I Suspend All Disbelief

The Time Traveler's Wife-Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams



MAJOR SPOILER ALERT!!!







SEE.





Okay. You got me. I kinda almost shed a tear at the end of this movie. Whatever. It was watchable. I got suckered in. They prey upon the weak. Doesn't hurt that Eric Bana exudes a strangely clueless sexy charm when he's not playing a stoic action hero. Rachel McAdams with her giant eyes, even bigger smile and perfect skin. They're just soooo pretty. Soooo tragic. How could you not be sucked in? That's all well and good, but if your character is so hard up for a date that when he time travels, he courts a six year-old, it seems to me that said character should get a therapist not his own movie. (I know. I know. He meets her in the future and the past.) Still creepy. Would have been less creepy to have Henry (Eric Bana) time travel to see Claire (Rachel McAdams) when he was a six year old boy instead of a forty year old man to her six years. Is it me?





I won't speak a lot about this movie. Who can argue the premise? I mean I submitted to view a movie about time travel. What am I gonna complain about? It's my own damn fault if I don't understand how a baby time travels out of the womb. And, if a kid is three years old and time travelling, what could the odds of survival possibly be? I mean, Henry is six when he starts time travelling. Hardly equipped to survive in the world for days at a time without money, clothes and guidance. I guess sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug in this movie. (P.S.-The BBC apparently thinks The Time Traveler's Wife is one of one hundred books in the history of the world that you should read. Yeah. I don't get it either, but, hey, read the book, maybe it explains infant time travelers better.) Oh, but kudos for setting up the sequel everybody. I'm totally ready for The Time Traveler's Daughter Who Also Time Travels. Cool
title, huh?




EAT.



Good news. If you're a time traveler, dieting is gonna be a snap. Chances are you'll never get to finish a meal.





SHOP.



C'mon. Why would you buy anything at all? You're gonna be travelling randomly through time! Naked! I guess you might want to invest in skills like weaving, sewing and knitting so you can make yourself some clothes just in case you wind up in a time period without a shopping center on every corner. So craft up, baby. Get yourself a skill set at http://www.learntoweavewithsherrie.com/ or http://www.learntoknit.com/ or http://sewing.about.com/od/beginner1/bb/sewing101.htm. Or you can just go au naturel in the world. Surely, if you're randomly thrown through time and hitting on six year old children, clothes are the least of your problems.