Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 

I really liked SC. BUT...it's a bit weak in the story. It's not bad...no..it's pretty good...but I wasn't surprised I guess in it's story. And yeah...the ending is a weak, not bad..just.well...telegraphed.

Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 

I loved Source Code. It was one of my favorites of last year.

Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 

I look forward to this movie, but I have a friend who knows he won't like it because he finds the premise preposterous. He thinks there's no way in the future people can't find other ways to dispose of bodies they don't want found aside from sending them back through time.

Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 

You didn't fix anything. You just his statement completely wrong.-screwy-

Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 

That doesn't explain anything. I'm gonna need an explanation.

Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 

It means that Johnson wrote this for JGL and then Bruce Willis expressed interest in the project and the studio heads said hey if you don't put Willis in this, you have no movie. So Johnson said, okay, but I have no idea how this will work because JGL looks nothing like Bruce Willis. So the studio head guy said, make it work or no movie! So Johnson attempted to make it work. The end.

Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 

So, are you saying that you won't see it because Rian Johnson was forced to use Bruce Willis? Or forced to compromise his vision to fit an actor he didn't want? As long as he got the guy he wrote the part for, I don't see a problem. Some directors I'm sure don't even get that. That's part of film making. Making the movie work despite obstacles and setbacks that may come along. Directors that have gotten everything they wanted have had those movies be shitty and movies that have made tons of compromises have turned out great. This movie looks great and I hope it is.

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I just can't buy JGL as a young Willis. If this movie turns out to be mind blowingly epic then I'll check it out but as of now I'll wait for Redbox.

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Hell, I could buy JGL as a young Sigourney Weaver if the rest of the script is right.

2 actors playing the same character at different ages very *rarely* look plausibly alike.

They should never have even tried to make them more similar thru special effects--that was the mistake. I'm very reluctant to give a shit about a movie starring JGL with a fake face we're not supposed to notice.

Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 

And this is why "Jaws" became a great movie.

Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 

Well, good movies have been made from dumber ideas, but your friend's not wrong. Of all the things time travel could be used for, the notion that it's mostly a murdered body disposal system is pretty weak and random.

Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 

I hated that movie and I hate how every thriller/horror movie uses the 6th Sense twist ending now.

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I agree with this. There's really no need for it. Audiences are very used to suspending disbelief for the situation of two different actors playing the same character at different times in their life. I've never really liked it when they put "old age" makeup on a young person to show them later in life (like Winona Ryder at the end of Edward Scissorhands). Just hire an older actor to play them at that age.

That said, I'm looking forward to this movie and I don't expect the makeup on JGL to really bother me.

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I was bothered by the Bruce Willis makeup at first but have grown to dig it. They usually do cast any actor they want and just kinda shoo it away and say this actor is this other actor but younger and let the audience deal with it. Haven't seen a younger actor put on prosthetics too many times to look like a younger version of a well know older actor so think it's pretty novel.

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Haha. I remember that there were people on this forum who had a similar compaint about Inception.

Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 

FWIW, while he overall liked Inception, he found that movie's plot rather out there as well.

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The JGL visual manipulation looks ridiculous. What were they thinking. :lol:
I just laugh every time I see the trailer or TV spot.

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Fixed. As long as we're being preposterous, we may as well be correct.

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:thumbsup:

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I think it looks pretty good :shrug:

Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 

I've never seen Carnival of Souls. I guess I know the ending now.

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I always found it odd that Bruce Willis popped up out of nowhere at the end of Carnival of Souls. The twist ending works a lot better in The Sixth Sense since they established Bruce's character previously.

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You thought that was odd? I thought it silly that water could kill the carnival.

Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 

Anyone remember when Johnson said that he was making a "spiritual sequel to Blade Runner". I just remembered that. That'd be cool if it's all poetic and shit. But I'm not seeing it from the trailers. I wonder if there was a grander vision in the begining.

Re: Looper (Rian Johnson, 2010): "violent and dark" sci-fi
 

All the reviews I've seen say it's a very tight, clever script.