The Time Travelers Wife

It is opening day for Inglourious Basterds, and even tho I don't like Nazi movies and don't particularly like Brad Pitt (eeeek, sorry about that but it's true) it IS directed by Quentin Tarantino so we just HAD to go.

The best laid plans.... even at the first show of the opening day it was PACKED. So going with our constant mantra that a mediocre movie in an uncrowded theater is better than a great movie in a crowd, we changed up and went to see The Time Traveler's Wife. Sorry Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, you were not our first choice.

Long ago I read the book, or at least I read part of the book. I'm not sure I finished it. I don't read much fiction. You can't miss the trailers for this film, it's been HEAVILY promoted, but we had pretty much decided not to go see it. Well there we were and lo and behold, it was a bit more interesting than we expected.

Here is where I warn you to check your logic at the door. Check reality at the door, check common sense there too. I went in with the "Okay I'm believing in Time Travel - hey it could happen!" theory, but even with that in mind, the logic really escapes the writer of this story. Do yourself a favor, don't keep track of the rules of time travel, don't try to make sense out of the things they do, just expect a sweet love story and let yourself get swept up in just that. You'll enjoy the movie if you do.

As usual I don't give away the plot, but Eric Bana is a time traveler and he and Rachel McAdams fall in love and he keeps popping in and out unexpectedly throughout their lives. Thankfully there's more to it than that but that's the premise.

Eric Bana is a very good actor (we last saw him in 'Funny People' with a thick, Australian accent) and Rachel McAdams does a really good job here. It's nice to see Arliss Howard in a small role (last seen on tv on 'Medium') and it's nice to see Ron Livingston do a good job here (the star of 'Office Space'), but the stand out performance we felt was by two little sisters, Hailey and Tatum McCann. They were mesmerizing on screen and I bet we see a whole lot more of them.

We were happy to see Super Manager Shane at our Pueblo Tinseltown, he served us up totally fresh and delish popcorn with real butter and added some nice words to his great service. Concession Leader James was also a nice smiling face, as was our favorite ticket taker Adam. Earthdad and I commented today that long time ago we were sad to see Tinseltown come here because it ran some smaller theaters out of business and was just a big corporation with a cold feel. For at least the last 5 years we've noticed just the opposite about this particular Tinseltown. It's a big, beautiful, clean, well maintained facility with great seating, but it also has that small town friendliness and nice touches to it like the smaller theaters did.

Somehow this place has managed to do both and do them very well. I think they have some very caring and hard working people here. It really shows in their work and it really makes the experience better for anyone who comes in.

The Time Traveler's Wife gets a '3' - it's fun and better than we thought it would be, but check your brain cells at the door!