Don’t Remember Me by Amy Ostroff
Robert Pattinson has done it again! He succeeded at being the smoldering tough guy who makes every prepubescent girl faint with just one glance in his latest romantic historical fiction movie: Remember Me. His character, Tyler Hawkins, is smart, charming, aggressive, and a typical American bad boy. Wait a minute … no he isn’t! Pattinson delivers the lines like a robot, and only changes tone for one scene in the entire movie. Toward the end of the film, Tyler bursts into his father’s office and yells and makes a scene. For the remainder of the movie, he is stiff as drywall. Badasses like Tyler are supposed to have inner sensitive sides; but since when do macho men cook and clean and have jobs? And tough guys certainly don’t have diaries either. There’s no way anyone can be both primary aggressor and extremely sensitive guy. Pick one and stick to it! The first few scenes, I’ll admit, had me convinced of alleged punk Tyler Hawkins’ badassedness. In his first appearance he drinks a beer and smokes a cigarette just outside his perfectly messy apartment. The phone rings and he slowly gets up, answers it half-interested, then the screen fades to black. But as the movie progresses, the nonchalant guy who didn’t care about anything or anyone around him disappears. Cleaning in general was pushing it, but baking a cake? And writing a cute inside joke on it? Totally out of character for the Tyler Hawkins who beats up strangers and talks back to cops. He is over-confident and seems to have little-to no-problems picking up girls. However, when his roommate dares him to flirt with Ally, he becomes shy and nervous. He doesn’t know her, therefore there is absolutely no reason their conversation would draw any emotion out of him. Tough guys don’t get scared of girls! Tyler’s character is written in a way that makes him unrealistic. No one in real life is as moody and has such extreme personality traits. Tyler Hawkins comes from a well-off, but broken family. His brother committed suicide about eight years prior, which somehow resulted in his parents’ divorce not long after. His father holds a heavy throne in his company and spends most of his time focusing on work. His children are happy in his
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