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Hi, this is Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, here with the Slate's's spoiler special podcast on Looper, the new science fiction film by Ryan Johnson and starring Joseph Gordon Levitt and Bruce Willis.

And joining me from Slate DC is Dan Koyce. Hey, Dan.

Hi, Dana.

You are an editor at Slate.

That's what I am.

And a long-term spoiler companion of mine.

That's right. We've talked about many, many movies.

You swooped in. You were a looper-soooper. You swooped in and snag this from everybody else weeks ago and said,

we have to do looper. Why were you so excited about spoiling looper with me?

I was pretty excited for the movie, and it also seemed very spoilable in that I assumed it's a time travel thriller.

There will be lots of twists and turns and lots of surprises to talk about.

That's so true.

This is actually one of those.

And there hasn't been one in a while, maybe since Prometheus, that just begs to be spoiled.

It needs to be spoiled more than it needs to be reviewed. be tiptoe through the eggshells of trying to not talk about all the twists that begin in

moment two of the movie.

Right.

I mean, are you so in your review?

Are you not going to even say what the relationship is between Bruce Willis and Joseph

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