Crap! The Time Traveler's Wife.

[Mini 9]

I thought it might be an okay flick.
Ended up crying my eyes out.
Dammit dammit dammit.
I even tried my old trusty "imagine a guy kicking my dog" to evoke rage over the sadness. Didn't work.

So, if anyoneofyas needs to perform the annual ritual to "Flush out the tear ducts", this old movie might work for you.

dammit

[davester]

So was she hot?

[NewtonMP2100]

.....only in the future.......?

[Mini 9]

I think any old woman (and apparently ME, too!) that liked Chris Reeve's movie "somewhere in time", would feel right at home with this movie/story, too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081534/

as for the 'hot', well, the story oscillates between a 6-8 year old girl, and a full grown woman/mom.

[Doc]

Or vomit.

Flush out the ol' gizzard.

Seriously, did you see an alternate-universe version of that flick? 'Cause whatever you saw was not what was in the theaters.

Everyone else who went to that movie saw a horrible attempt at melodrama with no redeeming features to it whatsoever. It's not even up to any of the lousy chick-flicks that it blatantly ripped off. It's just bad. Not so bad that it's good. Just bad. Vogon-poetry-bad.

And it is dull to the point where it's surprising not to find guts all over the floor of the theater at the end from all of the guys committing seppuku out of shame for having sat through any of it instead of rushing the box office for their money back.

The time travel is a wasted plot device and the explanation for it is fundamentlly flawed (if it's random, how come he can predict where he's going?). In terms of moving the story-arc, the guy might as well be a traveling salesman.

Do yourself a favor: Eat a bowl of broken glass instead of watching that movie. You'll enjoy it more.

[Mini 9]

You can let it out here. No need to compensate for your emotions.

I'm a sucker for stuff like this. though i had no idea it was like this.

Like "Always", Field of Dreams, Ghost, etc. something about that story/hook/device whatever tugs at me.
I know there was a recent thread topic on this, but it must be the great childhood I had. Very nostalgia-inducing.

[Doc]

Mini 9 wrote:
Like "Always", Field of Dreams, Ghost, etc. something about that story/hook/device whatever tugs at me.

"Always" was not a bad film. It stumbled a few times, but the story was solid, the acting was good and while the climax was a little suspect the actions of the characters were true to their motivations.

"Ghost" was at least occasionally clever and slapstick.

"Field of Dreams" does not belong in the same discussion as "Time Traveler's Wife."

You're talking about a movie that ripped off and repackaged some of the most embarrassing moments in the careers of Keanu Reeves and Meg Ryan. It is not in the same class as any of those movies because it has no class.

[Mini 9]

Aren't you glad you live in a day and age of CHOICE?


I'm over my crying this morning.

[mikebw]

Alright settle down, nobody like Waterworld either.

[vicrock]

Read the book - the Time Traveler's wife was a great read - the movie was just awful in comparison.