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Flashy New International Trailer For LOOPER Reveals A Little More Than It Should!
Beaks here...
Now that we're halfway through the 2012, I can safely say that Rian Johnson's time-travel yarn LOOPER is a lock for my year-end top ten. I've already written a non-spoiler review of the film (based on an early test screening), and when I watched the below-embedded international trailer, I got all excited to watch it again. I'm confident it'll fire you up, too, but here's the problem: there are some reveals in this trailer that might slightly diminish the fun of piecing together the film as you're watching it. Johnson agrees. Here's what he had to say on Twitter earlier today.
If you're already set on seeing Looper, I'd avoid any trailers from here on out. They don't ruin the movie, but they tip a few little things that are fun to discover in the context of the movie.
He later clarified this with another tweet.
Just to clarify - I approved all the trailers, they're great an they won't ruin anything big. But the small things they tip are fun to discover in the movie.
But for those of you who are skeptical about the film, prepare to be de-skepticized!
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Please, please be good!
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In the shots from the previews alone he has adopted his mannerisms, posture and even the facial expressions and tics that we've come to know from Willis. It's pretty impressive.
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June 27, 2012, 1:02 p.m. CST
Must be makeup cause that looks like Levitt aged 10 years since Inception.
by Boiiinng
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I really appreciate it when folks actually caution you not to watch a trailer if you appreciate a story unfolding fresh for the first time. Thank you Beaks!
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June 27, 2012, 1:03 p.m. CST
Hopefully it won't take long to get used to JGL's weird Willis prosthetics.
by fustfick
Movie looks terrific, makeup looks...well...like makeup.
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Why's shit flying everywhere, for starters.
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So I will not be watching the trailer.
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Joking : ) this looks damn good!
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who became white.
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This looks marginally better than Nic Cage's "Next"
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June 27, 2012, 1:39 p.m. CST
THE POOPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Simpsonian
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June 27, 2012, 1:47 p.m. CST
Looks like garbage and his makeup his hilarious and distracting.
by _ISITIN3D_
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June 27, 2012, 1:51 p.m. CST
The earlier trailer made this movie look like it had potential.
by buggerbugger
This new trailer makes it look like all kinds of generic shit.
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Just accept we are all going to love this when it comes out.
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June 27, 2012, 2:13 p.m. CST
Only people who haven't seen Ryan Johnson's other stuff are hating on this.
by Sardonic
I admit that if you didn't know who was behind it, this would seem pretty run-of-the-mill. But the fact that it's Ryan Johnson just changes the whole deal. It's probably going to be insanely good.
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he sort of purses his lips and makes a kind of beak with them and squints his eyes. You know, this is looking better and better with every new frame I see. I think I'll stop until opening day now.
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I thought this was supposed to star Bill Murray as a wayward golf caddy in the Himalayas...
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June 27, 2012, 2:18 p.m. CST
This is the same guy who did Brick right? I'll see it.
by Tikidonkeypunch
I also love me some Willis and JGL.
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The guy rarely makes a miss movie.
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...which blew my mind. What a strange little film that was. Really amazing.
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NOPE! Hollywood is already on it!
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June 27, 2012, 2:45 p.m. CST
Catch on Netflix, Amazon, or dvd, Johnson's Breaking Bad episode from season three. It's the episode where Mr. White goes crazy
by openthepodbaydoorshal
after a fly in the lab. Goood stuff. And I'm curious as hell to see what he does with the time travel conceit, after his turn with the con man film, The Brothers Bloom. Brick...couldn't get into somehow.
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What exactly do you want? It's an original sc fi by a talented up and comer director with a great cast. I'm failing to see the problem here.
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How is time traveling gunplay original sci fi? We've seen this countless times. And I wouldn't be so fast to call this 'sci fi.' Science fantasy, maybe, but I doubt it will earn the science fiction label--sci fi means explaining things in realistic, logical detail. I really doubt this will do any such thing with its time traveling concept. Like I said earlier, this looks marginally better than Nic Cage's 'Next' from 2007. Best thing that can be said about it.
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June 27, 2012, 3:20 p.m. CST
bemorefunny, original as in not a reboot, adaptation, etc. Sci-fi as in it deals with time travel
by P
Are we arguing semantics now? Yes. Apparantly we are.
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That this was released on the date that Doc Brown set the coordinates for in Back to the Future? Hmmmm...? ??Pseudo?? Out.
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June 27, 2012, 3:31 p.m. CST
Movie looks good, but why would your younger self be so bent on killing your older self? Just ask for the lottery number. Everybody wins.
by CodeName
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Not only does it give too much away, but because they chose to not give everything away in the trailer, certain scenes are cut so you only see part of what's happening, and this edit of events makes things muddy and confusing. I am 100% in agreeance with Rian on this one. Just go see this. You will love it.
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you will understand that plot thread when you see it. it's not as simple as "he wants to kill his older self."
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Thanks for the info, man. I was going to see it regardless. It looks good.
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The concept makes no sense. Maybe if they were sending them to ancient Rome where they've worked a deal with a slaver or some such thing but back 30 years, what's the big deal. Got to be cheaper ways to get rid of someone.
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June 27, 2012, 4:25 p.m. CST
i'd like to see video on J.G. Levvit's make-up job. Gotta say, it works...
by Squinty CGI Flynn
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June 27, 2012, 4:26 p.m. CST
Looks amazing and I am one of the few that thought Brick was way overrated.
by A_J_Pennypacker
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June 27, 2012, 4:28 p.m. CST
Would have been better with Arnold as the younger Bruce...
by ThulsaBoom
...I kid. Haven't seen any trailers, but I've been in since I heard Shane Carruth was working on it. Primer. That is all.
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And I still don't understand it.
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thanks beaks!
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Damn you Michael Bay
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June 28, 2012, 6:20 a.m. CST
what does that trailer reveal that the other one didn't already?
by MariusXe
I mean, yeah, you see old Bruce and young Bruce work together, but who wouldn't have guessed that would happen?
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An envelope with all the particulars and the hit man takes care of it. I have not seen it yet so I don't know maybe it's like Terminator only living tissue can go back. Or send them back to 65 million BC. No one would survive long.
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You send the target back because there is no body and no assassin to implicate the mobsters in the future. It benefits the assassin in the past because, if someone finds the body in the past, there is no way to match it to someone alive at that time ("John" at 55 would not be mistaken by the authorities for still living "John" at 25), and sending the targets to a remote location in the past is a good way to kill them anonymously. However, I don't see why they would send JGL's future self to be killed by his past self, or why they would send him without binding his hands/covering his face, like the other targets we saw in the trailer. Maybe that's a plot point.
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That domestic trailer is better and probably spoiler-ier! Awesome! I can't wait!
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