‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ Opens Everywhere Today

Eric Bana as Hector…the only thing worthy of us smart gals watching Troy! My daughter laughed at me when we went to the movie!

So true. Brad Pitt looked too girlie in the skirt. Bana wore it in style and then some. Which Henry VIII was Bana in? Not HBO, that was Rhys-Jones…I get Henry VIII movies mixed up. Was he in Boleyn Sisters one?
(if my husband could see me typing now!!!!!!)

I think you got the sequence wrong. He married her then went back in time to tell her when she's a kid. Don't see what's wrong with it.

Eric was in the "The Other Boleyn Girl" with Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. The movie wasn't that hot, but Eric was. (glad my husband can't see me typing either!) Anyway, the costumes are gorgeous, and the jewelry as well. A feast for the senses, so to speak. It's worth watching, to me, at least.

I agree the movie wasn't good. I liked Eric Bana, the costumes, the jewelry and the English countryside. I didn't care about the story line or the believability of the character in this one.

I think you are being unfair to Showtime's The Tudors. You are comparing that show to an unbelievably high standard of perfection. The new series does have some strong points (costumes and overall historical accuracy.) Are the actors very good? . . . well no, but their are several superb performances. The main problem are the stars. They go for actors who are way too hot for the actual characters. Rhys-Meyers doesn't age or gain weight, but I have followed it and not been so disappointed as you.

The costumes are the best thing on the Tudors, too. I just think any Henry movie has to have a rock solid, virile Henry with a nasty streak. If Henry doesn't knock your socks off immediately, then what's everyone fussing about? Think of Robert Shaw's screen intro as Henry in "A Man for All Seasons," leaping off the barge as his courtiers scurry after him. Bana always comes off on screen to me as a kind, lovely man, which he is in real life. He doesn't have any innate ruthlessness to me. The historical Henry VIII, for all his kingly accomplishments always struck me as a a stone cold b@$tard.

Don't get me wrong–I watch the Tudors, but it's pure camp now. Henry's story never gets old, no matter how it gets mangled, and back in season one they fearlessly admitted "the Tudors" wasn't going to be worried about silly things like historical accuracy. (at least they gave Henry his nasty leg ulcer) "The Other Boleyn Girl," however, was based on a good, accurate, well-researched book which I enjoyed immensely. And for the most part it has a very competent cast that I've enjoyed in lots of other movies. I just think they did a terrible adaptation of it. Wrecking something good is much more of a letdown than something you know is going to be silly going in.

Check out _The Castle_ next time it's on IFC or Sundance (can't remember which is which).. He's got a funny supporting part..

He does wait until she grows up, you know.

Sigh….. I'm very happily married, but can I drool over Eric Bana? Loved him as Henry VIII, and Hector in Troy. Not great movies, but who cares? I suppose I'll have to see this when it comes out on DVD, or pay-per-view.

Bana was in The Other Boleyn Girl, which was pretty bad, IMHO. Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays Henry on Showtime's "The Tudors" which is so craptastically bad it's wonderful.

I want to know if they ever explain why he travels through time. Does he work for the government? He he a cooky scientist? Scott Bacula? An alien? Or is it all just some dumb "magical" plot gimic?

It's explained as a hereditary medical issue. Throughout much of the book he is searching for a doctor who can help. Of course, since he's bouncing around in time, he ends up meeting for the first time a doctor he's known for years.

I'm not sure how well this book will translate to the screen. In the book, it is alternately narrated by the protagonist and his wife. Each section begins by giving a date, and the current ages of the two. In book form, this allows you to keep straight what's going on. As a movie, this could very easily just get confusing.

It's a cute book and worth a read. Not an incredibly important, life-changing work of literature. But an enjoyable read and a cute story.

Yeah Troy sucked dooky but Bana was cool. I go back and forth with him. For every Hector and Hoot he has played, we get a whiney insufferable cry baby in Munich. I am intriguied by this movie.

"camp" You nailed it!!!

I am probably the only one here that was not in love with the book (Time Travelers Wife). It was confusing, yet intriguing in the beginning, then… I just lost interest and wished he would travel and get lost in space and time… or that he would get into a car accident or get the crap beat out of him and die. Yes, I am mean.

I thought it was superficial silly bunkum.

OK, pelt me with negative votes.

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