God the scene where the dudes body parts are disappearing is so disturbing.

I really really like this movie. I like that the directors seemed to know that trying to explain time travel BS would just lead to nowhere and just go ahead with the plot of the movie. IMO, one way or another, no matter how you try to explain time travel, it'll eventually become a paradox unless you insert multi-verse theory.

I like to think the rain maker was closing all the loops in the future is because he knows a looper killed his mom and this is his way of getting revenge. Since Joe killed himself he has no reason to close all the loops and the story ends on a bitter but happy ending.

I never considered the rainmaker as purely evil. He was going around killing hitmen and mobsters. Also, what his plans after closing the loops are is still a mystery. For all we know he could be the savior of humanity.

The time travel paradox is one reason why I liked the modern The Time Machine. No matter how many times the main character returns to save his wife, it doesn't work. Because the only reason he made the time machine was to save her life.

Such a good time travel action movie! It's too bad we never got a sequel to this movie, as we would have explored more of the characters we've seen or haven't seen.

Some stuff doesn't make scientific sense, but this is still a dope movie.

"If you travel to the Past, that past becomes your Future, and your former present becomes the Past. Which can't now be changed by your new future". - Bruce Banner.

Correction the Loopers are paid in silver bars with the exception of 'Closing their Loop' in which the silver is replaced with gold bars. Also Future Sid grew up without a mom and dirt poor in the end he has his mom and a van full of silver bars. Does Sid still have the potential to become the Rain Maker, YES, but it is not a forgone conclusion.

I always thought of this movie as a reverse superhero origin story. Imagine in the canon universe of a comic there's an established supervillain, then using "comic logic" there's a time travel event that changes the villians past making him into a hero and that becomes the new canon. Basically The Rainmaker is the Flashpoint Paradox version of The Joker becoming a permanent hero. At least that's the way I saw it.

One of the better scifi movies in a long time IMO. Totally underappreciated. Possibly, dare I say it, even better than Time Cop.

It is my opinion that kid blue (guy with the big revolver) is the younger “Abe”. Think about it. Abe was sent back, from the future. His younger self has to be living at this time. He has to get involved with them in the future somehow, so the relationship with the organization had to be when he’s younger (had to be with them awhile to be trusted, to be partly in management. But also somewhat of a screwup, hence the crappy job they gave him. In my mind, it’s really obvious! Especially the attention he gives him, & also the way he’s sorta mean with him, because it’s him, doesn’t want him to be a screwup, cause being a screwup is why he ended up with such a crappy placement in management. I’ll repeat this part again, to expound on it = in order for him to be placed in a management/boss position, he would’ve had to be trusted, had to be there from the beginning, also when he started in the beginning of this type of career, he would’ve been sorta in charge in some small way, then grew into the boss he became in the future (to then be sent back in the past by the main boss. Kid blue is sort of a leader of the fighting crew. But...... I get the feeling the director did not think of this, I think it’s just a coincidence that it all lines up. Reason why I don’t think the director thought of this is because when they (in the movie) smash kid blues hand with a hammer, Abe’s hand doesn’t change. They should’ve had Abe look at his own hand after, maybe open it and close it like it hurts from arthritis. They could’ve even had him do that periodically throughout the movie, like a tick, (even befor they smashed kid blue’s hand)

What are the odds of randomly checking your sub box and seeing a new vid from Niyat 10 seconds ago?

When this movie came out alot of people had theories that bruce wilis character was really the rainmaker not the little boy...and it really scared the shit out of me when old joe got erased liked zeno closed his hand

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I watched this movie on TV when I was young and all I remember was shotgun, gold and teleportation.

Like this flick, but this always bugged me. "If Old Joe ceased to exist after Young Joe shot himself, wouldn't that mean that every person that Old Joe killed (Abe included) still exist?"

I love the background music. I love that sci/fi, fantasy, mysterious feel it has. I came here after watching it for a second time, as it's now on Netflix. Great video, and great movie.

Great analysis of one of my favorite films! BUT I offer you this- I don’t believe it was “lazy screenwriting”. I believe the director was following the mantra of “Don’t let facts get in the way of a good story”. Movies live or die on the execution of suspension of disbelief and I think directly, and gracefully, he addresses this in an intelligent and meta sorta of way. Just my opinion tho! I would love to hear your thoughts or anyone else’s for that matter. Awesome content as usual!

When you realize they call him the rainmaker because he makes body’s explode

There is a theory that you cannot go back in time before the point that the time machine was created. So if someone does create a time machine, or works out the equation then all of a sudden they will pop up everywhere around us

I absolutely love this film. Miss watching Looper. Well done, Nyait.🙌🏼🔥

He's just a kid and now he has a mum for a longer period of time jeez

Honestly I dont really see holes in the script as you said time travel movies are extremely difficult but in my mind I think looper did a good job of not convoluting it too much

That ending scene in Looper made me tear up when the conclusion of events comes to young Joe

Rian Johnson is a good director when he is not carrying on a franchise. He is better doing his on thing. He needs to work on plot holes also.

💖💖Hearts for the Legendary Bruce Willis.

Excellent film, definitely shows where Rian's strengths are with filmmaking.

I was wondering when the Last Jedi references were going to show up

Looper really did throw me for a loop 😂😂😂@FilmComicsExplained

look at that face at 14:11 he definitely became the Rainmaker

The rumor about the rainmaker was that he saw his mom get shot.. which was looped in young Joe's foresight before he killed himself. Which in itself is time travel of sort. Intentionally so? Who knows. But, the thought timeline of rumors specifically says "shot" not "killed". Thus it's not open ended. It's looped.

8:50, Jesus that's rough!

Wasn’t Joe’s friend shot with a gat instead of a blunderbust? The guy that shoots him doesn’t use a blunderbust and I think it makes it pretty clear what weapon is used to kill him and it’s a gat.

Lord since finding your channel and binge watching, all my recommends are from your channel... And i love It!!!😊

My man has been pumping out videos left and right. Keep up the great work

Question, in the movie, when a guy runs off they torture the younger version of the guy and cut pieces off in order to get the older version to turn himself in. By the time he gets to where they want him he is missing limbs all over the place. Why bother with that? Why not just kill the younger version and the older one disappears? Why make the older version come to you? Either I missed something or they poorly explained that part?

We need a looper 2, showing the sid/rainmaker using his powers for good

i just found this channel a few days ago and it’s one of the best on here. keep it up bro

This channels amazing for showing me new movies I should watch and movies I need to rewatch.

This need to be a Netflix series. It's has potential to be something more. I would even be happy with it in animation.

As much as I enjoyed parts of the movie, the paradoxes were more obvious in this than in most time travel movies to the point I couldn't ignore it.

The biggest issue I found this movie was that the point of sending people to the past was that it was impossible to get rid of a body in the future but then they show so much crime and murders in the future timeline so obviously sending them to the past was not needed.

12:56 the film "stumbles" only if you think exclusively linearly. Which is neither how time nor universe work. It's just us: we work that way, our brains work that way, and that's why we perceive the film as "stumbling".

i laughed when nyat said "Lazy Writing.." on explaining about time traveling

I thought Joseph Gordon-Levitt did a very good Bruce Willis impression in the movie.

I love all your vid keep up the good work bro ❤️

Damn, great timing, I just watched this a couple of days ago.

I also thought JGL always looked like real life Max Payne in this movie

If the young version of the protagonist realized that he was the one who caused the kids path to evil wouldn’t the older version of the protagonist know that instantly when the younger version realizes since they are both the same person?

Another big temporal paradox/plot hole is Old Seth/Young Seth. If Young Seth is captured and has most of his limbs cut off, that completely alters his future self, including the thirty years he lived afterward, and his arrival back in the past, confronted by Young Seth. I don't think we would have been treated to the scene of him stumbling toward the address, with his limbs disappearing. If he had those body parts removed from his young self, his older self could never have run away in the first place. It wouldn't happen the way it was depicted and...Oh my god, I just went cross-eyed.

It doesn't really create a paradox. It just creates a new time line. If you go into the past, that is now your present and future. Old Joe's timeline still happened, but young Joe's actions simply create a new timeline for the Rainmaker. Ergo, no paradox.

I thought this was a pretty good movie. I avoided the new trilogy because I didn't want my childhood memories trashed. I understand the hate for Rian Johnson but he deserves some credit for this movie. Caveat: any time travel movie shouldn't focus on the mechanics of time travel - focusing on the characters and story, like Looper did, is the only way to make sense out of nonsense.

At the end of the film the kid calls Emily blunts character mom finally which infers that the whole “saw his mom die” portion was cancelled by JGL’s actions.

I can’t wrap my head around the idea that disposing of a body is more difficult than sending one back in time

This channel is criminally underrated

Love this movie, and glad to see you do a video on it! Also love Predestination and will be watching that video right now!

After hearing this clear explanation, I want a part 2 to this.

I like to believe that sid STILL becomes the rain maker. And thus, everything could still make sense

It’s been a while since I’ve seen this movie glade to see you analyzing it.

Man, I've never thought of it this way. Thanks for breaking it down for us.. Looper is one of my favorite movies, I really wish they made a sequel to this. Hopefully you can make a video about "Upgrade".

Ooh, looking forward to Predestination, that one's a cracking movie!

Predestination was a great trippy mind bending film. Super underrated. I'll see you yesterday for the explanation.

Joseph looks so much like young Bruce Willis, He had all the facial expressions the mannerisms and ticks down.

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Please do The Cube, Cube Zero, and Cube 2: Hyper Cube.

My head hurts... great video watching this movie is a task of paying attention to details

After the first diner scene when Joe goes to score drops, Bruce Willis seems to be standing outside with a shotty.

4:58 I swear that actor is always fucking up in films when’s he’s ment to do something

It's the casual loop paradox. The protagonist does with his own mum that's why he had to kill himself in the last scene but at "the first place".

Another great one!! 🤘 can’t wait for Predestination!

This is a underrated but great film about a concept that's has been done over dozens of times throughout history.

"tomorrow...or yesterday" hehe nice

Lazy writing is not the first thought I have when thinking of why the writer decided to completely ignore the consistency paradox or anything similar with time travel but perhaps because it gives a lot more freedom to be able to write without those types of restraints as I assumed it is difficult to write coherent stories that are also logically consistent

I was able to not think too much. It's my superpower. I saw a love story with some action and a little time traveling. I love this movie. Thank you for your review.

You channel is amazing.

Rian Johnson not caring about world building or logic in his films while having nonsensical actions? Le GASP!

I've heard rumors that Disney is about to close the loop on their Star Wars sequels.

Watched this the other day and fell In love

Whats funny for me about this is how much Deadpool is so parallel with it. XD

1 of my all time favorite films! Bruce Willis is a legend. Gordon-Levitt acquitted himself nicely. And what else can you say about Emily Blounte?! She's a treasure, natural beauty, graceful woman.

The time travel was well done in this movie, from parts of characters disappearing, to Older Joe just popping into existence.

@6:00 "de-feeted and frightened"....... I see what you did there LOL

A video on predestination? I can’t wait for that.

The complications of time travel make it one of my least favourite plot devices. But Looper entertained me

One of my mind fu*k films I like to watch. Cloud Atlas is even more so.

I really appreciate that you made a dig at Rian's Last Jedi

Such a master piece

In the final scene where young Joe shoots himself thus erasing old Joe, at that very moment Cid and his mom should have been moved into their home and depicted as being happy. I think that would have maybe shown how both Joes didn't IMPAC them or the gat men.

I saw this movie when I was a kid, it scared me half time death tbh, but I've been looking for it since, the ending had always stuck with me, I'm so glad I found this again

I feel like you forgot to address one simple missable line, where they say "Little things can get infected on a farm" or something like that. The fact alone that his mother is still alive and takes care of the wound on his chin is probably the only thing you need to think about to determine if he becomes the rain maker or not. The loving care of a mom cleaning his wound, vs time alone on the train with a dirty rag on his face. That's how I always thought about it though.

I actually had to pause this video and add it to my to-rent list.

This is actually one of those movies where I look past the issues and just love the story

Please do the hooligan virus from days gone please please please

Thank you

Seeing lack of consistency as a hole in the script is the same as seeing a unicorn in a fantasy film as a hole in the script.

Oppressor MK2 is literally spammed everywhere.. even in a movie

“But in truth, it’s just lazy writing.”

I think the rainmaker still existed because of other rogue loopers. With all seemingly dead, it might be the only way to prevent Syd from becoming the rainmaker.

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