Posted on 08/31/2009 2:30:23 PM PDT by pabianice
My wife and I saw "The Time Traveler's Wife" today. It was far better than I expected but destroyed by a Hollywood anti-gun rant. You see, the hero is killed at the end of the film in a hunting accident, shot by his father-in-law, an ultra-rich capitalist who is identified as a gun owner, NRA member, and avid hunter (and probably a racist, too) after the hero's dad rolls his eyes at such a dangerous fool. The writers and studio just couldn't make a fantasy yarn without poking conservatives in the eye.
It’s a chick flick anyway. What the heck are you doing seeing it?
It’s based on a best selling novel. Was that in the novel?
But NOOoooooooo .... had to be that eeeeeevul hunter that got him.
So did the body of your thread!
Spoiler alert didn’t help....
I’ll check tonight, but the shooting of Henry by Clair’s father was in the book, but fuzzy neurons think that the father might thought that Henry was an intruder, rather than a hunting shooting.
No, no, no.
You are being hypersensitive.
I’ve read the book. I saw the movie. The book is, as always, much better.
The movie is not some anti-hunting, anti-gun screed. It shows the relationship beginning and, poetically, ending in the meadow. If he’s going to die there, do you expect him to trip over a rock? Get stung by a bee?
Relax about it.
(And I most likely own many more guns than you do.)
Should stick to guy movies. In District 9 there’s only one alien gun that doesn’t make the target explode to goo, they shoot it twice and discard it. No anti-gun ravings there.
If both the male and female character got mauled by a giant grizzly bear at the end, I bet ticket sales would of been double or triple. That’s what I usually pray for at the end of any chickflick.
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and then get eaten by killer whales.
Otherwise there would be no reason for me to watch that crap.
I saw a preview on tv last night that Jennifer Anniston is in a romantic chickflick “based in Seattle” no less coming out this September.
I hope their making out on a Puget Sound beach and get attacked by killer whales. After many minutes of them being flug around like a seal, whats left is tossed back onto the beach, and then comes a grizzly bear to finish off them off.
If you made movies I would watch them LOL.
Hollywood=Marxist propaganda scum...yours is coming.
I’m so tired of Hollywood picking on guns, Republicans, Christians, and - in general - AMERICANS. Unfortunately, I can only make one movie at a time. Grr!
Thanks for the warning. I and a lot of other people who were going to go see it won’t now.
Would you prefer they alter the plot of the novel to not offend anyone?
As soon as my wife asked me, she saw the look in my eyes and said, “I’ll ask my Mom if she wants to go.”
You went to a movie based on this?!?!?!?!?!:
“The Time Traveler’s Wife, published in 2003, is the debut novel of American author Audrey Niffenegger. It is a love story about a man with a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel unpredictably, and about his wife, an artist who has to cope with his frequent absences and dangerous experiences. Niffenegger, frustrated in love when she began the work, wrote the story as a metaphor for her failed relationships. The tale’s central relationship came to her in a flash one day and subsequently became the novel’s title.”
I’d rather volunteer to be the stunt double on the film about being eaten by killer whales and finished off by bears...
Personally, I found the concept/story as perverted. A 30-40 year old male keeps going back to a very young girl ... the ultimate reason for his death.
Simply, It took a sick mind to dream up such a highly, technically flawed film.
You have too see this one for yourselves.
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