This week I watched two movies that coincidentally opened in the same week in 2012. Neither delighted me.<\/p>\n
In Looper<\/i>, the terrible threat to be averted is a gangster bent on — gasp — wiping out a group of retired killers. I should care? The targets aren’t even interesting: they’re not so much hitmen, which would suggest some need for cleverness in their m\u00e9tier, as overpaid slaughterhouse workers.
\nIn the end, why does Joe’s “change” (it’s a time travel story) erase Sara’s death but not Cid’s wound?<\/p>\n
Seven Psychopaths<\/i> is self-consciously ironic, “transgressive” and self-referential; nothing here that hasn’t been done better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week I watched two movies that coincidentally opened in the same week in 2012. Neither delighted me. In Looper, the terrible threat to be averted is a gangster bent on — gasp — wiping out a group of retired … Continue reading