Good Film - Don't think about time travel too technically, what was meant to be will

Rating: 7/10 (25 November 2012)

I enjoyed the movie. WHAT WAS MEANT TO BE WILL BE
Spoilersssssssssss
Let's start with clearing this up, Cid is not Joe and Joe is not Cid, I have seen people in this thread being confused about this. He just empathises with the kid and realises that he too, if he had a better childhood would not have grown up to be a looper.
It doesn't matter, once Joe is in the loop of being a looper, he was always going to get killed or kill himself anyway (maybe this was the conclusion that Joe the main character had; he does say in the movie that loopers are short sighted)
Also if you believe that things that are meant to happen will always happen, i.e. Joe was always going to be dead in 2077 or whatever year it was and Rainmaker is always alive in 2077, with superpowers (telekinetic powers)
1. THE NEW FUTURE Even where Cid does not grow up to be a rainmaker (i.e. in the unknown future, as in the ORIGINAL ending of the film where he lives happily with his mummy), the end result is that the loops are already closed (by Old Joe revenging on the Gat Men, and killing them all, thereby closing the loops himself), and also with Joe disappearing off the planet by the young Joe shooting himself.
2. THE ORIGINAL FUTURE THAT WAS In future where Cid did become the rainmaker. The Rainmaker closes the all the loops (including killing the Gat men). The young Joe kills the Old Joe and takes the gold. Because at this stage the young Joe is not too long sighted as he himself says and does not think a great deal about the future.
So the end result was always the same, in the year 2077 Old Joe is wiped out and so are the loopers whilst the Cid/Rainmaker lives.