looper

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276104

everything i heard about looper was bad, and i can see how you might condemn the film's handling of time travel with some variation on screaming and shaking your fists at the sky.  the time travel part was definitely bad, to be sure, but i got a lot of mileage out of taking my cue from the diner scene where bruce willis says to ignore all the paradox stuff and just enjoy the ride.  you cannot really do that wholeheartedly, because they then turn around and deliberately invoke paradoxical conditions. however, if you shut your eyes a little and concentrate on the characters, it is not a bad movie. well.  not a horrible movie, anyway.

the most impressive part by far was the way they got the young bruce willis guy, an actor with his own style and such, to act like a young bruce willis, which i would never in a million years have expected.  that for me was the real twist and reason to watch this movie.

looper gets two exploding bad guys.