Movie Crush Monday: Little C and Looper

Happy Monday Readers,
CT told you in her post last week about The Prestige, and as much as I wanted to make my post this week a general love letter to David Bowie (Because he is human perfection) I decided there was another link that I just couldn't pass up. So I followed Piper Perabo from The Prestige to Looper.

Ok, this movie through a lot of people off because the plot was a little more complicated than good guy faces down bad guy. It's a story that's kind of about fate versus choices, and kind of about time travel, and kind of about why you don't ever underestimate Bruce Willis. The general idea is that Joe is a special kind of assassin who kills people that get sent back to him from the future by organized crime bosses. Everything is going along great until Joe gets sent out to kill the future version of himself. Which means essentially the Joseph Gordon Levitt is playing a young version of Bruce Willis. 

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Looper is firing on a lot of different cylinders at one time. The writing refuses to slow down to explain anything, which makes the visuals extremely valuable because if they weren't spot on it would be impossible to follow the action of the film. As with any time travel movie, changing the past has consequences for the future, but Director/Writer Rian Johnson has a really unique take on what those consequences are. 

For a movie with a ton of really intense scifi concepts running around in it, Looper manages a really organic feel to it that makes me forget that it isn't taking place in a normal world. The technology it uses isn't shiny or sharp, and the fantastical elements never overshadow the characters. It's a delicate balance to make a nerd movie that isn't ashamed of the geeky parts of itself but also doesn't show them off. I feel like this movie didn't turn off the people who hate ideas like Star Trek because they're so far removed from our current reality. 

Just a little heads up for our regular readers, as we head into the holidays our posts may get a touch irregular. We're spending a week in the Wild West, so have patience. It's gonna be a long holiday season. 

Happy watching,

Little C