The Time Traveler's Wife (movie)- Page 2

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 8/14/09 at 10:31pm

I agree with every word. It does not deserve the 36% rating it has on RottenTomatoes. It's no masterpiece by any standards but it's definitely one of the better romance movies I've seen in a while.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 8/14/09 at 11:03pm

Yeah, and "Bandslam" has 80%. WTF?!?! I don't normally agree with critics anyway.

Movie wise...I think "Somewhere in Time" is better but this was really good.

[little_sally]

Posted: 8/15/09 at 12:04am

Saw this movie tonight. I love the book so much and was pretty disappointed overall. I felt like they cut a little too much out.

[Kasie]

Posted: 8/15/09 at 2:08am

I really love Rachel McAdams and I enjoyed the book, but the movie seems more tedious than anything. I'll probably wait for DVD.

I, too, am pretty excited about District 9!

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 8/15/09 at 2:10am

sally - I agree that it seemed like something was missing and felt rushed.

[nygrl232]

Posted: 8/15/09 at 5:19am

Eric Bana bores me.

[Dre2387]

Posted: 8/15/09 at 9:55am

I'm looking forward to the movie. I haven't read the book in like a year or two but I remember most of it.

off topic- I saw District 9 last night and it was great. how they started as a documentary and seamlessly changed it into a movie was fantastic. And the main actor was brilliant.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 8/15/09 at 3:08pm

That is exactly what they did in "Behind the Mask - The Rise of Leslie Vernon"

I really wish that was popular

[little_sally]

Posted: 8/15/09 at 3:39pm

I didn't love Eric Bana in the role, nygrl.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 8/15/09 at 5:19pm

Almost $8,000,000 on Friday...looks like it's on the track to making somewhere between 20-25 million this weekend. More than "The Notebook" made in its opening weekend...and I think it'll have a long life at the box office. I'd say a good 85% of the people I've talked to who saw it loved it.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 8/15/09 at 7:00pm

sally - I think he was miscast, too.

[Craig]

Posted: 8/17/09 at 9:17am

Love the book (have read it twice). Keeping my comments brief - but overall, it was an OK watch. Nothing great - not bad.

I was one of the people that couldn't wait to see this as a movie. But as the release date got closer I kept thinking about the book. And unfortunately, what I "feared" became reality.

The truth is (at least for me) is that the material just works so much better AS a book. The way it's structured (although difficult to initially get into) with both viewpoints, the AHA moments and twists and turns works so well because in the book, there is great detail and you can "savor" each moment.

The movie - feels SLOW. And at the same time, it never lands on anything really long enough to savor the moment. I freely admit that both times I read the book, I was so into it that at times I was out of breath, and yes - did cry in a few spots. The movie - not so much.

Again - the movie wasn't bad. And perhaps it would be impossible to capture the book any other way in film.

The story is a beautiful story - and while there is definitely tension in the book - it's not MOVIE/ACTION tension.

*** SPOILERS *** I thought the ending was sweet - but the book's ending was far more powerful and it showed the ENDURANCE of love beyond a few years.

As I said - keeping it brief...

[xxnewgirlxx]

Posted: 8/21/09 at 11:48am

OK, I'm almost done with the book so I should go see this movie this weekend. I looked at IMDB for the cast..and I hope this isn't true: no Kimy in the movie? She's my favorite character.

[xxnewgirlxx]

Posted: 8/24/09 at 11:36am

So I saw it. It was ok. It just felt a little too vague for me. I just felt like the book told the perfect story and by omitting so much, it felt incomplete. Bana was bland for sure and McAdams was fine.
I was underwhelmed.

[Taryn]

Posted: 8/24/09 at 2:37pm

Liked it, didn't love it. What's really magical about the book is not seeing them deal when they're apart, but seeing how they savor ever last second of being together. There's a slow poignancy to their time, even when it seems to be slipping away. The movie felt slow, but lacked that depth of feeling.