Kate Burton Janine. Ruby Jerins Caroline. Meghan Markle Megan. Chris McKinney Leo. Christopher Clawson Michael. Allen Coulter Director. William Fetters Screenwriter. Jenny Lumet Screenwriter. Nick Osborne Producer. Trevor Engelson Producer. Carol Cuddy Executive Producer. Robert Pattinson Executive Producer. Jonathan Freeman Cinematographer. Scott P. Murphy Production Design. Andrew Mondshein Film Editor. Susan Lyall Costume Designer. Marcelo Zarvos Original Music.
Joanna Colbert Casting. Richard Mento Casting. Diane Lederman Set Decoration. Katya Debear Art Director. View All Critic Reviews Dec 08, I'm not surprised by the lowish rating this film has gotten, but it's a hate it or love it type of film. Tyler Hawkins relationship with his father and sister had a lot of depth and of course the ending for me was also heartfelt. I would say give this film a chance at least once.
Wildaly M Super Reviewer. Oct 23, An incredibly raw and emotional film built around the lives of characters who have suffered immensely. A hugely underrated film that really shows off the talents of the cast. I was skeptical as Pattinson has quite the teen fan base after Twilight but he did a great job. Unfortunately I already knew what the ending was however I would never have guessed. A touching and beautiful film that really shows that you have to live each day as if it's the last and always tell the people you love how much they mean to you.
I really can't believe the critics panned this. Sophie B Super Reviewer. Sep 04, This film surprised me a bit. In what way?
And that it does, Robert Pattinson don't have nothing against the guy, but when did you see him in a comedy, take some anti-depressives dude! Anyway this film revolves around a young college student trying to make peace with his broken family, while dealing with his "monsters from the past" and falling in love. It's mostly talk talk talk talk, but somehow i kept watching, so it can't be bad right?
The thing that blew my mind though is the ending, very surprising, i couldn't have imagined it, and if i'd write here i'd spoil the whole movie, so Enjoy. Ovi G Super Reviewer. Aug 14, I don't get why so many people don't like this movie. Well actually I understand it, but I think it's ridiculous because this is a romance that actually does really try something new with the formula.
Now most see this as a terrible and stupid way to end the movie, but I'd really have to disagree. It's not like the ending comes out of nowhere, it's practically forshadowed throughout the entire story that everyone needs to cherish every moment they have and not leave anything left unsaid.
Even if that wasn't enough, the dates and eents taking place around the story make it more than plausible that the movie is goin to end the way it does. Honestly, it's just a really bold move and I think that it makes for an extremely lasting impression. The funny thing is, I can almost garuntee that most of the critical backlash for this movie is full of people who always complain about cliched romantic stories. Well this movie does change things up and really does defy expectations.
This is such a well done story with great characters and a really great message. Allen Coulter's 'Remember Me' is wasted. A good idea that doesn't translate into a good film. It's sad because it has to be, and why call it 'Remember Me'? There's no head and toe of this film. The film has a tepid start, a happening middle and a unwanted end. Why should the HERO die? Coulter's direction is weak, screenplay by Will Fetters is non-happening.
In the acting department, Robert Pattinson delivers a mature performance. The Teen Superstar proves that he's not a frenzy for his looks, but also for being an actor who can keep you interested. Emilie de Ravin looks and acts well. Chris Cooper is excellent, as always.
Pierce Brosnan, in a serious role, is very good. Ruby Jerins as Pattinson's sister, is remarkable. You feel for her, that's how effective she is. Others fill the bill. Apart from the performances, nothing else works. From my side: Not A Must Watch! Forgettable jdesando 12 March But it's very important that you do it.
I tend to agree with the first part. In between are variations on the losses that go beyond suicide to the loss of a loving compass between fathers and children. Tyler Hawkins Rob Pattinson is a rebel without a cause, in the story line and the way he plays a contemporary James Dean with his soulful eyes, mumbling, and generally aimless discontent.
His dad, Charles Pierce Brosnan is responsible in part because of his distance from the family due to the demands of his high-powered job and an overarching self-centeredness. Ally Craig Emilie de Ravin brings love into Tyler's life, but like everything in this tumultuous city, she also brings drama at times violent, at others loving.
No relationship in this film is without its temporary challenges, in a way like a soap opera but taking itself too seriously. The close-ups of Pattinson brooding are tedious after a while; his anti-establishment attitude remains unanalyzed with the exception of his brother's suicide and father's distance.
Come to think of it, you don't need much more than that for a screwed-up life that merits much more examination than a second-rate James Dean imitation. I had been hearing mixed reviews on Remember Me, but my friend had rented this movie and asked if I wanted to watch it with her. I figured I would give the movie a fair chance. Robert Pattinson is an actor who is trying to get out of his Twilight stereotype, so doing a dark drama with his brooding look that I had on my face the whole time while watching this film was such a "stretch".
Honestly, I'm not being mean, he's just not a good actor, he's still got a very long way before he gets out of the stereotype. So for the film, before the ending I really thought it was an alright film. I didn't really feel for the characters as this was a pretty manipulative film trying to get you to be constantly sad and not lightening up on your emotions, but then the ending. Anyone who dares defend this movie to me, I will question your taste in film and human suffering, even my friend said they went too far.
This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen in my life and I hate everybody that was involved in it. Tyler Hawkins, a moody, directionless 21 year-old, is auditing classes at NYU and working in a bookstore. He has had a strained relationship with his businessman father, Charles since his brother Michael's suicide. Charles appears to lack concern for Tyler's younger sister, Caroline, to whom Tyler is very close. One night, Tyler and his roommate Aidan find themselves in trouble with the police.
He decides to retaliate against the detective by persuading Tyler to sleep with and ultimately dump Ally. After spending some time together, Ally and Tyler bond over the losses in their lives and begin to fall for each other. After Ally sleeps over at Tyler's house, she and her father have a fight, ending with Neil hitting her.
Ally then moves in with Tyler and Aidan. Neil breaks into Tyler's apartment and confronts Tyler. Tyler provokes Neil by confessing to Aidan's plan and his initial reason for meeting Ally, which in turn forces Tyler to confess everything to Ally.
She leaves him angrily and returns to her father's home. But Tyler is still in love with Ally and hopes to reunite with her. Robert Pattinson is trying to pull a James Dean, very Rebel without a Cause and it's not working out too well. The great performance out of this film was from the child who played his sister, Ruby Jerins, she was the only interesting character. Even Pierce Brosnan's character who is supposed to be the "bad guy" through most of the film, I understood his character more than Roberts'.
He's made to look not caring, but when you learn what he does for the family and even though he sacrifices time with them for his work, it happens. He's paying for Rob's apartment and school and he's complaining all the time to his dad. The chemistry between Rob and Emile was OK, nothing special. But like I said, this went from an alright film to the ultimate slap in the face.
What was the point?! Shame on the director, the writer and anyone who thought that this was OK to put in this movie like that! To those who voted this movie a 7 or above, I have nothing to say but it's a shame about the lack of human compassion. This movie is a pain and I hated it, I haven't been this angry about a film in a long time, that's saying a lot. If I could rate lower, I would. Neither specifically state it's an awful movie, but trust me: this movie is unbearable and should be avoided.
However, if curiosity killed your cat and if you can make it all the way to the enormously predictable and thee most offensive ending of all time, you'll deserve your punishment for ignoring my warning: Do NOT watch this movie. I should just throw in the spoiler for the finale.
Hopefully that'll sway you from seeing such melodramatic trash. But, it's so foreseen, it's a pain just to wait for it to happen. Okay, I won't ruin the end, but I'll give you the clues that makes the climax blatantly obvious: The movie begins in with a tragedy — get used to that; this movie preys on throwing one over-dramatic subject over the next, practically begging you to cry — and then fast-forwards 10 years for the grand finale of human tradegy.
And 2: I felt they all-but mimicked "that despicable day" for purposes of manipulating the audience's emotions. For that reason alone, this movie deserves no more than one star.
If I gave less, I would. But, it doesn't start with the ending. There's so much more wrong with this feature. If the absolutely hilarious boardroom scene doesn't banish him from even attending an Oscar party, the down-right awkward pick-up scene should put him in front of a firing squad. One after another. We are introduced to numerous names, characters and mood swings, it's tough to keep up. They literally crammed a full dramatic television series on CW in about 45 minutes and just when you think there's absolutely no point to this movie, they dive into, what I think they meant as the plot.
Regardless of his absent motivation, he assaulted a police officer — just as he was released to go home after an altercation on the streets. His ultimate plan? Well, it wasn't his, but he ate the apple given from his dimwitted and incredibly stupid roommate to, get this, it's hilarious!
Normally this would have the 1,year-old predictable result: boy meets girl under false pretenses, boy lies to girl, boy gets girl, boy falls for girl, boy's lie comes out and loses girl, girl forgives boy because, hey, it's truuuue looove go ahead, say that in your best Miracle Max Billy Crystal from The Princess Bride voice as that's the only way to humor yourself and everything is alright again for boy and girl.
Honestly, I wouldn't have a problem with all of that, if both A: They added some originality and depth to the characters and B: if it weren't based on the most laugh-out-loud foundation, as previously explained, that I've ever heard. So there's two firsts, so I have to hand it to this movie. It now sits close to, if not on top of the worst movie list of all time for containing the most pointless reasons behind the Boy-Lies-to-Get-Girl age-old plot and the worst ending I've seen.
Wait, I've already said that. Above the already stupid ideas I've already mentioned, there's an emotionally detached and rich father Bronson with reason, a Little Miss Sunshine daughter who yearns for both love and paintbrushes and the now-grown up daughter, Ally, who survived the movie's original catastrophe and barely shows a second of coping.
I'm leaving out, literally a dozen more dramatic turns and outbursts, but suffice to say, none of it's worth repeating. You should not remember this movie. Nicholas Sparks. Did he write this? But it has absolutely everything you would expect from a film that he penned. So if you choose to although I encourage you to read my whole review because I AM a brilliant writer you can know everything you need to know about this film in the first two words.
If you like Sparks, Remember Me is a terrific film and if you don't I don't know what my expectations were going into this film because obviously anything Robert Pattinson is in becomes nothing short of chaotic before it even hits the theatre.
I have no real opinion on him either way but Remember Me made me respect him as an actor a little more. The film actually turned out to be a solid story, a good romance, with decent performances. I enjoyed it and would see it again anytime. I also went into the film knowing the 'big twist' at the end of the story so I suppose in some ways its more impressive that the film still left me impressed even though I knew how it ended.
If you don't know how it ends well this film will likely impress you even more than it did me and that is really saying something. I think secretly I had low expectations for it but it was absolutely worth seeing.
Robert Pattinson plays troubled twenty something student Tyler. As the movie unfolds we learn a lot about his family, his father, and the hard times he has dealt with. Pattinson is easy to watch, really shows some terrific emotion and carries the film well.
I hope he does more films like this so people can move past his Twilight persona which might be near impossible to do. Its not an Academy Award worthy performance but its very good. The lovely Emilie de Ravin plays the girl who catches Pattinson's eye Ally. Now I know de Ravin well from being on Lost so I already know she's a good actress.
Her character in Remember Me is not as stand out as I would have hoped. I mean she is good and the character is fun but its more subtle than what she could do I think. Perhaps the character is toned down so as to not overshadow the driving force of the film in Pattinson but that's unfortunate.
Still the two of them together are cute and have good chemistry. Maybe not epic romance chemistry but good. Ruby Jerins as Pattinson's little sister is absolutely amazing. You want to see young talent in the making just watch her terrific, funny, heart breaking performance.
Pierce Brosnan gives a really awesome performance as Pattinson's emotionally estranged father. This is one of his best performances in a long time. Him and Pattinson have amazing chemistry and their fireworks are what keeps this film rolling. Finally terrific character actor Chris Cooper plays de Ravin's father who is not a fan of Pattinson courting his daughter.
Cooper is a grade A actor but they seem to make him take a back seat in the film as well unfortunately. I often refer to the fact that a director that comes from Television can't always hold an audience for two hours the way they should be but there are always exceptions and Allen Coulter would be one of those.
Maybe its in his favour that most of the Television he works on is HBO where restrictions are a lot lighter in what needs to be done to tell the story. Despite Remember Me being a romance film at its core he spends a lot of time focusing on the family that is torn apart and in crisis and the romance that is blossoming around that.
This is what makes the film really interesting and keeps the story moving. I think its clever that the actual romance in the romance film takes a back seat to this family and everything that's happened to them and how Pattinson's character through his romance brings them all together.
It is well worth seeing. It might be a little sappy for those looking for something more entertaining and its a far cry from a comedy but you won't be disappointed if you're a romance fan. Check this out!! ThomasDrufke 19 June It's also a film that, even though I watched it nearly 2 weeks ago, I'm having trouble putting my thoughts together. It's a mostly dramatic and without humor romance between two people flooded with tragedy.
And tragedy is the name of the game with this one, as you're never really free of it. The quote from the movie that sticks with me most is "whatever you do in life will be insignificant. Perhaps that's a good way of looking at the movie. It's not a great film, but it's important you see it anyway? The movie never really feels like a full arc or story, even after its' final tragic moments.
This movie was OK, but the middle moved quite slow. Then it throws in a sad, depressing twist ending. The movie is about two young people falling in love. First, there is Ally, a daughter of a cop, who saw her mother murdered when she was young. Then there is Tyler, whom has no real direction in life. He's just mad because his rich dad, Charles, pays little attention to him or his sister. The movie is a simple movie, but it makes you appreciate the moment of life and time.
Chris Cooper : "I had some concern about the portion of this film that is a bit of a surprise and I hoped that it would be handled tastefully — as tastefully as it could be. I must say after I saw it, I don't know how you could handle it anymore tastefully but still get the idea across of the loss. I think the strongest thing in the film is the idea of loss. My character and my daughter [de Ravin], early in the film we've encountered heavy loss and we learn more about Robert Pattinson and what is going on with his family and what they have lost.
I just think it's a theme throughout. Director Allen Coulter : "The fact is that, from the very beginning, this is a story about what we call 'the bolt from the blue' — the unexpected event that alters the trajectory of your life. We start with a very personal story, and as the story unfolds that very notion is enlarged upon and goes from the personal to the universal. We felt we were trying to humanize that kind of event.
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