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Any MEN out there think The Time Traveler's Wife is good?

  • 05-02-2012 8:15pm
    #1
    ArtSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,614 ✭✭✭


    yes, call me wtayemecalllit, but i want to know if any men sat through this, happily


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  • #2
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,698 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Moved from Film Reviews.

    I thought it was going to be terrible and was dreading watching it, but I actually really enjoyed The Time Traveler's Wife. At least the time travel made logical sense, which is more than can be said for most time travel films.


  • #3
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    No!!

    BTW it's on Channel 4 in a few minutes.


  • #4
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,595 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    yes, call me wtayemecalllit, but i want to know if any men sat through this, happily

    I didn't think it was awful, it was ok but overall it was a very tame adaptation of one of my favourite books ever. It should have been amazing but it was just very mediocre.


  • #5
    Neo#
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 648 ✭✭✭Neo#


    I enjoyed it. I seem to be in the minority though as anyone ive talked to doesnt like it.


  • #6
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,129 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    I thought it was a woeful film, but the book is excellent - one of comparatively few novels I've read that (correctly, IMO) decided that the interesting parts of a love story come after the wooing and initial honeymoon period, not before.

    The problem with the film was that the screenplay treated the source material as a conventional romance and robbed it of everything that made it any good.

    Edited to add: I went to see it with my other half, as we'd both enjoyed the book. We both thought it was a woeful film.


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  • #7
    whatsamsn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 911 ✭✭✭whatsamsn


    I am a man.
    What a man (:pac:)
    and i like the time travellers wife movie.

    Sue me.


  • #8
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    I didn't think it was awful, it was ok but overall it was a very tame adaptation of one of my favourite books ever. It should have been amazing but it was just very mediocre.

    I actually thought it was worse than mediocre. They stripped any darkness out of the characters, and completely sanitised the creepy overtones of the early relationship from both perspectives. The book plays with really interesting ideas and the film, I felt, just tried to wedge the time travel in around the love story (which they made boring).


  • #9
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Fysh wrote: »
    The problem with the film was that the screenplay treated the source material as a conventional romance and robbed it of everything that made it any good.
    +1

    So many little details omitted from the source material that diluted into a run-of-the-mill hollywood romance film.


  • #10
    Hunchback
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭Hunchback


    the book..atmospheric and innovative
    film.. slushy soft focus rubbish:(


  • #11
    OldeCinemaSoz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭OldeCinemaSoz


    TIME AFTER TIME is quite good.

    HG Wells chases Jack The Ripper
    to er, a modern day, San Francisco.

    Only the original TIME MACHINE beats
    this beaut into top spot!


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  • #12
    Raiser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭Raiser


    Thought it was woeful shíte......


  • #13
    Mr Freeze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    I thought it was alrite, I have watched a lot worse.

    It was an ok film to sit in and watch with herself, who liked the film. No other reason to watch it.


  • #14
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,396 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    The book was fantastic, the film merely a better than average chick flick.


  • #15
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    Haven't read the book, thought the movie was OK, but not great.


  • #16
    shortys94
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    Absolutely terrible movie


  • #17
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Old thread. Yay

    I liked it (the film, not the thread)


  • #18
    CL7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 684 ✭✭✭CL7


    For a chick flick it wasn't bad. Eric Bana is a good actor and Rachel McAdams is adorable. Actually I quite enjoyed it.


  • #19
    Slydice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    CL7 wrote: »
    For a chick flick it wasn't bad. Eric Bana is a good actor and Rachel McAdams is adorable. Actually I quite enjoyed it.

    I agree. Wasn't too bad.

    Also, I really like Science Fiction films/tv/books and the time traveling element to the film kept me interested.


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