Who was Beau asking about? I mean, I think the answer is no, no one did that, but who could you imagine had done that? How did that even come up?

I think the premise it rests on is fragile as all hell, and the director said his goal was for the time travel mechanics to stand up well enough that you don't find gaping holes until after the credits--I will give him that.

I found some large chunks unpredictable--there are two shifts (one didn't pan out like I started to worry--I thought it might have become a Bruce Willis movie with no more JGL for a long time --whew!) that made getting the whole of the plot impossible for me, but with the big flashing sign pointing to the TK (literally), and the general mass market narrative rule that you can't kill innocent children and get a hero's reward (no need to inundate me with exceptions--general only) I knew that someone would have meaningful amounts of TK and that old Joe wouldn't live to the end or get his future back. Since young Joe's major flaw was his possessiveness of his life, the idea that he'd sacrifice it seemed to be the logical progression for his arc.

I feel it suffered from Joe catching the idiot ball and running with it for a good long while-- how could he not work out earlier that Cid was the Rainmaker? From the moment he was told Cid saw his mother die--he knows, like, two facts about this Rainmaker, and that's one of them-- why would that possibly take so long, other than to allow certain events to happen and stretch out the tension? I'd honestly thought he'd figured it out and it was a memory problem, but couldn't work out why a memory like that wouldn't be clarion clear, I was that confused. Also, the random coincidence of the hooker's kid fitting the requirements pretty much for a minor bump in tension (since *we* at least already know who the Rainmaker is, even if Joe is extra slow still) and to provide a plausible reason for Blue to find old Joe while still being a moron.

Both of those were in-movie distracting weak sauce.

I've decided to stop thinking about the mechanics of the time travel since it's only going to make me like it less, and it was enjoyable during the experience except for those two bits--the acting was good, the makeup didn't distract me as much as I worried it would, the worldbuilding seemed generally careful, and the set design interesting enough to keep the eye happy with a feeling of future, but not truly alien.

There was one set of scenes in the movie

Oh yes, we loved those scenes as well.

Can you really ask that question delicately? I think that was a bit of fucked up direction to let that question linger. I think the answer to that question is "no" but damn.

Yeah, I was wondering whether the movie was going there too, even though it didn't seem to make any sense. I mean, there was no reason at all for them to have had sex in the first place, before or after, anyway.

the worldbuilding seemed generally careful, and the set design interesting enough to keep the eye happy with a feeling of future, but not truly alien.

Yeah, I loved all the little details like solar panels on all the cars. My friend also noticed that there was soy steak on the menu.

I like one review that called it a Christopher Nolan movie with a sense of humor. Our audience fucking died laughing at "I'm from the future. Go to China."

Wait, please tell me why that is a question. I have no idea what you people are talking about.

Also, P-C, I don't understand the premise that you have access to either Joseph Gordon Levitt or Emily Blunt and don't hit that like the angry fist of god first chance you figure your life isn't on the line.

Wait, please tell me why that is a question. I have no idea what you people are talking about.

It's only a question because this is a time travel movie and shit like that can happen, and the movie went from a dead Joe to a live Cid, and it felt like there was something else about to be revealed since the ending was kind of abrupt. Also, Joe, you could have just shot your hand or something, geez.

I think you really have to want it to be a fucked up ending to go there. Now, I wanted double penetration (Eiffel Tower style) to fix the end of Cabin In The Woods, but that seems just theorising for disturbance's sake. It's not a question that Joe doesn't time travel as a child and doesn't have TK and has no scar on his cheek. How is that even remotely an issue? There isn't time travel during Joe's childhood. And we'd have had the inserting memories if things had been happening to him to change his history.

That's weird.

As for shooting his hand--if the blunderbuss never misses within 15 feet (or strides--I think they said both) how do you achieve that? Also, you'd have to be sure that he can't shoot with the other hand, or he doesn't get a prosthesis or ... or ... There's a reason that policemen are trained for two centre mass shots, and don't try and wing the bad guy except for in the flashy movies.

You have to be sure, when big things are on the line.

ita,

the fucked up question came up because at the end there were parallel scenes of hair on forehead being brushed away and Beau said that the kid sometimes had the same facial expression as JGL . I think that was the director getting arty, of course.

Pardon my ignorance; what's TK?

It's telekinesis.

Yeah, that was pretty much just a callback for emotional resonance, I figure. Nothing else lined up.

I think at that point she was all mothers, the mother he never had, yadda yadda, but when he slept with her, she was pretty much Mother, just not his genetically. That was her sole function in the movie.

I watched Avengers on the plane coming over here and my main question about Hawkeye remains, why the bow and arrow? His power is he can see really well, so I get why he's good with a bow and arrow, I just want to see that first conversation where he convinces the military top brass that a bow with trick arrows is a better investment for him than, say, a sniper rifle with trick bullets.

(I also realize that this is a completely stupid thing to get hung up on given that this movie contains Actual Norse Gods, cryo-revival, and an interdimensional portal, but still.)