New Looper Trailer

[Tribal Warfare]

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

Saw this trailer as a commercial.

Thought it looked stupid just like "Jumper" was.

Joseph Gordon Levitt seems to be a busy little beaver since his Dark Knight Rises role.

He's quickly becoming one of my favorite actors. The wife an I may check this flick out this weekend.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

It strikes me as a movie that's going to reveal different things on ensuing viewings.

That's the definition of a good film...

[Sure-Oz]

Great movie...i will go see it again.

Huge fan of JGL since i saw 500 days of summer and remember him from 3rd rock. Dude is getting big in hollywood.

Oh also love Emily Blunt.

[Tribal Warfare]

Originally Posted by Sure-Oz

Great movie...i will go see it again.

Huge fan of JGL since i saw 500 days of summer and remember him from 3rd rock. Dude is getting big in hollywood.

Oh also love Emily Blunt.

The thing I found funny was that Young Joe was a bitch compared to Old Joe who Pwned everyone and everything.

[keg in kc]

Rian Johnson's released an in-theater mp3 commentary track.

http://soundcloud.com/rcjohnso/loope...ommentary#play

[noa]

Saw it, thought it was great and really appreciate how they promoted the movie. Without revealing anything, I think they were very smart in not giving away too much about the movie, even though you already know some of the basics just from watching the trailer.

[Guru]

OK, explain the ending to me.

Spoiler!

Old Joe and young Joe are not also the kid, right?

[nstygma]

Originally Posted by Guru

OK, explain the ending to me.

i don't understand what you're asking

[Guru]

Originally Posted by nstygma

i don't understand what you're asking

I edited it a little. Go back to my spoiler tag.

[nstygma]

Originally Posted by Guru

I edited it a little. Go back to my spoiler tag.

Spoiler!

right. the kid is the bad guy from the future that takes control.
young joe kills himself to prevent the kid from being evil, thus changing the future hopefully.

[Tribal Warfare]

Originally Posted by Guru

OK, explain the ending to me.

Spoiler!

Old Joe and young Joe are not also the kid, right?

Spoiler!

The kid is the rainmaker the one man army a totally separate character, and not an alternate version of the "Joes"

[Guru]

Originally Posted by nstygma

Spoiler!

right. the kid is the bad guy from the future that takes control.
young joe kills himself to prevent the kid from being evil, thus changing the future hopefully.

Originally Posted by Tribal Warfare

Spoiler!

The kid is the rainmaker the one man army a totally separate character, and not an alternate version of the "Joes"

Thats what I thought.

Spoiler!

The voice over by Levitt confused me because of the kid on the train thing which was his experience as a child.

[ThaVirus]

I had originally said this was "great" over in the 'Movies' thread, but after giving it some more thought I have to retract that statement.

While I do like the fresh-ish idea concerning the use of time travel, but anytime you mess with time travel, you really just end up ****ing up continuity (see: Terminator).

Spoiler!

In this movie, it showed JGL and Willis's characters in separate timelines, which they would have to have done in order for them both to exist at the same point in one timeline; but we saw that everything that happened to JGL in his own timeline directly affected Willis (we see that in his 'fuzzy memories, physical scarring and of course the ending scene). With that said, Willis was sent back in time to be killed by the Rainmaker and his goal was to kill the Rainmaker as a child to save his future wife's life. That doesn't really make much sense though because Willis talking to/interacting with his past self (JGL) should have completely changed his future (and subsequently himself). We could tell that he was obviously falling in love with Sarah and likely would have pursued a relationship with her although he never even would have met her had Willis not gone back in time. Also, he was attempting to kill the Rainmaker, but if the Rainmaker weren't alive to take over the future, who knows when Willis would have been sent back to seal his loop? He could have ended up going to Shanghai 5 years later or earlier or whatever. There's no guarantee that he would have met his future wife anyway.

Is this making any sense? I don't know; it sounded much clearer in my head. I guess he wasn't lying when he said it was a "precise description of a fuzzy concept".

Whatever. If that doesn't make sense, I thought the telekinetic storyline was kind of out of place. Plus JGL's makeup ****ing blew. I guess they had to make him look more like a younger Bruce Willis but damn, they could have done better..

Also, why did they spend so much time showing JGL learning French and discussing his plans to go to France only for us to find out that (from Willis's timeline) he went straight to Shanghai for 'retirement'?

EDIT: It was a great watch, for sure, just not technically a great movie in my opinion..

[-King-]

Yeah, it's a good movie only and only if you don't actually think about it. When you do, it unravels quick.

[Guru]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

I had originally said this was "great" over in the 'Movies' thread, but after giving it some more thought I have to retract that statement.

While I do like the fresh-ish idea concerning the use of time travel, but anytime you mess with time travel, you really just end up ****ing up continuity (see: Terminator).

Spoiler!

In this movie, it showed JGL and Willis's characters in separate timelines, which they would have to have done in order for them both to exist at the same point in one timeline; but we saw that everything that happened to JGL in his own timeline directly affected Willis (we see that in his 'fuzzy memories, physical scarring and of course the ending scene). With that said, Willis was sent back in time to be killed by the Rainmaker and his goal was to kill the Rainmaker as a child to save his future wife's life. That doesn't really make much sense though because Willis talking to/interacting with his past self (JGL) should have completely changed his future (and subsequently himself). We could tell that he was obviously falling in love with Sarah and likely would have pursued a relationship with her although he never even would have met her had Willis not gone back in time. Also, he was attempting to kill the Rainmaker, but if the Rainmaker weren't alive to take over the future, who knows when Willis would have been sent back to seal his loop? He could have ended up going to Shanghai 5 years later or earlier or whatever. There's no guarantee that he would have met his future wife anyway.

Is this making any sense? I don't know; it sounded much clearer in my head. I guess he wasn't lying when he said it was a "precise description of a fuzzy concept".

Whatever. If that doesn't make sense, I thought the telekinetic storyline was kind of out of place. Plus JGL's makeup ****ing blew. I guess they had to make him look more like a younger Bruce Willis but damn, they could have done better..

Also, why did they spend so much time showing JGL learning French and discussing his plans to go to France only for us to find out that (from Willis's timeline) he went straight to Shanghai for 'retirement'?

EDIT: It was a great watch, for sure, just not technically a great movie in my opinion..

I didn't mind the makeup for JGL. Hell, i thought he played a really kick ass younger version of Willis. Had practically all of his mannerisms down.