Looper
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Re: Looper
It's been getting solid reviews (solid meaning the reviewers are not quote-whores/worthless Ebert-style film nonces).
Trailer looks good. Good cast...worth a shot...as long as it isn't really Freejack 2!
Trailer looks good. Good cast...worth a shot...as long as it isn't really Freejack 2!
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Re: Looper
Just because Ebert thinks a movie sucks doesn't mean it doesn't!
Oh and Ebert gave it 3.5 stars. So there!
Oh and Ebert gave it 3.5 stars. So there!
Rian Johnson's "Looper," a smart and tricky sci-fi story, sidesteps the paradoxes of time travel by embracing them. Most time travel movies run into trouble in the final scenes, when impossibilities pile up one upon another. This film leads to a startling conclusion that wipes out the story's paradoxes so neatly it's as if it never happened. You have to grin at the ingenuity of Johnson's screenplay.
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Re: Looper
I'll wait for it to turn up on Netflix.
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Re: Looper
I thought it was great; best Sci Fi movie I've seen in years. The time travel element and the problems that often come with that are definitely handled well, the script is pretty self-aware of those types of problems. Good mixture of violence, humor and boobs. A++++++ would watch again.
Go see this in the theater and support quality film-making. Original ideas are much better than rebooting The Mummy series again, and the writer/director of this wrote Brick and has directed episodes of the best show on TV (Breaking Bad) and a very good, but way-underrated, show (Terriers).
Go see this in the theater and support quality film-making. Original ideas are much better than rebooting The Mummy series again, and the writer/director of this wrote Brick and has directed episodes of the best show on TV (Breaking Bad) and a very good, but way-underrated, show (Terriers).
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Re: Looper
I thought it was pretty good. I'm a fan of Joseph Gordon-Levitt from the movies Brick and 10 Things I hate about You. Hats off to Bruce Willis for acting in quite a few sci fi and oddball movies during his career.
Time traveler movies are always good thinker movies. There wasn't any profound revelation about time travel in the movie but at least it made sense, except I don't think they accounted for the butterfly effect.
It has the thinking part down, but it's not quite on the action level of something like Minority Report that had a great combination of Action and Thinking. It's pretty rare to having something like that though.
Time traveler movies are always good thinker movies. There wasn't any profound revelation about time travel in the movie but at least it made sense, except I don't think they accounted for the butterfly effect.
It has the thinking part down, but it's not quite on the action level of something like Minority Report that had a great combination of Action and Thinking. It's pretty rare to having something like that though.
Re: Looper
Am I the only one who thought he should have
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