Time travel romance
At our Haak family Easter celebration, I brought up my near-favorite film genre of the "Time Travel Romance." Mockery insued. Scoffers hurled insults. But to prove the existence of the genre (1) and its superiority to other genres (2) I provide this post. First, we should be clear that this is not a genre unique to film. Largely the films are adaptations of novels. I'm not too enamored with these novels with scantily clad women and bare-chested men. http://eromancewriters.com/ and We Really Dig Time Travel Romance Novels - Time has no meaning for ... On the other hand, the film genre is "hard". It discussed wormholes, rips in the fabric of space-time, time machines, altering the future with the past, and more avant-science. This is more appealing to the male audience. Plus, they don't retread the same man-from-the-past-meets-woman-in-the-future plot (or reversed.) This genre represents the ideal genre from both sexes since it has a combination of "thinking man" science and "feeling woman" romance. Anne and I came up with a list. It's only partial and represents some of our favorites or well-regarded (but unseen):
