Back to the future is fiction? But back to the future 2 would be fantasy since EVERYTHING in the future space was not given a masters thesis on hoverboards and what not~~
Do they actually attempt to provide science-based explanation for it? That's the reason I brought up Inception...the characters attach themselves to some science-ish looking gear, but they might as well have been sitting around a Ouija board. There's no attempt at actually connecting it to science.
It doesn't need a master's thesis. They just need to devote some effort to a science-based explanation. Classic example: Star Trek has a science-fiction style explanation for faster than light space travel, but diverge's into fantasy for things like Spock's mind meld abilities.
They may make an attempt to explain it, but it's not anything that could be considered within the realms of reality, they essentially provide bullshit for everything. Technically time travel shouldn't be within the Science Fiction genre because.
Whoops, I was going to extend on it before but I decided not to, guess I forgot to delete the because... none the less, it's essentially because so far there is no way to justify time-travel as being a physical possibility. Further more the way the movie treated it was nonsensical to say the least, and lead to a couple of contradictory things happening.
So I just watched this last night and for most hardcore sci-fi buffs, they might be put off by all of the paradoxes this movie takes on. And there's a lot of it. Take the movie at face value to enjoy it. I actually really did enjoy as I just ignored alot of things that occurred in the movie that didn't make sense as armitage stated. Although it is tech based, it was all in passing and isn't explained. The time travel machine was literally a furnace they climbed into. There was A LOT more explanation in Inception which was why alot of people enjoyed that as it was a much more in-depth movie. Looper had much less of that and focused more on the struggle between Bruce Willis and JGL. I think one of the most well-done movies I've seen with a time-travel plot was the Spanish movie Timecrimes.
Fuck this movie. The only redeeming part of this shit storm was the psycho telepath infant. If they had found a way to work in 45 solid minutes of crazy-faced babies detonating torsos and otherwise ruining people's shit, I could have overlooked the sheer stupidity of this film. As it was I couldn't get past the initial premise. You know the future is populated with a bunch of sad, sorry fucks when they cant come up with a more ambitious or imaginative use for a time travel machine than to use it as a garbage disposal.
I've heard it's prety good. But that review didn't come from people obsessing about the feasability of this particular time travel technology.
I made no comment on the feasibility of time traveling in Looper. Only on the asinine use they put it to. I have no problem with the notion that at some point in the future, some crime syndicate will get their hands on a time travel machine. I dont even need to know how it works. But the way said crime syndicate employs their fabulous time travel machine is moronic. Its like someone discovering a miracle drug that can cure any malady known to man, but then only using it to treat acne. Its beyond stupid. For me, anything that happened in the film after they layed down that gem of a premise was moot. Cept for psycho-tot. He was badass.
The real problem with Looper is that it has no idea what kind of movie it wants to be. It has no original ideas and seems to change gears every 10-15 minutes. One moment it was a Firefly/Serenity style futuristic western where people were using cowboy slang and shooting six shooters. Then it seemed like it was trying to be Terminator 2, with a guy protecting a kid and his mom from a future assassin. And finally it turned into Stephen King's Firestarter. It also has jarring changes in tone. One minute Bruce Willis is the good guy, and the next he's murdering children.