irreversible
yuck... the more i think about it, the more i don't like the movie irreversible. how could anyone even compare it to memento? the movie is also in reverse, but that's about the only similarity between the two. it is nowhere near memento at all in any aspect whatsoever, except maybe the acting. it's gratuitously brutal in a juvenile way, has no entertaining value, and pretends it's a form of art, even though it fails miserably. i mean, what's up with the camera movements? it doesn't serve any purpose other than being annoying.
all those hardcore disturbing violence strangely (or sadly?) don't give quite the impact you'd expect from such scenes. they are disgusting but uneventful.
although for a few brief minutes i had a moment of temporary insanity where i thought it was, despite of all its yuckiness, a little better than gerry... but then i came to my senses and realized that even though gerry was also hard to watch, but at least it's not pretentious and actually has one or two quite beautiful scenes in it, and i like the soundtrack.
so if you feel like you absolutely have to watch something totally different in a hardcore way, watch gerry instead. don't watch irreversible, unless you really like spending money for lousy stuff just to torture yourself.