movie seen

[calimac]

Safety Not Guaranteed

This is a quirky little independent film concerning a (possibly) mad inventor who is building a time machine to travel into the recent past.

I want you to see this movie. I want you to see it, and then I want you to look me in the eye, and tell me that you agree with me that it is a much better movie than Back to the Future.

If you can say that, I will be inclined to take your further recommendations for movies. If not, I probably won't.

Comments

[ken-3k.livejournal.com]

I would say that Safety Not Guaranteed is only marginally a SF movie; repeating myself from earlier, the movie is more about the potential of time travel. The question becomes: is Kenneth totally crazy, or only half crazy?

So, I probably don't share your thoughts on the "general run of SF movies." But, I am very fond of the small art movie field. (The three small SF movies I need to catch up with are Moon, Gattaca, and Never Let You Go.)

[ken-3k.livejournal.com]

So, looking at calimac's original point: Calimac should ignore my comments about SF movies - especially the mainstream ones - but follow my comments about small art movies. :-) So, for a recent film which touches the fringe of the genre through magical realism (and likely the best film I have seen in ten years), I recommend Beasts of the Southern Wild.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard of Beasts of the Southern Wild until it received its Oscar nominations. I use Redbox rather than Netflix, but I keep a mental equivalent of the Netflix queue, and that one's on it.