SpikeFayeJettEdBebop Posted August 10, 2003 Report Posted August 10, 2003 Anyone else see this????Bought the DVD because I htought Memento was excellent. One of my all time fav. movies. So I bought it and finally just got to watching it tonight. Man, it was GREAT. I don't knwo yet whether it was better than Memento, but in my oppinion., it was just as good. This movie is AMAZING. I havn't watched it chronologically yet but the normal version was really good. Igot it at my Suncoast for $22.50 so I am sure you can find it other places. I strongly reccomend it....IT WAS GREAT!
Nighthawk Posted August 10, 2003 Report Posted August 10, 2003 I have it, and yes it is great. I'd consider it equal with Memento, with Memento maybe getting the edge in style. An odd thing about the dvd is that it says the commentary is "aimed at the low budget film maker", and is mainly tips on shooting movies and what not, and it's really not. He makes a few comments about shooting scenes on the street without permits and 90% of it is standard "what I was trying to say with this scene" style director commentary.
Downhome Posted August 10, 2003 Report Posted August 10, 2003 It's a fantastic work of art, and is a representation of what any independent filmmaker can accomplish if they put their heart into it. I love it, have owned the DVD since it came out, and watch it ever now and then. Mememto is still my favorite film of all time, but Following is up there in my top 10-20 or so. Just another reason why, in my mind, Christopher Nolan is the next Hitchcock.
SpikeFayeJettEdBebop Posted August 11, 2003 Author Report Posted August 11, 2003 I would have to agree with you about Nolan being the next Hitchcock.
Guest evenflowDDT Posted August 11, 2003 Report Posted August 11, 2003 I actually like Following better than Memento. For starters, its story is nowhere near as conventional (its main character, as a voyeur, is suspect from the beginning). Secondly, its time-shifting is a lot less "straight-backward" as Memento's, and its made even more confusing by the fact that a lot of the shifts back and forth are close to invisible editing (it took me about halfway through the movie to even figure out it was taking place, and I still couldn't fit the story in "proper order" on a second viewing). Although the time-shifting in Memento actually fit the storyline and served a narrative purpose, if you're going to use a confusing gimmick, at least make sure it stays confusing after multiple viewings. I'd love to see it again. I wish I'd bought that instead of Memento. Oh, and I don't think anyone can be "the next Hitchcock", and if you could, it certainly wouldn't be Nolan. One good gimmick movie, one popular gimmick movie, and a decent remake do not a Hitchcock make. There's little black humor in Nolan's post-Following work (something I associate with Hitchcock, though, with a criminally short list of 3 and a half Hitchcock films under my belt, I'm hardly an expert, or even a "devoted fan"), and Nolan's pretty much stuck to fairly similar minimalist thrillers; he'd never have the chutzpah to onverindulge as Hitchcock did in, say, North by Northwest.
SpikeFayeJettEdBebop Posted August 12, 2003 Author Report Posted August 12, 2003 Maybe, but I don't really see any one else making movies like Nolan. Right now at least.I agree with you about the order of scenes in Following. I sort of know what scenes go where but some of them are almost imposible to exactly place. Anyway, as we all agree it is a great film.
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