2008 July 17 | The Road Less Traveled

Everyone who knows me or reads my blog knows how much I love books and movies. When the two are combined, hey that’s just great. I just read on IMDB that a move based on the novel The Time Traveler’s Wife is coming out some time this year. It stars Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams. I don’t want to give away too many details, but here is a basic plot summary for the novel from books.google.com:

“A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare’s passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger’s cinematic storytelling that makes the novel’s unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant. An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler’s Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come.”

I’m really excited about this. If it is done right, this could be an Oscar contender. It is directed by Robert Schwentke, same guy who directed Flightplan. It will be interesting to see how he handles the scenes in which Henry passes through time. Parts of the book are also a little controversial and I’m curious to know if any of that will be included in the film.

Since we’re on the topic of movies, I have been obsessively browsing the web site Flixster, which is kind of like Facebook for movie-lovers. It’s funner that I thought it would be, reviewing movies, completing movie quizzes, and listing my favorite movies and actors/actresses.

I highly recommend this site to all movie lovers. It’s easy to navigate and has a lot of excellent features, including a movie theater with 100+ movies you can watch with limited commercial interruptions.

Here is a list of 140 of my favorite actors/actresses (not really in any order). Hopefully this works: