The Time Travellers Wife (non-photography)
I’ve just seen the trailer for this movie, adapted from the book of the same name by Audrey Niffenegger
I’m a sci-fi fan, always have been and always will be.
My wife is romance and vampires, always has been etc etc
We both loved the book and I’ll hold my hand up and say when I heard they were finally making a film of it I told the wife we were going to see it. No ifs, no buts, no maybes.
The trailer however, does not remind me of any book I’ve read, and I am a little bit nervy now about heading out to see it. All I can hope for is that the marketing people have detected quite a bit of nervousness from the studio and have decided to pitch the film at all those girlies who are sitting around just waiting for the next “Twilight” installment.
“Look see!” they say to the executives, thrusting their statistics firmly across the table. “The women are gonna love it”.
They’ve done this before with a number of films as mentioned above. I mean the trailer for “Bridge to Terabithia” looked like another “Lord of the Rings” to me. Nothing like what I finally saw when I came to watch it on DVD.
If I’m right then the downside is that there will be a lot of cinema goers who will come away disappointed with the film. Not because its bad but because it didn’t live up to their expectations. If I’m wrong then I am going to be bitterly disappointed with it and will fervently pray that hollywood NEVER EVER makes a movie from one of my favorite books again.
Anne McGinn
No kidding… I loved this book, its edginess, its quirkiness, how the characters seemed like people from my life in Berkeley. The trailer looks like sentimental rot….. but I’m not at all surprised – are you???
Terry Walker replied
Not surprised at all. When I first read the book I thought “At last a scifi novel with a plausible romance story”. It would appear that the movie is simply an implausible romance story with special effects.