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[Zod the Bear]

Unsure how I hadn't heard of this, looks like a pretty fun movie.

Trailers for trailers are bleh, but looking forward to it.

 

[NYR94]

What's the point of Bruce Willis being upside down? They should have just put JGL facing forward like he is and Bruce Willis facing backward.

I like time travel films I just hope this doesn't melt my brain like Primer did.

 

[Expendable.]

The other two "teasers" have leaked:

First Footage From Rian Johnson's Looper

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Nope. Not watching trailers for trailers anymore. Fuck that shit.

 

[Discotheque]

Forreal, it's a bizarre trend. Fuck I can't wait for this. Most interesting year for sci-fi in a while.

 

[Not a Jellyfish]

I need the actual trailer for this now.

 

[Tawpgun]

Uhh...

How does Gordon Levitt become Bruce Willis. Look nothing alike.

 

[strafer]

JGL and Willis in the same movie is so boss.

 

[Dany]

Uhh...

How does Gordon Levitt become Bruce Willis. Look nothing alike.

Suspend your disbelief.

 

[fatigues_gasolini]

Uhh...

How does Gordon Levitt become Bruce Willis. Look nothing alike.

In one of the teasers they mention that. JGL had 3 hours of makeup to look like a younger Bruce Willis

 

[smokeymicpot]

Will watch the real trailer when it comes out but other then that not watching a teaser of a teaser. Dumb fucking trend.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

In one of the teasers they mention that. JGL had 3 hours of makeup to look like a younger Bruce Willis

Yep. Cannot fucking wait!!

 

[_Isaac]

I think this is the first time I've ever seen a trailer for a trailer.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

I think this is the first time I've ever seen a trailer for a trailer.

More like teaser for a teaser for a teaser.

 

[Expendable.]

I think this is the first time I've ever seen a trailer for a trailer.

Really? It's a huge, unfortunate trend now. Prometheus, Total Recall and Savages are likely just the beginning.

 

[Neuromancer]

The other two "teasers" have leaked:

First Footage From Rian Johnson's Looper

The Happening 2

 

[EliteArtist]

JGL looks more like a young Thomas Jane than Bruce Willis...

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

I won't watch any trailers for trailers anymore. Unless it's ABATAP II: THE ABADAR.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Spoiler

Good God, I love JGL's outfit here! I NEED TO BUY IT!

 

[Sallokin]

The gun that JGL is holding in that pic looks like a slightly modified Mateba Autorevolver, which is a badass gun.

 

[Tashi]

Trailer out yet? It's supposed to be today right?

 

[Expendable.]

Trailer out yet? It's supposed to be today right?

Thursday.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Spoiler

Good God, I love JGL's outfit here! I NEED TO BUY IT!

Those prosthetics look like shit

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

The other two "teasers" have leaked:

First Footage From Rian Johnson's Looper

JGL barely looks like himself.

Feels weird.

 

[Amagon]

I need to see this movie.

 

[ezekial45]

When does the trailer go up?

 

[VariantX04]

When does the trailer go up?

4 PM pacific

 

[sixteen-bit]

4 PM pacific

Looking forward to it.

 

[ezekial45]

Ugh, I thought it would be sooner.

 

[Expendable.]

Damn, that blows. Why wouldn't it go up around the same time as each teaser? (12PM EST-ish.)

 

[see5harp]

So hyped for the trailer!!!!

 

[pargonta]

hopefully no one takes the trailer into the past and puts it on the titanic as it starts it's voyage, that wouldn't be good.

 

[sarcastor]

teaser was pretty damn good. I don't know why in the world you would send your victim back in time to be killed by his younger self. couldn't you just drop them into a volcano?

 

[nomis]

teaser was pretty damn good. I don't know why in the world you would send your victim back in time to be killed by his younger self. couldn't you just drop them into a volcano?

Where did you find it?

 

[strafer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ltpa4QmnuU&feature=player_embedded

?

 

[RobotNinjaHornets]

Trailer, yo

Gah, beaten. But fuck me this is gonna be good

 

[big ander]

Teaser looked stylish and full of action without giving away too much of the meat of the plot. Fucking excited.

teaser was pretty damn good. I don't know why in the world you would send your victim back in time to be killed by his younger self. couldn't you just drop them into a volcano?

The point is that killing anyone in their native time period is going to leave more of a trace than zapping them back would.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

The visual style looks interesting.

 

[Makoto]

They even got JGL trying to emulate Willis' voice (if he were younger). Interesting.

 

[CFMOORE!]

what are the "typical" time travel rules that this movie is breaking and how will it rationalize them?

i am trying to make sense of this. JGL's character isn't from the future at all, he's in "our present", so do the mobsters of the future come back and approach people for these Looper hitmen positions?

wouldn't killing his future self result in sort of a constant loop of future selves? since in his present he is still alive and able to age in their future?

my brain is hurting.

 

[_Isaac]

It doesn't look half bad. I still think the make up is just too distracting.

 

[ezekial45]

Awesome, I'm really looking forward to seeing this.

 

[see5harp]

Who cares? Rian Johnson. JGL. Fuck yes.

 

[big ander]

what are the "typical" time travel rules that this movie is breaking and how will it rationalize them?

i am trying to make sense of this. JGL's character isn't from the future at all, he's in "our present", so do the mobsters of the future come back and approach people for these Looper hitmen positions?

wouldn't killing his future self result in sort of a constant loop of future selves? since in his present he is still alive and able to age in their future?

my brain is hurting.

well, from the trailer: "This time travel crap just fries your brain like an egg."

I would assume we're going to get a LOT more information within the film as to how time travel works in this canon. It could be anything.

What are the typical rules? There are three traditional sets.
1) Immutable timeline. Whatever happened, happened. If you choose to go to the past...you've already been to the past. In this version, the one timeline is set in stone and never changes. This means that, if you choose to go to the year 500 AD, you were already living in a present in which you had been in 500 AD.
2) Flexible timeline. When you go back in time, you change the one timeline, and the future you return to reflects those changes. This is what you see in Back to the Future. (If you read the next one and think that BttF is actually that, I'm pretty sure it's not. Maybe it's up to debate. But while BttF does claim in the film that its travelling involves creating a new timeline, it also involves the destruction of the original timeline. Well, until Marty(s) and Doc(s) come to the rescue.)
3) Alternate timelines. The travelling separates timelines so that the traveller is now in a new timeline and stops existing in the previous one.

 

[Korey]

I don't know...this kinda reminds me of Jumper

 

[petethepanda]

God I'm pumped for this.

Rian Johnson got himself a lifetime day-one pass from me with Brothers Bloom.

 

[Wes]

A blonde Emily Blunt? Be still my heart.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

Ok, I am in. Bruce Willis, JGL, Rian Johnson, and time travel? Movie looks awesome, cool trailer.

I am not ga-ga over Brick or Brothers Bloom, but I did like them quite a bit.

 

[big ander]

Random facts from Rian answering questions on twitter:
-Score is tonally much different from the teaser music.
-Shot on 35mm (think we knew that already).
-The idea's from 10 years ago. When Rian finally wrote it, he did so with JGL in mind but didn't know who the older version would be. And when Willis expresses interest, you don't turn him down.
-Rian considers Fincher an influence for the action sequences (which is good, making stuff slick and energetic is that man's forte).
-While the movie does have plenty of action, it's a lighter on the throttle than the teaser is.
-There's no time travel "effect" because Rian thinks it looks cooler that way. I'd have to agree.
-The film is VERY R-rated. Sweet, I don't know that we'd heard that. I was thinking this would be a pg-13 outing, but I prefer it this way.
-There'll definitely be something from Looper at Comic-con.
-Rian will not spoil what the metal plates on the back of the targets are. But they are not

Spoiler

part of the time travel.

-Definite Western influences.
-He said the "present" is 2044. I don't know if that means when JGL is, or where Willis is from. I think Willis is *from* 2074, because Rian says that time travel is invented somewhere between 2044 and 2074.
-There's very little CG.
-If you can bear to avoid watching the teasers, it's director-recommended. Whoops.

 

[Good Job Bob]

Random facts from Rian answering questions on twitter:
-Score is tonally much different from the teaser music.
-Shot on 35mm (think we knew that already).
-The idea's from 10 years ago. When Rian finally wrote it, he did so with JGL in mind but didn't know who the older version would be. And when Willis expresses interest, you don't turn him down.
-Rian considers Fincher an influence for the action sequences (which is good, making stuff slick and energetic is that man's forte).
-While the movie does have plenty of action, it's a lighter on the throttle than the teaser is.
-There's no time travel "effect" because Rian thinks it looks cooler that way. I'd have to agree.
-The film is VERY R-rated. Sweet, I don't know that we'd heard that. I was thinking this would be a pg-13 outing, but I prefer it this way.
-There'll definitely be something from Looper at Comic-con.
-Rian will not spoil what the metal plates on the back of the targets are. But they are not

Spoiler

part of the time travel.

-Definite Western influences.
-He said the "present" is 2044. I don't know if that means when JGL is, or where Willis is from. I think Willis is *from* 2074, because Rian says that time travel is invented somewhere between 2044 and 2074.
-There's very little CG.
-If you can bear to avoid watching the teasers, it's director-recommended. Whoops.

Hopefully it's as amazing as Brick's score.