Time Traveler's Wife Trailer AKA Worst Idea For A Chick-Flick Ever

Sorry to hate on this movie before it even comes out, but really, what the fuck were they thinking here when they decided to mix a convoluted plot device like time travel with the most cheesy of cheesy romance flicks? Watch this:



I know I'm not gonna win any fans with my tarnishing of their favourite book and soon to be favourite movie, but let's just see if I understand what's going on here. Now I haven't read the book, so maybe there's more to it than this, but from what I understand from the trailer, Eric Bana's character is a time-traveler. The reasons for this aren't explained, all we know is that he can't control when he time-travels. He meets Rachel McAdams' character when she's a kid, and tells her in the future they'll be "friends" (already that's freakin' creepy). Than he disappears right in front of her. He comes back later on when she's grown up, they fall in love and get married. He still, however, time-travels, leaving her at any given moment for unknown amounts of time. This eventually leads her to feel alone and neglected.

You think I wanted this life, this husband that disappears? Who would want that.

You had a choice.

I never had a choice.

Than there's a montage of clichés from other movies: giving birth, dancing in the snow, fireworks(!), and of course, running through a field!

The premise is so ludicrous. I mean time-travel's never an easy plot device to pull off, but my first question to anyone silly enough to take this movie seriously would be, why is this girl's main concern the fact that her time-traveling husband is not emotionally involved in their relationship? The dude can travel through fucking time! He could probably tell us who shot Kennedy. He could tell us where technology is going to be in the next fifteen years, or the who next twenty winners of the Superbowl are. Not being there to talk about your day should not be your concern.

Where's Doc Brown when you need 'em?