Giant Freakin Robot

Writer/director Rian Johnson’s new futuristic time travel action (that’s a lot of adjectives) movie, Looper, is currently garnering praise from fans and critics alike. And this isn’t limited solely to American audiences, we don’t have a monopoly on being genre nerds. With a tip of the cap to the international science fiction fan, here is a cool French poster for Looper.

In addition to being one of the more interesting young directors working today, Loopers Rian Johnson has a knack for fan service. With his film currently earning tons of critical praise, Johnson has just served up an excuse for any Looper fans to go back and see it again in theaters. He’s posted a downloadable commentary track, the idea being that you can pop in some headphones and listen to him talk while watching the movie on a giant screen. How cool is that?

This isn’t the first time Johnson has done something like this. He also released a downloadable commentary for his previous film, The Brothers Bloom. When Looper arrived apparently many of his fans asked him to do the same thing for Looper, and lo and behold: he has. Even better, this commentary isn’t just going to be repurposed for the eventual Blu-ray/DVD release. Johnson says that release will get an entirely different commentary. Johnson says that this “in theater” commentary is “more technical and detailed.” Here’s his intro from the Looper tumblr.

If you’ve seen Rian Johnson’s brilliant Looper already, you know how the narrative can get a bit pretzel-y. That’s not unusual when it comes to time travel movies, but you may find yourself leaving the theater like I was: wanting to go home and sketch some diagrams to figure out how everything connected together. Thankfully you don’t have to, thanks to a nifty infographic that breaks it all down: both Joe’s twisty and fluctuating timeline as well as that of a certain other party, if you know what I mean.

And if you don’t know what I mean? Then get the hell out of here until you see Looper, you maniac! You already know too much! Seriously though, the less you know going into Looper, the better, so we’re hiding the infographic behind a clickable shot of Old Joe (Bruce Willis) giving Young Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) a friendly hug. For the love of god, don’t venture past the jump, and don’t click the image unless you want to be spoiled! Seriously, we’re naming names and talking specifics after the jump. You’ve been warned!

Rian Johnson’s time travel action flick Looper is a movie full of big questions. Morality, causality, and fate all play large roles. Perhaps the most important question, however, is what the hell happened to Joe’s (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) hair? Seriously, he’s got a nice, full head of lustrous hair going on. Sure, he may go overboard on the product from time to time, but when his future self, played by Bruce Willis, gets sent back in time (don’t worry, this doesn’t give away anything more than the commercials), he’s bald as hell. His head is shaved down, but from the stubble ring, you can still see that there’s not much on top.

Check out this video that envisions Looper more as an anxiety tale about hair loss than as anything having to do with time travel or destiny.