Michael and I stayed up Wednesday night watching "The Time Traveler's Wife". (Yes, I read the book and enjoyed most of it, but I have a problem with being blindsided by amputations in movies and novels. Maybe it's just me but I find this quite off-putting, and I can think of four other movies/novels where this happens to male lead. And yes, on Dr Who, but he can grow a new hand. Anyway, amputation was written out of "TTTW" film, thank you.)
But the real highlight of this morose romance is the WORST wedding song in the world. Very expedient to continue to foreshadow tragic ending with first-dance funeral dirge - Broken Social Scene moaning their way through "Love WIll Tear Us Apart".
I admit it, I wanted that "The Notebook" romantic sugar rush, and "The Time Traveler's Wife" does not deliver. (I found a funny mock trailer on You Tube using the audio from the "TTTW" trailer with visuals from Dr Who featuring The Doctor and Rose. Which of course I find to be a much more romantic, convincing, and heartbreaking doomed time-travel romance.) Kudos on the art direction and costuming, though. Like Anthropologie with the color-contrast turned way down.
I have to say that was the most badly edited film I've ever seen--it was as if they just stuck the middle onto the beginning and put random sequences all over the place.
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