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

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sounds like an overly contrived idea for a time travel movie, though I realize that may very well be a fundamental issue with the whole subgenre. I mean, sounds like a good enough idea for a one-off Doctor Who episode, but not something to build a standalone movie around.
 
Expendable. said:
Plot: Looper is a time travel movie, set in a near future where time travel doesn’t exist but will be invented in a few decades. It’s pretty dark in tone, much different from Bloom, and involves a group of killers (called Loopers) who work for a crime syndicate in the future. Their bosses send their targets hogtied and blindfolded back in time to the Loopers, and their job is to simply shoot them in the head and dispose of the body. So the target vanishes from the future and the Loopers dispose of a corpse that doesn’t technically exist, a very clean system. Complications set in from there.
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That sounds ridiculous, a "very clean system"?

In the future criminals send their victims, still alive, into the past to get murdered and disposed of? Why, so they don't have to dispose of the bodies themselves? Seems awfully complicated... why not just replace the time machine with a laser incinerator or something?
 
So the twist is that the victim that disappears is JGL from the future.

Who is actually a young Bruce Willis in the past.
 
i found brothers bloom completely cringe-worthy. didn't help that the two female leads were both copy pasted from my official "most detested and overused tropes of alternative cinema" handbook (magical ditsy pixie girl and sultry masterful asian badass).
 
Houston3000 said:
That sounds ridiculous, a "very clean system"?

In the future criminals send their victims, still alive, into the past to get murdered and disposed of? Why, so they don't have to dispose of the bodies themselves? Seems awfully complicated... why not just replace the time machine with a laser incinerator or something?
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Because if they disposed of them in the future there would always be a chance of some evidence if they sent them back their would be no evidence of them ever existing.

Because they wouldn't be born yet.
 
ghst said:
i found brothers bloom completely cringe-worthy. didn't help that the two female leads were both copy pasted from my official "most detested and overused tropes of alternative cinema" handbook (magical ditsy pixie girl and sultry masterful asian badass).
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Yep yep. But I liked Brick so I'll give Johnson a pass.
 
Houston3000 said:
That sounds ridiculous, a "very clean system"?

In the future criminals send their victims, still alive, into the past to get murdered and disposed of? Why, so they don't have to dispose of the bodies themselves? Seems awfully complicated... why not just replace the time machine with a laser incinerator or something?
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I know this is a few months late but Rian Johnson talked about the movie on the /Filmcast that he guest hosted. He mentioned that it is nearly impossible to dispose of bodies in the future and the time travel device is highly illegal and only criminals have it and it only works one way because it got outlawed in a very primitive state.

He said specifically that the time travel is a setup but the movie will not largely feature time travel as a major point. It's just a setup.

Edit: Just in case anyone wanted to hear his comments on the project, it's on Episode 100 where they talk about Robin Hood. I think it's toward the beginning of the episode where they talk about what they've been watching.
 
tons of new details here.

small excerpt:

The movie is very, very dark, and a return to the "noir" feel of Brick after Johnson's more light-hearted The Brothers Bloom. His main characters are all small-time crooks who are struggling to become big players in a world where it's obvious that they're actually doomed. the overall feel is very dystopian and bleak.
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:D
 
fondling myself as we speak. Well done Noirs are another world entirely.

You know plainview, you used to kind of bug me with the whole writing for a movie site thing but your writing has gotten better and you usually have well angled posts with interesting topics as opposed to just updating us on what movie was coming out that week.

Thanks man, if it wasn't for you I would not know about this movie.:D

Edit: Bit of spoiler coming up-
"But he's also addicted to hallucinogenic drugs that he squirts into his eyes. Joe's best friend is a fellow looper named Seth, who squanders all his money on stupid shit like a hoverbike ("a slat bike") that doesn't even work."-

A noir with that stuff in it? Sounds like an episode of Cowboy bebop...
 
exarkun said:
fondling myself as we speak. Well done Noirs are another world entirely.

You know plainview, you used to kind of bug me with the whole writing for a movie site thing but your writing has gotten better and you usually have well angled posts with interesting topics as opposed to just updating us on what movie was coming out that week.

Thanks man, if it wasn't for you I would not know about this movie.:D

Edit: Bit of spoiler coming up-
"But he's also addicted to hallucinogenic drugs that he squirts into his eyes. Joe's best friend is a fellow looper named Seth, who squanders all his money on stupid shit like a hoverbike ("a slat bike") that doesn't even work."-

A noir with that stuff in it? Sounds like an episode of Cowboy bebop...
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Well thank you sir! Here on GAF it is all surface level stuff I post. If you actually want to see our writing, you know where to find it.

But yes, this movie is going to rock. LOVED Brothers Bloom and Brick.
 
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"A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama himself. Twelth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking."

hehe, all i can think about.
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Big hitter, the Lama....long....

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first still from Empire!



Yes, that is Bruce Willis firing a big bastard machine gun, but this is not The Expendables 2. Set in the near future, when time-travel is possible but very, very illegal, Looper stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, reteaming with his Brick director, as Joe, a sharp, savvy hitman .

But Joe is no ordinary hitman. The hooded, bound victims he kills are sent back in time from 30 years in the future: he shoots them with a blunderbuss, burns the bodies, and all trace of the crime disappears. Life is pretty good for Joe, until one day a body arrives without a hood: it's his future self, played by Willis. And he's not going down without a fight...

This might sound like a spoiler but it's just the start of a dazzling, Inception-style thrill ride which will please fans of the hardboiled Brick and surprise admirers of the romantic Brothers Bloom. A release date has yet to be decided but the first half of 2012 looks likely.
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Brick and Bros.Bloom were phenomenal. I have no doubt that this will be brilliant.
 
Veidt said:
Brick and Bros.Bloom were phenomenal. I have no doubt that this will be brilliant.
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Johnson's so great. I can't think of a movie I overrate more than The Brothers Bloom. It's very well done, don't get me wrong, but it might be 1 of my favorite movies of the decade (American ones, certainly). I hope this is his crossover hit.
 
This sounds pretty awesome--haven't seen Bloom yet, but I'm going to have to remedy that.

Also, the episode of Breaking Bad he did was fantastic, haters be damned.
 
GhaleonQ said:
Johnson's so great. I can't think of a movie I overrate more than The Brothers Bloom. It's very well done, don't get me wrong, but it might be 1 of my favorite movies of the decade (American ones, certainly). I hope this is his crossover hit.
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this is how i feel about BRICK. it's one of my absolute favorite movies.
 
_dementia said:
What's so bad about Bruce Willis? Not that he can do no wrong but this guy was John McLane and Butch Coolidge
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Doesn't he actually assert the clout he has and take creative control away story-wise from the writers and directors?
 
release set for Sept 28th, 2012 and possible title change from Looper to Loopers?

I suppose that would make more sense, are there multiples?

UPDATE: Rian Johnson messaged me and said the title remains Looper.
 
Blader5489 said:
Damn you, I saw 2011 and got really hyped for a second. :\
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Oh shit! Ha, I messaged him back to see if the release is valid and Box Office Mojo isn't misreporting. I'll see if he responds.
 
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