It's true, I do occasionally get irritated by the cretinous groupthink that infests KJ.

As I suggested - - if you feel the need to mock others' opinions, state your own opinion first.

I appreciate your suggestion, I just don't feel the need to follow it. You know, groupthink and all.

I can't say I'm surprised - - you have displayed precious little class in your short tenure here at KJ.


BTW, there are several pages of bad user reviews on IMDb that are really worth reading for their detailed explanations of the many ways this film fails.

I'm glad to see that not everyone was hoodwinked by the hype.

Looper will not survive the test of time.

disappointing

I didn't like it quite as much as snack did

A piece of garbage. After a rythmic (yaawn) explanatory 5-minute montage, there comes another 2-minute montage and when that shit's over, it get's even worse with every minute. At the end it's some sort of very ridiculous Fury/Back to the Future Part 3-melange about family values and whatnot...

Does this sentiment apply only to this thread?

I liked the film.

I think it's a sci-fi masterpiece myself. At the very least it's one of the tightest and most engaging films I've seen in a while.

Agree Gopher. Im keen on seeing what Rian Johnson's next film will be.

A+

Looper is fantastic. JGL, Willis and Blunt are outstanding.

Emily Blunt is really great in this. Would probably include her on my personal Supporting Actress ballot.

what an oddly amazing movie this is.

2012 has been ridiculous. JGL looks a lot like young BW btw

Well, that's just not true. We're lucky enough to have photos of a young Bruce Willis and JGL's make-up in Looper is kind of nothing like him at all. It is, however, like what we imagine Bruce to look like when he was younger; a sort of caricature of his older facial characteristics. Still impressive nonetheless.

I'll throw my hat in the "Looper is amazing" bandwagon. Really wish I could have seen this in theaters. A I think I've given every Rian Johnson flick an A so that's no surprise. The time travel rules are not consistent but they never pretend to be. "Time travel is a mess" they say in it the trailer! What I did not expect was the full trailer taking place in the first half of the movie. They did a really good job concealing the true story of the movie. And the time on the farm ended up making Looper a much deeper experience.

I didn't mind the smaller scale, but I guess I was most disappointed with the telekinesis / all-powerful kid aspect. The 2nd half of the movie was all about that with only small time travel elements. I would have loved to see more Bruce Willis / Joseph Gordon-Levitt interaction - the diner scene was definitely my favorite.

B

The first looper failing to close his loop however was one of the creepiest movie sequences I've seen in a long time.

Now that Looper is out on DVD, I hear more and more apologists for the film using this weak line of reasoning.

Sure, time travel is impossible, but that doesn't mean that a clever screenplay can't create a believable internal logic, or at the very least, one that is a pleasure to dissect afterwards.

To have a character explicitly say "Don't think about it." is the height of laziness, and is the point at which Looper turned into Time Travel For Dummies.

To me, Looper was like going to a Vegas magic show, and having the magician walk out on stage and announce that since magic is really bullshit, that he is just going to walk a tiger around on stage for a couple hours while waving handkerchiefs in the air.

Rian Johnson could be a talented director, but unfortunately his lousy writing skills prevent it.

I watched it for a second time last night and it really does have all of the makings of a sci-fi classic. My grade for Looper has been up and down more times than a fiddler's elbow, but I'm sticking on A- now. Very good movie.

One point that I think is interesting is that even though young Joe closed the circle that he had the forethought to see (Rainmaker being created by the anger of losing his mother to a looper), I still think Cid might grow up to be a tyrant because of seeing his auntie die earlier, and the anger that that may cause might also be too great for Blunt's character to control. It's just a possibility, and the movie probably doesn't intend that, but young Joe may actually have stopped nothing apart from Cid's anger specifically towards loopers. I suppose that's the greatness of the story.