Movie "The Time Traveler's Wife" - what did you think of it?

[EllenFrasier]

I am watching the movie for the first time and I can honestly say that I am getting sick of seeing him travel in time and have to look for clothes. I'm not his wife and I'm getting aggravated that he keeps disappearing!

 

[Robindianne]

I am watching the movie for the first time and I can honestly say that I am getting sick of seeing him travel in time and have to look for clothes. I'm not his wife and I'm getting aggravated that he keeps disappearing!

Did you read the book? I LOVED both book and movie, but preferred the book (more indepth than a film can be in 2 hrs). Have fun watching.

 

[rkandmjsmommy]

I read the book first so I think that may have helped with the movie, I really enjoyed the movie but LOVEd the book!!

 

[phillmolly]

personally I thought it was one of the lamest movies ever! I watched the whole thing just to see if it ever got better.

 

[EllenFrasier]

Okay, now they have a daughter and she is creeping me out - she doesn't look like she could possibly be either on of theirs and kind of looks like an elf or something! Maybe I should have skipped the movie and read the book instead.

 

[etoiles]

The book is definitely the way to go. The movie does not do it justice.

 

[bicker]

I read the book first, but the movie was pretty good, and really as good as could be done given the plot and the limitations of the film medium. The movie paints pictures that help you see how someone else (the director) saw things in the book. It isn't going to give you the full book on film... no one could sit that long.

 

[livie1205]

I would watch ANYTHING with him in it!!!! He looks just like my dh but dh has bright blue eyes! yuummmy! He is older then dh I think but I like older men (wink wink ) anyway I liked the movie but it was sad.

 

[MushyMushy]

I read the book first, but the movie was pretty good, and really as good as could be done given the plot and the limitations of the film medium. The movie paints pictures that help you see how someone else (the director) saw things in the book. It isn't going to give you the full book on film... no one could sit that long.

Exactly.

I never watch a movie based on a book without reading the book first, unless I don't know about the book, then I go back to read it to see what I was missing. I don't believe there's ever been a time that the movie was better or even nearly as good as the book.

 

[bicker]

Harry Potter is actually pretty close.

 

[suzyqsam]

I enjoyed the movie. Have not read the book yet.

 

[MushyMushy]

Harry Potter is actually pretty close.

You might be right on that one. I'm glad they've made the final book into two movies. I'm not sure they could have done it justice with just one part.

 

[Rora]

I LOVED the book. The movie was pretty good too!

 

[EllenFrasier]

Many things didn't make sense in the movie, but one thing that really didn't add up - He meets his daughter when his dd is on a field trip at school and he says to her that this was the first time that they ever met and asks her how old she was and she says 10. Then after he dies, he comes back home to the field where he used to meet his wife when she was a child and his daughter is there and she is 9?

 

[maddiel]

Many things didn't make sense in the movie, but one thing that really didn't add up - He meets his daughter when his dd is on a field trip at school and he says to her that this was the first time that they ever met and asks her how old she was and she says 10. Then after he dies, he comes back home to the field where he used to meet his wife when she was a child and his daughter is there and she is 9?

In his timeline he met her in the art gallery when she was 10 first, then she was born, then he meets her in the field when she's 9. (I don't think the field meeting happens in the book.)

When you read the book,I think it tells you at the start of the chapter when it is for him and when it is in absolute time - it makes it easier to keep track.


M.

 

[luvmy3]

I loved the movie, but I loved the book more.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I liked the movie, but was glad I'd read the book first.

 

[DeluxePrincess]

I read the book first so I think that may have helped with the movie, I really enjoyed the movie but LOVEd the book!!

Me too!

 

[LOVETHATMOUSE]

I watched it last night and didn't read the book. I liked it, but I agree, they could have cast the daughter better..didn't look like either one of them. And at her 5th bday party there is no way she looked 5! I am definitely going to read the book.

 

[clh2]

I read the book prior to seeing the movie. Loved both, but as other posters have explained - the book is better than the movie. It was easier to keep track of things in the book becasue it mentioned at the beginning of each chapter how old the characters were.

And...loved the ending of the book!

I didn't go out seeking the movie shortly after I read the book - ironically, it showed up via Netflix, and had been on our list for about 6 months.