re: "About Time" on HBO-GO/ Greatest movie of all-time

Wife begged me to go see this in theaters last year, so we went. I was under the impression it was going to be a Nicholas Sparks-esque romance, so I went in not knowing a thing about it.

I think I ended up loving it more than she did. The end sequence with the father had me doing the tough guy look in the theater where you're completely stone-faced in an attempt not to cry in public. It failed.

This movie and Big Fish are probably my two favorite flicks that I feel like really capture the father/son dynamic, albeit in different ways.

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My only problem with the whole movie is the final walk on the beach not affecting the future, specifically the children. Time travel is impossible to get perfect because it's basically theoretically impossible, but I thought they dropped the ball on this part, and they could have easily avoided it with a rule change or just doing the scene as adults.

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I saw this movie when it first popped up on blu-ray about a year ago or whatever and I thought it was fine at that point but nothing special. I sat down and watched it on HBO a week or two ago and really appreciated it more then that the first viewing. Like you, I had very few issues with it except some nitpicking.

The walk on the beach, even though "they were really careful" was a bad move in the movie when it could have have easily been avoided by letting them just go out on the beach and go for a walk together.

My other issue was the kid coming back and then the father having to live with the knowledge that his son's final moment with him has passed. It is a tough concept to wrap your head around but the scene is several years before his father dies but he still lives for a few years knowing that, it's just odd and I wouldn't have a clue how to deal with that information.

Other than my few things, some of the scenes were absolutely beautifully shot between the father and son. The scene that I really liked was the wedding toast scene. The father nailed the first one and he insisted on going back and doing another one.

As far as why they targeted women with the trailers, how many times have you guys been fooled by a movie targeting guys that turned out to be more of a "chick flick" than you would have gone to see. The fact is, an emotional movie like this nearly requires a woman to drag the guy through the front door.