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danny_galaga:

Not taken by this. Judging by other reviews, I'm in the minority. I know time travel stories are always fraught with the impossibility of the premise, but this took it to another level in my mind. Everything as individual scenes was fine, even great, but I just couldn't look past the fact this totally doesn't make sense. Over and above the fact that time travel movies don't make sense. Although it has Bruce Willis in it, it's no 12 Monkeys.

3.5/5  (my companion gave it 2.5/5! But we mean different things by the scores. 2.5/5 to me means I want my money back. For her, 2.5/5 means it was ok. Hence the reason I have other scores below to relate to)


--- Quote ---my score for recent movies you may have seen:

  5/5 - The Way Back, The Kings Speech, Michael Clayton, In Bruges, Gran Torino, Mary and Max, Moonrise Kingdom

4.5/5 - Taken, Iron Man, Reign Over Me, Watchmen, The girl with the dragon tattoo

  4/5 - True Grit, Traitor, Bedtime Stories, Sunshine, pineapple express

3.5/5 - 300, Max Payne, You dont mess with the Zohan, Yes Man

  3/5 - That new Indiana Jones flick, Disturbia, That new TMNT flick,

2.5/5 - Angels and Demons

  2/5 - The Love Guru. Note: My 2 is probably someone elses 1. Just leaving room for worse!

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Flip_Willie:
I liked it pretty well when I watched, but you are right. Looper sports some pretty blatant contradictions throughout the movie. I guess I am just somewhat accustomed to time travel movies being inconsistent and fuzzy. I still enjoyed it - especially for being a bit creative here and there.

One of the bigger contradictions that I noticed in the movie was when old-version Joe's Asian wife gets shot... in the future... when you have to transport people back in time to murder them. I mean, I know the movie is vague on why you can't murder people in the future, but if criminals are going to the trouble to transport people to the past to get shot, you have to imagine that there is a pretty good reason for all the fuss.

A little off topic, but I think one of the most consistent/realistic time travel movies I have ever seen is Time Crimes. It has been quite a while since I watched that movie, but I remember liking it well for its realism.

selfie:
I saw it last night. I enjoyed it while watching it but after thinking about it, either I missed something or it just doesn't work...

Why did the sequence of old Joe being sent back get repeated when no other time sequence does? If old Joe came back in the bag, got shot, then young Joe gets paid,lives his life, fights back, comes back without the bag, then the story continues form there. Then it would work

If you want to see a good time travel movie try Primer but prepare for brain hurt...

wp34:
I liked it but it didn't quite work for me as it seems to have for others.  I thought the time-travel sequences/discussions were pretty original.  I agree with Danny that the individual scenes were great.  The acting was great.   For some reason those little pieces didn't come together.  That being said I recommend seeing it.  I suspect this movie might grow on me more once I see it again.

I thought the scene where young Seth is being tortured off camera and you see the effects happening to old Seth were freaky scary.  That whole sequence was as disturbing as it was brilliant.  I also loved the scene were Old Joe is giving Young Joe a lecture in the diner.  The acting was particularly great.




--- Quote from: selfie on October 07, 2012, 05:25:53 pm ---If you want to see a good time travel movie try Primer but prepare for brain hurt...

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I loved Primer and it did make my head hurt.

shponglefan:

--- Quote from: selfie on October 07, 2012, 05:25:53 pm ---If you want to see a good time travel movie try Primer but prepare for brain hurt...

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Primer was amazing.  I loved how nothing much happens for the first 30 minutes, but then it just goes into mindfuck territory...

Also Primer timeline chart.

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