Looper - time for another Bruce Willis and a Little Kid movie.
This is a discussion thread for the movie, Looper - a sci fi movie about Bruce Willis traveling through time to do irrational things. Are you excited to see a movie not based on a cereal box maze? Do you, like me, have a decades long man-cush on Bruce Willis' ageless, bald head? Let's pull the tracking devices out of our teeth and talk about it!
Used two free movie tickets (thank god) to see this turd last night with Thud. Going in, I knew absolutely nothing about this flick except it is a sequal to 12 Monkeys. Robin stars with a CG mutated face as yuppie drug addict time assassin who wants to go to France or something. I really wanted to like this movie, but jesus, it was putting up a fucking fight - precocious 5 year old, cartoonish bumbling bad guy, tough but horny farm chick, weak character motivation. I could pick apart all the things that bug me, but let me just describe a climatic scene near the end of the movie Spoiler:
What about ya'll? Anyone else see this? What did you think? |
Going into any time travel movie, you should be prepared for the fact that there will be many time paradoxes, and you just hope that they are small enough to accept. That is not the case with this movie. Like you, I wanted to like it. I like many of the actors in the movie.
Spoiler for explaining/complaining about a paradox that destroys the movie: Spoiler:
It is like the story was started as a thought exercise, where the writer came up with an idea, put it to paper, and before he was able to re-read it and see all of the places where he went wrong (and attempt to correct those mistakes), it was filmed. |
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Bringing this back from the dead to point out another big hole in this movie (and hoping Sprout will see it so I don't have to shit all over his movies of 2012 fb post without repeating my points here).
If killing people is so hard in the future that they have to travel through time to do it, why is Future Bruce's wife just... gun downed in the back yard. |
Besides the plot inconsistencies of this movie, I enjoyed the world that they built for the story. Technology, such as the guns, was pretty neato. It was still believably in the future while not being overwhelming. Details like the cars, too - with their tailpipes leading to their gas and their solar panels certainly helped immerse you into the setting.
I felt kind of ripped off when they got to the farm because it was just like any other farm. Nothing particularly interesting about that old farm house or barn. :c Nonetheless, after I saw the movie, the biggest thing I wanted was for them to release an artbook or something, but I doubt they've done such a thing :c It was refreshing to see a sci-fi movie that wasn't too...sci fi in setting. Odd. |
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