Wednesday, November 7, 2012

At the Cinema - "Looper"

It's 2013, and Wichita Fred (Eric Roberts), sworn enemy of ex-major league pitcher Braden Looper (Matthew Modine), travels back to 1998 to kill Looper before the pitcher's major league debut, thereby erasing Looper from MLB's record books, and negating the pitcher's two World Series Championships (2003 Marlins, 2006 Cardinals).  Looper, with help from a time cop retiring in a week (Cheech Marin), races against the clock to stop Fred, all the while fighting inner demons who, critical of his career ERA of 4.15, .272 BA against, and 1.37 WHIP, wonder if he just shouldn't forget about the whole thing.  (Co-starring Rhea Perlman as "Aunt Lu".)


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3 comments:

  1. While I was hoping for an appearance from the Dalai Lama (big hitter that he is), I will be looking forward to this adaptation.

    Trivia: in which previous film did Cheech Marin play a Looper?

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  2. I know not when Marin previously played a Looper...

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  3. Well, according the Bill Murray (in Caddyshack), a looper is a caddy. Cheech played Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. I'm not sure if Bill made up this term or whether it was previously in vogue. But there's our trivia answer for the day.

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