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Super-spoilery but possibly substantial complaint about the plot of Looper
Well the fact that you are talking about the movie on a public forum with such disdain and fervor means the movie has already won. The movie obviously made you think, because it made you ask questions and it obviously made you angry at whatever contradictions you think you might have found. If you checked your brain at the door then it’s your fault! I for one held onto my brain and was constantly analyzing the different scenarios brought up in the movie, whether they were plausible or not. I asked questions, discussed it with the friends and family accompanying me, and I made predictions. Sure I was wrong about some predictions and right about others. It made me come up with even more ideas and I even starting weaving up several "what if" scenarios. Time travel is tricky. <--- Period. Besides any time travel contradictions that drive you people crazy, the movie was good, had great cheeky dialogue, it was very aesthetically pleasing, great comedic relief, a good amount of action, great actors and a effing plot for goodness sakes. I haven't had a good reason to go to the movie theaters since The Dark Knight Rises, and I was glad to have one.— October 4, 2012 2:23 p.m.
Super-spoilery but possibly substantial complaint about the plot of Looper
They bother to send him back because mob mentality has always been to take people out in style, especially people that got on their shit list. They are always finding crazy and even innovative ways to off people. Such as Griselda Blanco, a real life drug lord pioneered motorcycle hit-men. Actually Blanco even had a man bayoneted once because she believed he was a pig and should be speared off like a pig. To mobsters it is about a slow painful death and even humiliation. If you think about it, it is a real nasty spit in the face to be forced to have you shoot your future self and not know it. Not bothering to send the wife back doesn't matter at that point because the Rainmaker had taken control and had started to do his cleanse of evil/closing loops, etc. Rainmaker obviously wasn't scared of the rules, he changed them... and with the kind of power he displayed as a kid, I'm pretty sure he was pretty much in control of that city at that point with no real need to hide things. He had raw power and was cleansing the city, it was what wrought the conflict in the story in the first place.— October 4, 2012 2:11 p.m.
Super-spoilery but possibly substantial complaint about the plot of Looper
Bruce Willis never revealed what he intended on happening because he didn't know, it looked more like a "he had nothing left to live for" kind of scenario. Even his "younger self" Joseph Gordon-Levitt character was asked by Emily Blunts character; what he thought his older self was expecting to happen by killing the boy, he responded "I don't know, maybe he thought it would make him disappear, that none of this would have ever happened." Time travel movies ARE tricky; however, what I loved was that this movie was very coy about it and admitted that it did not know everything about time travel. As far as them shooting his wife and such, at that point is when the Rain Maker was involved and that changed all the rules anyway, period. At that point the Rain Maker was a tyrant wanting to kill off the loopers. This movie didn't try to invent or make up rules. You can tell right away the attitude towards possible questions about time travel from the first scene between Bruce Willis and Joseph G.L. in the diner. Bruce pretty much said STFU because we'll be making straw diagrams and talking about it all day, so lets avoid all the questions and just sit back and enjoy a good movie for once.— October 4, 2012 12:15 p.m.