Looper

[Celini]

[spoiler]Also, if you can get rid of your future self by killing yourself today, why not kill the loopers today so they don't have to round them up in 30 years and send them back. [/spoiler]

Interesting idea BUT the time travel hasn't been invented in 2044, so you would anyway need someone from 2074 to deliver the message... this someone ending up stuck in 2044, which is apparently not very good for one's brain.

[Yinster]

Saw this instead of The Knot tonight.

Bored.com. Tries to be clever but fails. Tries not to be an action film. Too much dialogue instead. Reminds me of too many other films - Terminator for one so no originality. Totally wish I could loop so I could get those two hours of my life back 2/10

[AYBG]

I really enjoyed this film, although I thought there would be more to Jeff bridges character.

Daniels!

[McG]

Saw this instead of The Knot tonight.

Bored.com. Tries to be clever but fails. Tries not to be an action film. Too much dialogue instead. Reminds me of too many other films - Terminator for one so no originality. Totally wish I could loop so I could get those two hours of my life back 2/10

Saw this along with Yinster + OH as the Knot had technical problems (though reading reviews for that, we missed nothing! )
I was totally confused at the start and could work out whether I was in the future or further in the future and I decided to try and not think too much about what I was watching and to just watch it!
One couple left after an hour which did seem strange . . . but I suppose everyone has a limit!
I thought the past 30 minutes of the film made the most sense . . . if any of it was supposed to make sense!
Glad it was a freebie though did wish we had chosen a different film!

Marks 3.5/10

[prettyxcool]

[spoiler]Also, if you can get rid of your future self by killing yourself today, why not kill the loopers today so they don't have to round them up in 30 years and send them back. [/spoiler]

Interesting idea BUT the time travel hasn't been invented in 2044, so you would anyway need someone from 2074 to deliver the message... this someone ending up stuck in 2044, which is apparently not very good for one's brain.

ouch! *head hurts*

[Jayman]

[spoiler]Also, if you can get rid of your future self by killing yourself today, why not kill the loopers today so they don't have to round them up in 30 years and send them back. [/spoiler]

Interesting idea BUT the time travel hasn't been invented in 2044, so you would anyway need someone from 2074 to deliver the message... this someone ending up stuck in 2044, which is apparently not very good for one's brain.

ouch! *head hurts*

[spoiler]If they kill them today, it means they end up affecting the future. ie. Anything the Looper might've influenced in order to produce that futuristic path will have been distorted. Having the Looper in the present day kill the Looper from the future ensures that the future will still occur without any negative impact to anybody -- except of course (potentially) the Looper in present day, but that's all part of the Ts & Cs they accept upon taking the role.[/spoiler]

[prettyxcool]

[spoiler]If they kill them today, it means they end up affecting the future. ie. Anything the Looper might've influenced in order to produce that futuristic path will have been distorted. Having the Looper in the present day kill the Looper from the future ensures that the future will still occur without any negative impact to anybody -- except of course (potentially) the Looper in present day, but that's all part of the Ts & Cs they accept upon taking the role.[/spoiler]

Thank you! Good explanation, even my little brain understands that!

[weirdfilms33]

I really enjoyed Rian Johnson's 'Brick', despite it being virtually incomprehensible on the first viewing, and I loved Looper. I wasn't affected by the hype as I saw all of you lot moaning about it so went in with moderate expectations! I did think that the second half of the film was quite slow, but that doesn't mean that as a whole it slumps - it just requires you to tolerate the tonal shift without going mental. That said, there are a few plot holes, but it only minimally impacted my enjoyment of the film. It was intelligent, arty, well-acted, ballsy, and containing what I see as one of the most terrifying showdowns I've ever seen between Joe and Joe. And praise to the action sequences, which refused to be generic.

8/10

[raj101]

cheers for that mention. Brick is probably my all time fav college movie so I will def see this.

[yogi]

Saw this today using my coinks Odeon voucher.

I thought it was excellent, an engrossing story told in a believable world with real 3 dimensional characters (proper 3D not pointy 3D).

As the scene in the diner hinted at it's best not to think too much about the time travel otherwise you spend hours drawing diagrams and all time travel have plot holes in them somewhere, but the plotting was strong enough and some great themes and ideas got explored along the way.

Great performances especially the creepy kid.
[spoiler]Loved the early scene with JGL in a Willis like vest and then checking his receding hairline, nice touch.[/spoiler]