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  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldtoMovies@lemmy.world•First they killed god. Then they killed art.English
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    23 days ago

    Never saw Breaking Bad, and like I say, I saw Looper and liked it until I thought about it.

    The whole premise of Looper is mobsters in the future can’t kill anyone because technology, but somehow can send people to hitmen in the past.

    The hitmen in the past get paid in gold strapped to the victim, and if you get a TREMENDOUS payout, that means you killed your future self and are now retired.

    Great premise, right?

    1. Future police can track guns and homicides, but apparently can’t track gold or time travel?

    2. If you retired your hitman in the past, why would you need to kill them in the future? They’ve been retired at that point for decades. How did they fuck that up to the point of needing killing.

    3. If you’re paying your hitmen in gold, why have a huge payout for killing yourself? The whole reason the film exists is “what happens if future you gets away?”

    Let’s say you have present day hitmen a, b, and c but you need to kill future hitmen A, B, and C.

    Send A to b, B to c and C to A. No big payout required and no need to retire past hitmen. It’s a job like any other.

    But like I say, the shotgun design kicks ass and the actors were great!

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldtoMovies@lemmy.world•First they killed god. Then they killed art.English
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    24 days ago

    “Somehow Palpatine Returned” was Rise of Skywalker… after Johnson painted them into a corner by killing Snoke, reducing the resistance to a size that could fit on the Falcon, and offing Luke Skywalker instead of Leia when he had the chance.

    But I tend to give Rise of Skywalker a pass because a) Johnson fucked them and b) Carrie Fisher died and it was supposed to be “her” movie, like Force Awakens was Hans and Last Jedi was Lukes. :(

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldtoMovies@lemmy.world•First they killed god. Then they killed art.English
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    24 days ago

    I really liked Looper until I made the mistake of, you know, thinking about it for more than 10 seconds. The shotgun design still kicks ass though which is about the only good thing I can say about it now, oh, and the performers were quite good.

    Last Jedi absolutely shit the bed in every way possible, so at that point Rian Johnson was dead to me. He needs to pay an average to slow 5th grader to come in and point out all his plot holes so he can have someone else fix them.

    Never watched Knives Out, highly unlikely I will.

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