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LOVE STORY ABOUT REDEMPTION, DISCOVERY, AND THE VALUE OF LIFE. UNFORGETTABLE STORY ABOUT 2 WOUNDED PEOPLE BRAVE ENOUGH TO TRY AGAIN.Amazon.com
Rebel Without a Cause meets Ordinary People in postmillennial Manhattan, resulting in Hollywoodland director Allen Coulter’s Remember Me. Twilight’s tousle-haired Robert Pattinson plays Tyler, a chain-smoking New York University student with a substantial chip on his shoulder. Drifting through life devoid of ambitio… More >>
Haunted Flower
July 31, 2010 at 11:30 pm
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RQ94LAILB8HA4 Gina from Haunted Flower reviews “Remember Me” starring Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Pierce Brosnan and Chris Cooper.
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Rating: 1 / 5
Jamie L. Crafton
July 31, 2010 at 11:54 pm
I can’t believe anybody would give this movie a decent review , let alone outstanding ones. It was boring and pointless. the acting seemed really good but the storyline and writing was terrible. Not to mention, the love story was boring and forgettable. and the charactors seemed annoying. and yes, you got that they were complex charactors. you understood that they had been through alot and all of their triumphs connected them. but their was absolutely no chemistry between the actors, either. and if I wanted to watch something even resembling this. I would watch reruns of the oc. Afterall, atleast the two leading actors there had chemistry and the writing was top knotch. I only made it through half of it. it was too boring and pointless. A true waste of time.
Rating: 1 / 5
Anthony Pittore
August 1, 2010 at 12:36 am
In ‘Remember Me,’ Robert Pattinson (‘Twilight’) stars as Tyler Hawkins, a twentysomething in New York City confused about just about everything: life, love, family, etc. After a night of drinking, Tyler is arrested for breaking up a brawl and then assaulting a police officer. When Tyler’s friend (Tate Ellington) spots the arresting officer’s daughter Ally (Emilie de Ravin of ‘Lost’) at school, he dares Tyler to sleep with her as revenge. As time goes on, Tyler & Ally fall for one another amidst their separate family problems and issues with one another.
When judging a film, it’s only proper to judge the film as a whole. There are films like ‘The Mist’ where an overly dramatic ending was seemingly tacked on for effect to make up for a previous 90 minutes of mediocrity. Here, with ‘Remember Me,’ the tacked-on ending is one of the few things to actually dislike about the film. The original script from newcomer Will Fetters was, for the most part, very well written with solidly fleshed-out characters and believable dialogue. The cast brought the script to life very well with great performances by the typically forgettable Robert Pattinson and the oh-so-cute Emilie de Ravin, not to forget the always dependable Chris Cooper as Ravin’s father. Allen Coulter, whose only other feature film in his 20+ year directing career was the mundane ‘Hollywoodland,’ does well capturing the extremely personal script while still managing to get a great grasp on the New York City setting. Regardless of all the great elements of this film, one item that will always hold it back from greatness to me and many others was the previously mentioned ending. For the first 100 or so minutes, we are given a bleak and sad film for pretty much every viewer. From lost love to family issues to that feeling of being “lost” in life, the film connects with many things we all deal with throughout or lives, and this is important to do in a personal film like this. Therefore, it seems unnecessary that a seemingly unrelated “surprise” ending needs to be thrown at us to exacerbate the depressing story. Once the finale is played out, the film completely changes the reason why we’re sad to begin with, thus cheapening the meaning of the rest of the movie. I admit, I was emotionally affected like the many others who bawled their eyes out over ‘Remember Me,’ but that’s more for the subject matter of the conclusion than for the actual relevance to the film. Regardless, if one can view the film and take the ending as just another reason to be weepy instead of being offended by it, ‘Remember Me’ can be a powerfully film for the right reasons. However, be sure to think of the film as a whole before passing any real judgments on it.
Final Verdict: 7/10.
-AP3-
Rating: 3 / 5
Dance Dance Dance
August 1, 2010 at 2:55 am
I wish I could have liked this movie more but all is all is was really sad all the way around and the relationship was no relationship really, it moved way too fast for me to feel like the characters liked eachother then kiss then love eachother.
Rating: 3 / 5
J. Fryer
August 1, 2010 at 3:35 am
I am not a tween, my comment has nothing to do with Pattinson or any other cast member. It addresses only the plot and the ending.
The plot, if one can refer to the film as having a plot (perhaps it would be more to the point to refer to it as ‘the point’ of the film) was a statement on grief, life, forgiveness, love, revenge, and a multitude of other everyday experiences and emotions. As such, the movie had an unlimited number of paths to explore and many possible endings which could have better served the film.
While the movie kinda dragged through some of these circumstantial emotions and provided the cast with a lines to read and recite; the ‘point’ of the film was relegated to being nil and pointless because of the blantant exploitation the ending ending.
Having the ending tied unexpectedly to the circumstances of 0911, while not necessarily what I would term ‘a slap in the face’, as one reviewer described it, it was a jolt that was inconsistent with the rest of the film and it was a blatant attempt to use the sensationalizing of this a very real national tragedy in a film not otherwise related to the catastrophic loss this country collectively, and so many of its citizens individually, experienced – and as such was in extremely poor taste, not to mention trivializing any previous point the viewer may have been garnering from the story itself.
For me personally the ending tacked tackily on the rest of the marginal film made this film one of my all-time least-liked films and I can not in good faith recommend it to anyone as a movie worth watching.
Rating: 1 / 5