I am liking this idea and I think we should definitely use that rotation you came up with. It's a nice variety of people equaling hopefully a nice variety of films.

EDIT: And yeah, I'd personally prefer if we threw any kind of restrictions out of the equation but I'm not exactly the kind of person to make a judgement on that.

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I'd be willing to participate in the rotation, as well! I sadly missed out on Secret of Kells, though I've been busy on a school project and a brickfilm, so yeaah.

But I'll totes be a rotation dude.

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Awesome, I'm glad everyone's on board! I'll wait just a little longer to see if anyone else responds before making the final rotation list.

And yes, we're watching Memento this week William.

Alright, here's the rotation list:

week 1: twickabrick
week 2: Willow Tree
week 3: Lucas
week 4: Greenshirt
week 5: William Osborne
week 6: Sonjira
week 7: Chris W.

So, if it's okay with you Lucas, it's your pick on Sunday. If at anytime you guys aren't able to post a film, no worries at all. I'll try to have a backup in place. I want this to be laid back and fun for everyone. Also, the discussion for Memento will start tomorrow.

I had already seen Memento, so I didn't watch it this week, but it is one of my favorite movies from Christopher Nolan.

It's a real shame that this movie is being remade, as it isn't even that old.  I really don't understand what they hope to accomplish with a remake, because I didn't even think this one became as wildly successful as most movies that are remade are.

Mrlegoman, since you liked this one, I'd suggest Following* if you haven't seen it.  I think it was Nolan's first movie and is a noir mystery like Memento.

*Thanks, fixed it

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I agree with Greenshirt and mrlegoman. Memento is a great film. (I had seen it before but I wanted an excuse to watch it again). What Nolan was able to accomplish in this early film of his is quite impressive. And yeah, I'm pretty baffled as to why Hollywood is doing a remake. It's definitely not necessary.

Also, I'd like to watch Memento backwards sometime...

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I didn't actually watch Memento last week (I've been crazy busy lately) but I did see it not too long ago, so I figured I might contribute a bit to the discussion, if that's all right.

Anyway, I really enjoyed it.  I'd heard that a lot of people have trouble understanding the plot the first time around, but I found it prett easy to follow.  It feels slightly odd to see a film with such a (relatively) low-budget, independent, "rough-around-the-edges" feel to it from Christopher Nolan, considering what his later works are like, but it works really well here, in my opinion.  Some nice performances and, of course, the story, editing, and cinematography are all top-notch.  I especially like the way the colour and black-and-white segments are intercut, and how they "cross over" in the middle.  Despite us knowing the ultimate outcome at the very beginning, the plot still fits in numerous twists and surprises, which you will likely never see coming. 

In fact, the entire structure of the film complements the storyand overall neo-noir theme brilliantly.  We initially see the outcome of the tale (the death of Teddy), much as a witness at a crime scene would.  Like Leonard, we must trace the complex threads of the plot back to the origin, to find out what truly happened.  The ambiguous ending really helps tie together the film as a whole, I find.  There are also a bunch of subtle clues scattered throughout the film that hint at what really happened.

Honestly, I can't imagine how anyone could think that this would make a good remake.  Aside form the obvious, it is by its very nature an independent-like film, and having a big-budget Hollywood remake would completely ruin the feel of it.

Anyway, that's all I have for now.  Oh, I also signed up for this Letterboxd thing as well, so feel free to add me if you want to.

My brother and I watched the whole "Cornetto trilogy" over the weekend, and while I'm not sure Hot Fuzz is my favorite of the three, it's probably the one I enjoyed the most.

Whereas with Shaun of the Dead, I think there're probably a lot of references that I didn't get because I haven't seen many zombie films, this film explains its most important homages, so even though I haven't seen Point Break or Bad Boys II, the references were really funny. I dunno if that's better because then more people get the joke, or if it's worse because it wastes time explaining something that isn't essential to understanding the film. But the scenes where they explain it are really funny, anyways, and these films are part of one of the primary character arcs in the film, so I really don't think it matters at all.

Overall, I think this movie is fantastic, and while it's probably not the most consistent tone-wise, that's part of what makes it so funny.

Also, on a brickfilming-related note, going into this film I remembered that Nick Durron cited this film as inspiring the transitions in his THAC9 film Green Eye. So... that's cool.

By the way, what's the next film? According to the rotation, it's William Osborne's turn, but he never actually confirmed (or at least not in this thread).

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