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The movie that Robert Pattinson is probably doing to try and get past Twilight? I don't think anyone here's expressed interest in it, but it's some kind of romance movie about two really sad people. So here's the tweest:





So, did anyone actually see this?

If they actually put him on a plane and caused it to fatally slam into a building, turning him into a screaming, burning mass of flesh slowly melting down to fat and a few chosen bones... I still wouldn't see it. But I would second the director's nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Dang. I think you just sauna'd this thread with hatred.

:blush:

I'm sorry... I have a hard time keeping my complete and utter contempt for Twilight and it everything associated with it in check.

:laugh: No problem. Towel?

Really, though, I have no problem with the guy... he was ok enough in the Harry Potter movies, and I think that, with the right part, he could really make a good career for himself. The actress from Twilight? Not so much. I don't care for her at all. But yeah, no matter what kind of potential the guy has, this movie and the twist seem super lame.

Something like from a M. Night Shybabaloola film?

Precisely like that.

Yikes.

Yep. So... this is like just our personal hangout thread apparently.... so... how ya doin?

Sick.
Keep coughing my lungs out despite heavy doses of brandy-laced tea.
Can't sleep.
Classes tomorrow.
Need to finish an essay by Wednesday.

I've been better.

Nooooo, still sick?

I command you to feel better! I'll pray for magical elves to come to your home in the night and write your essay for you.

Yah, still sick. The temp's gone down a bit, but I still can't finish a sentence without starting to cough. And trying to hold coughing fits back, I keep making making sounds that remind me of an asphyxiated Joker laughing.

Thanks for the offer of magical elf assistance, though. I've had trouble with my own, ever since one of them read Chaz's union threads.

Hey, I'll pipe up....

I think it's utterly ridiculous.

Some background: On 9/11, my wife was working in an office 5 blocks east of the towers. Her phone call telling me she was on her way home woke me up that day (as I was working nights then). While neither of us lost any one directly in the towers, the day took a huge toll on her mentally, and still does...

So to see it being used as a "twist" is outlandish to me. To use it in what is clearly geared as a standard teeny-bopper romance that is targeted at an audience that was around 5-7 years old on 9/11 says to me that its inclusion in the film is to shock and/or to pull at the heartstrings over the sad loss of love. It's being used as a fucking gimmick!!

So then we're all in agreement. All in favor of throwing things at Remember Me movie posters whenever we pass them... say aye!

If "things" also include but not limited to bodily by-products that demand unzippage of the fly, then aye.

Of course. AYE!

If "movie posters" includes anyone who paid money to support the film then I say "aye" to Ranger's "aye."

Dammit all to hell... I just had such a bad coughing fit I almost vomited... AND it broke a blood vessel in my nose.

The good side is that at first I feared I had coughed up blood. Luckily it was just my nose and the poor, stressed-out veins therein.

OOof! I'm pretty sure that's not supposed to happen...

Aw man, NR....

I'll live...

I blame Twilight!

If only I could... but so far that 'saga' has only caused me to lose my apetite.

Anyway, I think I'll go and try to get some sleep now. Sorry about getting the pity party started...

I thought Remember Me was another tepid Nicholas Sparks novel.

But this makes the title funnier at least.

ALSO I thought Kristen Stewart was really good in Adventureland and uh... fuck, this indie-ish movie I saw a while back. Good in both of those. I look forward to see what she does in the Janis Joplin biopic.

You think THIS is bad? There was this soap opera made here in Portugal a few years back that BEGAN with 9/11. Complete with CGI shot of the plane hitting the first tower! All just to kill off a character's fianceé!

North_Ranger: I wouldn't be so hard on Robert Pattinson: the guy apparently hates Twilight as much as the rest of us. He has done several interviews panning the story (Once even calling it "the sexual fantasy of a mad woman") and stating that he is only doing this for the money and for the chance to work with Kristen Stewart (who ALSO hates the story and fanbase and is only doing this so she can get the money to do more indie flicks).

I don't see a problem with it.

You may think this particular example is crass, but I seriously doubt that the writers, director, actors and all the other creative types involved sought out to do something crass. They want to explore what 9/11 means to them. It's what creative types do. You might think this particular example is crass, but another work could just as easily be hailed as "important" or "significant" or whatever words critics used to describe that Adam Sandler flick about him losing his memory during 9/11.

I don't know... I can see a group of creative types wringing their hands in a sinister circle thinking of the best way to get dopey girls to encourage their friends to go see this movie because it's "omg sooooooo sad."

Seriously though, maybe their intentions were good. I sure as hell don't know for sure, and this opinion is based on reading about the movie, not actually watching it. Still, just reading about it, I got a really sleazy vibe from the movie. That's not to say that always using something like this is a movie is sleazy. It's one of those lines that's hard to define.

Critics seem to dislike romances on principle.


And this post seems far to succinct for the conversational tone I intend, but I really got nothing more to add. I really don't intend on seeing this . . . unless that hot teen girl at work is interested in a second date with this old fogey.

Truth be told, she's not that hot, but she's 15 years younger than me and that's pretty damn hot all on its own.

And creepy, yes, I know.

See, this is why I don't talk about my personal life on the forums.

This thread needs more...COUNT!

I sense a Halforums meme emerging...

Cajungal said:

but it's some kind of romance movie about two really sad people.

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You sure this isn't another Twilight movie?

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but it's some kind of romance movie about two really sad people.

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You sure this isn't another Twilight movie?[/QUOTE]

Well, he's still pretty pale.

Cajungal said:

I don't know... I can see a group of creative types wringing their hands in a sinister circle thinking of the best way to get dopey girls to encourage their friends to go see this movie because it's "omg sooooooo sad."

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I blame Titanic for that. People found out that teenage girls like to see really sad movies and will spend a bajillion dollars on them, so now it's an industry. I'll call it the Titanic Effect.

So he wants to move on from the Twilight phenomenon by performing in a movie designed to appeal to the exact same audience?

I guess he's thinking "hey, if these girls can see me as someone other than a gay sparkling vampire, maybe they'll stop thinking I AM a gay sparkling vampire and I'll be cast in other roles and they'll still go see me and make me rich".

Maybe... his eyebrows bother me. I think maybe they're the ones who are controlling him, like some sort of hairy pair of alien parasites.

Well, if I had appeared exclusively in comedies my entire career and I wanted to move on from those movies, I wouldn't promptly sign up to appear in another comedy.

it's not really the same genre, just the same demographic.

They're both romance movies about two sad people, aren't they? Or is it different definitions of sad?