History YMMV / RememberMe

* UncannyValley: The omnipresent Valet robots. A Mnesist document you can find describes them as "reassuring" due to their human proportions and "serene" face, but they are just incredibly creepy, especially the parts of their bodies that look like exposed muscle tissue.

** The montage showing everyone's reactions to [[spoiler:the World Trade Center bombing]]. Diane walks outside for an innocuous reason, then notices all the people running through the streets. Charles gets out of his car, barely able to register what's going on. Allie and Aidan watch from the roof, Allie looking nothing short of horrified. Caroline is leaving school, surrounded by parents frantically picking up their kids -- looking around to see if anyone has come for her. In-universe FridgeHorror for her, too: she ''knows'' where her dad's office is and that Tyler was going there.

* FoeYay: A one-sided example. Madame seems more interested in making flirtatious taunts towards Nilin than [[FlunkyBoss actually fighting her]].

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Was the pre-brainwashing Nilin a sincere believer in the Errorist cause? Or did she join it for the thrill and the sensation of power (given her ability to alter memories and personalities of people) she'd give her?

* {{Anvilicious}}: The terrible nature of bullying is shown in detail far after the point has been made. Caroline is tormented girls every time she's in a class and the school does nothing each time. Even when the girls do something really nasty, the school does not punish them at all -- [[LoopholeAbuse because it didn't happen on school property]]. It takes Tyler scaring the living daylights out of one of the ringleaders and Charles threatening legal action for something to be done. A very powerful point about how a) schools ''need'' to take bullying seriously and b) bullying is not the victim's fault. There seems to be some measure of this in-universe, too, as Tyler's revenge on the bullies is hardly subtle.

* ThatOneBoss: The Mourner Leapers. They teleport away when you get near them and summon hordes of aggressive Prowler and Reconversion Leapers. While you fight the mooks to build up Focus for your [[StandardStatusEffects stunning attack]], the Mourner teleports behind you and takes a whack at you, disrupting your combos. When you land the stun, the Reconversion Leapers are immune so you have to evade them while pummeling the Mourners, which are too tall for your dodge move to work. All in all, there is almost no player action in this fight that isn't made more difficult by an enemy reaction.

* {{Moe}}: Caroline.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped:
** Defenders of the twist take this attitude. Younger fans have claimed that this film helped them understand the [[spoiler:true tragedy of 9/11. By having a character the audience has spent the last 90 minutes getting to know abruptly killed in the attacks, it places the audience in their perspective. The real attacks, like most sudden and violent events, also came out of nowhere, and countless people suffered or died]]. What's more is that the screenwriter was inspired to write the script [[spoiler:from reading 9/11 obituaries]] and had the ending in mind from the get-go.
** The ending aside, the nature of bullying does not get glossed over. Caroline is tormented relentlessly by girls in her class and the school does nothing. Even when the girls do something really nasty, the school does not punish them at all -- [[LoopholeAbuse because it didn't happen on school property]]. It takes Tyler scaring the living daylights out of one of the ringleaders and Charles threatening legal action for something to be done. A very powerful point about how a) schools ''need'' to take bullying seriously and b) bullying is not the victim's fault. There seems to be some measure of this in-universe, too, as Tyler's revenge on the bullies is hardly subtle.

* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: Yes, this is the movie that has [[spoiler:9/11 as a twist ending]]. What's the actual plot, though?

* OvershadowedByControversy: Chances are if you've heard of this movie, it's because of the uproar over the ending.

[[folder: Remember Me (film)]]
* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: Yes this is the movie that has [[spoiler: 9/11 as a twist ending]]. What's the actual plot though?
* BrokenBase: The twist ending divides viewers down the middle. Some had a {{Glurge}} reaction - finding it offensive and exploitable. Others felt that the twist was handled in a classy way and captured [[spoiler: the shock and tragedy of 9/11]].

** Charles. His oldest son committed suicide and his other son is always off the deep end, putting a big strain on the family. It's never revealed why he and his wife got divorced but that's even more baggage for him.
** Neil too. He's clearly broken by his wife's death and his relationship with his daughter isn't great. Though the scene where he hits her could divide viewers on how sympathetic he is.

** Defenders of the twist take this attitude. Younger fans have claimed that this film helped them understand the [[spoiler: true tragedy of 9/11. By having a character the audience has spent the last 90 minutes getting to know abruptly killed in the attacks, it places the audience in their perspective. The real attacks, like most sudden and violent events, also came out of nowhere, and countless people suffered or died]]. What's more is that the screenwriter was inspired to write the script [[spoiler: from reading 9/11 obituaries]] and had the ending in mind from the get-go.
** The ending aside, the nature of bullying does not get glossed over. Caroline is tormented relentlessly by girls in her class and the school does nothing. Even when the girls do something really nasty, the school does not punish them at all - [[LoopholeAbuse because it didn't happen on school property]]. It takes Tyler scaring the living daylights out of one of the ringleaders and Charles threatening legal action for something to be done. A very powerful point about how a) schools ''need'' to take bullying seriously and b) bullying is not the victim's fault. There seems to be some measure of this in-universe too, as Tyler's revenge on the bullies is hardly subtle.
* TearJerker:
** Caroline's fate. She's bullied at school for being a ShrinkingViolet and having an interest in art (as well as clearly being a very intelligent young girl). She clearly has self-esteem issues from her brother's suicide and her father being distant. What takes the cake is that her family thinks she just needs to socialise more and they force her into it - and it sadly does not end well for her.
** What makes the TraumaticHaircut especially sad is that it clearly happened while she was sleeping (since she's calling Tyler in the morning) - meaning she woke up to find her hair like that. Also imagine the poor girl waiting at the house for Tyler to pick her up, possibly afraid she'll somehow be blamed for it. Twisting the knife even further is the fact that only half of her hair was cut off - meaning she had to go to a hairdresser and get the rest cut off too.

** The montage showing everyone's reactions to [[spoiler: the World Trade Center bombing]]. Diane walks outside for an innocuous reason, then notices all the people running through the streets. Charles gets out of his car, barely able to register what's going on. Allie and Aidan watch from the roof, Allie looking nothing short of horrified. Caroline is leaving school, surrounded by parents frantically picking up their kids - looking around to see if anyone has come for her. In-universe FridgeHorror for her too: she ''knows'' where her dad's office is and that Tyler was going there.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Diane, Tyler's mother, gets little to no characterisation. We never find out the reason she and her husband got divorced and she barely factors into any of the plot points.
* TheWoobie:
** Dear God Caroline. Her oldest brother committed suicide, her parents are divorced, her father is barely around, she's bullied at school and doesn't appear to have any friends. Then let's not get started on the ending.
** Allie too considering her mother was murdered '''in front of her''' when she was eleven years old and her father is borderline abusive in some cases.

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** [[spoiler: Nilin's actions in the game have directly or by proxy caused several hundred deaths in addition to her original crime of manipulating Frank into committing suicide. While she is obviously uneasy about her involvement, actual punishment doesn't seem to be in sight.]]
** [[spoiler: The Cartier-Wells have parts of their memories scrambled into more or less traumatic events, but come through the game intact -- though it seems probable that Memorize will go under. Their own relationship and their relationship to Nilin seem improved from the start of the game, with the new realizations from their remixed memories.]]

* AwesomeMusic: Has its own [[AwesomeMusic/RememberMe page]].

* HeReallyCanAct: Naturally with this being the first film Robert Pattinson did after ''Twilight'', he got a few reactions like this.

* DesignatedHero: [[spoiler:Nilin is our hero, which is why she edits the memories of others to regain her own memory, and helps a terrorist cell cause a flood in a major city that kills and injures hundreds - a fact which causes her to question her motives and actions on several occasions after that, but not enough to actually change how she behaves. That's not to say that she's any worse than any of the other characters, who range from cartoonishly evil to merely bitter, amoral, and wealthy.]]
* FoeYay: An one-sided example. During the fight against Madame, she seems more interested in making flirtatious taunts towards Nilin than [[FlunkyBoss actually fighting her]].
* GeniusBonus: In Olga Sedova's memory, the doctor name-drops "tachycardia", which is the medical term for an abnormally fast heartbeat.
* IdiotPlot: Nilin mindlessly obeys Edge for the entire game. At first it makes sense, because he's her only ally and, having lost her memory, she has no context for anything going on around her. Then there's a mysteriously devastating flood that just so happens to have occurred immediately after she gives him access to the dams, which he told her to get. Nilin doesn't put two and two together until long, long after the fact.
* KarmaHoudini: To varying degrees, [[spoiler: Nilin and the Cartier-Wells]], depending on what exactly happens after the events of the game.
** [[spoiler: Nilin's actions in the game have directly or by proxy caused several hundred deaths in addition to her original crime of manipulating Frank into commiting suicide. While she is obviously uneasy about her involvement, actual punishment doesn't seem to be in sight.]]
** [[spoiler: The Cartier-Wells have parts of their memories scrambled into more or less traumatic events, but come through the game intact - though it seems probable that Memorize will go under. Their own relationship and their relationship to Nilin seem improved from the start of the game, with the new realizations from their remixed memories.]]

** "This Little Red Riding Hood's got a basket full of kickass."
*** The entire Red Riding Hood sequence is full of it. None of it makes any sense and only serves the purpose of looking silly.

* TearJerker: You have to make [[spoiler:Nilin's father]] believe that he [[spoiler: killed his own daughter during an attempt to wipe away the trauma of a car accident. You can just see the despair Charles is feeling as his daughter lays dead on the street of the memory he tried to change as well as in his own memory of experimenting on his daughter.]]
** Watching young [[spoiler:Nilin]] convulse and die after [[spoiler:Charles]] implants the bad memory is not a happy image either.
** The fate of [[spoiler:Bad Request. He takes many risks to help Nilin and, in fact, ends up arrested and brainwashed in the Bastille. You spend an entire chapter trying to save him and you are close to doing it, but [[HeroicSacrifice he dies distracting Johnny Greenteeth to help Nilin.]]]]
* ThatOneBoss: The Mourner Leapers. They teleport away when you get near them and summon hordes of aggressive Prowler and Reconverted Leapers. While you fight those to build up the charge for your [[StandardStatusEffects stun attack]], they teleport behind you and take a whack at you, disrupting your combos even when you isolate a Leaper. Then, when you stun them and finally have a chance at hitting them, you'll notice that the Reconverted Leapers are still immune against the stuns so you now have to evade those while pummelling the Mourners that are too tall for jumping over them. All in all, there is almost no action in this combat that isn't made more difficult by an enemy reaction.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Olga Sedova. A badass bounty hunter chick who would've killed Nilin in the first 30 minutes of the game had she not been remixed into becoming an ally. After that she shows up only twice to just give Nilin a ride to her destination. The fact that she was remixed could've potentially made some interesting conflicts later on by having her see the truth about David, and become an interesting boss fight.
** As a result of the mind hack Olga [[spoiler: becomes a terrorist, attacks a hospital and likely abandons the husband she's been convinced is dead.]] This is not explored and there are no ramifications for Nilin.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The game doesn't really explore the effects of memory alteration technology on society in much detail. We see the odd unresponsive junky hanging around, but because Nilin never interacts with a civilian (just villains and fellow errorists) we don't see in detail how normal people are abusing the ability to erase bad memories or share good ones (are they acting recklessly and erasing to avoid the repercussions? Losing motivation to achieve or experience when they can just get good experiences from others?).

** There aren't even that many remixes--the game is content to just four total remixes, and one of those is a flashback of an event we've already seen in a previous remix! A stronger focus on these might have explored Nilin's memory hunter status. For that matter, stealing memories is as easy as having Nilin get close enough to suck a little static out of their heads; we never get any flashbacks or whatever to ''see'' the memories for ourselves. (The "Remembranes" where we see a ghost of the person re-enacting walking down a hallway just isn't the same…)

* JustForFun/XMeetsY:
** The game is ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' meets ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' meets ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}''. There's a lot of the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'' in there, too.
** The soundtrack is standard action game orchestral fare mixed with glitch music. Fitting for a CyberPunk game.

** Defenders of the twist take this attitude. Younger fans have claimed that this film helped them understand the [[spoiler: true tragedy of 9/11. By having a character the audience has spent 90 minutes getting to know abruptly killed in the tragedy, it places the audience in their perspective. The real tragedy came out of nowhere too and many lives were lost]]. What's more is that the screenwriter was inspired to write the script [[spoiler: from reading 9/11 obituaries]] and had the ending in mind from the get-go.

** The montage showing everyone's reactions to [[spoiler: the 9/11 tragedy]]. Diane walks outside for an innocuous reason, then notices all the people running through the streets. Charles gets out of his car, barely able to register what's going on. Allie and Aidan watch from the roof, Allie looking nothing short of horrified. Caroline is leaving school, surrounded by parents frantically picking up their kids - looking around to see if anyone has come for her. In-universe FridgeHorror for her too: she ''knows'' where her dad's office is and that Tyler was going there.

** Neil too. He's clearly broken by his wife's death and his relationship with his daughter isn't great. Although he hits her, he's shown to clearly regret it.

* HateDumb:
** A large amount of people complained that [[spoiler: the movie didn't actually show the World Trade Centre blowing up]].
** There's also those who claim the twist is a ShockingSwerve. It's foreshadowed [[spoiler: by a shot of the twin towers in the beginning, the film skipping ten years after 1991, Tyler seeing ''American Pie 2'' (which came out in 2001)]].

* {{Glurge}}: Many people found the [[spoiler:ending involving 9/11 to be borderline offensive.]]
* JerkassWoobie: Charles. His oldest son committed suicide and his other son is always off the deep end, putting a big strain on the family. It's never revealed why he and his wife got divorced but that's even more baggage for him.

* TheWoobie: Dear God Caroline. Her oldest brother committed suicide, her parents are divorced, her father is barely around, she's bullied at school and doesn't appear to have any friends. Then let's not get started on the ending.

UncannyValley: The omnipresent Valet robots. A Mnesist document you can find describes them as "reassuring" due to their human proportions and "serene" face, but they are just incredibly creepy, especially the parts of their bodies that look like exposed muscle tissue.

* {{Glurge}}: Man people found the [[spoiler: ending involving 9/11 to be borderline offensive.]]

* DesignatedHero: [[spoiler: Nilin is our hero, which is why she edits the memories of others to regain her own memory, and helps a terrorist cell cause a flood in a major city that kills and injures hundreds - a fact which causes her to question her motives and actions on several occasions after that, but not enough to actually change how she behaves. That's not to say that she's any worse than any of the other characters, who range from cartoonishly evil to merely bitter, amoral, and wealthy.]]

** The fate of [[spoiler:Bad Request. He takes many risks to help Nilin and, in fact, ends up arrested and brainwashed in the Bastille. You spend an entire chapter trying to save him and you are close to doing it, but [[HeroicSacrifice he dies distracting Johnny Greenteeth to help Nilin]].

* SpiritualLicensee: If Creator/LucBesson made a game, this would be it. A) It features a petit [[ActionGirl butt-kicking female protagonist]] who uses tons of SheFu. B) It has a strong French influence, since it takes place in, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Paris]] and the creators of the game are French. C) It takes place in a distinct science fiction setting with rich visuals and hammy writing which evokes the "cinema du look" style of Besson and other French films of the TheEighties.