Last night Diana redboxed Looper. She had to be at church by 8:00 this morning, and I have a 10 hour work day, so why not start a movie at 10:30??? We liked it so much, that she said I should blog about it. So here is my review.
But before that rambling starts, can we all just take a moment and admire this cutie patootie????
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| Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
He is on my list of possible future husbands. I mean, not only did I have a little crush on him way back when he was the sweet foster kid that saw angels in the outfield....
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And his career as a MAN has only made me fall deeper and deeper. Seriously, he is going to be Robin, and I don't know what can be better than what we are seeing below.
Oh right...sorry, the movie. Anyway, it was way better than expected. I don't really remember a whole lot of previews for it and I don't recall hardly any publicity. But I did know going into it that it was about time travel, and that young guy in the present is suppose to kill his future self...and they fight. Action man himself, Bruce Willis, is awesome. Does this guy age?!?! I'm pretty sure he just becomes more and more of a BA! And he doesn't disappoint in this movie. Sometimes, in these action films, it's difficult to believe that one man with one gun can take on twenty armed men. But I believe Bruce can do it. And did you know Emily Blunt is in this movie? I didn't, or I forgot maybe. But when I saw her, D and I were both like, "YES!" Love her always.
So yeah, all the actors get an A+ from me. But what I really liked about this movie was that the time traveling didn't trip up the story. You know how when you watch movies about traveling to and from the future, it get's all crazy and things stop making sense? Well this movie didn't have that problem, because the actors basically told us, the audience, to not worry about it. Jeff Daniels has a line addressed to Mr. Adorable himself that basically says,"We could sit here and talk about it for hours, but just trust me." Then later Ole' Brucie tells Joseph that time traveling gets confusing and we could try to figure it out but that takes too long and we need diagrams and such. So, the audience knows just to let it go and enjoy. And that's what we did.
This film also had quite a few twists and turns and unexpected laughable moments. But that's not surprising when you have two charming men like Joseph and Bruce. But my favorite moments were when Joseph Gordon-Levitt had the exact facial expressions as Bruce Willis. Diana actually had a moment were she yelled, "Oh my gosh, that was the Bruce Willis smolder!" Well done Joseph.
All that to say, you should rent Looper. Good times.
