Piper Perabo is gorgeous and having her do a nude scene just makes it a better film
Also, this was fantastic
I'm not quite sure if it's my favorite film of the year, but it would have been a lot easier to declare it so if
they followed the Moonrise Kingdom rule and found a child actor that wasn't terrible
Sure, you could make the argument that this kid is younger than those kids, but then there's no reason the kid has to be five, right?
oh whatever the kid was fine
A movie with time travel (which I expected) and telekinesis (which I did not expect) and yet the thing that took me out of it was this kid
He was pretty bad
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
Not Looper
But still JGL
I saw Premium Rush tonight
It was pretty good!
Didn't manage to sneak any dick peeks through bike shorts though
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The kid actor was fine, but confusing.
I'm really bad with kid ages, and it sounded like his voice and lines were way older/more mature than how old the kid looked (which in my mind was like 3 or 4). I kept trying to figure out if they had dubbed him over or something.
Then the Gat-man asked Sarah about her kid and she says he's ten years old and I was like whaaaaat no way that kid is ten.
Maybe they made him look younger and talk smarter on purpose, it would make sense with his mind powers and everything.
Piper Perabo is gorgeous and having her do a nude scene just makes it a better film
Also, this was fantastic
I'm not quite sure if it's my favorite film of the year, but it would have been a lot easier to declare it so if
they followed the Moonrise Kingdom rule and found a child actor that wasn't terrible
Sure, you could make the argument that this kid is younger than those kids, but then there's no reason the kid has to be five, right?
oh whatever the kid was fine
A movie with time travel (which I expected) and telekinesis (which I did not expect) and yet the thing that took me out of it was this kid
He was pretty bad
Nah.
That kid seriously creeped me the fuck out
Which i think was the point?
To make you kind of get on board with the whole "This kid is monster that clearly needs to be taken down" train
I'm really bad with kid ages, and it sounded like his voice and lines were way older/more mature than how old the kid looked (which in my mind was like 3 or 4). I kept trying to figure out if they had dubbed him over or something.
Then the Gat-man asked Sarah about her kid and she says he's ten years old and I was like whaaaaat no way that kid is ten.
Maybe they made him look younger and talk smarter on purpose, it would make sense with his mind powers and everything.
IIRC
His birth year is 2039, Looper takes place in 2044, which makes him five at the oldest
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I know Bruce Willis pretty much just plays himself these days, but he still acted the shit out of this.
The part right after he kills the first kid really sold me, and had a huge burden to carry. When he's there pointing his gun at the kid I was thinking "they can't have him just shoot the kid, that makes Bruce's character practically unforgivable." Willis had to push the audience back over the line to, if not forgiving him, at least not giving up on or condemning his character after an act like that. Plus convey (maybe other people figured this out beforehand but I didn't get it until I saw this scene) that if the kid he killed had been the young Rainmaker, then he would have known his job was done; he would have either disappeared like Young Joe suggested or his memories would have changed.
Not only does Old Joe have the strain and guilt of having just murdered a child, he knows immediately that he had needlessly killed the wrong child.
I know Bruce Willis pretty much just plays himself these days, but he still acted the shit out of this.
The part right after he kills the first kid really sold me, and had a huge burden to carry. When he's there pointing his gun at the kid I was thinking "they can't have him just shoot the kid, that makes Bruce's character practically unforgivable." Willis had to push the audience back over the line to, if not forgiving him, at least not giving up on or condemning his character after an act like that. Plus convey (maybe other people figured this out beforehand but I didn't get it until I saw this scene) that if the kid he killed had been the young Rainmaker, then he would have known his job was done; he would have either disappeared like Young Joe suggested or his memories would have changed.
Not only does Old Joe have the strain and guilt of having just murdered a child, he knows immediately that he had needlessly killed the wrong child.
yeah
i'm really happy bruce willis decided to be in really good movies again this year
You claim to not want to see Looper for the silliest of reasons but then you like The Expendables, which featured dudes literally being blown in half by shotguns in the first five minutes
Movie was alright, but I seriously couldn't stand that kid. His character didn't seem believable, he just weirded the shit out of me. He was 5 but his mannerisms and such made him seem waaaay older, and I really hate that thing where with some kid it's like "We gotta protect the little angel!!" I don't like kids.
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The best part about Premium Rush was how dang fun it is
Like, it is a bike courier version of the Transporter. JGL rides a fixie. It is a silly fucking concept.
The best part about Premium Rush was how dang fun it is
Like, it is a bike courier version of the Transporter. JGL rides a fixie. It is a silly fucking concept.
But you forget all that, because it is fun
Shit is like a feel good action movie
It had a great pace to it as well, and the little possible scenarios that JGL plotted out in his head really reminded me of a weird American version of Run Lola Run
Only without a throbbing techno soundtrack and shitty animated sequences
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nitpicking:
so like, they can control where the dudes appear in the past, they're sending them right to the corn field
why not just send them directly into the furnace and save a lot of effort
or like, a volcano
or the bottom of the ocean
also JGL could have just shot his gun hand off
movie was good though
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Saw this tonight
I was underwhelmed
It started off very good but about halfway through I found myself trying to enjoy it more than I was just enjoying it
Nothing about the Time-Travel stuff held up in anyway which would have been fine except I really didn't find any emotional resonance to push me through
It didn't help that I started thinking "This is kind of like The Terminator", and then "Okay, this is a lot like the Terminator." and then, "When is this going to stop just being the plot to The Terminator?"
There were some great parts but overall 12 Monkeys is a way better movie about similar ideas
so like, they can control where the dudes appear in the past, they're sending them right to the corn field
why not just send them directly into the furnace and save a lot of effort
or like, a volcano
or the bottom of the ocean
also JGL could have just shot his gun hand off
movie was good though
They never said they had control, I just assumed the warehouse where they took him was the spot where the cornfield was in the past.
Then again it is quite a long trip from China back to the states and it didn't look like the hitmen travelled very far after they picked old Joe up...
Also while he wanted his older self dead, I'm sure he didn't want to permanently disable himself to try and catch old Joe. They would both not have a gun hand.
aside from the TK, the kid had genius intellect. He tickers with his toys to make them better and created a wireless device to signal each other. If the mom wants to raise him in peace of course she is going to lie about his actual age. She was lying about everything else (having a husband, kid & husband are in town, ect)
I just got home from seeing this, it was pretty interesting! Some thoughts:
- At first I dismissed the telekinesis mutation as just something to establish "hey, it's the future" but then it turned out to be more important than that. Good job, film.
- That body-horror sequence was profoundly unsettling.
- Really liked the scene in the diner, JGL does a great young Bruce Willis
- Christ on a bike that kid was creepy. I guess he was meant to be though?
Overall I thought that Looper had a real elegant simplicity to it. As a film involving time travel, it had the potential to disappear up its own ass, but it never once came close to doing that.
so like, they can control where the dudes appear in the past, they're sending them right to the corn field
why not just send them directly into the furnace and save a lot of effort
or like, a volcano
or the bottom of the ocean
also JGL could have just shot his gun hand off
movie was good though
They never said they had control, I just assumed the warehouse where they took him was the spot where the cornfield was in the past.
Then again it is quite a long trip from China back to the states and it didn't look like the hitmen travelled very far after they picked old Joe up...
Also while he wanted his older self dead, I'm sure he didn't want to permanently disable himself to try and catch old Joe. They would both not have a gun hand.
so like, they can control where the dudes appear in the past, they're sending them right to the corn field
why not just send them directly into the furnace and save a lot of effort
or like, a volcano
or the bottom of the ocean
also JGL could have just shot his gun hand off
movie was good though
They never said they had control, I just assumed the warehouse where they took him was the spot where the cornfield was in the past.
Then again it is quite a long trip from China back to the states and it didn't look like the hitmen travelled very far after they picked old Joe up...
Also while he wanted his older self dead, I'm sure he didn't want to permanently disable himself to try and catch old Joe. They would both not have a gun hand.
death is a permanent disability
Some times when people have to make split second decisions they do not make the wisest of choices, doesn't really make it a plot hole or anything.
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so would Jeff Daniels and the rest of the gang be alive again at the end if Bruce-Joe never existed
Also Bruce-Joe and Joe-Joe should be how we differentiate
No because this is now the post-Bruce-Joe canonical timeline. Provided there's no future timey-wimey, those guys stay dead.
Which is why I'm glad they didn't
Somehow make the fuck-up Gat Man be a time traveler too. They kept things simple (as far as time travel goes) by only focusing on Joe's Journey
wait but
so Joe-Joe offed himself in 2047, wouldn't that mean he'd never be able to grow up to be Bruce-Joe in the first place and thus Bruce-Joe could never go back in time and kill Jeff Daniels et al?
on that note I did like that there was a scene where Bruce-Joe basically said 'don't worry about crazy time-travel diagrams that's some bullshit'
jgl can change the future but cannot change the his current past. Bruce willis is an anomaly who can have his past changed.
I mean its generally implied as when jgl dies. As if Bruce willis was completely removed from the timeline, jgl wouldn't shoot himself at all.
Jeff Daniels' character was pretty clear that killing Seth to stop his loop from running was a bad idea that would mess up the timeline, which I take as the explanation for why Joe-Joe killing himself didn't undo everything Bruce-Joe had done. He took the whole mess off the rails.
Also, Bruce with floppy long hair during the timeline montage kinda felt like a 5th Element reference/looked like Zorg, but in hindsight not so much.
one is a comedy and the violence is absurd and unbelievable
the other has the violence taken seriously and has unnerving and unusual violence
facial injuries, nose and eye removal/stabbings in particular unnerve me most of all
I will say this.
I've seen a lot of "torture porn" flicks, from Hostel to Saw to the Guinea Pig Films
Yet the shit that went down in this film is easily, EASILY, the most disturbing and unsettling body horror scene I've seen in a movie. And there's almost no gore in this scene.
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Also, this was fantastic
I'm not quite sure if it's my favorite film of the year, but it would have been a lot easier to declare it so if
Sure, you could make the argument that this kid is younger than those kids, but then there's no reason the kid has to be five, right?
oh whatever the kid was fine
He was pretty bad
But still JGL
I saw Premium Rush tonight
It was pretty good!
Didn't manage to sneak any dick peeks through bike shorts though
Then the Gat-man asked Sarah about her kid and she says he's ten years old and I was like whaaaaat no way that kid is ten.
Maybe they made him look younger and talk smarter on purpose, it would make sense with his mind powers and everything.
Nah.
Which i think was the point?
To make you kind of get on board with the whole "This kid is monster that clearly needs to be taken down" train
Yesss Premium Rush is great, shame on all of you for not seeing it and somehow letting that anti-Obama documentary beat it on its premiere week
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Not only does Old Joe have the strain and guilt of having just murdered a child, he knows immediately that he had needlessly killed the wrong child.
yeah
i'm really happy bruce willis decided to be in really good movies again this year
GI Joe 2 is coming out early next year
It was sacrificed to make a year of good Bruce Willi-
Hmm
The Expendables 2 had Bruce Willis in it, didn't it
Fuck
That GI Joe 2 will likely be awful
And that The Expendables 2, while I haven't seen it, is a sequel to an awful film
So I feel comfortable saying it was "probably pretty bad too"
You confuse me
You claim to not want to see Looper for the silliest of reasons but then you like The Expendables, which featured dudes literally being blown in half by shotguns in the first five minutes
What the hell
Hotel Transylvania beat this for the #1 spot? Really?
one is a comedy and the violence is absurd and unbelievable
the other has the violence taken seriously and has unnerving and unusual violence
I only ask because I watched it again tonight
Like, it is a bike courier version of the Transporter. JGL rides a fixie. It is a silly fucking concept.
But you forget all that, because it is fun
Shit is like a feel good action movie
It had a great pace to it as well, and the little possible scenarios that JGL plotted out in his head really reminded me of a weird American version of Run Lola Run
Only without a throbbing techno soundtrack and shitty animated sequences
why not just send them directly into the furnace and save a lot of effort
or like, a volcano
or the bottom of the ocean
also JGL could have just shot his gun hand off
movie was good though
I was underwhelmed
It started off very good but about halfway through I found myself trying to enjoy it more than I was just enjoying it
Nothing about the Time-Travel stuff held up in anyway which would have been fine except I really didn't find any emotional resonance to push me through
It didn't help that I started thinking "This is kind of like The Terminator", and then "Okay, this is a lot like the Terminator." and then, "When is this going to stop just being the plot to The Terminator?"
There were some great parts but overall 12 Monkeys is a way better movie about similar ideas
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Then again it is quite a long trip from China back to the states and it didn't look like the hitmen travelled very far after they picked old Joe up...
Also while he wanted his older self dead, I'm sure he didn't want to permanently disable himself to try and catch old Joe. They would both not have a gun hand.
Kinda like how John Malkovich's brain drops you near the New Jersey turnpike
maybe each time machine only goes to a specific spot?
- That body-horror sequence was profoundly unsettling.
- Really liked the scene in the diner, JGL does a great young Bruce Willis
- Christ on a bike that kid was creepy. I guess he was meant to be though?
Overall I thought that Looper had a real elegant simplicity to it. As a film involving time travel, it had the potential to disappear up its own ass, but it never once came close to doing that.
Some times when people have to make split second decisions they do not make the wisest of choices, doesn't really make it a plot hole or anything.
Also, Bruce with floppy long hair during the timeline montage kinda felt like a 5th Element reference/looked like Zorg, but in hindsight not so much.
I will say this.
I've seen a lot of "torture porn" flicks, from Hostel to Saw to the Guinea Pig Films