{"id":6386,"date":"2013-08-31T18:02:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T00:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2013-08-31T18:02:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T00:02:21","slug":"looper-5-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/5-stars\/looper-5-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Looper (5 stars)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looper is sci fi in the tradition of Blade Runner, even sharing a dystopian future. [I also detect a bit of Witness and the Matrix.] Of course, time travel is almost always difficult to wrap one&#8217;s head around. This is the best such tale I&#8217;ve seen since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/the-butterfly-effect-5-stars\/\">Butterfly Effect<\/a> (which was actually more disturbing). Naturally, the pairing of Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is awesome, but the story itself is interesting and the dialog often clever. I can&#8217;t remember the last time Jeff Daniels seemed so good. Although there is plenty of gun violence (hey, this is America!) there are only a couple of scenes that were hard to take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looper is sci fi in the tradition of Blade Runner, even sharing a dystopian future. [I also detect a bit of Witness and the Matrix.] Of course, time travel is almost always difficult to wrap one&#8217;s head around. This is the best such tale I&#8217;ve seen since the Butterfly Effect (which was actually more disturbing). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/5-stars\/looper-5-stars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Looper (5 stars)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6388,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions\/6388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}