So the “The Time Traveler’s Wife” soundtrack that comes out August 11, isn’t fantastic if you’re a pop music fan. It includes mostly score music by Mychael Danna (who also created some of the score for “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,”) and the cheeseball Lifehouse song, “Broken” which you heard in the original fromage-heavy trailer.
However, as we mentioned a few months ago, Toronto indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene appear in the film as a band at a wedding playing a cover of Joy Division’s cutter-classic “Love Will Tear Us Apart.”
Well, it appears that the song will also appear on the soundtrack. We must admit it’s odd sounding with… Kevin Drew (is that him?) doing a low tenored voice that almost sounds like a parody of Joy Division? It sounds strange, but you know, judge for yourself we suppose. You can hear it here at P4K. Or right here.
“The Time Traveler’s Wife,” is a sci-fi romance picture that looks corny as hell, but we’re admittedly holding out (naive?) hope because we like the leads Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams and if the geeks don’t like it (because it has girls and feelings, ewww!) it sort of makes us run screaming in that direction anyhow (is there anything less predictable than a male film blogger?). Watch, we’ll be eating our words when we see this thing and it sucks. Remember that time we defended “Sex & The City” because of all the rampant misogyny masked as criticism? Yeah, that sucked when the movie turned out to be a turd. Alas, we tried.
Robert Schwentke (“Flightplan”) directs and Arliss Howard and Ron Livingston co-star and the film is due for release on August 14. Broken Social Scene are involved (as per usual) in a number of film related projects including helping out on “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World,”and making their own film, “This Movie is Broken,” with fellow Canadian directors Bruce McDonald (the recent and underrated horror, “Pontypool”) and Don Mckellar (“Last Night,” the cult TV show, “Twitch City“).
admittedly, I say with shame, I have read "The Time Traveler's Wife" three times. It is only the second Oprah's Book Club selection that I have ever read. Girly, blah blah blah.
I will however say that this woman, using this time traveling mechanic has done some amazing things. If it were not so fluffy I would think that it could fit more with some of the "magical realism" books that get much more critical acclaim than the accused low brow genre of "Sci-Fi."
I am hopeful. But not too hopeful.
Again, thanks for posting some great stuff and keep up the amazing work.
Why with shame? It's supposed to be a good book. If you've read it three times clearly it's struck some kind of chord.
Because the book is a fantastic read and there's a great central duo, I was holding out some hope for this movie. But alas, that trailer sucked the big one. Here's hoping the film turns out a little bit better.