Public Service Announcement
Aug. 17th, 2009 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyspriteIf you have ever read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' and enjoyed it, please, for the love of all you hold holy, do NOT go see the movie.
If you have not read the book, and are thinking about going to see the movie, please drive past the theater to your local bookstore and pick up a copy of the book instead. It'll cost less, last longer, and will have the added advantage of not being screamingly awful.
If you *have* read the book, and thought perhaps that it was too serious, had too much plot and character development, and wasn't sweet or heartwarming enough, by all means go see the movie. It was clearly made for you.
I should have known better than to get my hopes up. This was not a book that was ever made to transition to the big screen, and it was clear from the trailers that the parts they chose to keep were not the parts that mattered most to me. Still, I had kind of daydreamed about it at least catching some of the feel of the story, which it utterly failed to do, at least for me.
The worst part is.... it didn't utterly suck. It's not a categorically bad movie - it's just incredibly weak. A halfhearted plot, weak characterization, and enough painted-on sappy romance and Hollywood ending to make it feel like being force-fed a solid brick of artificial sweetener. If it were truly and unmitigatedly awful I could get a decent head of righteous ire going. As it is, I just feel deeply let down.
Please, whoever's listening, don't let 'Julie and Julia' suck. I need a good movie....
If you have not read the book, and are thinking about going to see the movie, please drive past the theater to your local bookstore and pick up a copy of the book instead. It'll cost less, last longer, and will have the added advantage of not being screamingly awful.
If you *have* read the book, and thought perhaps that it was too serious, had too much plot and character development, and wasn't sweet or heartwarming enough, by all means go see the movie. It was clearly made for you.
I should have known better than to get my hopes up. This was not a book that was ever made to transition to the big screen, and it was clear from the trailers that the parts they chose to keep were not the parts that mattered most to me. Still, I had kind of daydreamed about it at least catching some of the feel of the story, which it utterly failed to do, at least for me.
The worst part is.... it didn't utterly suck. It's not a categorically bad movie - it's just incredibly weak. A halfhearted plot, weak characterization, and enough painted-on sappy romance and Hollywood ending to make it feel like being force-fed a solid brick of artificial sweetener. If it were truly and unmitigatedly awful I could get a decent head of righteous ire going. As it is, I just feel deeply let down.
Please, whoever's listening, don't let 'Julie and Julia' suck. I need a good movie....
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Date: 2009-08-18 01:46 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-08-18 03:55 pm (UTC)Either that, or it really IS a good movie.