Subj : Re: Movie: Safety Not Guaranteed
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Apr 01 2025 09:57:41

-=> Nightfox wrote to All <=-

 Ni> This past weekend, my wife and I watched the movie "Safety Not
 Ni> Guaranteed". It's not a new movie (it's from 2012), but we hadn't seen
 Ni> it.  I had heard about it before; it's based on a joke ad that someone
 Ni> placed in a magazine in 1997 about someone looking for someone to go
 Ni> back in time with him. Part of the ad text was "Safety not guaranteed",
 Ni> which is where the movie title comes from.

 I read up about it, sounds good. I'm going to try and find it online.
 Googling it led to a movie called "The One I Love", with Mark Duplass
 (Kenneth in "Safety...") and Elizabeth Moss involving married couples
 and doppelgangers. Looks interesting, too.

 Hollywood can be formula-driven and unoriginal ("A remake of the sequel
 of a reboot based on a board game") that finding smaller, original
 indie-ish films is a rewarding pasttime.






 Ni> The movie: A local newspaper is trying to come up with ideas for a
 Ni> story, and someone mentions seeing an ad for someone looking for
 Ni> someone to go back in time with him, and he offers to find him and come
 Ni> back with a story about it. He brings 2 interns with him, and they end
 Ni> up finding where he lives. The newspaper employee approaches him about
 Ni> it, pretending to actually want to go with him, but the guy doesn't
 Ni> respond well to him, so he (newspaper guy) has one of his interns try
 Ni> instead, to pretend to want to go, gain his trust, and go along with it
 Ni> for the story.  This actually works, and every day, the intern meets up
 Ni> with the guy to get ready and 'train' to go back in time; the guy also
 Ni> needs to find information and parts for his supposed time machine
 Ni> (while the newspaper crew people still question whether this guy is
 Ni> insane or not)  Then, every evening, the newspaper crew meets up in
 Ni> their hotel room to share notes.

 Ni> Side stories: The intern and the guy planning to go back in time start
 Ni> to fall for each other, and the newspaper employee reveals he went to
 Ni> this town to find and meet up with an old ex-girlfriend. Stuff ensues.

 Ni> I don't want to give away the ending, but overall, we thought this was
 Ni> a fairly entertaining movie.

 Ni> Nightfox
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