Safety Not Guaranteed

[Onomatopoeia]

I watched Primer as well. Just shoot me if I ever contemplate watching that remedy for insomnia again. It sounds much better on paper than it is on-screen.

[TriPolar]

I watched Safety Not Guaranteed. It was ok. I think they could have had a better ending that made it clear that the time machine worked, but not showing it actually happening.

[Snowboarder_Bo]

We know the time machine works; read the ad again:

Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 91 Ocean View, WA 99393. You’ll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.

[Alan_Smithee]

@Snowboarder_Bo

We know the time machine works; read the ad again:

I thought it was pretty likely he was lying about that.

[Monkey_Chews]

@Snowboarder_Bo

We know the time machine works; read the ad again:

No, we know he said the time machine works. That’s the whole premise of the movie.

I’m actually surprised people saw the ending as unambiguous. I thought it was great we had no idea what happened to them. Something happened, obviously, but I thought it was equally likely they just vaporised themselves. Which still somehow works.

[nearwildheaven]

@Munch

Bumping this thread from the grave to say how much I was disappointed with the ending. Yes, it does recast the entire movie in a different light - but it was still a cop-out. They didn’t give any indication throughout the movie that Kenneth might have been right, and there were plenty of ways to do it. Have Kenneth tell a story about something weird that happened with the metal box in the old truck, any other weird inconsistency - maybe a newspaper clipping about Kristen Bell’s character’s death pinned to the wall.

I loved the entire 99% of the movie leading up to the end. I suggest that everyone who liked this movie in any way give “Take Shelter” a look - they cover nearly all these themes, but do so about 1000x better.

I recently tried to watch “Take Shelter”, but totally lost interest after about 30 minutes. Part of the reason I didn’t like it was because the deaf daughter was, what, 6 or 7 years old, and they’re only just now learning sign language? :dubious: I thought parents were supposed to start learning ASL the day they found out their child was deaf, but apparently this is not the norm. I mentioned this on another board, and one poster said she’d worked in the field for over 20 years and had never once encountered hearing parents of a deaf child who had learned ASL beyond the very basics, and in most cases weren’t interested. :mad:

As for SNG, I did finish it but only because I wondered when it would get good. What kind of weirdo is obsessed about his co-workers’ virginity status anyway, let alone a guy who’s THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD? And accusing his co-worker of being a lesbian in an employee meeting? That would get most people fired on the spot.