Anticipate LOOPER starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt wearing Bruce Willis facial prosthetics, a Rian "Brick" Johnson joint

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/looper/

Two day countdown to the teaser trailer apparently. JGL's future self as played by Bruce Willis is sent back in time to get murdered by JGL. Or something.

the brothers bloom was kind of terrible

"Brick" is amazing, J G-L is amazing in it, time travel paradox thrillers are amazing, so this trailer better be good.

I've read the Looper script, it is fucking awesome imo

i'm gonna watch the shit out of this movie

the brothers bloom was kind of terrible

Yes, it was. Guardedly excited for this, though.

^^same. i'm a sucker for ill-consequences time-travel films, so i'm down

Thought this would be about anticipating new album from Belle & Sebastian spinoff

anticipating

I think this is about Bruce Willis coming back in time to stop his past self, Stuart Murdoch, from recording The Return of Bruno.

think the director still has a lot of unrealized potential but i hope he doesn't put Gordon-Levitt in every other movie he does, kinda can't stand that guy

Looper is Stuart David not Stuart Murdoch but haha anyway

Looper, oh you're drivin' me out of my mind

don't like this teasers for a trailer crap that is suddenly in vogue

nothing sudden about it, been standard for decades

I only really noticed it with Prometheus and (maybe?) the Avengers. Guess i didn't have access to wherever they showed those teasers for decades.

to clarify, I'm talking about the "in 2 days, see the Trailer!" and then the "In 1 day, see the trailer!" nonsense.

nothing sudden about it, been standard for decades

Except that no.

Yeah, these are trailers for a teaser, which is odd - the only thing it really does is show us the director's dorky enthusiasm, and that JGL is good at saying nice things about the film.

The cast though - Paul Dano, Emily Blunt, Piper Perabo, Jeff Daniels - I kind of wish someone would make a high-school-based noir with that cast.

didnt like brick, dont like teaser-of-a-teaser trend, jgl's makeup is making me laugh & makes him look like young mickey rourke (btw i just googled 'young bruce willis' and one of the first results was a pic of young mickey rourke, and also this:

http://i.imgur.com/QKFtT.jpg)

but the guy who made Primer consulted on this and it does sound pretty cool

but the guy who made Primer consulted on this and it does sound pretty cool

Now I am very interested in seeing this.

PS best pic of Bruce Willis I have ever seen

Brick was really weird and felt all wrong at first but it sucked me in

sci-fi Brick plus Primer with Bruce Willis sounds kinda great

Brick was really weird and felt all wrong at first but it sucked me in

yeah, this. decent story, interesting characters, good performances & strong visuals overcame the initially off-putting and patently ridiculous dialogue. the problem with the brothers bloom what that the balance shifted and the overwriting just crushed the life out of everything else onscreen. i hope this one is a lot less self-consciously literary.

hated Brick and got in a huge argument about it here

this looks interesting tho

stoked. aside from the misplaced apostrophe at 0:24.

don't think this is gonna be a primer level headfuck but it looks like it could be a lot more fun than inception, even if there's still a lot of running round with guns in it.

Righteous. I'm all-in on this.

That apostrophe has got to be intentional. Rian Johnson seems to be one of the most super detail-oriented filmmakers around.

yeah, this. decent story, interesting characters, good performances & strong visuals overcame the initially off-putting and patently ridiculous dialogue.

i had the opposite experience, where i was amused by the quirks at first but was indifferent by the end. However, it was watched late enough at night that I can't be sure I wasn't fading for other reasons.

I'm always down for a good Bruce Willis sci-fi yarn (even saw Surrogates) but the JGL make-up is pretty wtf.

The Brothers Bloom may well be a delightful bit of whimsical caper starring Adrien Brody but I don't plan on ever finding out.

Guys what if it says "Looper's Guns" because there's only one Looper. In a loop. I cracked the code!

"I just don't believe that Joseph Gordon-Levitt's eyebrows could be Bruce Willis' eyebrows. Let's lacquer them."

What happened to the Primer guy (answer: I guess he's making another movie right now)? I loved that movie.

I think when your first and only feature was a beloved, 100% independent sci-fi classic that cost less to make than a year of college but took years of struggle, you may be a little reluctant to take another bite at the apple anytime soon.

I liked "Brick" a lot, but hated the Wes Anderson remakes "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" whimsy of "Bloom."

this will probably have better sound mixing than brick, so there's that at least

lol i noticed the apostrophe thing too

also why would there even be a sign that said that in the first place, just put the guns there, everyone will know

Idiot, you put your gun in the apple barrel and grandma shot her face off!

I would guess it's too underscore the quotidian nature of their professions. This is what we do. Guns go here. Kill people here. Go home.

use apostrophes wrong

To, not too. The gun bucket. And the apostrophes, too, maybe. I'm sure it's a bad grammar in-joke.

looks cool, but i have strong reservations off the bat. kind of hate sci-fi that takes an idea and uses it for a specific purpose without really considering what the larger effect on society would be. if time travel were so easily available that criminal organizations used used it simply to dispose of bodies, you'd have to assume that it would be used for all sorts of other things, too, and that there would be massive social repercussions.

Eh, we really know nothing about the larger context/effect in this case. Though I hope it is more fleshed out than the sci-fi in "Inception."

lol contenderizer really

"i'm worried this movie isn't going to be boring enough."

hey, i like what i like

failing to really think through the premises kills sci-fi for me

how do you know they didn't, i mean, there's even a box for looper's guns

lol, i know, just a hunch

Did you know that the end of the world date in the Terminator films shifts? Those movies all suck.

Pitt's, that is. The movie almost works as a critique of how people view what mentally ill people are like versus the reality

what was up with the moment in the woods where willis suddenly grabs hold of madeleine stowe and she looks at him in fear, and he starts squeezing her wrists really HARD and she's trying to get away and he says "i'm sorry" and then he squeezes even HARDER and it suddenly cuts to something completely different. i rewound that twice to try and figure it out. it's as if they're suggesting willis is about to what - rape her? but the moment is never referred to again. a tiny detail you've no doubt erased from your memory of this almost 20-year-old movie.

i noticed its age though. how bout that symphonic score?!! hollywood movies don't really do that any more. i watched the fugitive again a couple of months ago and i noticed the same thing. big strings welling up. despite ALL that i did like it though. i has a momentum to it, and like i said, i thought willis is just great. and the crazy hydraulic chair that lifts him up in the air. and the video-probe-sphere through which the scientists communicate with him, totally unnecessarily.

oh wait i think i got it. he was about to tie her up and throw her in the trunk. never mind.

lol yes

Thx for expanding, Tracer. I don't have any opinion one way or another about Pitt in that film -- I haven't seen it in at least 15 years and my memory of it is dim.

er by "holiday" upthread i mean hollywood

perhaps not obviously

i noticed its age though. how bout that symphonic score?!! hollywood movies don't really do that any more. i watched the fugitive again a couple of months ago and i noticed the same thing. big strings welling up.

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Board: The Fugitive (1993)

Man, is that a NINETIES soundtrack or what!
by kustom135 (Mon Jan 16 2012 12:34:05)
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The soprano sax, fretless bass, weird diminshed synth-strings chords, weird jazzy piano ... you only heard stuff like that 1990-94!

The soundtrack isn't problematic at all but it screams 1993.

Check out 'The Russia House' (1990) for another utterly early-90s sound.

doesnt get more 90s than a guy with spiky hair mugging at a fisheye lens. all he needed was a fruitopia

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^^^i lol'd

this movie was alright, but i couldn't help but be distracted by JGL's stupid makeup.

i would so watch a full movie of the shanghai montage

me too. I need to watch this again, been a while.

I think this is about Bruce Willis coming back in time to stop his past self, Stuart Murdoch, from recording The Return of Bruno.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, April 11, 2012

JLG just married a robotics CEO

somehow related to this movie i feel

(JGL obv)

why couldn't they just kill people in the future and send the bodies back through time?

did/ will they have to be alive to time travel?

also if they can trace remains no matter what the disposal methods wouldn't the remains still show up when the present arrives in the future anyway? bruce wiilis explicitly states not to go there in the script but sometimes you still think abt this sht.

I don't think this is a movie which is too concerned with the kind of details you're focusing on.

like inevitably, when the inerasable remains of say, the notorious benny the rat, were found and discovered to have been endeadened for 30 years since the date of his disappearance, wouldn't that be especially incriminating? moreso than if he just happened to be found drowned in a river in the future present? if they're traceable they'll show up no matter how far back you send them, so why not send them back to like the bronze age anyway just for fun?

yeah, bruce never exactly said the word "lampshade" but he danced around it. it's like dark city, just don't look past the defined boundaries and you'll be ok.

is dark city referred to as a treatise on filmcraft like inception is? it seems like it should; it's more concise and makes more sense in that regard.

bruce willis doing drive-bys with a ridiculous combover

also, how is it that people can disappear without a trace no big deal when they can apparently trace everyone and everything. you'd think that would be the last thing you'd want.

like inevitably, when the inerasable remains of say, the notorious benny the rat, were found and discovered to have been endeadened for 30 years since the date of his disappearance, wouldn't that be especially incriminating?

I get that asking questions is fun, but this sentence by itself seems to be making more assumptions about how two imaginary technologies work than the whole film does?

maybe. the premise i remember from the film is that it's not possible or at least it's unlikely to be able to dispose of a body in the film's future in a way that keeps it from being found, if looked for, no matter what the methods of disposal. so sending a person back 30 years, where he is simply shot and incinerated, shouldn't be an issue a mere 30 years later. if any remains can be found in the future, sending someone back 30 years to be killed shouldn't render his remains undetectable just because they're eventually 30 years older.

also, jgl should have looked like david addison in this film, that's the major sticking point.

tagging techniques and whatnot

I was half-watching that Disney Tomorrowland movie the other day and it took me a while to notice it has the kid from Looper in it.

this movie ruled

The only thing that bugged me about this movie is my purely speculative belief that Bruce Willis vetoed the idea of wearing his own prosthetics/makeup which would've made the physical distinctions between him and JGL less glaring.

(Plus that thing where I still have yet to see a time travel movie* that maintains a level of internal consistency that I find satisfying, but I've mostly learned to let go of that expectation at this point.)

*I still need to watch Primer again and try to bend my brain all the way around it.

Love movies about time travel this is a good one

yet to see a time travel movie* that maintains a level of internal consistency that I find satisfying

got beef with Bill & Ted?

also the science is pretty on point in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD iirc

Compared to most sci-fi movies I thought the plot holes here were mostly minor, especially given it's a time travel movie and therefore destined to make no sense. Also I remember hearing there's a directors cut that maybe makes more sense. The thing that bothered me was Bruce Willis's wife getting killed, I thought those guys were trained not to kill anybody? Or did they send the wife's body back in time too? Who knows

One cool dynamic about this film was the confrontations between the Old and Young Joe - since it's already been established that anything Old Joe does to Young Joe is going to affect him in the future, there's really not too many ways he can slow him down or get in his way.

i remember this as being a good movie (although i don't remember it too well!) but there was a certain glibness about its style that bugged me. or maybe it was just JGL.

some of my students really liked this. they were all dudes.

i also forgot emily blunt was in this. it's kind of the opposite of her role in edge of tomorrow (which for about 80% of its length seems like much better high-concept sci-fi than looper)

yet to see a time travel movie* that maintains a level of internal consistency that I find satisfying

Timecrimes - one traveller and a pretty simple closed loop iirc.

Timecrimes is v good

Brick is one of the most irritating movies I ever sat through so never bothered with this one

U nuts

Brick is rad

Brick is awesome but people who don't like it REALLY don't like it (they are nuts)

You should ask your time travel logic questions to Rian on Twitter, he sometimes answers them and seems to have definitely thought everything through

or you can ask John Titor

Watched this again, didn't enjoy it as much as the first time. Kind of ridiculous how convoluted the set up has to be for the final payoff - a) time travel but b) only criminal gangs use it and c) only to get rid of bodies because d) that's impossible in the future (lol whut) plus e) blunderbusses. And the whole second act seems to be just JGL hanging around on a farm.

oh I forgot: f) telekinesis.

everything you just said is awesome though

Hanging around on a farm... with Emily Blunt.

this is such a godawful stupid stupid film

I've seen A Quiet Place and I know full well that terrible things happen when you hang out on a farm with Emily Blunt.

I watched this at last. I like this director, the actors, the work with genre, the original SF concept, etc. Great.

But from a certain point, I don't think I understood the story.

I can't help thinking that with really complicated, paradoxical, etc, stories like this or INCEPTION, a fast-moving action film is, in a way, the worst way to narrate them.

Only took me 12 years to see this movie.

It was all right in a Terminator meets Places In the Heart sort of way. Twelve years ago, I may have been put off by how much 2044 looks like 2012, but hell, 2024 looks a lot more like 1982 than Blade Runner predicted.

It was a flawed time travel movie, much like most of them. Again, you can not change what happened in the past. There aren't separate timelines or streams or whatever. Timecrimes got it right and possibly 12 Monkeys.

The scene where dano's future self starts losing body parts is so sick. it does start to drag some when it hits the farm but i didnt think unforgivably so

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, September 28, 2012 9:30 PM

See, I thought Old Dano was suffering from McFly Sibling Syndrome, fading away from existence as events in the past are altered. Seeing the gurney shot and realizing what happened was a sick surprise.

They heavily implied that Jeff Daniels was the same guy as the fuck-up "Kid Blue", right?

― Dan I., Saturday, September 29, 2012 3:28 PM

I was thinking the same thing at first. Thought the little ragamuffin standing in the street may have been Baby Dano too, but how would that even work.

(And when I looked this up on imdb, first image I saw was what I thought was Cyd all grown up. But it was just a picture of Rian Johnson.)

Does set up all sorts of conundrums like, Where's teenaged Abe in 2044? Is that first child victim alive now?

So glad it didn't end with a pregnant Sara patting her belly.

strippers and killers are listening to "I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight" in 2042 -- called it!

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, November 28, 2012 12:20 PM

This guy still bringing the lols.