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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 1217606" data-attributes="member: 4090">My thoughts on Timeline (Spoilers for those who haven't read the book, and for the movie as well):The book: Was okay. The main thing that bugged me about the book was that, in describing the process of time travel early on [spoiler] he makes a point of mentioning that there is no such thing as time travel, that all it is is journeying to parallel universes, but yet the premise of the story is that they are keyed to the disappearance of the main character's teacher by something he left behind in the "past"- and the characters act as if whatever they do might have repercussions in the future, when by his explanation, they won't. IOW, his explanation of time travel invalidates the premise of the entire book.[/spoiler]The movie: I happened to see a preview screening of it several months ago. It was horrible. One of the worst movies I've ever seen. Not simply because it was based on (IMO) a mediocre (at best) story, but the acting was terrible, the story for the movie (altered somewhat from the book, as is typical, and sometimes necessary of adaptations) was blah. Without going into too much detail (who knows, maybe they've changed it a bit since): [spoiler] a couple of characters have little to no development; a promising character gets quite a bit of development, only to have it amount to nothing when he is suddenly killed by a villain that is introduced at the last moment (his presence is hinted at before, but when he is introduced, he is given no real back story); a romance is introduced by there is no real chemistry between the actors involved; I could go on, but I can't remember all the details- I've tried to put it out of my mind. The only real highlight of the film is the acting of Gerard Butler, in what is seemingly a minor role, but one that is played up a bit towards the middle and end (presumably the creators realized what a find he was as an actor and tried to beef up his role). If the story had focused more on him and his storyline, rather than a few poor, emotionless actors and their "romance", I think the story would have been much better.[/spoiler] In any case, I recommend giving this one a pass.</blockquote>

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