Salon.com > Time Travel http://www.salon.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:24:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Eight best time-travel flicks http://www.salon.com/2012/10/03/eight_best_time_travel_flicks/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/03/eight_best_time_travel_flicks/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13029016 AlterNet Film critics and the social media grapevine are gushing about recent cinematic release "Looper." I won't be quoting any of these reviews thanks to a tweet by the New York Times Magazine's Adam Sternbergh, which warns us off of them: "I'm generally not super-spoiler-averse but Looper is worth going into as blind as possible (beyond what's in the trailer). It pays off."

I am spoiler-averse, so instead, the barest summation of the trailer: time travel is illegal in the future, but a mafia-esque organization hires a hitman (Joseph Gordon Levitt) in 2078 to eliminate all the foes they send back in time. All goes swimmingly until one day the kneeling man who materializes before him is...himself, older, in the form of a weathered Bruce Willis. What does it mean? Who sent him? What did he do? The shit hits the fan, or at least the future collides with the past, and it looks like at some point a bullet might hit a body, too. Check it out:

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