Looper Movie Blurb by Shale September 30, 2012 I was in Washington DC this Friday, doing real time travel to World War II with the few veterans left who flew bombers in 1944, so I missed this movie until today. This movie happens in a somewhat dystopian future of 2044 where time travel is not yet possible but it is in the really dystopian future 30 years further. Gangsters of that future time (where forensics are really good) dispose of their enemies by sending them back to 2044 in illegal time-machines where Loopers blow them away, burn their bodies and no one even knows they were there. Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a Looper who blasts the person as soon as they appear and takes the silver sent on their backs for payment Time to Die He's sort of a soulless cad who has no problem murdering these ppl who are hooded and handcuffed. He is a young partier who is strung out on drugs. Two Loopers Enjoying the Good Life Then one day he is confronted with himself (Bruce Willis) who escapes - a major offense with Loopers that can get them killed by their mob boss. At this point the movie gets into the relationship between Old Joe and Young Joe and how to stay alive and deal with the realities of the Looper business where former Loopers in the future are being targeted for extermination. Joe & Joe Talk This time-travel movie didn't make any effort to explain all the temporal paradox stuff, knowing that we have all been thru these explanations before. In fact there were some really good scenes of what can happen to future guy if present guy gets nabbed - so Joe has to keep Joe from falling into the mob's hands. There are also some elements of telekinesis in this movie, where a small number of ppl, about 10% have the ability to suspend objects like a quarter or cigarette lighter in the air. You know they wouldn't mention this insignificant mutation if it weren't significant. There is also a single mother (Emily Blunt) living on a farm, whom you know plays a pivotal role in this movie but you never quite know what it is. I really liked this movie even tho the main characters are really bent by the brutal worlds in which they live. Joseph Gordon-Levitt had to endure about 3 hours a day in makeup to get a few facial features that make him look like a young Bruce Willis. That and the moves he studied of Willis really worked. Of course it is R-rated for all the violence.
its a good film, but don't think about it too much, or the logic of the plot starts to fall apart pretty bloody quick.
BIG HONKING SPOILERS BELOW!!! S P A C E Did anyonw who saw this flick find a disquieting lapse in the temporal paradox? Somehow, when young Joe blew himself away and old Joe disappeared, what would that act have done to the timeline we just watched for a couple of hours? What happened to all those thugs that Old Joe took out in the last few minutes of this flick? I mean we aren't just witnessing the time NOW, with Old Joe just popping up, but we are looking at the time NOW with Young Joe ending himself, thus erasing 30 years of Older Joe.
seriously, dude, don't think about it. SO little of the timeline stuff in this film makes any sense at all. the writer basically acknowledges this in the (very funny) diner scene. "its not fucking important!"
I'd rate this movie 7/10, willis, blunt and gordon-levitt did good job, there are some good action scenes, time travel idea is rather intriguing (though already exploited in action movies). I wonder what will happen with cid? Did Joe's final act actually change anything?
It was one of the few movies I’ve seen which I've enjoyed even though it was confusing Hotwater :2thumbsup:
