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What is it that Looper does wrong? There's some kind of tone problem. Is it the lead actors? The combined cognitive noise of time travel's complexity and attempts to distract from its absurdity? The moment where Willis literally yells down objections to it was pretty funny.

The central metaphor was neat. But something goes wandering off.

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Land and Freedom! That was another really good '90s movie.

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So you're telling me Obama didn't need Florida, Ohio, or Virginia (where he finished up +1, +3, +4), since he was up more than five percentage points in each of the plethora of blue states that got him to 270 without any of those three. So short of a revelation he'd tried same-sex cannibalism in college he was always a shoe-in and I lost a lot of precious sleep over nothing. Fucking pollsters.