History YMMV / Christine2016

* TearJerker:
** The entire movie, especially considering ''this happened to someone in real life'', and how she was falling off the slippery slope and ended her life in the most horrific way possible.
** This line that showcases Christine's collapsing mental state: "OH, WHY WON'T ANYONE JUST LISTEN TO ME!?"
** The aftermath of the suicide: Jean suffers a mental breakdown as she's in the ambulance and hospital, George goes into a MadnessMantra, Turner's completely stoic with a ThousandYardStare, and Nelson shows confusion and shock from the event, especially when he's seen reading Christine's ''own'' typed up plan of her suicide (along with information the police/hospital will need when she passes) and when listening to the playback of her suicide. And let's not even get ''started'' with Peg...
** Christine's puppet shows turn heartbreaking as it becomes clear they're the only space she has to express her extreme self-doubts and that the advice given in them is her own strained effort to fix how broken she is.

* DesignatedVillain: Nelson. His reasoning for wanting more "exciting" and "dark" stories are pretty logical if their station are having issues, and as mentioned in the JerkAss section, he has put huge investments in the station to keep it afloat. However his treatment of Christine doesn't seem to help...

* SignatureScene: [[JustHereForGodzilla Some people watched the film just for the suicide scene;]] the real Christine's death tape is considered the Holy Grail of internet sites centered on morbid fascination and gore, but its lack of public release (for extremely obvious reasons) has made such audiences consider it "the next best thing."

* TheWoobie:
** Dear ''god'', Christine, Christine.
** By the end of the film, Jean.

* {{Jerkass}}: ZigZagged between Nelson and Christine. In Christine's view, Nelson. He constantly berates her and tries to cheapen the news business she's devoted her life to. But in Nelson's view, this would be Christine: she's easily the smartest person at WZRB, but refuses to do what needs to be done (run more sensational stories that draw big ratings) to rescue the station that Nelson has invested a bunch of his own money into. In the end, both are trying to do what they love but it's obvious it's not working out on both their favors.

** By the end of the film, Jean.

* AwardSnub: The extremely limited release and marketing of the film led to it and Rebecca Hall being largely overshadowed in the awards circuit. Despite the universal praise for Hall's performance, she only managed to get nominated for a handful of critic's awards and failed to break into the mainstream circuit.

* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: Creator/RebeccaHall does ''such'' a beautiful job playing Christine, to the point people kept insisting she gets recognition.
* SignatureScene: Some people watched the film just for the suicide scene; the real Christine's death tape is considered the Holy Grail of internet sites centered on morbid fascination and gore, but its lack of public release (for extremely obvious reasons) has made such audiences consider it "the next best thing."

* BrokenBase: There are two camps: One that praise the film and Creator/RebeccaHall's performance and those who feel it tends to go a bit passed on what's been stated with Christine's story. Christine's family (aka her brother, the only living relative of her family) also fits with the latter as they ''immediately'' disapproved of the film (despite little footage existing of Christine's time as a reporter, so the film had to work on what they could). They also did this with the movie ''Kate Plays Christine'', which was more of a documentary and analysis on Christine. It should be noted as well that he admits that he hadn't seen either film, however.

* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: Creator/RebeccaHall does ''such'' a beautiful job playing Christine, to the point people kept insisting she gets recognition.
* {{Jerkass}}: Zig-Zagged between Nelson and Christine. In Christine's view, Nelson. He constantly berates her and tries to cheapen the news business she's devoted her life to. But in Nelson's view, this would be Christine: she's easily the smartest person at WZRB, but refuses to do what needs to be done (run more sensational stories that draw big ratings) to rescue the station that Nelson has invested a bunch of his own money into. In the end, both are trying to do what they love but it's obvious it's not working out on both their favors.

* NightmareFuel: The abruptness of the suicide scene, since most assumed it'd be not shown at all. Just the sheer out of nowhere outcome of Christine giving her last words as she pulls the gun and puts it to the back of her head and pulls the trigger can surprise a lot of people, even with how some people saw it coming.

*** Case and point: After coming back from a horrible day of work (it being a TraumaCongaLine..), she finds her mother who's randomly returned from a trip with a new boyfriend. The result is a full blown TranquilFury rant between Christine and Peg, with Christine fidgeting and showing signs of her breakdown, ending with Peg and Christine going at it (although Peg tries to keep herself calm and ''knows'' Christine isn't being herself) before she finally cries "OH, WHY WON'T ANYONE JUST LISTEN TO ME?!". Peg just leaves after that.

* TearJerker: The entire movie, especially considering ''this'' happened to someone in real life, and how she was falling off the slippery slope and ended her life in the most horrific way possible.

** The aftermath of the suicide: Jean suffers a mental breakdown as she's in the ambulance and hospital, George goes into a MadnessMantra, Turner's completely stoic with a ThousandYardStare, and Nelson shows confusion and shock from the event, especially when he's seen reading Christine's ''own'' typed down plan of her suicide (along with information the police/hospital will need when she passes) and when listening to the playback of her suicide. And let's not even get ''started'' with Peg...
** Christine's puppet shows turn heartbreaking as it becomes clear they're the only space she has to express her extreme self doubts and that the advice given in them is her own strained effort to fix how broken she is.
* TheWoobie: Dear ''god'', Christine, Christine.

** Christine's puppet shows turn heartbreaking as it becomes clear they're the only space she has to express her extreme self doubts and that the advice in them is her own strained effort to fix how broken she is.

* BrokenBase: There are two camps: One that praise the film and Creator/RebeccaHall's performance and those who feel it tends to go a bit passed on what's been stated with Christine's story. Christine's family (aka her brother, the only living relative of her family) also fits with the latter as they ''immediately'' disapproved of the film (despite little footage existing of Christine's time as a reporter, so the film had to work on what they could). They also did this with the movie ''Kate Plays Christine'', which was more of a documentary and analysis on Christine. It should be noted as well that he admits that he hadn't seen any film, however.

* BrokenBase: There are two camps: One that praise the film and Creator/RebeccaHall's performance and those who feel it tends to go a bit passed on what's been stated with Christine's story. Christine's family also fits with the latter as they ''immediately'' disapproved of the film (despite little footage existing of Christine's time as a reporter, so the film had to work on what they could). They also did this with the movie ''Kate Plays Christine'', which was more of a documentary and analysis on Christine.

** The aftermath of the suicide: Jean suffers a mental breakdown as she's in the ambulance and hospital, George goes into a MadnessMantra, Turner's completely stoic with a ThousandYardStare, and Nelson shows confusion and shock from the event, especially when he's seeing reading Christine's ''own'' typed down plan of her suicide (along with information the police/hospital will need for her death) and the recording of her suicide. And let's not even get ''started'' with Peg...

* {{Narm}}: After Christine shoots herself, a character is seen in a hospital waiting room reciting the "I'm OK, You're OK" mantra and asking the others to recite it with him. It's probably supposed to show how ineffectual the "I'm OK, You're OK" self-help system is in the face of a real crisis, but it comes off as kind of silly.

* AwardSnub: The extremely limited release and marketing of the film led to Rebecca Hall's performance being largely overshadowed in the awards circuit. Despite the universal praise for her performance, she only managed to get nominated for a handful of critic's awards and failed to break into the mainstream circuit.

* [[HeReallyCanAct She Really Can Act]]: Creator/RebeccaHall does ''such'' a beautiful job playing Christine, to the point people kept insisting she gets recognition.

* [[HeReallyCanAct She Really Can Act]]: Creator/RebeccaHall's performance as Christine does ''such'' a beautiful job, to the point people kept insisting she gets recognition.

*** Case and point: After coming back from a horrible day of work (it being a TraumaCongaLine..), she finds her mother who's randomly returned from a trip with a new boyfriend. The result is a full blown TranquilFury rant between Christine and Peg, with Christine fidgeting and showing signs of her breakdown, ending with Peg and Christine going at it (although Peg tries to keep herself calm and ''knows'' Christine isn't being herself) before she finally lets out the heartbreaking and TearJerker line "OH, WHY WON'T ANYONE JUST LISTEN TO ME?!". Peg just leaves after that.

* AwardSnub: The extremely limited release and marketing of the film led to Rebecca Hall's performance being largely overshadowed in the awards circuit. Despite her universal praise for her performance, she only managed to get nominated for a handful of critic's awards and failed to break into the mainstream circuit.

* BrokenBase: There are two camps: One that praise the film and Rebecca Hall's performance and those who feel it tends to go a bit passed on what's been stated with Christine's story. Christine's family also fits with the latter as they ''immediately'' disapproved of the film (despite little footage existing of Christine's time as a reporter, so the film had to work on what they could). They also did this with the movie ''Kate Plays Christine'', which was more of a documentary and analysis on Christine.

* [[HeReallyCanAct She Really Can Act]]: Rebecca Hall's performance as Christine does ''such'' a beautiful job, to the point people kept insisting she gets recognition.

** The aftermath of the suicide: Jean suffers a mental breakdown as she's in the ambulance and hospital, George goes into a MadnessMantra, Turner's completely stoic with a ThousandYardStare, and Nelson shows confusion and shock from the event, especially when he's seeing reading Christine's ''own'' typed down plan of her suicide (along with information the police/hospital will need for her death) and the recording of her suicide.

* TheWoobie: Dear ''god'', Christine, Christine.

* {{Jerkass}}: Zig-Zagged between Nelson and Christine. In Christine's view, Nelson. He constantly berates her and tries to cheapen the news business she's devoted her life to. But in Nelson's view, this would be Christine: she's easily the smartest person at WZRB, but refuses to do what needs to be done (run more sensational stories that draw big ratings) to rescue the station that Nelson has invested a bunch of his own money into.
* NightmareFuel: The abruptness of the suicide scene, since most assumed it'd be not shown at all. Just the sheer out of nowhere outcome of Christine giving her last words as she pulls the gun and puts it to the back of her head and pulls the trigger can surprise a lot of people, even with how some people saw it coming. In the end, both are trying to do what they love but it's obvious it's not working out on both their favors.

* {{Jerkass}}: In Christine's view, Nelson. He constantly berates her and tries to cheapen the news business she's devoted her life to. But in Nelson's view, this would be Christine: she's easily the smartest person at WZRB, but refuses to do what needs to be done (run more sensational stories that draw big ratings) to rescue the station that Nelson has invested a bunch of his own money into.
* NightmareFuel: The abruptness of the suicide scene, since most assumed it'd be not shown at all. Just the sheer out of nowhere outcome of Christine giving her last words as she pulls the gun and puts it to the back of her head and pulls the trigger can surprise a lot of people, even with how some people saw it coming.

* BrokenBase: There are two camps: One that praise the film and Rebecca Hall's performance and those who feel it tends to go a bit passed on what's been stated with Christine's story. Christine's family also fits with the latter as they ''immediately'' disapproved of the film (despite little footage existing of Christine's time as a reporter, so the film had to work on what they could).