mary rose
I love a good horror movie. One of my favorites being Ghost Story. And I love Hitchcock. This one reminds me of combination of the two. Hitchcock was good at making us the viewer use our imagination. This does that. Now I am not one who gets scared watching horror movies, but for some reason this one made me want to watch it in the morning rather than at night before bed. Yes, it's slow paced, but the suspense would not be there if it moved too fast. After all it's only 3 episodes. I do wish Palin would appear more. This was done in 2014, but for whatever reason PBS is just airing it.
Chiffmonkey
I've never been so annoyed by one single element of something completely and utterly letting down the rest as much as with Remember Me.The setting is absorbing. The casting is spot-on. The script is natural yet interesting (except when the plot is involved). The cinematography is creepy and the sense of isolation is overpowering. The music is beautiful and haunting.And yet the plot is dire drivel, that doesn't make much sense. Constantly people are being put in situations that simply shouldn't happen. The horror elements also simply aren't scary, they're laughably predictable. They should've stuck to creepy which they handled masterfully.It's perhaps the best polished turd in existence.
shedmcnee
We watched the first episode and it was creepy and held a lot of potential... but then it failed dismally. Episode two was so boring that none of us wanted to see or cared about the third part. But when you've watched two you might as well see all of them. Big mistake. We ended up laughing at most of it. None of it made sense and most of the characters reactions were completely unrealistic. For instance the young boy was on a swing when suddenly it stopped mid air and he jumps off, turns around and sees the ghost sitting on it. Usual reaction would be to run off shrieking or 'look like you've just seen a ghost'. But no, he just walks off slowly to the others and doesn't even mention it. Who wrote this big pile of rubbish? The main young girl in it, the carer - can't remember her name and I can't even be bothered to look up her name, spends about 90% of the episodes crying. It's just so bad... don't bother watching it. There are so many good dramas out there and this doesn't rate amongst them!
diggus doggus
Once again the horrors of British TV strike me with Remember Me, a casting of Michael Palin in a role that would suit him, if he hadn't worked for 30 odd years in Monty Python.Sure there is talent. And there's also lack of talent. But what strikes me the most is how inappropriate the mishmash of genera is here, with the horror element contributing nothing to the story. Or vice versa, whichever way you prefer to look at this.Palin's character is fairly well defined, if somewhat uninteresting, he's an old man who has all the typical behaviours of an old man, and that's pretty much his character; so that cuts out everyone who's ever had parents from the audience.Satellite characters attend him because of his aforementioned characteristic (he's old), which again is very interesting for people who have an unusual attraction to the quirk of "being old". He has that old age existentialism which, on its own might do for a feeble plot, but when mixed with sparse sprinklings of horror tends to give weird taste to the concoction. And then there's the filler. British TV has evolved filler to an art form. There's tons of kids whining about towels, ladies holding orange juice, policemen buying newspapers and so on and so forth. The concept of "pacing" seems to have completely evaded the British isles. Along with interesting characters, of course. See, it is my opinion that once you explain a character, you either add to the mixture, or subtract. Hammering on with additional minor details isn't really constructive; or if you will, once i know that Man A shits his pants, i don't need to know he also pisses himself, i can figure that out on my own.On with the ghost story. There's .. stuff.. occasionally happening but it's hardly relevant. A 1 hour episode has not told us anything about whether we should consider this a horror story or a character drama. A female figure causes - we are led to believe - the death of a person close to "Tom Parfitt" (Palin), and the old man goes on to blabber that he couldn't save her. He then goes on to say "i'm an old man, i wanted to sleep" and does nothing more regarding this occurrence. He hints that he might be hiding something but then we cut back to yet more boring stuff like people walking, people cooking, people say hello to each other, none of which are established characters. Then there's 10 more minutes of no dialogue, shots of objects (which have not being made relevant to the story in any way), and a dream sequence of the female lead being scared.Oh and we have a 10 second apparition in her dream, a woman in a sari.Sure its well shot and the audio is quite powerful, but in nearly one hour most competent filmmakers would establish a firm story, something that director Ashley Pearce has decided to forego, replacing it instead with boredom and hammering into the viewer the firm concept that "look, these are ordinary people, see? they wear no makeup and do nothing a film character would do", which once again is typical of the bland and boring BBC productions. (not that Channel 4 is any better)I'll give this one more go, with little hope that it will turn into anything interesting, with characters we can both relate to and look up to, and a story that actually says something, like most people who have gone to film school would actually write.But for now, my vote will be:5/10 - why Michael Palin?
