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

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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.
 
Will watch the real trailer when it comes out but other then that not watching a teaser of a teaser. Dumb fucking trend.
 
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Good God, I love JGL's outfit here! I NEED TO BUY IT!
 
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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
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.
 
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
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.
 
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