by Ellen Cameron
Staff Writer

I think amnesia may be the only cure to seeing the new movie Remember Me with Robert Pattinson.

It’s not that it wasn’t a good movie. It’s that it was a bad movie, point blank, followed by an even worse ending that violates human decency on many levels.

The previews looked good, and I, who doesn’t see many movies anyway and thus have not had as many chances to be let down, learned a very valuable lesson, that was probably the only part of the ticket price that was worth it: don’t judge a movie based on its preview.

Previews are designed to be deceptive and take the best clips from the movie and make you believe that those great clips are standard for the movie, when, in fact, they are not. At all. And in context, actually aren’t as great as they seemed anyway.

I feel lied to.

I think a lot of viewers feel lied to though, which explains why the movie had a quick death; I saw in the dollar theater (another horrible deception of the night, because the ticket was actually 1.75) not three weeks after it was released—even The Last Song did better than that.

The movie was eh from the get-go. It opened with the murder of a young mother, and then fast-forwarded to a memorial of another dead person. Two deaths don’t exactly make for the romantic comedy I thought I was seeing.

Then cue the awkward romance and melodrama that ensues. I mean really, so the little sister gets her hair chopped off while she’s sleeping at a party—that doesn’t exactly merit the whole family getting together to bond and then the estranged ex-girlfriend coming back. It just took itself too seriously.

Until the end. The horrible, terrible end that offended my sensibilities and which I will completely spoil now. So after they split ends over the little girl’s hair, Tyler, Pattison’s character, takes her to school, where he vandalizes her class and is then arrested, which results in him going to his father’s office to talk to lawyers.

And then, in a scene where music is vastly overused, it is revealed that the date is September 11, 2001. And Tyler’s father’s office is in the World Trade Center.

Yes, that’s right, Tyler dies in the 9/11 attacks.

While other people in the theater cried, I got angry. I got outraged.  Because no, Summit Entertainment, you may not use an American tragedy to make your pathetic movie seem more significant, especially if you can’t even get the date of it right—because the date was listed as Monday, September 11, 2001 in them movie, but it was a Tuesday. Not only do you exploit a tragedy, but then you get it wrong?

Needless to say, I was less than happy with the film, for many reasons. If the bad beginning, bad acting, bad writing, bad plot and bad drama were not enough, the bad ending was more than enough reason to forget this film.

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