About Time (2013)
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
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At least that's what I thought before watching this one. This movie does an excellent job showing what's going on inside Tim's mind as events unfold without getting cheesy in the narration bits. A movie I will always come back to and never find myself getting tired of.
Honestly? hated it. but that singular scene where tim goes back to see his father? lost my mind crying. absolutely heartbreaking.
I'm amazed this film has garnered as many high scores as it has, because it fails as a romance and fails in its time-travel premise.Time-travel rarely works well in anything and the viewer often has to not think too hard and just go with it, but the mechanics this film chooses to use simply don't make sense. If he went back in time into the mind of his younger self, okay, I could have bought it (as in The Butterfly Effect). But for his time-travelling self to appear, as a separate entity, in a wardrobe or other space makes no sense. What's supposed to have happened to the "original him" in the time he travels back to? For example, he goes back to the New Year's party first thing. What if at the point he travels back he was in a crowded room. What happens to him? That "him" just pops out of existence and suddenly he comes downstairs from the cupboard like a bad magician on a talent show? And when he goes back in the cupboard to travel back? Then what? Where's the rest of "him" from the time he just left? Waking up in a cupboard wondering how he got there?It. Makes. No. Sense. And romance? Don't make me laugh. It's so creepy to think he went back to his love-of-his-life's apartment for the first time, their "first time" together happens three times for him but only once for her. So what she thinks was their first time was his third time they'd done the deed? This doesn't strike anyone as disturbing? And he lies and manipulates those closest to him all his life, changing things to suit him and only him? How romantic!Oh but wait - he does suddenly try to take his sister back - succeeds - but then because it alters HIS life in a way he doesn't like (though dramatically altering hers) - nah, forget that, sis, go get hit by a car - you brought it all on yourself anyway! Not having you upsetting my perfect idyl!A horrible film and a nonsense concept. I wish I could go back in time and never watch this garbage again.
I watched this movie on HBO and had never heard of it. Wow what a great movie. The message throughout it was so poignant. Live your life like every day is your last! This movie hit home so much with me because I lost my father when I was only 6 years old and never really knew him. I'm 40 now with an 11 year old son of my own. But what made the movie so great is the writing, acting and just about everything else. I love Rachel McAdams and she delivers another Notebook like performance. The rest of the cast was brilliant. Domhnall Gleeson meshed so well with Rachel McAdams. But again the underlying message about living each day as if it's your last is so well done this movie is one of those movies I always watch when I come across it.