LOOPER SPOILERS (also possibly minor Brick spoilers)
Huh. Maybe it's because of your warning beforehand, but i didn't find Looper nearly as gorey as i'd expected it to be. (That said, the most disturbing thing - the old!Seth/young!Seth thing - probably wasn't quite as disturbing to me as most because of my medical/wound care background.) But i thought what blood there was was fairly stylized (the scene with Jesse, for instance, didn't squick me at all because it was so stylized and weirdly, disturbingly pretty) and the violence was for the most part a lot of suggestion and bloodstains and not a lot of actually laying out the gore. (The headshot scene in Brick actually bothered me more, because even in silhouette it was so visceral. Is that weird?)
I think the less i think about the time travel, the better it works, but at the same time, as one of my friends put it, "if we get too into that discussion we'll be here for hours making diagrams with straws." :D Either way, i'm okay with reading positive reviews, but i really don't want to read the negative/nitpicking reviews, because i think they'll drag me down from my visceral enjoyment of the movie.
And i definitely like that no one was a good guy and no one was a bad guy and everyone had their own motivations (not always good ones, even). And omg, Kid Bluuuuue. Someone write me fic about that boy and his feelings, PRONTO.
I think my favorite part was that, like all Rian Johnson films, they dragged me along till the end going "but wait, how's this gonna play out?" and thinking that maybe i knew, and then BAM! Not only was it a better ending than anything i would've come up with, but it hit me right in the solar plexus of my feels, too.
Random k8 is random.
(Also your texts were hilarious and i'm sorry i cut you off so abruptly! So that was the night i took my grandparents to the symphony, and i was texting you at intermission while sucking down a soda because ZOMG SO TIRED that even bombastic Russian orchestral pieces weren't keeping me awake, it was bad, and then i walk in at the last light-dimming and while trying to text you back my grandpa - who makes friends with everybody, it's ridiculous, how do a quarter of my socially anxious genes even come from this man - introduces me to the people we'd been sitting next to, the wife who's a nurse and thus the two of us were obligated to talk nursing stuff, and her husband who, randomly, works with my sister's father-in-law. Srsly. So there i was trying to talk and finish my text and the lights were going down and it suddenly got very complicated very quickly! So i apologize for the abruptness and the awkward.)
It was stylized gore. :) I guess it was more violent than gorey? I thought the Seth scenes were what a lot of horror movies aim for and miss. Rian Johnson is just super talented at creating atmosphere. :) No, that's not weird at all. I thought Brick really built up to that scene in a number of ways, because there's so much "when are we going to find out what's really happening" intrigue and then there's this sudden action by Tug and it looks really raw and visceral, like you said.
It's hard for me to articulate my feelings but I think they boil down to: I enjoyed the movie, thought it was great, but didn't really like it. Is that weird?
Oh yes! Poor Kid Blue and his feelings. He's just so faily at everything. XD I really liked that scene at the end where he's in a showdown with bb!Joe because it showcases that kind of quick witted thinking that let bb!Joe turn into stonecoldkiller!Joe. :D
(hey no worries! so sorry that i was texting you while you were with your grandparents and distracting you! aw your grandpa is so sweet! i hope you had lots of fun with them!!)
<3
ps sorry this is so late! i've been so crazy busy this week. :((
(also possibly minor Brick spoilers)
Huh. Maybe it's because of your warning beforehand, but i didn't find Looper nearly as gorey as i'd expected it to be. (That said, the most disturbing thing - the old!Seth/young!Seth thing - probably wasn't quite as disturbing to me as most because of my medical/wound care background.) But i thought what blood there was was fairly stylized (the scene with Jesse, for instance, didn't squick me at all because it was so stylized and weirdly, disturbingly pretty) and the violence was for the most part a lot of suggestion and bloodstains and not a lot of actually laying out the gore. (The headshot scene in Brick actually bothered me more, because even in silhouette it was so visceral. Is that weird?)
I think the less i think about the time travel, the better it works, but at the same time, as one of my friends put it, "if we get too into that discussion we'll be here for hours making diagrams with straws." :D Either way, i'm okay with reading positive reviews, but i really don't want to read the negative/nitpicking reviews, because i think they'll drag me down from my visceral enjoyment of the movie.
And i definitely like that no one was a good guy and no one was a bad guy and everyone had their own motivations (not always good ones, even). And omg, Kid Bluuuuue. Someone write me fic about that boy and his feelings, PRONTO.
I think my favorite part was that, like all Rian Johnson films, they dragged me along till the end going "but wait, how's this gonna play out?" and thinking that maybe i knew, and then BAM! Not only was it a better ending than anything i would've come up with, but it hit me right in the solar plexus of my feels, too.
Random k8 is random.
(Also your texts were hilarious and i'm sorry i cut you off so abruptly! So that was the night i took my grandparents to the symphony, and i was texting you at intermission while sucking down a soda because ZOMG SO TIRED that even bombastic Russian orchestral pieces weren't keeping me awake, it was bad, and then i walk in at the last light-dimming and while trying to text you back my grandpa - who makes friends with everybody, it's ridiculous, how do a quarter of my socially anxious genes even come from this man - introduces me to the people we'd been sitting next to, the wife who's a nurse and thus the two of us were obligated to talk nursing stuff, and her husband who, randomly, works with my sister's father-in-law. Srsly. So there i was trying to talk and finish my text and the lights were going down and it suddenly got very complicated very quickly! So i apologize for the abruptness and the awkward.)
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It's hard for me to articulate my feelings but I think they boil down to: I enjoyed the movie, thought it was great, but didn't really like it. Is that weird?
Oh yes! Poor Kid Blue and his feelings. He's just so faily at everything. XD I really liked that scene at the end where he's in a showdown with bb!Joe because it showcases that kind of quick witted thinking that let bb!Joe turn into stonecoldkiller!Joe. :D
(hey no worries! so sorry that i was texting you while you were with your grandparents and distracting you! aw your grandpa is so sweet! i hope you had lots of fun with them!!)
<3
ps sorry this is so late! i've been so crazy busy this week. :((
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