In case you haven’t heard, there’s a twist at the end of the new Robert Pattinson movie, Remember Me. A big twist. Read the full post.
Mar 13
2010
09:30 AM ET
'Remember Me' twist ending: What did you think?
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THE ENDING CAUGHT ME BY SURPRISE BUT IT WAS COMPLETELY TASTEFULLY DONE AND HEARTBREAKING AS CAROLINE WAITED FOR TYLER TO COME GET HER AS HE DOES EVERYDAY. LOVED THIS MOVIE.
There issue shouldn’t be about the film “Remember Me” touching upon the topic of 9/11. Throughout the movie, hints are given to indicate the direction of the film’s conclusion.
The problem is the film’s marketing. It should not have been promoted as a romance film, when it was clearly more of a familial drama. Therein lies the issue. However, the whole film is sad and dark starting with the first scene, so the conclusion fits the movie’s overall tone.
Also, while the film’s ending may upset some people, it moves others, and at least it gets people talking. We should be glad for freedom of expression (even in bad taste) because it is an American right. With this, we should also be glad that we have the right to freely express our opinions.
The ending was part of the story before Rob took on the project. Because of Twilight, I think some critics don’t like Rob, and had their minds made up before they saw the film. The ending was the perfect excuse to attack the movie. I went to see Rob’s performance…I didn’t come away disappointed! I agree with hooiskellie. I thought it was handled very tastefully, without any actual film coverage of the event. It does make you think about the fact that all the victims had their own personal lifestories. Loved the movie! I have enough sense to form my own opinion. I don’t need someone to tell me how I should feel about a movie.
Look, people died on 9/11.
They were husbands, wives, friends and yes- lovers- they were people who left behind loved ones. Who “remembered them” all the time and always will. If anything, this movie reminds us that life can be short and just because you find the person you love, does not mean you will always be with them. It also reminds us that the people who died that day are not just numbers, they had loves too. Just as these characters.
There is NOTHING cheap about reminding people of love, and nothing cheap about reminding us that those who died that day had love affairs as well. Really, people should not be so sanctimonious to think that any mention of 9/11 is some sort of national insult. THAT is what cheapens it, not movies like this. We claim 9/11 to be about love, not just loss. That lifts us all, not cheapens us.
Well said.
Very well said, Shane. As I said earlier, people shouldn’t see the black and white of everything. See the gray, see in between the lines. It’s not about how the character died, it’s about how he lived and lived on.
That is not what people take issue with. 9/11 should be used in art. It’s that the movie was marketed to keep it as a surprise plot twist. They should have been more upfront with the movie they were marketing. I think people feel like it’s being used to invoke emotion that they couldn’t get out of the rest of the movie in lieu of trying honor the gravity of anything about those who were lost. And not for nothing, but the people who are offended are coming from it from a place of deep trauma, so there’s probably a lot you don’t understand here.
I think that if, say, the movie had opened on 9/11 and the rest of it had been a flashback of events leading up to it, this wouldn’t be an issue.
Another complaint I’ve heard from people isn’t so much that they felt it exploited 9/11, but that 9/11 itself (apart from the calendar year and location, obviously) was not a NARRATIVE extension of the story. Nothing happened in the story that would point to 9/11 as being a legitimate resolution.
Well said Shane.
thank you for articulating this so well. i feel exactly the same but wasn’t sure how to say it.
I got a piece for my audition “He lied…” so I just wanted to know the ending.So my agent got me the ending…well to be honest with you I didn’t know how to feel just because I could not imagine Rob as Tyler.But let’s hope maybe now it’s gonna bring some tears to my eyes!
I really enjoyed the whole movie including the ending. I knew it was coming but I was very curious as to how they were going to do it. I don’t think they exploited it or anything because it made me think of all the people who probably did exactly what he did that day – just looking out the window and thinking it was a beautiful day and that nothing bad was going to happen – I do that multiple times a week. Also, I think of it the same way as a moving having fictional characters go to war and killed. Also, I’m curious if this ending would have had the same reactions if it was some little indie film. With that said, of course not everyone is going to appreciate the ending but even if you don’t like the ending, the whole movie is very well-done.
Are you forgetting this is what is done in movies, they take tragic events in history and out a romantic spin on it. for crying out loud look @ all the Titanic movies done and Pearl Harbor ect. Do you really have to be reminded or have it explained to you that this is one way the future generations can learn about it. I haven’t seen the movie yet but I do want to see it, because it appeals to me. You don’t have to watch something if you don’t want to…Just don’t be a baby about it. It’s immature.
Exactly, I don’t have to watch something I don’t want to, unless the movie misrepresents or omits the subject matter and I get hoodwinked. Those movies you mention were called “Titantic” and “Pearl Harbor”, right? So people walking in had a pretty good notion that those were the subject matters of the films they were watching. Thinking manipulation is profound is immature, kiddo.
Kiddo? That’s cute thank you!
Robert and the rest of the cast did an excellent job. The story was real and felt like people you would actually know. I didn’t get any of the so-called James Dean posturing some complain about nor can I understand how anyone was offended by the tasteful ending. It was totally in keeping with the realness of the movie. Not a plot device at all but a very real conclusion to a very realistic life story. It seems that some just want to trash this movie and it’s male lead. They cry foul with the ending when they themselves are using it to trash the movie or shame people who liked it.
Bottom line: Well acted movie that will cause you to think about what’s important in life. Don’t let the negativity of others cause you to miss out. This film is now solidly on my favorites list. A+
I’m not necessarily offended by the scripted ending, but it’s Summit’s marketing that makes it much more exploitive. They (and critics) are pushing it as a much bigger movie than it was written to be purely because of Rob’s participation. Yes, let’s deal with these feelings/issues/events (and I say that as a New Yorker), but please don’t try to make so much money off of it.
It didn’t really seem like that much of a twist to me. I knew what was happening pretty early in the film; the setting speaks for itself. I don’t think there’s anything wrong or exploitative about the film. It’s just putting faces on a disaster. I thought the movie was much better than the critics have made it out to be, overall.
I think the director was trying to present a more “real” portrait of NY life than the smug elitism of Sex in the City and every other NY picture that focuses exclusively on Manhattan. It worked with scenes of the subway, the train to Long Island, Queens, the Oak Room, NYU, etc. He overreached by adding 9/11 but that doesn’t take away how much I cared about these characters and how much I could relate to their dysfunctional families.
I thought the ending was appropriate, but I’m not a NYer. Considering the family had lost so much anyway, the ending was Ok with me.
i was dragged to this movie and i actually enjoyed it. i dont see what is so offensive about the ending. its a story that takes placein new york in the summer of 01′. it would have been more offensive not to include it . its a nice little movie that didnt cost a lot to make and is very entertaining for two hours.ithinkit is more offensive to spend $200million on movies that are complete garbage
First off, this is a LOT of discussion and fuss over a movie that is probably going to land in third or fourth place at the box office this weekend and be forgotten on DVD in two months. I daresay that if Pattinson wasn’t involved, NONE of this would be an issue at all, and most of the people rabidly defending this mediocre film probably would never have seen, heard of or cared about it at all. So please save the righteous indignation over the “message” when the only reason you showed up was to see the sparklepire.
Having said that, my biggest problem with the ending (yes, I saw it, and it wasn’t good but wasn’t awful either) wasn’t so much that it was 9/11, per se. It was that the writers felt that to make the entire preceding action affecting and moving enough, they had to end with a national tragedy. I think the material should have been able to speak for itself without leaning on 9/11 to make its emotional point.
“The sparklespire.” I am a Twilight fan, but that shiz is funny as hale.