The Time Traveler's Wife

therealshell · 16 Aug 09 :: 08:10

Patty and I saw it tonight at the drive-in, and we both liked it. For me, any film that is about time travel and also features Broken Social Scene doing a lounge version of Love Will Tear Us Apart is well worth my money.

Both Eric Bana, as the time traveler & the luminous Rachel McAdams, as his wife, are wonderful in this very sweet movie, that, perhaps not unusually, is being dissed badly by peeps whp have read the book upon which the film is based. Going in not knowing anything about the film (really, just the basics), I loved it and highly recommend it.

It makes me want to Netflix the most romantic time travel film ever Time After Time.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 16 Aug 09 :: 08:14

Shell. I heart you more and more each day. Time After Time is the reason why we're even here.

Can't wait to see TTW. Probably next weekend, though Dave and I feel a strong pull toward Inglorious Basterds.

therealshell · 16 Aug 09 :: 08:23

TheCentralScrutinizer wrote:

Shell. I heart you more and more each day. Time After Time is the reason why we're even here.
Can't wait to see TTW. Probably next weekend, though Dave and I feel a strong pull toward Inglorious Basterds.

I think I posted before aboot seeing what I think was the "world premiere" of Time After Time. When I saw it, I was all by myself, not yet nineteen years old, and wished that I had had a girlfriend with me to kiss when the movie was over. Instead, as I recall, I cried a bit :embarrassed:

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therealshell · 16 Aug 09 :: 23:26

TheCentralScrutinizer wrote:

Shell. I heart you more and more each day. Time After Time is the reason why we're even here.
Can't wait to see TTW. Probably next weekend, though Dave and I feel a strong pull toward Inglorious Basterds.

Even though I'm a Tarantino fan, I don't really care to see Inglorious Basterds. I really didn't get into Kill Bill, either "volume," and QT is starting to annoy me by comparing himself favourably to Orson Wells & Stanley Kubrick, two directors who more or less changed the history of film. Like I said, I like Reservoir Dogs & Pulp Fiction (a lot), but I think that his stuff since then has been mostly uninspiring to me.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 16 Aug 09 :: 23:39

I mostly feel the same way, Shell. I haven't seen a Tarrantino movie in years, but I find this one compelling.

therealshell · 16 Aug 09 :: 23:54

TheCentralScrutinizer wrote:

I mostly feel the same way, Shell. I haven't seen a Tarantino movie in years, but I find this one compelling.

I was reading a review of IB over at http://s7y.us/13o2, and I just don't care to see extreme violence anymore. Its icky.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 17 Aug 09 :: 00:04

I understand that too. District 9 was full of extreme violence. Oddly, after a while, the gore became funny and the audience was laughing at every kill. It was definitely a unique movie experience.

Editsound · 17 Aug 09 :: 00:05

For me Tarantino is an automatic. I'm not sure I have completely liked any of them since Pulp Fiction, but there has been something about them all that I have loved. His love of movies comes out in everything he does, and that is something I am very in tune with. And yes, I'm not sure about the scalping either, but I will definately see it.

therealshell · 17 Aug 09 :: 00:10

TheCentralScrutinizer wrote:

I understand that too. District 9 was full of extreme violence. Oddly, after a while, the gore became funny and the audience was laughing at every kill. It was definitely a unique movie experience.

I will probably see District 9 soon(er) than later. The director was educated in Canada ( ! ), and that gives him points in my book. I have no problem with gore (after all, Dawn of the Dead, the original, is one of my five favourite movies ever). Have you ever seen Peter Jackson's Braindead, aka Dead Alive ? That one has so much absurd gore that it is just funny after a while.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 17 Aug 09 :: 00:24

Nah, I haven't seen that one. I'm not a big gore fan at all. But if the movie's more than just gore, I can usually watch it.

therealshell · 17 Aug 09 :: 03:57

TheCentralScrutinizer wrote:

Nah, I haven't seen that one. I'm not a big gore fan at all. But if the movie's more than just gore, I can usually watch it.

I can't recall if Braindead is about anything, actually. The gore aspect of it is just hilarious. PJ also did the very rude (and quite funny) Meet the Feebles, which is definitely worth Netflixing.

justme · 17 Aug 09 :: 16:19

I'm glad to hear that the movie is good! I just LOVED the book and have been dying to see it, but wanted to wait until the crowds went down. I was afraid that they'd make some parts too rough, like the mother's death. I know that some reviewers have made a lot of a supposed ick factor with Henry appearing naked in front of the little girl, but I can't believe they didn't handle it well.

As for "Time After Time", it always made me cry. I haven't seen it since CR died, so I'm sure next time I see it it'll make me blubber like a baby to see him so young and healthy. And beautiful. That movie always made me want to visit that hotel on Mackinac Island, but I never have.

therealshell · 17 Aug 09 :: 16:26

justme wrote:

I'm glad to hear that the movie is good! I just LOVED the book and have been dying to see it, but wanted to wait until the crowds went down. I was afraid that they'd make some parts too rough, like the mother's death. I know that some reviewers have made a lot of a supposed ick factor with Henry appearing naked in front of the little girl, but I can't believe they didn't handle it well.
As for "Time After Time", it always made me cry. I haven't seen it since CR died, so I'm sure next time I see it it'll make me blubber like a baby to see him so young and healthy. And beautiful. That movie always made me want to visit that hotel on Mackinac Island, but I never have.

CR ?

therealshell · 17 Aug 09 :: 16:29

You're thinking of Somewhere In Time.

justme · 17 Aug 09 :: 16:30

Oops! I got confused with "Somewhere In Time". Which I also loved, starring Christopher Reeve & Jane Seymour.

therealshell · 17 Aug 09 :: 16:31

justme wrote:

Oops! I got confused with "Somewhere In Time". Which I also loved, starring Christopher Reeve & Jane Seymour.

That one also makes me cry. Then again, I cry watching The Wizard of Oz.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 17 Aug 09 :: 16:41

People always mix those two movies up. Funnily enough though, most everyone who's seen one has seen the other so when you remind them which is which they're like, "Oh yeah, loved that one too!". Hee.

therealshell · 17 Aug 09 :: 16:43

TheCentralScrutinizer wrote:

People always mix those two movies up. Funnily enough though, most everyone who's seen one has seen the other so when you remind them which is which they're like, "Oh yeah, loved that one too!". Hee.

So, nobody else cries watching TWOZ ? Am I too sensitive ? :crying:

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TheCentralScrutinizer · 17 Aug 09 :: 16:50

Never been a big fan of that movie for some reason. Not sure why.

therealshell · 17 Aug 09 :: 16:51

therealshell wrote:

TheCentralScrutinizer wrote:
People always mix those two movies up. Funnily enough though, most everyone who's seen one has seen the other so when you remind them which is which they're like, "Oh yeah, loved that one too!". Hee.
So, nobody else cries watching TWOZ ? Am I too sensitive ? :crying:

I also get choked up in Star Wars, when C3P0 inquires as to the status of the wounded Artoo Detoo after the final battle.

justme · 17 Aug 09 :: 17:09

Anybody love that scene in "Sleepless in Seattle" where Tom Hanks and Victor Gerber cry about "The Magnificent Seven"? :rofl:

justme · 17 Aug 09 :: 17:17

And I love TWOZ! Don't know that it ever made me cry, but I love it.

Post padding? You bet! I have to hustle since I only have one sign-on!:P;)

TheCentralScrutinizer · 17 Aug 09 :: 17:22

That scene in Sleepless is awesome! Love it. I cried like a baby last night at the end of True Blood. Heck, I cry over baseball games and Hallmark cards.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 19 Aug 09 :: 18:45

Well, that was fast...

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/42083

justme · 19 Aug 09 :: 23:05

It just seems fast. The book came out in 2003. Course I'm sure ABC didn't get excited about it until after the movie was cast. With such beautiful people.

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