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[proximoception]

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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[nightspore.livejournal.com]

The first, and biggest, problem is: why would you have to close your own loop? Why can't some other looper do it? In another town, so you'd never know?

And then the time travel was just not quite well-handled enough. I think there were too many balls in the air, and while Johnson is a really good juggler he started looking clumsy.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Killing your own future self was another strong metaphor though.