Several sequences that despite having seen it before blew my mind but when it got to this bit at the end I completely lost it

Johnson is both clearly started with novels in the specific strokes of character he throws into each moment but also is such a master of simple staging that maximizing impact and information, and has such precise vision for the edit, you know he was born for the movies

The movie is one of the rare ones that’s moving quickly yet is continually waiting for the right moments to reveal more of its hand. You almost dont catch up to what the movie really is until the end, even though it makes you think you do like 5 times throughout

The sci fi and action genre stuff is next level. Forgot how much awesome gun fighting there is. All the gnarly time travel torture… his vision for the grungy future is so perfect. That scene where Bruce Willis is trying to remember the first time he saw her…

that scene where Paul Dano's character is chopped one limb after the other in present and his future self witnesses his body disappearing is still haunts me. it was terryfying without seeing one drop of blood.

Paul Dano disintegrating all timer sci-fi sequence. The gat-man's gun sticking like a flag in the mud after the dinner shoot out, Jeff Daniels making a meal of it. So much juice in this movie.

and the miata 👌

It’s so slick

what in the hell just happened in this clip lmao

What part are you confused by

I probably just need to watch the movie, I mainly got confused by it cutting to Bruce Willis and whatever he was doing

We’re cross cutting to him about to kill one of the 3 kids who could be the rainmaker, but as JGL sees the real rainmaker Bruce Willis sees it as a memory. So while we see 2 different things, Bruce Willis is technically also experiencing the other scene as memory at the same time

Looper on my timeline?

Love the reveal & how this scene makes you believe she’s running to save her son but she’s actually trying to protect them from the son 🏆

Sound editing mastery. The sonic ricochet of throbbing score into the screech effect, Willis’ breathy vocal intrusion to silence to perfectly punctuated light / zap / hit / explosion, is truly incredible. Honestly I could “listen” to the melody of this moment forever

And that’s when I saw it. I saw a mom who would die for her son. A man who would kill for his wife. A boy, angry and alone. Laid out in front of him, the bad path. I saw it. And the path was a circle. Round and round………… So I changed it. 💥

How did I not notice that a primary henchman in Looper is Garret Dillahunt, the king of scuzzy southerners, bad cowboys and Dixie Mafia types.

Everything building up to this fucking moment. It was rewarding as fuck.

Really? Because I had trouble taking the incoherent time travel seriously. It made Doctor Who seem serious in comparison.

ive never been able to put my finger on why but of all movies ive watched (including adaptations of books) this is the movie that feels most like a short story

Dillahunt IMMEDIATELY putting the gun up is one of my favourite character moments ever. Incredible definition of who this pretty minor character is, and who he isn't

I will always defend this film, absolute ripper of a picture!!!

Not enough Jeff Daniels in this film

Easily top 3 performances either of the lead actors has ever given too. Although clearly that's largely to the credit of the writing and directing

Very funny that Rian Johnson decided to not be this cool ever again

Instantly became one of my all-time favorites

Was very disappointed. Telekinesis stuff felt tacked on.

Incredible film. It sticks in you consciousness for life.

masterpiece

Such a cool ass movie. Hopefully Rian makes another original sci fi banger soon since he’s finally taking a break from Knives Out.

For me this movie was ruined by the massive plot hole at the end where he comes to the conclusion that he caused the kid to become a monster despite the fact these events never happened in the original timeline.

I just thought it was implied there’s a small network of loopers trying to kill him, because Bruce Willis works with somebody to find his date of birth. So we’re stuck in a loop between slight variations of two timelines, one where rainmaker makes sure Willis is wearing the bag

over his head going into the time machine because he recognizes the man that killed his mom, which creates the other where a different looper kills his mom and those same cautions aren’t taken with Willis, allowing him to escape and kill her. This goes until JGL ends the loop.

The important thing is that the rainmaker is killing loopers because a looper killed his mom, which causes the loopers to try and kill him, continuing the cycle. The moment something really drastic like one of those loopers dying 30 years early, he doesn’t become the rainmaker

Which means he never kills the loopers and they never seek revenge etc. the movie doesn’t explain this in exact detail, but we know he becomes the rainmaker because of a looper unless JGL kills himself, that’s enough, especially because it’s so emotional

It never mentions that a looper kills his mother at all though, the only hint of what turns him into a monster is that scene at the end where BW is about to kill her to get to him and that’s treat like it’s specifically that event that causes it.

The future guns in this thing 😍

the only fault of the entire flick is that bruce willis wig. and its awesome

Damn i gotta rewatch it this clip has me stressed tf outtt

@Pythagoras13

This editing is absolute dogshit.

I think about this scene often! Such a great movie.

I'm still sad this never got a sequel or the tv series I think was rumoured, seeing the Rainmaker in action would have been incredible

That sequence was AMAZING in the theater. I'll never forget it. It's what gave me a lot of hope about Rian Johnson's future endeavors. Alas. But Looper remains in my top 10.

Looper is such a good movie