Tom Cruise

it surprised me how much i liked it

I am not surprised, max.

a shot of Smith explaining how fear is an internal enemy to be eliminated over a full-screen close up of an exploding volcano

:-O

Roman: I’m Roman. I’m a writer. I write movies and books. I have a blog. It’s pretty cool. So what kind of stuff are you in to?

Porn star: All of it. What I really like is dragons.

Romans: Dragons? Dragons are fantasy. If there’s magical talismans or a magic sword or wizards or fucking crazy not-real animals…. all these basic things that break laws of reality: that shit’s all fantasy. I’m into hard sci-fi. Fantasy is bullshit.

??????

hard sci-fi

Tom Cruise is into hard sci-fi.

Makes you think.

this movie was pretty with good sound design stuff. max otm in re star wars stuff.

honestly i thought morgan freeman did more to drag shit down than cruise. why does he have those weird sunglasses.

Tom Cruise's star shines too brightly

Watched Oblivion tonight. Joseph Kosinski should stick to making video game trailers.

Didn't want to watch the Spurs lose, so I went to a last-night screening of Oblivion instead. Couldn't make any sense of the circular plot, but that's pretty much automatic with me. (Not that I try all that hard.) I got a few things out of it. 1) The lead actress was truly beautiful; 2) Procol Harum ("too low!" as the saying goes on polls); 3) the Andrew Wyeth painting, which I've used in class; 4) at least one funny line: Cruise parks the space vehicle in the middle of a vast desert, looks over at the woman and says "Wait here"; and 5) second flipping-through-albums scene I've seen in a month. I really like the idea that piles of albums on the floor is now cinematic shorthand for the past, whether the past is Paris '68 or Earth 2017.

can't believe oblivion is the firs movie where tom cruise fights with himself

he did not JUMP on the couch, he STOOD on the couch

How YouTube and Internet Journalism Destroyed Tom Cruise, Our Last Real Movie Star

http://www.laweekly.com/2014-05-22/news/the-last-movie-star/?showFullText=true

i love tom cruise our last real movie star

Cruise Jump & Dean Scream

LA Wkly chuckly curiosity is the next week's Village Voice cover

I thought Edge of Tomorrow was pretty solid! it's no Groundhog Day, but it did have a couple of nice twists on that formula (namely that you have to die to reset, and that there's a lot at stake). Tons of Aliens, a bit of District 9, some Matrix, a bit of Starship Troopers ... I thought that LA Weekly save-a-Cruise piece was pretty silly, but I get that movie stars have their place. I'm not sure there are many dudes who could hold a movie like this together quite as well. Also, it wasn't too long, it didn't take itself too seriously, and the FX were really strong.

Was looking for a thread on it, but couldn't find one and was too lazy to look for a Cruise thread. I really enjoyed it. It borrows a ton from other movies like you mentioned but the execution is pulled off well. Hit the right balance of humor/action for me. My biggest complaints were that it takes a little while to get going (especially if you are aware of the Groundhog Day premise) and the ending was really drab-looking in comparison to the rest of the movie.

i loved this, the humor especially, and the riffing on video game respawning. blunt and cruise didn't really seem to have any chemistry? but i've been recommending this to people all weekend.

Yeah, who would have guessed that Andie MacDowell and Bill Murray would have better chemistry? I really liked the toll coming back seemed to take on Cruise. The relationship between the two had this feeling of not love but genuine affection. Who knows how much cumulative time he ends up spending with her, but he's his one constant companion in a weird scenario that only she understands, so he wants her to be OK. Cruise I thought was really good at conveying his concern for her well-being not as a lust object but as a friend and fellow traveler.

knight and day was alright tbh

I really liked the toll coming back seemed to take on Cruise

yeah the london seq. in particular i thought was well handled

that's just the congestion charge tbf

This would have been much better and more plausible with louie ck as the lead and tom cruise as the inscrutable alien incapable of human emotions

Shlub in the lead would have been *too* much Groundhog Day, but second point is OTM.

Something else nice about this: it was PG-13, but for once it seemed neither compromised down from an R nor unnecessarily grimmed up to make it a PG-13. In fact, there is very little blood or language, and no sex, so I guess it's PG-13 for general intensity and I suppose the central morbidity of the main premise?

i did think the very first death with cruise's face dissolving full of glowing holes was kind of morbidly done

you're kind of morbidly done

damn why you do me like that

shoulda been R, shoulda forced cruise to watch someone he is constantly growing to care about dying w/horrific 80s-cronenberg gore. that was the hook for me anyway, the death-viewing. wasn't really super convincing when it's always just emily blunt's not looking dead enough. i hate gore and i would've barfed but still.

also shoulda been called "all you need is kill" come on "the edge of tomorrow"? is this en EPCOT attraction?

yeah all you need is kill is an a+ title

the magi-kill history tour

xps i know right, i'm really disappointed they didn't go with All You Need Is Kill, I mean, come on!!

All You Need is Kill is one of the best titles ever. I'd like to think name-change was Tom's idea.

I thought the violence was implied nicely. Like when he rolls under the truck and you just hear this wet "crunch."

that was great

this was awesome. i like how it was in some ways the perfect Cruise movie for Cruise haters -- movie starts with him trying to turn on the charm and weasel out of a situation, it backfires and he spends the whole movie dying over and over to redeem his cowardice. it's basically exactly what you want to see really happen to him after the whole quote came out saying shooting his movies "feels like" fighting in Afghanistan.

kinda surprised me to hear it remarked that this movie was light on gore because i totally didn't notice while watching it, felt like it did a good job for a sci fi movie of immersing you Saving Private Ryan-style in the fear and panic of war.

The blood spatter may have been off-camera, but this movie was incredibly grisly with the constant dismemberment and disemboweling and face-melting and all!

my only problem with this movie is that as soon as he loses his powers, the movie loses its best trick, and it becomes kinda just another ok action movie. they totally should have waited until the last minute to do that.

otm about this being a great movie for Cruise haters, btw
but I think he's just a great choice by nature for these kinds of sci-fi movies; see also War of the Worlds and Minority Report. something about his bizarre charisma

s1ocki, i agree about the last section too - it just becomes a generic action movie at that point

actually liked how once he loses the power it kinda ratcheted the tension up because the movie has already so thoroughly established how easy it is to die

not that you expect him to die without saving the day of course, but felt right as the final twist on the gimmick

to me most of the fun of this movie was anticipating & enjoying how the time-reset dynamic affected every situation

face-melting

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otm i pulled a face @ that

biggest single laugh of the movie was

"what do we do now?"
"...i don't know. we've never gotten this far."

ha ya

that and b-pax face when cruise rolls under the truck

what hoos?

paxton was some obvious, awesome casting

"all you need is kill" is ungrammatical engrish

My fave facet of this film is unfortunately not very well explored, namely that the aliens want Cruise alive (so that he loses his power to reset) and Cruise wants to die, a funny twist on the usual. There's only that one sequence at the dam where they corner him and don't kill him so he has to find a way to do it himself.

ya true

what hoos?

what nhex

sorry, my mind blanked for a second, nm