Safety Not Guaranteed review
Review Ryan Lambie Dec 20, 2012
A blend of drama, romance, sci-fi, mystery and comedy, Safety Not Guaranteed is a must-see winter movie, Ryan writes...
Ever since Hg Wells sent a Victorian hurtling into the future in his 1895 novel The Time Machine, science fiction writers - and later filmmakers - have been playing around with the time travel plot device. Wells didn't invent the time-travel story, but his notion of building a time machine certainly popularised it, and it's this idea that's popped up repeatedly in popular culture ever since.
Safety Not Guaranteed is the latest film in that grand tradition, incorporating elements of the romance and longing in Richard Matheson's novel Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere In Time in 1980), and perhaps even a dash of the 1960 film adaptation of The Time Machine in its production design.
Safety Not Guaranteed's eclectic cast of characters each have their private regrets and fading dreams.
A blend of drama, romance, sci-fi, mystery and comedy, Safety Not Guaranteed is a must-see winter movie, Ryan writes...
Ever since Hg Wells sent a Victorian hurtling into the future in his 1895 novel The Time Machine, science fiction writers - and later filmmakers - have been playing around with the time travel plot device. Wells didn't invent the time-travel story, but his notion of building a time machine certainly popularised it, and it's this idea that's popped up repeatedly in popular culture ever since.
Safety Not Guaranteed is the latest film in that grand tradition, incorporating elements of the romance and longing in Richard Matheson's novel Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere In Time in 1980), and perhaps even a dash of the 1960 film adaptation of The Time Machine in its production design.
Safety Not Guaranteed's eclectic cast of characters each have their private regrets and fading dreams.
- 12/19/2012
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
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