Love Me

I like both Kristen Stewart (more SEBERG and ADVENTURELAND than TWILIGHT) and Steven Yeun (THE WALKING DEAD), and I also love a good post-apocalyptic story, so that was enough for me to put this movie on reserve at the library. Unfortunately, the film is a bit of a misfire. I hate knocking a film for being too ambitious, but this romance between an AI buoy in the ocean and a satellite in space, which are both still functioning centuries after humans have gone extinct, doesn't quite pull off its ambitions. The two base their robot courtship on a social media influencer's posts about herself and her boyfriend, with the two taking on avatars of their long-dead human inspirations. There's a subtext about real-life versus phony online "lives" and, more importantly, about love and connection, that even in a lifeless world, two sentient machines still yearn for connection. The film lacked the emotional resonance it was aspiring to, but Stewart and Yuen are both likable and manage to make the film watchable, even if they are CGI avatars for too much of the film. Even though I won't recommend LOVE ME, I'll be curious to see what writer/directors Andrew & Sam Zuchero do in the future. 

I Thought the Movie Was Great. It Shows the Audience That Being Yourself & Not Trying to Be What You See On TV & TikTok Isn’t Going to Make You Happy.

Watching robots imitate an influencer couple for an hour and a half is its own level of torture.

Satirically experimented over existential legacy influencing this lowbrow downgrade of “WALL-E” as meaningless possibility when sappily malfunctioning through mechanical animation and implausible chemistry, albeit the starring couple’s shared charm. (B-)

Good SciFi but ultimately very sad.

Better than it gets credit for, though it feels like someone watched Wall-E and tried to make it more mature. Both leads do a good job and the ideas make you think.

A beautiful love story about a buoy and a satellite. Not a whole lot else to say. Worth the watch. If only humans could learn this kind of love. I guess the moral of the story is don't base your life on instagram influencers. Pretty good moral. Instagram influencers suck. Be yourself. Make bouy babies. A date night at home isn't a real date night. Friends is wack. Water's hard. Put a skylight over your bed so you can see the stars. These are the takeaways.

Love Me begins with a compelling premise that immediately draws you in, offering a visually stunning experience that showcases impressive cinematography and artistic ambition. The opening sets the tone for something truly unique. However, as the narrative progresses, the film seems to drift from its initial focus, leaving the story feeling somewhat untethered by the end. While its aesthetic and conceptual strengths are clear, the lack of narrative cohesion kept me from giving it a full four stars.

Hey I really liked this, but I watched it on an overseas flight... small screen may have been a positive influence on it, who knows! I thought the building of reality from digital consciousness was even a little lovely and the chemistry between the only two actors was believable. I think they did a lot with the material they had. It does not move fast, but also it's not a long film... I suspect people looking for more special effects or action were bored. But I thought it was an interesting post-apocalyptic intellectual exercise. Maybe you have to come to this absolutely cold to enjoy it. I'm glad I hadn't known of it or read anything beforehand.

Maybe this isn't for most people, but such experimental existential love stories are something I'll always admire. Through the love story between a satellite and a water buoy in the dystopian future, they have managed to show a lot of issues people face today. It especially felt real for people with trauma or who are neurodivergent. The way "Me" tries to imitate the love and happiness of people from the past to feel something, and how "Iam" learns how to feel through that, were incredibly relatable thought processes, even though the situations were not. Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun gave incredible performances on top of all that. And I guess, this is what people say, "it's like a Black Mirror episode," even though I haven't seen Black Mirror.