movie's downfall was summed up in one single scene. When Alan played a montage of memory cuts to Delila depicting a mans life played backwards in front of a bathroom mirror, the scene was clearly supposed to be awe inspiring. The music played behind the footage and the reactions shown by the characters were supposed to convey the sensitivity and depth of Alans inner artist, and lead the viewer towards reflections upon the nature of life itself, but for me the scene did nothing more than prove the lack of communication between the movie-makers and their audience. The scene left me disappointed, uninspired and weary. At that moment I knew that the remainder of the film would hold nothing more for me, but I remained watching to the closing titles, hoping to be proved wrong.

I wasn't.

The scripts ego was writing cheques that the director and crew couldn't cash. A good idea just isn't enough, there needs to be more, there needs to be substance, heart and involvement - things sorely lacking from this work.

The tragedy is, that this movie has completely destroyed the future potential of a very good idea. In the hands of an expert, the movie's premise could have been worked into a film worthy enough to be considered a classic, but now that potential has been battered to death with apathy.

The real shame here is not what this movie was, but what this movie could have been.







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Wow, I totally agree with you. Well said.

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Definitely!

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"The real shame here is not what this movie was, but what this movie could have been"

I totally agree too, you hit the point!!

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Perhaps Y, you should've been the final cutter, er editor on this, eh?

I liked the conceptual ideas of the movie too. However, it was difficult, if not virtually impossible, to accept the living-in-the-sterilized-vacuum environments the storyline takes place in.

For Hakman to research his dead friend's life story in a basement full of boxes (ala TV's Cold Case, which works there, but not here) and with no other computerized systems available, save for those ominous-looking antiseptic guillotine machines, didn't make a whole lot of sense.

Sure, I attempted to suspend my disbelief long enough to get through the experiences. However, with the old dusty tomes piled up around Sorvino's ancient bookstore -- It seems the limited enclosed and claustrophic world of ZOE went from William Shakespearre directly into memory inplants.

And since he's known for his rehashing of Twilight Zone and Outer Limits scripts and turning them into full-length movies, I think M. Night would've done a much better job on this one over all. But that's not saying much either.

So along with your fine review, it can be said in conjunction too:

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!"







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What do you mean "with no other computer systems available"? The guy helping them said he could lose his job for doing it, and that all the COMPUTER ACCESS could be traced. Therefore he would only LET them look through the hard copies.

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I've just finished watching this film and all I can say is...

"WTF?"

I like to think I'm an intelligent man with a broad range of tastes, but this film was just... well, poor! There was no pacing, the acting was fairly wooden (from everyone), and the script was wayward.

I'm a fan of Williams, but this film is on a par with Toys!

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Ouch...Toys.

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I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but the scene with the guy aging backwards, he made this for Mina's character. In her ex's memory, there is s part of her saying about this reoccuring dream where she ages backwards. When he shows it to her, she says "it's like you're reading my mind." Because he did choose her from that man's memory, so he is kind of fu cked-up.

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The tragedy is, that this movie has completely destroyed the future potential of a very good idea


Maybe if we ask David Cronenberg really really nicely...........just imagine what he could do with this premise

"And remember: future events such as these will affect you in the future"

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Can I have this movie removed from my memory please?
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a good one

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Yeah, I felt pretty ripped off when I walked out of this movie. Actually I started feeling ripped off about half-way through when I looked at my watch and realized there was no smooth way to end this film.

Like everyone here has said so far, the movie was a great idea, but the realization of that idea was absolutely poor. It was like they ran out of money, so they started cutting corners to the point that the story kind of fell apart.

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If you want something removed from your memory, then you should go to Lacuna Inc. from Eternal Sunshine. That's the best way.

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all i can say is; i totaly agree with what you have said there.

Aaron

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I think all you cutie-pies are over reacting just a wee bit. The premise floated towards "clever film student" more than Hollywood film, and so I'm pressured to think all the criticism comes from pretentious college students. The movie had a lot going for it. It was definitely more miss than hit, but not nearly enough to spawn this amount of whiny criticism.

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I'm not a film student. I'm just a fan of good movies and felt ripped off. It had a lot of potential, but they just kind of wasted it.

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You are entitled to disagree, but straw man arguments are unbecoming, and show you in a poor light.

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