Before Remember Me—Rob Pattinson's most high-profile venture outside the Twilight franchise—the buzz surrounding the actor was focused on whether the brooding babe could, you know, actually act.Clearly the Twilight films won't be nabbing awards for the young cast's unenthusiastic performances, but stars like Anna Kendrick and Kristen Stewart have proven that they have some serious acting chops when they ditch their vamp fangs.
So now that R.P. is playing someone other than Edward Cullen, what do you say?
Speechless, we're sure—because no one saw the movie.
Personally, we were only so-so on the film.
'Tho we thought Rob gave a respectable performance (and can finally lay to rest the talk that he's skating by on his sometimes delicious/sometimes dirty looks), we thought the acting on the whole was only decent. Add that to a ho-hum script that relies far too much on a shocking twist ending and we wouldn't be surprised if word of mouth caused the film to putter out quickly.
But R.M. failed long before that: The film pulled in just over $8 million opening weekend, which, by box office standards, makes it a huge dud. Even Dear John, another melodramatic story of tortured young lovers starring the dubiously talented Channing Tatum, earned almost four times as much as R.P.'s film.
So why did Remember Me bomb so badly?
We can just see the comment section now: The world is out to get poor R.Pattz! The fans abandoned him because he's cheating on Bella! His managers keep giving him terrible scripts! The critics hate him because he's beautiful!
Maybe none of these reasons and you just thought the movie looked like it totally sucked. Or possibly you ditched the less-buzzed-about film and went for screening number six of Avatar?
It's odd that a film starring one of H'wood's hottest rising stars (alongside Emilie de Ravin, who has a dedicated fan base thanks to Lost) would bomb this badly on a weekend where the competition was, to be kind, less than stellar.
So why didn't you see Remember Me? (And with as little as the movie earned, we know you didn't!)
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hmmm...i saw it 3 times! i thought it was a great movie. loved how it felt real and not something "cookie cutter" like most love stories in movies today. I totally agree with this review by Laremy Legel: http://www.film.com/movies/remember-me/story/review-remember-me-well-done/32698953
ReplyDeleteto me it got better each time I saw the film. knowing what happens at the end for me made me connect more with the characters during the story the more i see it and think about the things that I may have missed the 1st time around.
i think it didn't do as well b/c it was not in as many theaters as others that do big box office number. if you don't have it the theaters for people to see they aren't going to see it. IMO
Up against Green Zone and the typicaly "cookie cutter" She's Out of my League AND only the 2nd week of Alice in Wonderland. I don't think 8 mil is a horrible box office number. Let's give it some time...IJS!
Really? Hm, I feel like we saw two entirely different movies.
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-->How about, most of Rob's fanbase consists of underage children who don't even remember the severity of what happened on September 11, 2001? Did anyone actually grasp the message behind the film itself, and stop to think about the truth behind that twist of an ending?
Personally, I heard many a story of people who were supposed to be in the Twin Towers on that fatal day, but were late for work or stopped to buy a pack of gum. In Tyler's case, he wasn't supposed to be there, but was, as I'm sure many others that lost their lives suffered the same fate.
The point of this film, although fictitious, was to emphasize how much that day affected so many peoples' lives. So if viewers were too focused on Rob's pretty face to grasp that, shame on them.
That is all.
The movie opened on a very busy weekend and in less theaters than Alice in Wonderland. I think the acting was good (especially Rob's scenes with his little sister). It really was more an R movie than PG13, however. All the seats were taken at the two showings I attended. Funny how there are always those waiting to be negative....
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