I figured this was a good day to do a discussion post about your thought on the ending of Robert Pattinson’s Remember Me and the film itself. So discuss away in the comments.
A video I made after I read the script
http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/k20WmAPJDitNUV17UlJ?additionalInfos=0
Remember Me
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Thinking of Rob 
LOVE THE FILM!! ROB LOOKED HOT!!! THE ENDING WAS SAD BUT GOOD. NOT THAT IM SAYING ITS GOOD THAT HE DIED ITS JUST THAT WELL IT HAD A MESSAGE! ALL THE PPL THAT WENT TO SEE IT WITH ME THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT MOVIE AND VERY WELL ACTED:) I LOVED RM AND TYLER WILL ALWAYS HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART:) LOVE THE SITE BTW:)
i loved the movie and was not expecting the ending at all. I was so shocked by the ending but was so impressed with the acting of ROb
Remember Me is one of my all time favorite movies, and far and away my fav RP film. I thought the ending was handled well and tastefully. A beautiful movie, but such a painful event.
We all know that the film was bashed and panned for its ending. I wanted to point you to a very interesting article which was posted last month on one of ToR’s affiliate sites (An Unofficial RM Fansite): it’s called “The Ending of Remember Me: The Great Divide”, on . It’s really very, very good.
Here’s the link if you want to read it (or maybe it could be reposted here, as I think it would interest many readers?) :
http://www.rememberme-film.com/2010/08/ending-of-remember-me-great-divide.html
I did not expect the ending I was so engrossed bu the individual story, the characters, the relationships, that I did not see it coming. But I never thought it was manipulative or tacked-on, as the critics said. RM is beautiful, poignant story about a life cut short, giving in an individual face to a collective tragedy, and it’s also a love letter to New York and the New Yorkers, and a tribute to all the lives lost on that day. Anyone, in any country, can relate to the film and its themes.
I got the dvd and didn’t read anything about it on purpose so I didn’t get a heads up about the ending! I thought the film was great and very well acted, it was nice to see Rob in a different part and he was excellent. The ending came as a hell of a shock!! Course I cried, it was a brilliant story well told and made you think at the end. Don’t take life for granted, real people died in the twin towers, how many of their loved ones wished they had said things that never got said? Say what you have to say now, don’t put if off till tomorrow, it may never come.
I read the script just after they finished filming Remember Me. Absolutely loved it. In the script the twist is even bigger and I didn’t see it coming at all. The entire script you think that his brother died on 9-11 only to realize at the end that his brother actually died in the WTC bombing. I was shocked. I cried my way through the last 15 pages of the script.
I think it’s an important movie because it puts a face on all those that died on 9-11. I thought it was a great movie.
Why was it so badly received by some? I don’t know, maybe the public wasn’t ready for a film about 9-11 so soon after.
Remember Me just touches me in a very deep way, it doesn´t matter how often I watch this movie….
It´s a completely honest, shockingly realistic story, and that´s what makes this movie so special to me…. It has a place in my heart….
I got wind of a tragic, surprise ending before I went to see it and (because I feel deeply for people (even fictional characters) I cry very easily) so I sought out what happens at the end and read simply that he dies – but not how. I’m so glad that I knew that going in because I would have been a mess of tears if I hadn’t expected it.
As for the movie – it was extraordinary. Rob’s acting was superb. I think we got a good look at what he is really capable of in that movie.
I lost myself in the story…living every moment as it happened on the screen. So when it was clear that the plane was crashing into the building, it felt like I was standing beside Tyler, witnessing it in real time. It was a horrible shock, like a knife to the heart. If he had died in any other way it would have been sad, but this…this was so horribly stunning.
And I think the meaning of the movie is spelled out in Tyler Hawkins’ quote that started today’s quote roundup. For many years I worked for a hospice (but no longer); since then I’ve tried to live that very philosophy.
I like how you say “I lost myself in the story” because thats totally how I felt. I got so wrapped up in the tiny little world of these few characters that I forgot about the world around them. The mixture of fiction with fact really threw me for a loop and I had no idea it would end the way it did. Rob WAS Tyler Hawkins and he put a face to the story we all know about and it made it feel very personal.
With the fact that I come from a family that kist someone to suicide,I thought they did an excellent job of portraying the lasting effects that it has on a family. EXCELLENT. I thought the ending was sad but appropriate. Rob did such an amazing job with this movie. It’s definately one I will be watching over and over for a long time.
I thought is was a beautiful story. I loved Tyler and thought Robert did such an outstanding job. So many people can relate to this story. There is some people out there that have no clue as to what they want to do with their lives. You have families that are split in two. There’s fathers out there that aren’t in their kids lives as much as they should be and some that just can’t seem to let their kids grow up. You have brother’s that will do anything for their little sisters and some that commit suicide. Theres people who lost loved ones in the World Trade Center and some who were just in the area that day. There’s mothers that have been killed in front of their kids. The list could go on and on. It was just a story we can all relate to, in one way or another. I loved the relationship between Tyler and Ally, they had such great chemistry together. I also loved the relationship Tyler had with his sister Caroline. Robert was just so amazing and believable. Every actor played their part perfectly. I did cry a little at the end, but I cried more when Caroline’s hair got cut off and I felt so bad for her. The scene where Tyler went to school with her and acted out, was one of the best! I don’t agree with violence, but those girls had been tormenting that girl and it was nice that Tyler stood up for her. My favorite scene was when Tyler sprayed the water on Ally and she dumped the spaghetti on him, then they ended up in the bathtub soaking wet! That was just so romantic! The whole movie was just awesome from the beginning to the end. I thought it was really great that it had that twist at the end. I was happy they didn’t show him dead, but showed how it effected the people around him! This will definitely be in my top 5 favorite Robert movies!
You are SO RIGHT about the scene where Tyler goes to Caroline’s school after the hair incident and he sticks up for her. Angry Robert is rather hot, plus what girl WOULDN’T want their big bro to be so protective of her.
I loved the movie, it was a mixture of so many emotions – humor, love and sadness, Rob and the entire cast did such a great job that I bought the DVD and have watched it 6 times already. As for the ending, I thought it was done tastfully and nobody should have complained that 9/11 was exploited. The towers weren’t even shown, it was subtle, the date on the blackboard, his family and friends looking at the sky, the dust and then his journal in the ashes. Beautiful movie that made me hug my husband and son afterwards.
Although the movie is heart wrenching, especially the ending, it is one of those that you can watch again and again because the story draws you in, the acting is great and the message of what is really important in life is universal. The tragedy of the ending not only saddens you because of what happens to the character, but also causes you to remember that day and the loss so many suffered – those feelings cause emotional reflexes that for some convert to dislike of the use of this event in the movie. It’s one of those events that everyone knows exactly where they were and what they were doing. I will never forget the voice of the NPR announcer as I listened to him as he announced when the second tower had been hit… I thought the film makers did an excellent job of portraying the feeling of that moment with grace and thoughtfulness in regard to this tragic event in American history.
I agree with you that the ending was done respectfully and with compassion for the real life story that lies within the movie. I watched the DVD and some of the special features and I was happy to learn that the screenwriter is a younger guy who is from NYC and he just really felt like he had to tell this story and make it personal. He said he hadn’t seen anything that really encompassed what it was like for him and how being a New Yorker your WHOLE LIFE changed after that day. The fact that the motivation to write this screenplay came from someone who lived it made it even better in my opinion. I never once felt like they were trying to exploit the events of that day, I thought on the contrary. I felt that it gave me a perspective I hadn’t had about the events that took place that day, and it also brought it to the front of my mind and gave me time to think about how easy it is to forget what happened that day, and we must NEVER FORGET
I’m with all of you in all senses, I think the same. I never think that the film was for 9-11, when I saw the day on the draft and he on his father’s office…I’m remembering the moment and now I have the downs of top. It’s so sad but with the end,all the film have sense and make you recapacite about the life. My mom come with me to cinema to see it and she loves the film too, it’s beautiful but sad,but like you said, have a message.
“LIVE IN THE MOMENTS”.
I’d never read much about RM and it’s storyline. I only saw the trailer and it looked like a good movie so I wanted to see it (and Rob was in it, so yeah)
Anyways I knew there was going to happen something shocking at the end but I never EVER expected that. after the movie ended I was quiet for like 5 minutes, I didn’t cry the first time I saw it. Because I was just shocked by its ending. But the 2nd time I saw it I did cry at the end. But that was also because if you watch the movie for the 2nd time. you watch it different because you know what’s going to happen, and that makes is even more beautiful. This is definitely one of my all time favorite movies.
I am the same as you- I cried harder the more times I saw it because you see it from a different angle and you know what’s going to happen. I too sat quiet when the movie ended because I was still in such shock. The movie blew me away.
I love the characters with all their messed-up lives. It is a beauty how they managed to forgive each other and most importantly, themselves too. I honestly didn’t see the ending coming. It was so devastating but I think it’s bittersweet. It made me cry, and more than often when a movie was able to make you produce tears, a good one, that movie would be.
Totally agree with MytaSp’s message, ‘LiVE iN THE MOMENT’. xx
I felt the same way as you at then- totally devastated. But I am glad it still can pull at the heartstrings the way it does. I said it before and I will say it again 🙂 We must NEVER FORGET…. This movie is part of what will make me never forget.
I honestly think it was a good ending. It was shocking but 9/11 affected so many people that it will never be forgotten. Remember Me just told a story that would have been the way that day played out for many people. I cried at the end because it brought home just how a single second can change a life forever. it was sensitively handled and made people remember that you should cherish every moment
When you say that this movie would have been the way that day played out for many people, thats exactly what I thought. Every single person that lost their life that day had a story like this one, and by showing the love and emotion and family of this ONE story it really makes you realize how many people had their lives re-arranged that day because the person they loved was gone. And I agree it was sensitively handled, especially when Tyler was looking out the window and all the noise got so loud and then the screen went black and silent. I thought it was done perfectly and we all knew what filled that black space, we don’t need to see it again. Sorry to blab I just really like what you said.
I am glad you liked what I said as it came from my heart. Obviously I am a huge Robert Pattinson fan and he was brilliant as Tyler and if I am honest he is the reason I watched the film to begin with but I am so glad that I did. I totally agree that we didn’t need to see the real images again and that the way they did it was perfect. I know some people felt this film was inappropriate but I don’t see why. 9/11 is something that happened and that people cant forget and this beautiful film just showed the story from a tragic victims point of view. Now I am blabbing, as I already stated below, your comments were ones I wholeheartedly agree with too 🙂
When I saw “Remember Me” I can honestly say I hadn’t thought much about the plot, I was just looking forward to drooling over Robert Pattinson for hours. As the movie began I really fell in love with him as Tyler Hawkins and how he was the kind of big brother every girl wish they had- he was sweet, kind, protective and would do anything for his sister. That part of his character really got me hooked right away. As the movie went on and you learned why Tyler is the way he is about certain things, you really fall in love with him at the same time he does in the movie. There is something to be said about how the bond of love in the movie was really relatable. It was simple yet amazing, the kind of love I think we all strive for.
Anyway, to get to my thoughts on the end… I knew there was some big climax at the end and I had not read any spoilers or anything so as the ominous music started playing my stomach was in knots wondering what was coming. I tried to think logically, put all the puzzle pieces together to figure out what was coming, but I had no idea what was about to happen. When Caroline’s teacher wrote the date on the chalkboard I physically felt ill and all the scenes prior to that moment clicked in my head; I knew what was coming. I had goosebumps on my whole body and I started crying before the date on the board was completely written. I felt like Tyler was someone I knew personally so to think about all the people that wen through this situation in real life just blew my mind.
Thats the best way for me to put it, the ending BLEW MY MIND. I cried and I cried but it was so much more than tears for some good acting. It evoked such strong emotions from the past and what had happened in real life. (I am being vague on purpose because I don’t want to ruin it for anyone who hasn’t seen it. Its one of those movies that I think can move you in such a deep way but it has to be organic- you have to see it for yourself and have no idea going into it what is going to happen. Thats the reason the characters make it feel so personal because its as though you know them personally. Anyway..)
I was numb. I sat so still in my seat for the ending of the movie because I was still in shock at what happened. When the movie ended and the credits began to roll, my friend and I sat silently, both still crying, and just stared at the screen. It was devastating. I don’t think I have ever seen a movie that was so powerful in that kind of way.
It really makes you take a look at your own life and evaluate what your priorities are. Sometimes you have no idea whats around the corner and you never want to leave things left unsaid. When I left the movie I thought long and hard about it, and the different quotes from Ghandi and such meant so much to me. I ended up going to see the movie again with another friend, and then again with my mom. I cried harder and harder each time. I bought the movie at midnight when it came out. Although at the end of the movie I always have a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, I still watch it. Its an amazing movie and I really think it didn’t get the recognition it deserved.
I can honestly say this movie is now in my top 10 favorite movies of all time and EVERYONE should see it. EVERYONE.
Sorry for blabbing, I just am really passionate about the movie and what it stand for. Thanks for reading 🙂
PS I love Robert Pattinson MORE after this movie, as if thats even possible
Well said! I agree about the film and robert pattinson 🙂
Thanks! 🙂
I just recently visited the 9/11 memorial in St. Paul’s Chapel. I was also at the site two weeks after 9/11 when Mayor Guiliani asked that people please come into the city. It was heartbreaking then and it still is. I thought Remember Me was an excellent memorial to the people and their families that were so deeply effected by the horrible events. Rob was excellent as someone’s brother, friend, lover, and son that perished that day. The story was real, the characters were real and the story was played and told with exceptional feeling. I cried for the event, and I cried for the beautifully told story of an American tragedy. Remember Me will be a movie I will cherish for the rest of my life… so many thanks to all involved.
Wow, you summed that up beautifully and I agree with you on all accounts.
I think everyone who has posted has said everything I would want to express on this day and on this movie. I am watching it right now as I type this comment. I want to give a special shout-out to Jessegirl, who has brilliantly through her writing has kept this little gem of a movie its rightful due while critics and and audiences dismissed it as a Robert Pattinson vehicle. I commend Robert for staying with the project when Twilight had become a huge success and he played Tyler Hawkins brilliantly. I never once thought that the ending of this movie was contrived, stuck on, or just to wrench our emotions. You could have had Tyler in a car crash and it still would have been a poignant story, but this event just made it that much more shocking and horrific and knowing that actual people who we never knew or met lost their lives in such a horrible way, makes it seem real. Thanks ToR for letting us express our thoughts on this day and to also express our feelings about Remember Me, you always seem to be the site above the rest in your charity and respect for Robert.
All movies, all books, even the songs have a goal, a message, a mission to play. Some goals are very simple and easy to perform, entertain, make you laugh, cause an adrenaline rush, or teach you a simple moral, but other films marked a larger goal: to make the viewer think and feel. Seems simple, right? But it isn’t.
With this principle mentioned, I always say that I measure the success of things depending on how they serve their purpose and Remember Me serve it and fuck if it complies. RM is not a typical love story between two characters, it’s not about this and you can felt it in the film (the cliché often used for the beginning of the relationship for revenge, falling in love after, the discovery of the betrayal and the come back… typical and I refuse to believe that it was not on purpose). RM is about pain, is about the loss of a loved one and how it affects each parcel of the life of the sufferer.
And so goes the movie, living with Tyler Michael’s death and its consequences because it is present in every step and every look that gives Tyler. You suffer all things with him and Caroline, the beautiful and intelligent Caroline, for she was the first tear that released in the film, by the injustice of her life to suffer so much in so little time.
But RM, kept his particular kick in the stomach, the end changes the meaning of the film, but rather than change it, it expands, it expands to not only a situation or a family but to thousands and thousands people who died or had to suffer the loss of a loved one in that attack.
So once written this particular Bible, saying that despite the criticism and critics, RM is a great film, because it fulfills its purpose, because it makes you think and feel, because it stays with you long after, and with that very, very few movies succeed.
P.D: Sorry for the english mistakes 😉
I agree that I am baffled by the poor reviews RM and RP received. I knew nothing about the film and didn’t catch on until the teacher wrote the date on the board when I audibly reacted with an “oh no”. I read a review where the guy was turned off by the dates posted at the beginning of the film because the were “telegraphing” the outcome. – I thought the characters and story, were sad, made even more heartbreaking by the ending. Being a New Yorker, it took a moment for me to decide if it was too soon for a 9/11 theme to appear in a film but I bought it.
the movie is excellent!!! I love Robert
when i first saw remember me i was just surprised. the storyline is great, the actors are good-i almost forgot that brosnan is there aswell 😉 – and the end just made me cry. i love the way all relationship develope and open up. i like how tyler opens his heart and finds a new way in his life while he tries to bring the relationship from his dad and sister in the right ways. and it’s just heartbreaking that at the end everything’s fine and he dies. the message is so important for everyone of us and he did it all right! it’s a movie you can see again and again and again and it’d be great if there were more people who’d watch it just because it’s a great movie and not because of robert pattinson
Well, I saw Remember Me and enjoyed it. I didn’t see the movie because Robert Pattinson was in it. I saw it because of the storyline. I enjoyed the love story and the different relationships it involved. Before the tragedy occurs, Tyler manages to open the relationships between his father, Charles and sister, Caroline. Also, mending the relationship between his father and mother. Despite what critics say, this movie is worth watching. It teaches us to love and to live life to its fullest. A movie you can see over and over.
I love this movie (just saw it again) and I find the end also very fitting. All with whom I was in the movie found the end heartless and cruel to the remaining. But I think that this end, so terrifying it is, perfectly fits in this movie. This movie is so wonderful and realistic. In all positive and negative things. I just love this movie. The end included.
I loved the movie. It’s a tribute to all that were effected by that horrible event and a reminder to the rest of the world that this happened to real people. People with families and friends that loved them and will miss them forever. I live in Texas, but I will never forget that sinking hopeless, helpless feeling as we watched this event unfold from our television sets. At the end of “Remember Me”, I had to sit in the theater for a few minutes. It was that same feeling I had on that tragic day, not fun to remember but so necessary that we be reminded just how horrible it was. Let us also remember how people across the nation displayed their American Flags and sang “God Bless America” to show our unity and embrace all of those that gave their lives. I believe that Rob said in an interview that after reading this script that he felt the need to make this movie, to tell this story. Thanks Rob, my hats off to you.
I loved this film.
Yes, Rob was in it and he was excellent. But… the story was fantastic, the other actors in it were also brilliant. I loved his relationship with his sister and the way he wrote and talked to Michael, his dead brother. His relationship with his father was sad, but on the day he died, they’d come to a sort of truce and he knew his dad was finally making the effort he wanted him to, for his sister. And when he saw that his dad had pictures of all three kids on his work computer made him happy. At least he died happy. I love his relationship with Ally and his friend.
I thought it was all very well done. I wasn’t expecting the sadness at the end or the way it ended. I sobbed my heart out, so did my friend who went with me. But I thought it was tastefully and respectfully done so that the relatives of those who died on that day would not be offended.
I thought it truly showed how it affected ‘real’ people. I’m from UK and that day will be forever in my memory. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing. That sort of thing is never forgotten.
I say, ignore what the critics said about this film. Watch it with an open mind and form your own opinion.
I loved it. Bought the DVD and watch it a lot. Well done to everyone involved in making it.
what this kid has that makes it so fascinating? I remember watching and I thought Rob was intense in the movie …. he knew how to put the emotions in the right way … but it was a sad end .. he should not have died … and remember this tragic day was very sad. I thought the acting and good story … Rob knew how to interpret the lost boy the movie.
Remember Me is a very sensitive film from the beginning till the end we experienced feelings so deep through the acts of the characters. Hate, intolerance, arrogance, sadness, solitude but most of all that love is the wheel that moves this beautiful story and is the only feeling that really matters after all. The surprise ending with Rob`s stare and his words, are so emotional that they never leave our minds. Unforgetable film!
I did 2 posts on Remember Me, if anyone is interested in my take:
http://allergictorobertpattinson.blogspot.com/2010/03/word-vomit-ahead-my-take-on-remember-me.html
http://allergictorobertpattinson.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-take-on-remember-me-part-2.html
I am sitting here typing this, with History Channel on, watching 9-11 play out once again in real time. No matter how many times I see these documentaries, regardless of the fact that I lived this, it still seems like something Hollywood dreamed up…almost not real.
I had read the original script before filming had started, and I have to be honest…as a New Yorker, I was very torn about the movie.
While you can understand that Hollywood makes movies about real events that are tragic, they also have a knack for manipulating these events into plot devices. That’s what I was afraid of.
So, when I decided to go see the movie (on the day we got hit by a huge Nor’Easter that knocked my power out for a week) I dragged a non~Rob friend and my mother with me.
I had told my mother ahead of time how it ended, because I didn’t want her to be upset. My friend dragged it out of me on the way to the theatre, because she said she didn’t want to cry.
I don’t think any of us were prepared for the ending, even knowing it.
There was a collective gasp in the moderately crowded theatre when they showed the date on the blackboard in the classroom. At that point, people knew what was coming and the theatre went terribly silent.
When Tyler went to the window in his father’s office, and the camera angle switched from inside to outside, and the camera pulled way, I started to cry. Once you see the metal around that tell-tale narrow window, you know. You know he’s in that tower, and you just felt helpless. You KNOW what’s coming, but that innocent child doesn’t. You want to YELL at him to get out, that evil is coming and he has to run. But you can’t, because you never could. No one could.
I didn’t even realize I was crying. The tears just started falling. I cried for that clueless, fictional boy. I cried for the real life Tyler’s who got up and went went about their business that day, not knowing the horror that awaited them. I cried for the firefighters and police officers who ran in when everyone else ran out. I cried for my nation, who will long be scarred by this tragedy.
My mother cried, and my friend cried as well.
When the lights came on, the theatre cleared out quietly.
I read reviews that felt the ending was manipulative. However, I didn’t find it as such. Let’s be honest…ALL movies that are tear jerkers are manipulative. Anyone who’s seen The Notebook and cried all the way through it can tell you that.
I think that these reviewers projected this ending as being manipulative when it was merely something they weren’t yet ready to face. They weren’t yet ready to admit that on that, as unbelievable as it was, on that fateful day, over 3,000 Tyler Hawkins got out of bed and never made it home. And nine years later, it’s still something incomprehensible. Remember Me squeezes a little lemon juice into a wound that is still too fresh.
Remember Me isn’t a September 11 movie. It’s a tragic character study with a very important lesson that we should have already learned nine years ago today.
I’m sorry for rambling…this is always a very emotional time for me…
I loved it. Remember Me was reminiscent of the movies that I watched when I was a teenager in the early seventies. They were more about the characters and less about blowing things up and car chases. They were about people. Remember Me captured my heart in a style that has long been lost. Movie makers should take a clue and make more movies like this. I know it wasn’t a huge box office success, but it did make a decent profit, what happened to just making a decent profit? Does Hollywood think every movie has to make a hundreds of millions of dollars? I’d like to see Rob make more movies like this one. He was wonderful in the part of Tyler and the entire cast was top notch, especially Pierce. I can only say that I am glad that I didn’t listen to the critics on this one. They were dead wrong. The way the story follows one family, a typical American family, and tells their story, was superb script writing. I thought the ending was sad, but I have no problem with sad endings if they are sad for a reason, if they are sad because there is a point to it. Remember Me was not a tear jerker, nor was it exploiting that horrible day in America’s history,it was sending a message, and the sad thing is, that most people, especially the critics, didn’t get it.
Love the Movie….Remember Me was beautifully done…Everyone who work on the film did an amazing job bringing the characters to life and the ending was perfect…Unforgetable film!!
Remember Me is a love letter to New York in some ways. The picturesque scenes showcase the intense beauty of that city. Tyler’s apartment – now he must be a rich boy to afford a large apartment like that but still how simply it was decorated instead of all with the best of everything. Showed a more bohemian nature to Tyler’s character despite his richboy upbringing. The movie in itself shows sides of people, living their lives. Tyler craves for something bigger than what his life is, I think. Hence his Ghandi quotage. The ending – it happened as that day happened. 9/11/01 was a sucker punch to the gut for New Yorkers and Americans at large. No one in the general populace was expecting that. I think the movie captured the shock, the horror yet it was done in such a way to where it honored the memory of those who died in the towers/planes on that day. We didn’t see blood, or people jumping out of the buildings. We just saw images. Powerful images without gore, without big huge explosions or an enormous budget. Sometimes the most powerful images are of what is implied and not shown. Remember Me says to us all – Never forget, people like Tyler, like each and everyone of us lost someone/something that day and the movie really drives that point home beautifully.
.I am still in aww over the preformance that Rob gave and the story line that this movie addressed.I think this is one of the best movies I have seen in awhile.I personally was shocked since I really hadn’t seen to many trailors on it when it was first out.Rob has a long career ahead of him all he can do is just keep getting better.I think this is a movie that anyone that has ever lost someone or has children or just remember the day this happened should watch this movie.
I am still in aww over the preformance that Rob gave and the story line that this movie addressed.I think this is one of the best movies I have seen in awhile.I personally was shocked since I really hadn’t seen to many trailors on it when it was first out.Rob has a long career ahead of him all he can do is just keep getting better.I think this is a movie that anyone that has ever lost someone or has children or just remember the day this happened should watch this movie.
I thought it was very sad but I love the way Tyler was so there for his little sister! Rob did a great job as Tyler!!!! I was so glad at the end of the movie when Tyler was at his father office and he saw the pictures on his Dad’s computer!!! And when he walked over to the window looking out I lost it!!!!! Love RoB!!! :o)
First time I saw RM i was completely blank. Hadn’t read a review, hadn’t seen a trailer: totally blank. The moment I saw the date being written down my thoughts were: CHEAP! Couldn’t they find an ending of their own. Why use 9/11.
The second time I did watch with the directors commentary. Aha. Now I understood. This time I had goosebumps.
But… I do wish the first taste wasn’t so bitter. I gave it a second change, others perhaps not.
I thought the end of Remember Me was one of the best film endings I’ve ever seen. Although I was aware the whole way through of the year that the story was set in, because I paid attention to the dates at the beginning, I did not see it coming at all. In fact, I didnt even click until the camera had completely zoomed out to show the twin towers (yes, I know, VERY dumb of me not to realise by the date on the blackboard at the school). By the end few scenes of the film I was completely engrossed in the storyline and in love with the characters. I knew there was a twist coming because my friend had warned me but I spent so much time focusing on his brother’s death and the dodgy dead bolt on his door and trying to figure out what this “twist” was, that I was completely dumbfounded when I realised what I’d missed and what the actual ending was. The script is written in a way that at the end you’re completely shocked by the revelation, but at the same time think to yourself “how did I not see this coming?” and that to me is just genius. I have never been more absolutely devastated by a film ending, but simultaneously amazed by the cleverness of the whole thing. I think this film tremendously affected it’s viewers which is exactly what the writer wanted, I’m sure. As I was only 8 years old on 9/11 and live in the UK, I wasn’t greatly affected by the tragedy, but this film has changed my view of it completely. I think that unless you actually knew someone involved in the attack, you just see 9/11 as this political news story.. You forget that it affected so many people’s lives. Innocent people, just going about their day to day activities. And that’s why this film is so heartbreaking yet touching. It reminds us of how thousands of people just like you and I died that day for no reason at all. People who had their whole lives in front of them. People who had loved ones waiting for them at home. And it does this by first letting us fall in love with the characters and THEN having this tragedy that’s going to affect them all for the rest of their lives, not the other way around like we watch on Oprah or read in the newspaper. I can’t rave enough about this film. It’s one of my all time favourites and every time I watch it I can’t help but be so deeply affected by it all over again. And that’s what a great story should do!