I decided yesterday I wanted to watch "Memento" again, the great Christopher Nolan movie where everything runs in reverse chronological order. But I couldn't find it in my DVD rack. I must have lent it out to somebody? That's always a sure ticket to not getting it back.
But I knew it was easily available around town, so I stopped by Half-Price Books at lunchtime and found, sure enough, a deluxe 2-disc edition for $5.
Started playing it. Or TRYING to play it.
This edition is made up to look like a dossier, or a notebook of patient records. When you put the disc in, you're presented with a series of questions from a psychological test. No obvious exit to "Play."
I went through, without exaggeration, at least THIRTY pages of questions without ever finding an exit.
So I slipped in the 2nd disc. Same thing. But I happened to choose, almost by accident, the answer "C. Director Commentary" on about the 4th or 5th page of questions, and the movie started playing with director commentary. Guess I need to go back and try again, and read every menu option on every psychological question, to see if one of them actually is a "play" command.
I guess I can see why this set was so cheap!
And of course I dreamed about it last night. I was at work, trying to close out some project, and kept having to do paperwork that involved answering nonsense questions about Etruscan artwork and the mating habits of Bolivian sloths and stuff(!)