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General Chat / Re: Movies

« on: February 26, 2014, 05:45:34 AM »

Look at this thread.  It isn't full of people talking about how Looper is the best movie of the year.

Go watch Looper.  It is the best movie of the year.

There was not 5 minutes in that movie where they didn't do exactly what I hoped they would do with a scene.  Holy fucking shit this movie is great.  The setting is fantastic, the casting is amazing, the story is great and the dialogue is well written.  The tagline and quick run down do absolutely nothing to do justice to this film. 

I think the only thing I can really talk about without spoilering stuff (meh to spoilers as per normal but you know, respect for the audience and all that) but most importantly with sufficiently describing what is so great about them.

The setting is a run down near future.  It works really well because they keep it vague on the how or why of it, but it is pretty much Future Depression, there is vagrants all up ins and people skip town on trains.  Crime is pretty all encompassing and people kill drifters often etcetc.  The really cool part is that while there is still nods to technological progression and there being newer inventions, the vast majority get by on fixed up functional modern technology.  Cars are repurposed for alternate more efficient cheap power sources, but those expensive bulky metal chassis are reused (cars with solar panel strapped to them and random tubes is pretty much it for set design).  They use some of the more automated tech for heavy work (maintaining a farm), but plenty of simple work is still done by hand. 

It honestly reminded me of two films from the last few years in setting.  Starting with the sacrilege first, honestly it is a similar approach to tech that Real Steel took.  Its lo-fi sci-fi, its cool and simple.  No where near as soft and friendly as Real Steel of course (though it does actually head in a bleak direction like I mentioned I would have done after watching Real Steel!).  The other one is Children of Men.  Both are set in a bleak kind of run down future, but for their own reasons.  Children of Men is bleak and run down because people just gave up because everyone is sterile.  Definitely going out with a whimper there.  Here stuff is more run down, but it is just that they both use conventional functional design for everything.  Its cool.

The other great thing about the setting? Well it is a story that involves time travel* so we have a second even more future future that is referenced.  We find out fuck all about this.  Just some simple bits and pieces.  There is Time Travel there.  Some stuff happened.  People still live and mostly get on as they always do.  Tech is higher and tracking people around the world is much much easier.  That is about the extent of it.

Watch this movie.  It is Inception good and well worth your time and money.

*As opposed to a time travel story where it is the thing that drives the plot, in this it is merely a tool and is kind of set dressing.

I do agree with you.. Looper was the best movie but which movie do like most in 2013? There were plenty so please share your opinion.