Looper - MOVIE REACTION!! 

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Iconic yes but doesn't make sense. Why torture him when you can just kill his past self like immediately

It's the part where he's screaming for them to wait as his parts are disappearing, reaching the door on just stumps that get me.

“Iconic” is a strong word.

His performance in Moonrise Kingdom applies if you change it to "last three movies"

I hope everything gets better for him. I truly feel bad for him because many people including myself thought he was coasting on easy parts or taking parts just for paycheck but never knowing what personal and physical struggle he has been going through, how hard it has been on him. Just goes to show you that you never know what someone is going through behind close doors and you don't know their truth.

@@noteliassmith Absolutely. Oddly not an actor widely thought of for "range" to jump out at you, until you look at his catalogue and it dawns on you that the man is a legend. Offbeat movie, offbeat director, and an offbeat actor. Moonrise Kingdom... forgot about that one, nice name drop!

I thought Death Wish good

I haven't seen that movie in a long time but I think it would be an interesting reaction from the crew if it's as good as I remember it and they haven't. seen it.

@@DarkElfPaladin I recently rewatched it. It's a pretty good representation of what kids would do with super powers and how these powers would affect their psyche. Has some cringe moments but overall a good watch.

Yes chronicle is definitely a film the guys should watch if they haven’t seen it

oh!! chronicle is genuinely still one of my favorite films

Underrated? ''3rd Rock From the Sun'', ''Mysterious Skin'', ''Brick'', ''Shadowboxer'', ''The Lookout'', ''500 Days of Summer'', ''Hesher'', ....

Love JGL but premium rush was ruuuuuubbish.

You guys are forgetting his very first movie, Angels in the Outfield.

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did this movie come out after bruce willis fell off? that could be an excuse to why no one has seen it

@@ygkemosabi8280 no it was earlier than that I'd say, but towards the end.

I don't want to ruin your world view but for time travel, watch Primer, and as far as Riann Johnson goes, he is an okay director at best.

@@user-fg5lq2dg4h Primer still has some holes in it. And Rian Johnson is a fine director.

Wish he did the same for star wars

@@user-fg5lq2dg4h an OK director that directed some of the greatest episodes in tv history? Yeah I'm pretty sure he's way better than ok kiddo.

​@@user-fg5lq2dg4hwatched Primer, was an interesting concept, but thematically not that satisfying to me at all.

Yung kay Lito Lapid ba yun? hahaha

@@engelfelipe2261 Yes, sir. Haha

I totally agree with this. 12 Monkeys was really good and I'm very satisfied with how they ended it.

12 Monkeys was an excellent movie, I don't know about the series though.

@@NathanWELSHY there'll never be a time travel series like it, even though I love Legends of Tomorrow and Doctor Who, I stand by my word

@@TheLibrarianOG1 Um Have you seen Dark ? The greatest time travel show

@@TheLibrarianOG1 just came here to say that, you should definitiely check out Dark!

I still think The Last Jedi is one of the best Star Wars films in the franchise, however I understand why people have gripes with it given its very different tone. I maintain that I would *love* to see a Johnson directed trilogy, though one that stands on its own merits away from the Skywalker Saga. They probably shouldn't have ever had him come in to direct Episode VIII, and instead let Abrams do all of the sequel trilogy.

@@TyrannosavageRekt I mostly agree. The problem wasn't TLJ at all as much as them not going in with a story plan for all three movies.

@@TyrannosavageRekt For me and a lot of people The Last Jedi was a great star wars film but it was a really bad Skywalker saga film, they just went and change a lot of very loved and establish characters. Imagine TLJ with new characters they present for that movie, it would have been the best star wars film since ESB

Lol, TLJ is filled inconsistencies and plot holes, there some convient stuff that happen to force to plot to work and even it really doesn't work. The characters and dialogue are also really awful. It was a terrible movie, Star Wars related or not.

@@hoya1178 Such a condescending reply

Well, enjoy, my friend

yeah it might look that way, but really with more analysis it can be determined Bruce Willis character made the Rainmaker. If he chose a different career there would be no Rainmaker or Sarah. Essentially he made his doomed reality, yet unlike movies you can change yourself to create a better future not kill yourself though it is symbolic and kind of the same thing. The BTTF trilogy does a great job of hiding the same wisdom. Doc made the clocktower, if he hadn't done that we wouldn't have the Trilogy, Doc realizes that the future is not set but it is whatever you make it.

That's known as a causal loop, and while it's easy to lump it in with other paradoxes, it technically isn't a paradox at all! The same phenomena can be seen in Interstellar.

Oh yeah, TLJ feels totally different! You hate it even more the second time around. Assuming you would be brave enough to do that to yourself again

@@Pir-o Looper actually emphasizes a lot about why watching that film and The Last Jedi a second time are really important for Rian Johnson's movies. In both films - the most important parts of the stories are _the setting itself._ The main character is learning how to be a hero by focusing on how the seemingly unchanging parts of THAT SETTING needs to change. It also shows how only looking at their own personal suffering is just going to ensure that the cycle never changes, even though they ALL need it to. The Last Jedi builds its setting and tensions off of the same elements that inspired the original trilogy of Star Wars - war films & Japanese cinema. TLJ is especially drawing from Apocalypse Now, Twelve O'Clock High, Letter Never Sent, & Rashomon for it's story, on top of the elements Rian Johnson is already known for in the other films mentioned in my OP (with the exception of Knives Out which he made later). In Looper, (which was made before he was ever chosen to direct a Star Wars film), the whole film is using time-travel as a way to show how small events in your life can drastically reshape you decades later - both physically AND psychologically. The themes with the Rainmaker are all focused around the tiny little differences in life experience that will change the future of a kid with exceptional supernatural powers. The elements of the physical and psychological transformation all have some pretty clear links to the same changes linked to how Anakin became Darth Vader. The issues Anakin was facing as a former slave kid upon being taken from his home were; his father figure Qui-Gon dying, his brother Obi-Wan having to raise & mentor him, and his actual mother dying. On top of that, he fell in love with & married the princess who rescued him, while belonging to the Jedi Order where attachments like that are forbidden. Anakin losing the attachments to those he loved are central to his suffering in the same way that the end of Looper lays out why the Rainmaker turns into a monster. Darth Vader as a tool to preserve the Empire is just as critical as the Rainmaker creating the world of Loopers as assassins fated to murder themselves to keep that syndicate in power in the future. That's why Anakin's pain was manipulated by Palpatine into a fear of loss that blinded him to what he had become. Looper follows the same threads on the pains, losses, and lack of critical family figures that cause the Rainmaker to become a monster in the future. The key element is that it's about a cycle that locks itself into repeating, just like The First Order bringing back the Empire in The Force Awakens. Looper is all about breaking that cycle for someone ELSE rather than for yourself and so is TLJ. That's following the same themes in RotJ of Luke having to save his father Anakin rather than killing Vader OR saving himself from the Emperor. In The Last Jedi, those themes are at the core of why war profiteering fueling both sides is a conflict that causes governments to ignore the suffering of children outside of the immediate scope of either side's jurisdiction. The Old Republic wasn't helping slave kids like Anakin on worlds ruled by syndicates like the Hutts on Tatooine, and the New Republic still didn't help the slave kids on Cantonica where Canto Bight was fueled by the money from ensuring that conflict kept people looking elsewhere. Those who weren't busy with their own issues were rich enough to ignore the obvious exploitation, unaffected enough to not care, or to feel their own safety was too much to risk helping them - which is why it's up to Finn & Rose to tear down that facade that no one else will. In war OR peace, the issues that lead to the child Anakin eventually becoming Darth Vader were still unresolved in the Galaxy _regardless of who was in charge._ That's why the identity of Rey's family doesn't matter there, because she has the power to help those who need it and grew up as a deserted nobody like her, which is all that matters for WHY she needs to do something. The old Jedi Council forbidding attachments out of fear of the Dark Side is why Kylo Ren severs attachments as a means to embrace the Dark Side by refusing to care about people he loves like his parents. Ben struggles to kill Han AND his mother because his attachments are a strength to the good in him, not a weakness. Thus, Rey has to hold on to those attachments to save what matters, while also refusing to join Ben, no matter how much he desperately needs someone else. She can't let that attachment pull her to darkness, she needs to use their connection to ensure Ben isn't lost forever. That's why TLJ ends by giving that same hope of being a heroic Jedi to a slave kid through the legend of Luke Skywalker using non-violent resistance to save the people he cares about. Luke's legacy follows the same lessons Yoda taught for how he beat the Emperor - using the Force for knowledge and defense, NEVER attack. That was spread throughout the Galaxy in a way that detached the Jedi from being beholden to the sterile and dogmatic approach of the Jedi Council that lead to Darth Vader. That understanding and the old texts gave Rey everything she needed to succeed in bringing hope to others by ensuring that Luke wasn't The Last Jedi. *Those are all perspectives that you don't have until you've **_already_** seen the end of the films.* That's exactly how ALL Rian Johnson's films are laid out, and why they're all not only worth watching twice, but are a VERY different experience the second time, because you know to focus on something TOTALLY different as being the most important part of the story from what you assume at the beginning.

@@PierceArner not a single person in the world gonna read that. You do realize that, right? You think anyone cares enough about this topic to read THAT? Might as well read a 50 page essay about the brilliance of the writing in female Ghostbusters... Don't you have better things to do? Seems like u wasted a lot of time on it... I kinda feel bad. I think you should step away from the internet for a while. They are using TLJ to teach people how to NOT write a movie. Every single actor from the movie made fun of it at this point. Deal with it and move on, go outside. When I was forced to watch it again I only started noticing more and more mistakes and dumb things. Thats the moment when u realize how dumb it is, on your second watch. So yeah, No.

@@Pir-o It's always worth taking the time to share well-supported information with people, whoever they are! I really enjoy how Rian Johnson designs his films' stories, that's plenty sufficient a reason to write about it. There are a lot of interesting things to discover from other people by reading & engaging with reaction channels' comments (especially the Blindwave viewers). Learning things from other people's experienced point of view is a great way to spend time and gain new perspectives that might change how you think about other things you like. I have really detailed conversations in YT comments about things like this with other people… all the time - because I take the time to write things worth reading. The type of people who DO take that time to read it are the ones who share value by making replies equally worth reading. You reap what you sow, as it were. That's why you & I have totally different experiences in what we usually get from YT comments, based solely on the comments we make and how we interact with them. You just _think_ no one reads that stuff because you don't take the time to ever try. Dismissing that experience outright by ignoring what I wrote is… only your loss not mine. That's ok though, as my previous comment is still around for anyone who wants to read it, and I made sure it's worth the time to. So, if you or anyone else who's thinking about Looper and scanning through these comments wants to discuss or learn things they didn't consider about how Rian Johnson's storytelling is laid out they can! That's a win-win situation for me, (as is the ability to casually write and post online while relaxing outside, since the weather's great!)

@@Pir-o Reading that takes less than watching this reaction video.

I would disagree it being "a lot less fun" That's the same argument I've heard towards Attack on Titan "oh they just talked that episode, that's a lot less fun" It's such a shallow way of looking at things. Action is fun, absolutely. But character interaction, growth, opposing ideals etc also are fun. I don't think this movie would've benefited from a standard "oh they team up and beat the bad guys", it'd just be another cookie cutter standard action movie. Instead we get one that to this day still gets talked about and theorized about because it dared to do something different. I also don't see how it's unsatisfying? The pay-off is that he realizes how to beat the loop, how to beat time itself, you know, the theme of the entire movie? That our actions have layered consequences?

or its bad maybe rather because the first half is about time travel, then the second half is some supernatural telekinesis shit? less action and not beating the bad guys is not boring, its a shit movie because the second half has nothing to do with the first one, not because they dont see eye to eye.

The movie isn't really strictly ALL about time travel. It uses time travel as a thematic and literary device to give the characters choices to make and lessons to learn from your future self or your past self. The title and the ending somewhat give off the idea that the story is a loop but the director leaves the story as a linear plot. *Spoiler* This is shown when both Joe's die at the end. If you watch the trailer it advertises as a time travel/ action movie. But the fact that it strays from that and tries to develope EVERY character and gives it a more natural built world makes it more of an actual story telling movie than a boring sci Fi action flick we're probably seen a bunch of fucking times. I commend this film for trying to be original in a world where people would rather see 2 hours of straight action time bending mind fuckery. The whole telekinesis plot line is shown in the beginning. Then slightly towards the end. Then at the climatic ending. This movie is about telekinesis as much as it is about time travel. Barely. And that's what makes it Great and Original. Life and THIS movie is about "men tryna figure out how to keep what's theirs, it's the only kind of man there is". Plus the music/ special effects/ acting/ and set design are all great. The fact there's as little cgi as possible makes it even better. Edit: grammer

@@blinkachu5275 no it is definitely less fun and not that good.

@@blinkachu5275 I think, ultimately, it is a better and a much more interesting choice to not have them come together, but the screenplay should've done a better job making the audience realize that it was doing that and should've explored that idea in more detail. They could've given us a few moments where they do get along, bond over shared experiences and empathize with each other's situations before realizing that they are at odds with each other or that they don't like each other. That way you still get the payoff and the conflict they have feels earned, because in the movie, they are being rude and condescending to each other right out of the gate without a clear reason.

ong shes great in everything lmaooo

Definitely this.

Time Travel 101: 'You can't undo the causes of your own actions'

theres only so many levels deep of questions that people will ask in a time travel scenario movie, if you can answer all of them...well you did your job. if you cant or dont even try leave time travel alone... But you should ask questions about whatever you are watching, i believe.

@@ygkemosabi8280 That’s my point: you can’t. There will always be something people can question that can’t be answered or is answered in a convoluted way.

@@KissablePurpleMonkey yes but my point is you never have to answer "every" question just the questions your writing specifically introduces/asks "leave the rest to imagination" is a fair thing to do with wide scope ideas.

I think it was prostetics, so he can resemble Bruce Willis in his youth more.

@UCAO0sMiXEYC4Tz3jWZOiEHA Gordon-Levitt spent hour's every morning getting prosthetics applied to look like Willis, not cgi for Willis to look like Joseph.

Iirc it was both prosthetics and some cgi on Gordon-Levitt's face.