Showing posts with label time travel films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time travel films. Show all posts

Friday, November 22, 2013

Dispatches from the Popcorn Stadium: About Time

Let me tell you a little story about a man named Tim (ugh, that sucked, excuse me a sec, I have to find a closet)

Shut it, Love Actually. The cupboard door, that is, so we can travel back to enjoy this movie again. (That was even worse. Excuse me again.)

I have to admit I was skeptical about this film when I watched the trailer about sixty times this summer and fall*, as it looked like a kind of by-the-book romcom with a little twist. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised to find it much closer to Groundhog Day, although it didn't quite get there. Perhaps it could have used more Bill Murr...what? Oh god, I went too far back and stepped on a bullfrog when I was ten. Somehow Groundhog Day became a movie where Paulie Shore fought an army of animatronic groundhogs on the International Space Station. Excuse me, I have to right this grievous wrong.