Saturday, 12 December 2009
The Time Traveler's Wife
On the flight from Brunei to Dubai, an eight-hour journey, I only managed to watch one movie. I wasn't feeling well so I tried to sleep but didn't think I did until my brother told me I was snoring. So no wonder time flew by and I only managed to watch this one movie.This was a fantasy movie as how one could time travelled was never explained. The jumbled up timeline didn't explain much at all how these two have met for the first time. The "Back To The Future" effect was a big issue here as well, and nothing seemed to make sense about which event happened first. Everything "just happened" and we just have to leave it at that in the space-time continuum.One of the plot holes that was jarring to me was when Eric Bana explained the feelings his character got when he just about to disappear, but before that you see him bringing some plates out to the dinner table and the plates crashed to the floor as he vanished. Now if he could feel that he was about to go, why didn't he save the plates? I know it's inconsequential but this was what got me ticked.Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams did a respectable job. However, because of the lack of a "start" when the two first met, I think that threw off the viewers as we kept waiting for it to be shown to us. And this might have made the two characters difficult to relate to.Rating: 6 / 10
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Uh, did you phase in and out during the movie? They meet the first time in the meadow, when she whacks him in the head with her shoe and she gives him the blanket to wrap up in. He tells her he's a time traveller and she doesn't believe him, but then he disappears. First meeting, very obvious. At the end, his daughter pretty much tells us it's a genetic thing, some people have evolved to the point of time travel. As an epileptic myself, he described the feelings of time travel and it is specifically epileptic in the aura, and trust me, when you're having one of those, you don't have the cognitive ability to set plates down or do much else than panic a little. No need to give out false, inaccurate reviews because you're a dipshit who can't pay attention.
ReplyDeletemy dear, it is just my opinion of the movie. plus i'm sure my review isn't the worst out there, are you going round posting your hate on every review? OK, so that's the first time they met, but with all the time travelling and the different versions of himself, I felt he already knew who she was. until you told me that's the first time they met. i still don't agree with you about the plates. he's been doing it for so long he should be used to being careful with carrying breakable things. and "some people have evolved to the point of time travel". that's not a good excuse for a movie that's all about time travelling.but hey you obviously cared enough to call me dipshit, so good that someone out there cares enough for it. it'll need it.
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