Robert Pattinson to star in David Cronenberg's 'Cosmopolis.' Why am I wishing he'd Twi-lighten up?

As usual, only snide and nasty comments from someone at EW about Rob and his movies. There is a huge following of Twilight and we aren’t all tweens!!! Remember Me was a good movie and a money maker, very important in Hollywood and Rob was one of the producers. Rob will do and excellent jon in Cosmopolis just as he did in Water for Elephants, a movie you seem to have forgotten about. Try being nice, you don;t have to say anything ugly because you don’t think the Twilight “kids” as you call them can do better. Just like Harry Potter, it takes a long time to finish this many movies and be able to move on. Rob is 24, not a kid. We will all be hearing a lot from him in the future.

This my first comment/review ever. I am in my 50′s, a mother of two grown daughters, well educated and a literature lover since a young girl.

I happened to love the Twilight *story*, while not the writing necessarily. The same for the movies…the script writing was weak and didn’t capture some of the more important themes of the books. However, I thought Robert Pattinson’s character, Edward, was the hardest role to play, and he did it well, also while affecting an American accent for the first time.

I judge acting skills from how different the character is from the actor’s real persona, and Rob is completely different from the roles he’s played, as evidenced from his interviews. However, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner seem to be playing their characters as themselves. Bella’s character is incredibly insecure and prone to great emotional bouts of hysteria and tears, which is totally realistic for her chronilogical age, though she is beyond her years in her being the ponsible one” in relationship to her mother. I completely identified with those parts of her character. But. she was also strong, brave, and self-sacrificing. I don’t know how the part was written for her, but she didn’t portray much of the book character in the movies. Actually, her most emotive performance was in New Moon, and her most dead performance was in Eclipse. Almost to the point I couldn’t watch the movie. I believe that David Slade was not much for relationships, and more into action, and the script writer wanted to make Bella appear stronger as a role models for teens. The result, imo, was she came off as hard and uninvolved, and left no room for emotional growth towards self confidence in Breaking Dawn. I’ve watched a few of her movies and still feel she’s playing herself most of the time.

Remember Me, on the other hand, was a wonderfully honest and tragic tale that resonated with me completely. I don’t understand why the critics found the ending “in bad taste” and “manipulative”. First of all, ALL stories are maniupulative. And like it or not, real people with ordinary, baggage laden, stress filled lives died that day. Husbands, wives, children, lovers, people all alone in the world, and people with many loved ones; people with tragic lives and people with dull ones; they died on one horrible day in NYC (and Washington). I’m a New Yorker, and I can’t look at the skyline in the almost 10 years that have passed without remembering. I knew people who were lost and attended funerals that I sobbed through. They were real people with real lives and relationships and young. But, I see most people regarding it just as a tragedy without knowing the stories of the people who died. The writer of Remember Me wanted to express his real feelings about that day. It was very tastefully done, where it could have been made sensational and distasteful. This story was not an insult to New Yorkers for the victims families…It was a tribute to real people lost. I thought all the actors did an amazing job in it, and I suspect as time goes by, it will receive better reviews and regard. Time changes perceptions, especially when critics are freshly drubbing a movie or actor repeatedly. That will fade.

For example, consider Al Pacino in Scarface. At the time, the critics ridiculed his over the top performance and it almost ruined his career back then. Scarface is now considered a cult classic by a new generation (I still find it absurd) and it gets 3-4 stars when it shows on Television or in reviews on DVD sites, etc.

I think Robert Pattinson has the ability to do very well, as he’s shown himself to be a thinker, and throws himself into a character completely. He needs good scripts and good directors, and perhaps a few acting lessons to bring out his best work, but the talent is there.

Let’s be honest, most Oscar nominated films (not all)are not big box office hits. They are not, for the most part, films I would watch more than once, with notable exceptions. Though, this wasn’t always the case. I don’t understand why so many nominated movies are depressing, disturbing and have unhappy endings. Those aren’t the movies I go to the theater for anyway. If a movie is inherently sad, I still like to see something of hope in the end. Sort of like “Remember Me”.