If you get a chance to watch it, Memento is a great movie. In fact, it certainly kept Nolan on my "must watch" list and have seen all of his movies.
The thing about
Memento that drives home for me how good it is, is that if you watch the scenes in chronological order (a hidden special feature on the special edition DVD), it's still a strong and compelling film.
Saw previews for a new Redford film, All is lost. So picked it up from redbox last night, and man should i have heeded the critiques on this one. Boring as heck, little to know dialogue, and real poor acting.
What you describe is basically the opposite of the movie I and the critics I read saw.
All Is Lost was one of my top 5 from last year. There is almost no dialog, but I don't know how you could consider the movie boring or Redford's acting poor. He has to sell every bit of his quiet determination and growing frustration and desperation with just his body language, and he does it masterfully. In fact, if I wanted to hold a master class in how to act, this would be a movie I'd feature.
After watching the original
RoboCop last weekend, I revisited
Starship Troopers to see what Verhoeven signatures I could see across both movies. Still one of my favorites, in part because of how misunderstood it frequently is.
Then I went to see
RobertCop in theaters, and while it had some good instincts, it didn't come together in a satisfying way. Not a great movie, and clearly inferior to Original Recipe.
Lastly yesterday I watched Akira Kurosawa's
High and Low, which was absolutely stunning. Kurosawa's mastery over camera movement and his use of TohoScope widescreen is really beautiful. This is now one of my favorite movies.