Genre : Chick Flick114 minutes
MPAA Rating : PG-13
My Rating : B
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Yeah, I don't normally agree to go to Chick Flicks, but I am a time-traveler, so there was relevancy. To boot, Liz had just finished the book about two weeks ago. She enjoyed the novel, so this was a must-see.
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What's To Like...
There's a pleasant blend of chuckleful humor, cool "what if" scenarios, and of course, romance. The movie did a fantastic job of finding people to play the two female leads at various stages in their lives. And the make-up people did a fantastic job with our hero. There are a couple quick butt shots, which earned the movie its PG-13 rating.
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Liz says it follows the book closely, although it naturally drops a few scenes, including an important one near the end of the book, when the time traveler's wife is very old. But Liz will definitely be buying this as soon as it's out.
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The technical part of time-travel.
Our traveler is an amateur chrono-hopper at best. He can't control when and to where he jumps. And like Arnie in Terminator, his clothes stay behind in the here-and-now. Besides the fact that it's just plain wrong (don't you think it would be easier to time-warp an inanimate object than something living?), it raises questions about what else would be left behind. The fillings in your teeth? The crowns? Your pacemaker? Your glasses and contact lenses? Your tattoos?
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They got the "mortality" aspect right. You can't cheat death by time-jumping to the past. They blew the "inevitability" conundrum. The time-traveler claims he can't change the past, then he goes out and rigs a lottery drawing so that his wife wins. And of course, there's no mention of dimension-travel, which really limits our hero's options.
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I hate to say it, but I enjoyed this movie. It's against my moral code to give a chick-flick an "A", so I'll give it a "B" instead, and recommend it to any guy who wants to score brownie points with his wife. If you're going to have to sit through a romance movie, this is the one to go see.
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P.S. One of the previews was for The Lovely Bones, and that looks like it's gonna be a must-see too.
3 comments:
Are you part woman? I can't wait to see this, but will probably wait for the cheap seats, unless I can find some poor soul willing to pay full price. Star Trek finally moved to the dollar theatre. I went to see that one last night with my mom. She - who hates aliens - loved it! Hey, there's time travel in that one too!
In hindsight, I guess every man is part woman (x), so I beat you to that, thank you very much..ha!
it is always good to score brownie points with one's spouse. also, as Liz pointed out, it was a cheap date - we had two free AMC tickets, and she had a $10 coupon for food & drink at the theater.
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