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Looper (dir. Rian Johnson; Gordon-Levitt, Willis)

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Looper and Doctor Who back-2-back is making my head spin with awesome. Dump Fringe in there and I've had a time travel weekend. So good.
 
Looper is definitely NOT a limited release. I live in a small enough place that NEVER gets limited releases, and we have Looper.
 
Just saw the movie - enjoyed it and thought it was great. The time traveling aspect/rules are even better than Hot Tub Time Machine.
 
Has anyone yet addressed how well shot this film was?
Gorgeous film to watch on a huge widescreen.
Everything to do with the farmhouse was eye-candy.

Rian Johnson is such an amazing director. His films have this strange thing where they never really fall into one specific genre. Loved Bros.Bloom (in the top 3 best films from the past decade) and Brick.
 
this movie was fantastic, easily one of my favorites of the year.

i thought the ending was extremely unsatisfying though
 
Yep. Rian did it. Best movie of the year. Nothing can beat it.

It doesn't matter what gets released. This is it.

Sorry, Wachowskis and Tarantino and Nolan and Coens and Spielberg and Cameron.

Jesus, what the fuck did I just watched...
 
i saw it and thought it was good, not great. dragged a bit near the end and i wasn't a big fan of the ending or the whole
TK stuff
. overall still a really good movie
 
shagg_187 said:
But it's true. Fuck TDKR. Fuck others that try to be "smart".

Need to see more from Rian. JGL's career is going to fucking boom.

Also, best Bruce Willis movie since I don't know when.
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What I am calling silly about your statement is saying that nothing that will come out can beat it. How do we know that?

It's my MOTY as of this second too, but there are a LOT of potential ones coming in the next 3 months.
 
Solo said:
What I am calling silly about your statement is saying that nothing that will come out can beat it. How do we know that?

It's my MOTY as of this second too, but there are a LOT of potential ones coming in the next 3 months.
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I get it and yes I agree that there will be others that will beat it but not in this category. They will be great in other categories but this won't be touched for a long time.
 
I would never go to an evening or weekend show alone, but I knock off work early and go to Friday matinees all the time. Most other people you see are either a) other loners who presumably did the same as you, or b) seniors.
 
Solo said:
I would never go to an evening or weekend show alone, but I knock off work early and go to Friday matinees all the time. Most other people you see are either a) other loners who presumably did the same as you, or b) seniors.
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Agree. Old people are great at being not rowdy during movies. It also added to the whole experience of watching a movie in peace.
 
Solo said:
I would never go to an evening or weekend show alone, but I knock off work early and go to Friday matinees all the time. Most other people you see are either a) other loners who presumably did the same as you, or b) seniors.
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Yep.

Well I often go to AMC morning shows, its $4 to see a movie when you do that here. Usually I can only do that on Saturdays, I show up in my pajamas. Sometimes I do that alone.
 
It's going to do a hell of a lot better than Dredd (which deserved SO much better), and its going to be profitable, but its not going to be a smash hit by any stretch. It's looking like a $15-17M weekend.

$$$ doesn't matter anyways in the sense of a sequel, as Johnson has no intention of doing one (how could you, anyways?), but it does matter in terms of what kind of budget and leash studios will give him on future films.
 
Kabuki Waq said:
High concept rated r movie. Most of its success will be at home video.
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Not true. $30M budget and its going to make over $15M in the first 3 days of release in the US alone.

The movie will do quite healthily at the box office. It will be in the black long before home video.
 
Take it from someone who works at a theatre: Seeing a movie alone is not weird. Tons of people do it. No one thinks you're a creep.

Unless you're really creepy.
 
Man, what is with you socially-awkward mothafuckas always being so frighten about going to the movies alone? You're sitting in a dark room for two hours not saying anything with a bunch of strangers. Nobody's gonna point at laugh at you when you walk outside without somebody standing next to you.

It's just such a bizarre thing to worry about.
 
Shit, if I didn't do those Friday afternoon work-dodge matinees, I'd never see half of the cool shit that I do. Most of my friends have boring and/or crappy taste.
 
For whatever reason, this movie has inspired me to rewatch District 9, which Im gonna do in a few minutes.

Which in turn has me uber excited for Blomkamp's Elysium, which is now almost exactly 6 months away.
 
District 9 starts off as a pretty interesting apartheid methaphor, then suddenly becomes Croenberg-lite body horror drama, then devolves into big stupid sci-fi action movie for some reason.
 
Just saw it, really good. Something holds it back from being great but I can't quite place it. Maybe it's the pacing or some of the side plot that gets too much screen time. That little kid was great for a child actor.
 
Scullibundo said:
It's awful. Don't even know why you would enter the thread for such an obviously dumb film.
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Hey, I'm willing to see it. I mean, I did see Jumper and District 9 in theaters afterall. *shudder*

I'm just saying that a guy being hired to go back in time to kill HIMSELF sounds really, really strange.
 
Oblivion said:
Uh..isn't that the plot?

Oh god, don't tell me I've misinterpreted the trailer all this time. D:
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Have you seen The Terminator? Have you seen Akira? It's kinda like that, just not as good. Jeff Daniels is pretty funny, though.

But its definitely NOT what you thought it was, lol.
 
Just watched it, pretty good fun. Only thing I wondered is
Why send a guy to himself to be killed. So many things could go wrong. Send it to one of the other Loopers?

Personally, Brick > Looper > Brothers Bloom.
 
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