Looper (JGL and Bruce Willis)

[Pitty]

Two things, I've already seen Timecop and who really believes JGL will look like Bruce in 30 years?

Does look cool though.

 

[NAHSTE]

Bruce Willis playing JGL's future self?


:troy:

 

[Goober]

Seeing this tomorrow. Can't wait.

 

[Goober]

Looper was really good. It brought up some interesting ideas about time travel that I had never thought of before. After Bruce Willis went back in time, his memories were overwritten by the stuff JGL did.

The movie has a very unique villain, and most of the plot isn't revealed at all in the trailers. So don't ruin it for yourself before watching.

 

The fucking psycho bastard child should have died though.

 

[DoubleDeuce]

This has a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 100% by the Top Critics. I don't put too much stock into critics, but everyone's saying this is great. Must see

 

[Palooza]

going on Friday. STOKED.

 

[CCBrink]

This has a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 100% by the Top Critics. I don't put too much stock into critics, but everyone's saying this is great. Must see

SPOILERS BRO. I'm kind of upset that you made me guess the ending correctly :shifty:

 

[Goober]

SPOILERS BRO. I'm kind of upset that you made me guess the ending correctly :shifty:

Yeah you blatantly told everyone the ending in the chatbox.

 

[CCBrink]

Saw it yesterday. About the ending. There was really no other choice. Had to be done.

 

[Mogriffjr]

so good...

at times JGL didn't look like himself...pretty much got that they tried to make him look like Willis towards the middle of the movie...nice.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Piper Parabo's ass was absolutely AMAZING in this film.

I don't know what to make of the movie. It was mindless fun, but at the same time, I felt like there was a whole lot of shit that didn't make sense, as there always is with time travel films because the concept is so difficult to convey, nevermind conveying the principles to actions. Shit always gets convoluted and they always fuck up the sense of it all somewhere.

The premise was simple enough, but, once the two enter the same reality, it defies common sense.

The whole idea of Joe originally killing his Loop'd older self, to live 30 years, only for young Joe NOT kill his Loop'd self in another plane of existence really made no sense. It defies the principles of time travel.

 

[MrBill]

I think the wife and I are going to see this later this week. I am always curious to see a movie when the public and critics are all raving about it on Rotten Tomatoes.

 

[A Tasty Burgerr]

Piper Parabo's ass was absolutely AMAZING in this film.

I don't know what to make of the movie. It was mindless fun, but at the same time, I felt like there was a whole lot of shit that didn't make sense, as there always is with time travel films because the concept is so difficult to convey, nevermind conveying the principles to actions. Shit always gets convoluted and they always fuck up the sense of it all somewhere.

The premise was simple enough, but, once the two enter the same reality, it defies common sense.

The whole idea of Joe originally killing his Loop'd older self, to live 30 years, only for young Joe NOT kill his Loop'd self in another plane of existence really made no sense. It defies the principles of time travel.

Here's an interview with Rian Johnson. Spoilers obviously.

2. The film surmises Old Joe killing Sarah eventually made Cid become the Rainmaker. But Old Joe can’t become Old Joe without first being killed and letting Young Joe grow up to meet his wife. In that timeline though, Cid would grow up normal because Sarah wasn’t killed by Joe. How does that all work? How does the Rainmaker exist in a timeline where Old Joe didn’t kill his mom?

Unfortunately, this is the chicken and the egg explanation. There is no answer. One thing is dependent on the other but couldn’t have happened if the other didn’t. I’ll let Johnson take the lead here.

“That’s the Terminator question. If it’s important to you to really justify that beyond ‘It makes sense in a story type way,’ you’ll have to get into multiple time lines existing in neverending loops of logic. You can shoehorn it into making sense,” he said. “For me it’s a trope of time travel movies and there’s a slight amount of magic logic that you have to apply in order for a story like this to make sense.”

He does, however, point to the mention of the Rainmaker having a fake jaw in the future, then being shot in the present, as one particular connection. “That specific thing must have already happened, but he’s still in the timeline where that has yet to happen. Although, in my mind, what happens is cause his memory is shifting to accommodate, that’s one of the things that’s changed in his memory.” I guess we’ll never know for sure but my guess is that this loop has happened lots and times, we’re just seeing the final one.

I thought these answers were kind of interesting as well.

7. Was Joe in love with Sarah and was this something explored more in different versions of the script?

Johnson said he explicitly didn’t want Joe and Sarah to fall in love because Joe’s decision at the end has to be because he sees himself in Cid, not out of love for Sarah. Instead, their love scene is just “two lonely people in an intense situation together.” Johnson did admit, though, “There are hints that if Joe had lived, something might have happened, but in the context of the story? No.”

10. Was it Johnson’s decision to sell the movie as an action movie and totally remove Cid and the family angle from the marketing?

“That was Sony, man,” Johnson explained. “We were really lucky that we didn’t have to fight for any of that because none of the kid stuff is very marketable.” He even said Bruce Willis called the fact that the trailers were going to ignore the family aspect of the film, which was great because “people are actually going to be surprised by a big element of the movie.” A sci-fi film about the important of parenting, who would have thought?

 

[Palooza]

I fucking LOVED IT. Need to see it again.

 

[Palooza]

ATB you have a link to that interview?

 

[Goober]

ATB you have a link to that interview?

http://www.slashfilm.com/ten-mysteries-in-looper-explained-by-director-rian-johnson/

 

[Swarley]

Going in an hour.

 

[Buzzman]

Emily Blunt was to die for in this movie.

 

[mgoblue2290]

Thought it was great and really unique.

 

[DoubleDeuce]

Such a good movie. One of my favorite parts was

 

When the kid is falling down the stairs and JGL's about to catch him, then the mom just pushes him out the way. I was like ohhhhh fuck, shit's bout to get real