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Edge of Tomorrow. See this movie! (1 Viewer)

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Can't believe there's no thread on this. Had not single preview of this movie and went to see it with a friend because it was the only thing showing at the time I wanted to go. Best action movie I've seen in a long time. No idea what it was about going in but I freaking loved this movie. Tom Cruise with a stellar performance again as an action star. I can't believe this movie hasn't gotten more pub. Original story and fantastically done. Loved it

 
Hasn't gotten more pub? There's a commercial for it every 30 seconds on TV and like a dozen released online.

It looks good, but I think this is one of those flicks that's going to be ruined by the insane amount of advertising. I feel like I could flip straight to the last 10 minutes and know exactly what's going on.

 
Oh, I guess I'm stuck watching Mickey Mouse all the time and don't get exposed to regular TV much. I figured I would have at least seen a commercial for it. :shrug:

 
None_More_Black said:
It's gotten good reviews.
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People should give it a chance. It's not as cheesy or unoriginal as it sounds like the previews make it look. Seeing the great reviews is one of the reasons I decided to give it a chance. Reading the summary online almost kept me from going but I figured what the hell.
 
Except for the simultaneously trite and head-scratching ending, it was pretty good. Like the Blunt casting decision.

 
Very enjoyable. The ending was fine and expected with most action movies (unless the movie is about a kid with cancer).

The female lead was hot yet she played a tough sob and "realistic" fighter well I thought.

Cruise is aging super gracefully.

 
bigbottom said:
Except for the simultaneously trite and head-scratching ending, it was pretty good. Like the Blunt casting decision.
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Bingo. I'm still simultaneously trying to figure out the ending and trying to figure out if it's worth trying to figure out the ending. Either way the movie is great.

This article sort of explains it:

The first thing to remember is that Cage has left the “Wake up, maggot” loop behind him. There is nothing tying him back to that sequence of events, which started when the Alpha bleeds on him at the beach. Cage and Rita lead the assault the night before the beach invasion, and when he’s re-covered in mimic blood, it’s earlier than it had been the previous time.

Since his first loopable death takes places earlier, his wake-up point is earlier too.

So that takes care of the starting point. Getting bled on earlier means that the day resets to an earlier time. But why is the Omega still dead at the start of the new day? While it’s never spelled out in the film, the best explanation is that Cage stole the power from the Omega, which died and no longer gets to restart with everyone else.
Anyway, fun summer movie and Blunt is :wub: in this one.

Here's how the book ending goes. Audiences (especially American ones) would never have gone for it.

In the book, there's a different set of rules involving the aliens. While they're still called mimics, instead of the Omegas and Alphas, there are Servers and Backups and Antennas, and if a person inherits the day-resetting power, they can't lose it with a blood transfusion. Without going into the complicated specifics about how looping works inAll You Need is Kill, we'll just skip to the ending, which reveals that Rita has become an "Antenna," which means the Mimics are still able to loop. After Keiji kills the Server, Rita lures him into a fight and reveals that Keiji has to kill her in order to end the loop. If he dies, it's forever. If she dies, the loop will end and so will the war eventually. Only one of them can escape either way. Keiji reluctantly fights back, beats her and kills her.

The book takes a much more tragic approach to the ending, which has Keiji emerging as a hero of the war. It's drastically different from Edge of Tomorrow in both respects, as the film's version allows Rita to keep her life but takes away Cage's glory. I get the impression Keiji would have been very willing to give up the medal he received when the war was over for a chance to have Rita back, so there is a trade-off, but it's definitely an uneven one.
 
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bigbottom said:
Except for the simultaneously trite and head-scratching ending, it was pretty good. Like the Blunt casting decision.
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Like War of the Worlds a really good movie diminished by a really bad ending

And Cruise did the same thing in War of the worlds

He did the grenade rings on his fingers in both War of the Worlds and Edge of Tomorrow.
 
Typical Hollywood ending. Interesting concept to start, but they had to creep it up with the romance bullcrap. 7 out of 10.

 
All right, I'm going with this:

When he was first killed, on the beach, he's doused with Alpha blood. The other time he's killed, it's Omega blood.

So the first time, he stole the Alpha's ability, meaning that the Omega (the Master Control, if you will) was still around. So loops can continue.

But the second time, he takes the Omega's ability. Once that's gone, it essentially "cauterizes" the ability to have a loop.
 
I've heard good things, and it looked like a decent-enough trailer for an action movie. i'll give it a shot.

 
Mohawk said:
Typical Hollywood ending. Interesting concept to start, but they had to creep it up with the romance bullcrap. 7 out of 10.
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I usually hate romance tied into action movies but I thought this one was very well done and not overkill. It actually made me more interested in how it was going to end.
 
badmojo1006 said:
bigbottom said:
Except for the simultaneously trite and head-scratching ending, it was pretty good. Like the Blunt casting decision.
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Like War of the Worlds a really good movie diminished by a really bad endingAnd Cruise did the same thing in War of the worlds

He did the grenade rings on his fingers in both War of the Worlds and Edge of Tomorrow.
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I didn't really care for War of the Worlds.

 
saw it last weekend and liked it for the most part. dug the design of the antagonists. didn't care for the ending at all.

 
Buddy Ball 2K3 said:
Snore fest
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Got too complicated and I fell asleep at the drive in. But my son stayed awake and gave it a solid 8.5.

But a day at the lake and a thousand beers beforehand probably did me in more than the movie itself.

 
Jackstraw said:
Buddy Ball 2K3 said:
Snore fest
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Got too complicated and I fell asleep at the drive in. But my son stayed awake and gave it a solid 8.5.

But a day at the lake and a thousand beers beforehand probably did me in more than the movie itself.
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I know time travel movies are tough but there were a few plot holes that just made it pretty dumb. You had the right idea with those beers, wish I would have followed your lead.

 
If I didn't see this thread I might have not taken the time to watch this movie, thanks for the recommendation, very good movie.

 
I just assumed the Omega never gets to be brought back to life. Once the Omega dies, its over for the Omega, period. The fact that its blood gave Cage the power to reset the day doesn't mean the Omega gets to come back.

I'm more interested in if Cage can still reset the day by dying. Like if he goes on and lives to old age and dies of natural causes, he immediately awakens back in that copter.
 
Riversco said:
I just assumed the Omega never gets to be brought back to life. Once the Omega dies, its over for the Omega, period. The fact that its blood gave Cage the power to reset the day doesn't mean the Omega gets to come back.

I'm more interested in if Cage can still reset the day by dying. Like if he goes on and lives to old age and dies of natural causes, he immediately awakens back in that copter.
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Or die of having too much sex and keep waking up on that helicopter.
 
Pigskin Fanatic said:
pretty sure playin4beer had it right the first time. b a b a start.
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You can push all the BA's you want, doesn't make them necessary....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code

Also...

A common misconception is that the code ends with Start or Select Start. In Contra, the player must press Start after entering the code in order to start the game, or press Select Start to switch to two-player mode and then start the game, leading to the confusion. In other games, pressing these buttons will cause the code to not work.
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Saw this had been sitting at 90% on RT and 8+ on IMDB, so I made sure I caught it in 3D before I couldnt tomorrow. Now Im kicking myself for not going to see it while it was still in IMAX before Transformers came out. Absolutely loved this. While there may be minor plotholes, there's nothing major to complain about IMO. They went the route of happy ending, but how it was done wasnt illogical ie ie the timeline - see spoiler. Fantastic effects, solid acting all around and especially enjoyed Bill Paxton's character. I think one of its strongest accolades should be although its a movie based on the time loop premise, it never felt like it overdid scenes or repeated things that "previously" occurred before Cruise dies again too much. It does show or allude to some of those things on occasion, but for the most part the story really kept rolling. Best action sci-fi Ive seen in a long time.

When Cruise killed the Alpha early on, he resets 24hrs upon that point which is at some time unconscious and he wakes up on the duffel bags in base. His resets are not when he repetitively dies, but when he first acquired the reset ability - which seems to be a point of confusion among viewers. When he kills the Omega at the end, he resets 24hrs from that point, which is earlier in time while he's still on the chopper to meet with the general.
 
Saw it tonight - this movie resieves the CSTU Seal of Approval.

Saw it tonight - this movie recieves the CSTU Seal of Approval.

Saw it tonight - this movie receives the CSTU Seal of Approval.

 
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