I wonder how it holds up after all these years. I watched and re-watched Don't Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth in my teens, but suspect neither would do much for me now. They fit the hyper-emotionality of those years.

Gary, glad you caught Looper. The ending is noble and quite strange - a whole future seems to be erased, but it is erased because that future did happen. Makes the brain ache.

I'm not saying this because I loved SAF, which is where we ended up for a couple of reasons; although the flick was better than I thought it would be. It's a total romcom, not one iota of sci-fi in it; but it's not necessarily a standard romcom. [Spoiler] The world ends, after all.[Spoiler] In some ways, a lot of the good stuff was in the trailer; if you want to see Patton Oswalt or Melanie Lynskey (or Connie Britton, lots of people love her), the trailer will do. But Carell and Knightley work well together (and I'm not a KK fan at all), and there's a great -- okay, it's probably merely really good, but I liked it -- scene with William Petersen as someone the main characters meet on their journey. There's the occasional contrivance, ie they flee their apartment building because of rampant rioting in the streets; yet much later on, the apartments are pretty much intact, building still standing and apparently not looted. A big glitch for some - noticed, but forgiven by me. There were also some pretty funny lines/scenarios; definitely a mixed bag. Overall, SAF didn't leave me kicking myself for wasting 1:45 of my life (which kind of surprised me). This doesn't mean I'd try to twist anyone's arm to see it; like I said, I just liked it better than I thought I would. And I'd probably see it once again on video, without waiting a little longer....

I long ago cited SNG as one of best movies of 2012. Too bad no one reads my posts. (sniff, gulp, sob)

Saw it partly on the strength of your review here. Weep no more.