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I liked 'Predestination' better . . .

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Billy Wonka

In Reply to: RE: Thoughts on the movie "Looper". posted by user510 on May 19, 2015 at 12:56:26

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one major screw up. . . - mbnx01 14:04:53 05/20/15 (3)
If you're going to have two actors playing the same character at different times, but they will have scenes together try to get the approximately the same height.

An accident can change your face, but it won't make you five inches shorter.

"A lie is half-way around the world before the truth can get its boots on."

-Mark Twain
- RE: I looked for that.... - user510 08:44:57 05/26/15 (0)
  The actress Sarah Snook and Ethan Hawke were seen standing next to one another in several scenes. In those I am conscious of, it was seen that they appeared to be the same height.
  
  And it is possible that Snook may have been standing on something to elevate her height in order to achieve the same altitude as Hawke.
  
  I thought the movie to be without any obvious flaw.....such as I might notice.
  
  Good story.
  
  -Steve
- If that's the only problem you found...(nt) - mkuller 08:04:15 05/22/15 (1)
  (nt)
  - RE: If that's the only problem you found...(nt) - mbnx01 13:51:15 05/22/15 (0)
    Not the only one, but the biggest. And it certainly took me out of the movie, made me constantly think, 'I'm watching two actors here' instead of just watching the story.
    
    "A lie is half-way around the world before the truth can get its boots on."
    
    -Mark Twain
Excellent... - mkuller 08:08:30 05/20/15 (0)
...one of the best time travel films.
RE: I liked that one too.... - user510 22:20:17 05/19/15 (1)
And I do have an appreciation for some of the stories by R.A. Heinlein.

Predestination being a movie version of his short story: All You Zombies.

IIRC, one guy, using time travel and one sex change operation, becomes both his father and mother. And in the short story, Heinlein sold it convincingly. Probably this is the ultimate time travel twist-up.

The movie seemed very close in plot and plot points to the short story.

I found a free download of the short story a on the web a month or so ago. Now I can't recall where that site was.

-Steve
- You found... - mkuller 08:10:08 05/20/15 (0)
  ...it here.
  - All You Zombies (Open in New Window)

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