telepathy thing was... unnecessary, an extra burden on the suspension of disbelief. There was enough going on just with time travel existing. I felt like they could have had the rainmaker kid just be a straight-up genius - maybe the inventor of time travel technology, or someone who improved on it significantly and used it to take over the criminal syndicates by being literally everywhere at once.
This was also my only problem with the movie, but the rest of the movie was good enough that it didn't ruin it for me.
there are lots of ways of getting rid of the body that don't involve time travel
are the police not going to be worried that these people are mysteriously missing
is it really worth the risk of destroying the space time continuum
They explain it in the movie. People are ID'd and tagged in such a way in the future that killing someone without leaving a trace is nearly impossible.
i can forgive this movie for not perfectly relating how its instances of time travel work out because it's working in a lot more than that. i love all the themes this movie plays with
"men fighting to protect what's theirs. the only kind of man their is" sums up the main idea of the movie pretty dang well, and watching it through that lens makes it really interesting. it is a very masculine movie, but it also doesn't mind wearing its blade runner/neo noir influences on its sleeve so that fits
heck the blunderbuss is such a great little metaphor for jgl's character all on its own, i love it
premise was cool, first half was pretty sweet, but then the movie introduced
angry, potentially dangerous telekinesis kid-a really worn out trope found in a bunch of cartoons and anime. why? the whole TK thing was just completely unnecessary and shifted the movie tonally in such a total way that it was jarring.
was overall a fun movie to watch, but it was far from movie of the year. faaaaar from it.
The film mentions briefly mentions that, in the future, tracking technology stops murders from happening. But we explicitly see Joe’s wife murdered in the future. Johnson said this was one of several things he worked out in his head but didn’t put in the movie because it felt superfluous to the story. He instead explained it to us.
“Everybody in the movie has this nano technology tracking in their body and whenever there’s a death, a location tag is sent to the authorities from this tracking material. So they can’t kill people in the future. But if they send them back, that is not triggered.” He continues, “The material is powered off the body’s heat and it has a two year life after the person dies.” As for the wife, that was a big mistake made by the mobsters and the reason we see the shot of the village burning is that’s their half-assed attempt to cover it up.
The film mentions briefly mentions that, in the future, tracking technology stops murders from happening. But we explicitly see Joe’s wife murdered in the future. Johnson said this was one of several things he worked out in his head but didn’t put in the movie because it felt superfluous to the story. He instead explained it to us.
“Everybody in the movie has this nano technology tracking in their body and whenever there’s a death, a location tag is sent to the authorities from this tracking material. So they can’t kill people in the future. But if they send them back, that is not triggered.” He continues, “The material is powered off the body’s heat and it has a two year life after the person dies.” As for the wife, that was a big mistake made by the mobsters and the reason we see the shot of the village burning is that’s their half-assed attempt to cover it up.
I actually remember talking about that possibility with someone on this forum, I forget where. It was essentially "So the future in Looper is like the future in Minority Report, and they send live victims back in time so the pre-cogs can't see the murder."
sending people back in time to have them killed seems weird
why not just kill them and skip a step
this is also the part of the premise I don't understand
why even mess with time travel
Apparently it is really hard to kill people in the future. They also send them to the past so the future mob has no ties leading to the body, according to one of the OVs in the beginning.
If someone else killed your future self, don't you think maybe you'd want to kill them? If, however, you upfront tell folks part of the deal is you kill your future self when they're old and busted, then they don't have anyone to blame but themselves.
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Think I am seeing this on Wednesday. Was totally unaware of it until a few days ago, and don't really care much about the premise as I understand it, but... JGL and Willis.
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Just another John Doe
there are lots of ways of getting rid of the body that don't involve time travel
are the police not going to be worried that these people are mysteriously missing
is it really worth the risk of destroying the space time continuum
Hint: the police don't care too hard about missing hoodlums
plus if they find him it's not a John Doe, it's JGL
is it even illegal to kill yourself??
that's when the police start caring
heck the blunderbuss is such a great little metaphor for jgl's character all on its own, i love it
love dis movie
was overall a fun movie to watch, but it was far from movie of the year. faaaaar from it.
I actually remember talking about that possibility with someone on this forum, I forget where. It was essentially "So the future in Looper is like the future in Minority Report, and they send live victims back in time so the pre-cogs can't see the murder."
sci-fi concept slashfic
Jeff Daniels, Paul dano, the skeezy rat kid from Brick
Jeff Daniels in particular was a treat though
i just did this and ohhh man
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Are you kidding? That's just impossible.
Apparently it is really hard to kill people in the future. They also send them to the past so the future mob has no ties leading to the body, according to one of the OVs in the beginning.
it works fine
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Haven't seen the movie yet but his face looks different in some stills, in a way I can't quite put my finger on
his makeup/mannerisms are all to make him look like a young bruce willis
and it is uncanny how well it works
...Are you joking?
They did extensive makeup trickery to make him look like a young Bruce Willis
I've only seen the one trailer and a couple of stills so I wasn't sure
Just I had a tough time even recognizing him as JGL at times
So unless they did something stupid like CG his face (hello Green Lantern) I was just like "well of course they did crazy makeup shit"
That is fucking uncanny
one thing I'm wondering about
Also Bruce-Joe and Joe-Joe should be how we differentiate
Which is why I'm glad they didn't