Remember Me Ending Deemed Most Offensive of the Year
The film is advertised as a straight forward teen drama, as Pattinson tries to brood as a human this time, instead of a vampire. Lost's Emile de Ravin is the object of his romantic angst, with father Pierce Brosnan as the object of his family angst. Yet there is still room for a twist or two - but reviews for the Remember Me ending don't suggest it was a wise twist.
Some critics are tempted to just give the finale away and spare movie goers, while others drop enough hints to make it obvious. Yet the closing minutes are met with such a negative reaction by critics, viewers probably won't need to see it to hear about it.
In its efforts to resolve Pattinson's troubled relationships, the Remember Me ending aims for a tear jerking finish. But the circumstances used to bring about those tears, and the context they choose for it, has been deemed downright offensive in reviews.
The Rotten Tomatoes consensus even singles out the final moments for its low rating. At 31% positive, the ruling is "Its leads are likable, but Remember Me suffers from an overly maudlin script and a borderline offensive final twist."
Thanks to the Remember Me ending, it has become more than the first post-Twilight Robert Pattinson vehicle, but in a bad way. Of course, the movie might not have gotten many better reviews without the finale, with mixed responses to the first 100 minutes and Pattinson's James Dean-esq brooding. Even Pattinson's obsessive fan base probably wouldn't have flocked to this like they do with Twilight, though some will likely come.
The movie would have been quickly disposed by those outside Pattinson's base. But due to the universally panned ending, Remember Me will have a more infamous place in movie lore than it would have. At the least, critics are now much more annoyed at a Robert Pattinson film than usual, though complaints aren't centered around him this time.
Sources
Rotten Tomatoes- "Remember Me"
MTV.com- "Remember Me Cheat Sheet: Everything You Need To Know!"
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22 Comments
Post a CommentI liked it. I'm 40 and therefore obviously hate the Twilight movies and all they represent. But I thought R. Pattinson was terrific in this, and I thought all the performances were compelling. I really cared about all of the characters - that's saying something for an otherwise somber, maudlin movie. The ending gave me a chill right when the camera panned back. I'm sorry, but the WTC was an historical event. I thought it was a fantastic choice. What's offensive about it? You can't show a picture of the World Trade Center anymore? It's not as if showing the twin towers or weaving 9/11 into a script is like showing an image of child porn or something. Reign Over Me also used 9/11 as a major part of the plot's backstory...but they didn't show the actual towers (gasp!) so apparently it's not offensive. The movie World Trade Center (Nicholas Cage) is a complete fabrication of events on 9/11 in order to sell tickets...
Hmm. Seems to me it would be one thing to say the film trivialized the 9/11 tragedy, or misrepresented them. But to my viewing it did neither. It simply inserted fictional characters into the events. If that is offensive, then Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, or any war film is offensive, as well as the Johnny Cash film, or Ray, or any other fictional representation of difficult real-life events. What is the difference?
Remember me was fantastic! I dont understand the contriversal part they used and important date and put a story with it. They dont deserved to be repremendaed!!!!!!!
I thought Remember me was a great movie. The cast was wonderful and the ending was real. This movie only made me like Robert Pattinson even more.
Maybe this little film was too ambitious, trying to make people think and feel. It's a conundrum. Knowing the ending seems to help some people understand the film's intention. On the other hand, the ending is supposed to be totally unexpected, like the event itself, and people obviously deal with that in radically different ways: anger, betrayal, shock, sadness, acceptance, but there's also derision for the more cynical because it IS a device. But how else to do it? How else to draw you into the characters' lives then deliver the "bolt out of the blue"?
See http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/reacting-to-remember-me-an-interview-wi
th-screenwriter-will-fetters . I admire everyone involved for at least trying, compared to all the craptastic movies clogging the cineplexes now.
while the movie was ok, the ending was terrible and so just not respectful to all those people that lost their lifes that day, i will not be watching this again
This movie was one pointless attempt at a tear-jerking performance after another. The logical move move to make would have been to choose just one tragic event per cast member and then let them have a happy ending rather than offending the majority of the viewers. This country doesn't need a reminder of what happened on 9/11 by way of a last attempt an indie movie made to make the audience cry. Those who lost family members would likely be offended and living in CT I know several people who did have friends and family members both in the twin towers and even a few on the planes. Don't say that those who did not appreciate the ending are trying to forget the tragedy that was 9/11, they are just upset at the idea that it was used as a "twist" in a movie that was already too tragic to be believable in the first place.
Before I start this, the first part isn't about the ending so don't judge till you read it all.
I found the film funny and great fun to watch and loved it, I felt that Pattinson did good as the sensitive and sweet guy and the romance was brilliant although...
The final few minutes hit me in horror and I am thoroughly annoyed about the way it ends it is quite pathetic and their as already an good story before that point. I feel that if I knew the ending before I went in I wouldn't have watched it well not the ending and I also thought that it might have been real until I found out it was fake so I feel the film was great until them last 10 minutes but I tell you I aren't watching it again!
I just saw this film with my daughter and her friend and for the life of me I cannot understand why some of the commentators here cannot see the offensiveness of the ending for this film. The only thing I can figure is that they are of the die-hard Pattinson fan genre and would say anything he was in was wonderful. While I think he did an okay job with the film, it was mediocre at best. That being said, are you that insensitive (or possibly that young) that you cannot remember the actual event and the toll it took (and continues to take) on this country? Those were real lives lost that day and real families devastated. It wasn't a movie and it shouldn't be used as a "twist" ending. Show some respect.
F**K this film!!!!
This films ending was enormously offensive, insulting our emotions as well as intelligence. It was atrocious to begin with but they stop at no ends to try and get an emotional rise out of the audience in a manner that is SO insulting and tactless.