Friday, March 12, 2010

All 'Remember Me' Reviews From Today - Spoilers

Spoilers


From LA Times

There's only one thing that loves Robert Pattinson more than his legions of hysterical teenage fans and that's the camera. Which helps but doesn't quite save the earnest new romantic drama "Remember Me," whose filmmakers hang everything on those chiseled cheeks and moody eyes.

Like Tyler, the angst-ridden 21-year-old NYU student he plays, scowling between class and the coffee shop where he pours all those conflicted feelings into a battered journal, the "Twilight" star is still very much a work in progress.

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From The New York Times

In “Remember Me” love means never having to say you’re sorry, particularly to the audience. The star, as if you didn’t know, is Robert Pattinson, the moody vampire heartthrob from the “Twilight” series, a conceivably promising, certainly watchable actor in need of an immediate acting intervention. Along with working double time as one of the movie’s executive producers and its biggest bait, he plays Tyler, a dreary melancholic who poses and broods in this lugubrious romance cum family melodrama about a boy (sad) and a girl (also sad) who heal (eventually) while steaming up the sheets (discreetly). Along the way, many people die but few matter: most are just part of the warm-up act as well as the means to a shamelessly exploitative end.

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From Film.com

As I look through the six pages of hurriedly scribbled notes I took while watching Remember Me, I'm struck by the overall ambition and courage of the film. Massive themes are considered here: love and loss, the role parents should play, sibling support, fledgling relationships in college, the role of blunt trauma in the building of character. True, that's a lot of emotional weight, and the key for enjoyment here is to buy into the overarching sincerity of the film. By taking a risk, and actually being about something, Remember Me becomes vulnerable to those who would lash out against perceived melodrama in movies. But we've got to take back the streets on this one; we need writers and directors out there taking chances, we've got to get away from the paint-by-numbers industry that has become modern cinema.

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From USA Today

Twilight heartthrob Robert Pattinson seems to have found a better vehicle for his angst-ridden style of acting. Those who relish him as a lovesick bloodsucker will surely take issue, but until Remember Me, his best acting job was as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Pattinson was woefully miscast as Salvador Dali in last year's Little Ashes, but playing a contemporary, brooding and lost young man in Remember Me shows that he has more range than is visible in his one-dimensional role as a sexy vampire.

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From Newsweek

The new Robert Pattinson movie has an unexpected plot twist. Is it exploitative, or historically important?

From the ads on TV, Remember Me looks like your everyday college dramedy. (Spoiler alert: Surprise plot points discussed ahead!) It stars Robert Pattinson making goo-goo eyes at his college girlfriend (Emilie de Ravin). The film’s poster shows the sweethearts clutched in a passionate embrace with the cryptic tagline: “Live in the moments.”

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From The Boston Herald

In “Remember Me,” Robert Pattinson, the producer and leading man, displays genuine acting chops as a “Rent”-related cousin of the “Rebel Without a Cause.” He’s Tyler Hawkins, a Strand bookstore worker, sometime New York University student and poetic misfit in the Jack Kerouac-J.D. Salinger mold.

Tyler, who writes and is told he reeks of “Listerine and beer,” lives a la boheme in New York City in 2001 in a hovel with a broken lock with the fast-talking, hard-drinking, fellow Strand employee and NYU student Aidan Hall (Tate Ellington).

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From E!Online

Review in a Hurry: A rich student attending the James Dean School of Brooding (Robert Pattinson) falls for a shaggy girl from the other side of the tracks (Emilie de Ravin). The result: Tear-jerking histrionics squarely aimed at the high-school set, with turgid pacing, a borderline offensive ending and performances ranging from overblown to vaudevillian.

The Bigger Picture: Remember Me is the story of Tyler (Pattinson), a brooding New York college student who smokes cigarettes on his fire escape, shaves intermittently, writes tortured thoughts to his dead brother in a leather-bound journal, and has a tattoo of said dead brother on his chest. In other words, Tyler appears to have been created by a focus group made up of lovelorn 14-year-old girls.

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From About.com

Robert Pattinson's been keeping secrets from us. Pattinson, best known for playing Edward Cullen in the Twilight film series, can in fact act and can carry a film that has nothing to do with vampires or werewolves or high school romances. In the Twilight series pretty much all we've seen Pattinson do is look all dark, intense, and broody. There hasn't been much actual acting required of him thus far as Edward. But his performance in Remember Me makes you wonder where this guy's been hiding and why hasn't he shown off his talent - and not just his stylishly tousled bedroom hair - before this.

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From Chicago Reader

IIn 1991 a little girl witnesses her mother's murder on an elevated train platform in Brooklyn; ten years later, as a feisty, blue-collar student at New York University (Emilie de Ravin of ABC's Lost), she captures the heart of a brooding rich boy (Robert Pattinson). He's still mourning the death of his brother years earlier, for which he blames his father, a high-powered attorney (Pierce Brosnan, better than his material). Allen Coulter (Hollywoodland) directed this morose and sluggish drama, which gets more mileage from Pattinson's anguished profile than from Will Fetters's thunderously overwritten screenplay. With Chris Cooper and Lena Olin

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From Philly.com

Like James Dean smoking and brooding through Rebel Without a Cause, Robert Pattinson puffs and sulks - often, impressively, at the same time - in the intense romantic drama Remember Me.

Twilight's pale and immortal lover boy, adopting a New York accent and a slouchy demeanor (the better to reflect his directionlessness by!), is rich kid Tyler Hawkins, an NYU mopester who meets a girl from his global politics class and woos her accordingly.

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From CinemaBlend

New York City is crawling with self-serious NYU students, styling themselves after James Dean with rumpled clothes and bad attitudes, mooning over a girl they barely know and convinced that their deep feelings are the deepest the world has ever known. As a rule, we hate these kids, and the last thing any of us would want to see is a movie celebrating their youth and idealism and romantic passion-- film students make enough of those as it is. But unfortunately for all of us, this weekend we're stuck with Remember Me, a soppy and self-important story about young love in Manhattan and the "bolts from the blue" that can change lives forever.


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From MSN Movies

There's going to be a certain amount of controversy about the final moments of "Remember Me," as fairly generic young-love story plot points are given a very specific temporal and geographic location. I'm not going to spoil "Remember Me" for anyone, but I will say that the film tries mightily to earn its final moments, and while it doesn't always succeed, you can feel director Allen Coulter (of the moody, under-seen "Hollywoodland") and writer Will Fetters making an effort.

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From MetroMix

“Remember Me” certainly allows Pattinson to be a livelier, looser presence on screen than he is as Edward Cullen, but the broody star still doesn’t show much range. The role of Tyler plays into most of Pattinson’s unfortunate tendencies—overselling angst, emoting with an intensity that veers toward comical—and he doesn’t get much help from de Ravin, whose competent but unexceptional performance ensures this is a romantic pairing with muted impact. Director Allen Coulter (“Hollywoodland,” “The Sopranos”) seems to believe he’s found a contemporary “Ordinary People,” with romance in place of psychiatry, and admirably strives for emotional authenticity in every relationship.

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From Hollywood.com

With every non-Twilight role he chooses, Robert Pattinson seems determined to wipe from our minds the popular image of him as Edward Cullen, the sensitive, chivalrous teen vampire in the blockbuster adaptations of Stephenie Meyers’ bestselling young-adult novels. Last year, he played a decadent, bisexual Salvador Dali in Little Ashes, Paul Morrison’s drama about the artist’s formative years in Madrid; in his latest film, the romantic drama Remember Me, he smokes, drinks, has premarital sex, and engages in variety of other unwholesome activities would surely appall the saintly Edward.


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More reviews:

Mark Reviews Movies
Austin Chronicle
Washington City Paper
Brian Orndoff
Big Picture Big Sound
Screen It
STL Today
Dunstin Putman
AV Club
Reeling Reviews
One Guys Opinion
Take40
Hollywood and Fine
North County Times
Long Island Press
Spirituality and Practice
TwiSuperfan
Gordonandthewhale




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