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Who'd have thought that Affleck would have been the director out of the Good Will Hunting boys?
Basically, I mean he is tall and has a large jaw, and that stereotype works against ya when you're kinda pretty too.
However, he is hiding the jaw under a beard. This might not be coincidental...
I thought they did a really good job of making everyone look like they were from the era. There wasn't really a lead actress and I was wondering if there was a supporting actor nod if it would go to what's his name from Breaking Bad or to John Goodman. Goodman got more exposure as being the supporting actor.
Hey, what about Arkin? He was totally wonderful.
Gah. I'm being driven slowly insane by the "Why didn't he shoot off his hand instead?" Looper question. He didn't, because the movie is broken. What we are shown early on about that possibility doesn't make sense--sure if right now you cut off my hand, I live 30 years with no hand. I have time to get used to it. I get a prosthetic, and get a little more used to working with the left, no? So why, instead, is it happening instantaneously 30 years later?
What am I missing there?
Also, when I pause to think about the timeline where Joe kills his old self-- how does that actually happen? Or why? I mean, apart from to make there be a movie. At what point does Old Joe just go meekly to his death?
What am I missing there?
Did you read the Q&A with Rian Johnson? He addressed it by saying that if Joe shot off his hand, then Old Joe would just switch to his left and shoot Cid anyway. Also something something redemptive arc, probably.
No, I understand that entirely. What I don't understand is why the future people are suddenly supposed to find themselves limbless, as opposed to dealing with a 3 decade old injury to which they've accommodated, possibly with prosthetics, over all this time. Why was the other guy surprised and unprepared?
Arkin was great too.
Oh, I forgot to mention a celeb sighting when we went to the movies on Sunday. We were going up the escalator and a guy going the other way started calling "Andy, Andy!" our friend, Andy (the prop guy) looked up and there was Anton Yelchin, clearly with his grandparents, beaming at him. They chatted, then Anton made sure to say hi to the rest of us as he passed. You could just tell from that encounter that he was a good guy, and Andy confirmed it. He said he was one of those amazingly talented yet completely non-temperamental actors. He brought his parents to the set and was sweetly proud of them and was generally just a mensch.
Aww. I like that kind of celebrity story.
I just can't look at the trailer for the Lone Ranger remake without Jilli's "Friends don't let friends dress like The Crow" echoing through my head. [link]