The Time Traveler's Wife.
As someone who read the book, I was extremely curious how the transition from the book to the big screen.
After seeing the trailer for the movie on TV, I thought that the way he starts to time travel with that slow fade away was lame. Trailer
After deciding that going to girl’s night would be fun and my curiosity of seeing the movie off to see Time Traveler's wife.
When the movie first jumps right into him Christmas shopping with his mother, and she gets into a car crash, and this is the first time he learns that he can time travel. With this being said, Robert Schwentke does a very good job at trying to not confuse you from the idea of time traveling. The whole idea becomes so complex so quickly it seems almost not worth trying to tell your views because the idea of it really is mind boggling. Back to the movie, Schwentke tires very hard to stick as closely to the book as possible. I read the book about 2 years ago so I did forget a lot of the subplots, which transitioned very nicely into a movie. The plot mainly goes like this, Eric Bana plays Henry, the time traveler who runs into women at the library he looks at. She is completely in love with him and telling him she has been waiting her whole life for him. Henry being not a completely idiot and Claire not going to take no as an answer asks him to meet up with her for dinner. Henry quickly finds out that not only does Claire know he is a time traveler but she has met him many times in her past. The movie goes on with the hardships that a time traveler’s life must experience while he jumps forward or backward in time. The hardships come from Henry not being able to control where he time travels to, or when he just disappears. The movie does an excellent job at making you feel emotionally attached to each character, and the anxieties they feel. The movie does change the ending from the book, but the change isn't a crucial part from the book. The movie gives a happy ending but in the end an inevitability a sad one.
The main message of the book was that everything that happens, has always happen, will always happen and just "IS". Nothing can change and what has happen is unchangeable.
Pros: The movie did an excellent job trying to depict the book into a film. The characters acting was very good and made you really relate to them. Finally the main message I experienced from the book seemed to be represented very well onto the movie screen.
Cons: Some of the subplots that really made you feel connected to the movie were held out. The ending being changed was one of the favorite parts of the book. I felt there was no need to have a different ending, directors sometimes I feel change the ending to make the Film "There Own" and with The Time Traveler's Wife I feel this is what Schwentke did in this film.
I would give this movie an 81% out of 100%. This is the type of movie that you can wait to see at home on either a rainy day or a Friday night with the loved one. This is a good movie, but I think I enjoyed the book so much that the movie could do no wrong as long as the director and writers did a half decent job following the book, and in this case they did.
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