otm about this being a great movie for Cruise haters, btwbut 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
― Nhex, Monday, 30 June 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link
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
― anonanon, Monday, 30 June 2014 15:13 (ten years ago) link
to me most of the fun of this movie was anticipating & enjoying how the time-reset dynamic affected every situation
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 30 June 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
face-melting― Nhex, Monday, June 30, 2014 3:01 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Nhex, Monday, June 30, 2014 3:01 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm i pulled a face @ that
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 30 June 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
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
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 30 June 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
what hoos?
paxton was some obvious, awesome casting
― Nhex, Monday, 30 June 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
"all you need is kill" is ungrammatical engrish
― Rrrhhhh (abanana), Monday, 30 June 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 June 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
ya true
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 30 June 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
what nhex
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 30 June 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
sorry, my mind blanked for a second, nm
― Nhex, Monday, 30 June 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
― Rrrhhhh (abanana), Monday, June 30, 2014 11:41 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
so
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 30 June 2014 22:59 (ten years ago) link
anyway most obvious reference/inspiration has to be aliens right? everything bill paxton touches turns to aliens
it seemed clear that they were trying to do some gender role subversion -- seemed really obvious during the extra-tropey scene where cruise dresses blunt's wounds. i haven't put any thought into it but i at least appreciate that they turned tom into a damsel in distress. usually movies that try to be BADASS WOMAN POST-FEMINIST MOVIE RAAAHHH sticks the badass woman with an even more badass man. and i like how cruise tries to have his manly chivalry sacrifice moment even though it made no sense and they both knew it made no sense
i have to call them cruise and blunt cause i have no recollection of their names
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 30 June 2014 23:08 (ten years ago) link
whole thing felt like such an 80s throwback, wanna see it again and ~think~ on it
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 30 June 2014 23:10 (ten years ago) link
― Rrrhhhh (abanana), Monday, June 30, 2014 11:41 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
http://i.imgur.com/U33LrjH.jpg
― 龜, Monday, 30 June 2014 23:13 (ten years ago) link
Kinda wonder if Cruise is doing so many sci fi movies because they accord with his religion
Wanna poll Cruise sci fi flicks, might leave Minority Report out to make it more fair
"dark of the moon" is inappropriately poetic but not ungrammatical.
pretty sure scientology explains will smith's current films (and lack thereof)
― Rrrhhhh (abanana), Monday, 30 June 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link
grammar isn't real
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 30 June 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
all u need is stfu
Lol @ labeling "Dark of the moon" as "inappropriately poetic" but "All you need is kill" is straight up "engrish"
― 龜, Monday, 30 June 2014 23:27 (ten years ago) link
Good day to you, an banana
louie CK also would have been better as lead in minority report, and tom cruise recast as the vat-grown transhuman psychic.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 30 June 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
How is 'all you need is kill' Engrish? Obviously it's just substituting "kill" for "love," "all you need is love" being a phrase everyone knows. No one would sub "kill" for "love" accidentally. So it's an intentional substitution. Maybe it makes sense in the book? Is the woman/love interest in the book, too?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 June 2014 23:40 (ten years ago) link
i mean not that i agree with axe banana but you know "love" is usually not interpreted as a verb in that title
but yes it's a clear reference which makes pretty much any word you use to substitute poetically acceptable, not that any of this matters because grammar isn't real and this conversation is fucking stupid let's all shut up please
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 30 June 2014 23:43 (ten years ago) link
― 龜, Monday, June 30, 2014 7:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
why would you leave out the like... third-best one?
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 00:18 (ten years ago) link
Gauntlet thrown
― 龜, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 00:24 (ten years ago) link
EoT fulfilled need for both military sci-fi and to see Tom Cruise killed repeatedly. Flashback to Space Ace/Dragon's Lair arcade game hell about getting the exactly movement correct.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 06:16 (nine years ago) link
I hate Cruise but p much loved EoT, apart from the nonsensical tacked on happy ending.
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 30 November 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah, EoT was great fun
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 30 November 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
Edge of Tomorrow! Good movie! And yes, I also thought of Space Ace while watching it.
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 January 2015 07:00 (nine years ago) link
Heh, good call
― Nhex, Saturday, 17 January 2015 07:01 (nine years ago) link
Space Ace, the ... sequel to Dragon's Lair?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 January 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
three posts up was too far to look?
― bob seger's silver bullet gland (sic), Saturday, 17 January 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
I was just asking if that was the Space Ace mentioned, since I literally have not thought about it in ... 30 years?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 January 2015 23:12 (nine years ago) link
yup
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 January 2015 02:31 (nine years ago) link
EoT is not a good movie. The awkward out-of-his-depth Cruise is kinda fun in the first half, but then it turns into just another big-budget,faux-complex noisefest.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 January 2015 07:05 (nine years ago) link
so yeah, a video game, ie FUCKIT.
Noah Taylor is the highlight once the cowardly Cruise part is over. Tho Emily Blunt helps make things tolerable.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 January 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
video game movies need the most love
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 January 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
oh damn i did not recognize noah taylor. good premise but ending, yeah, was straight schlock.
― the captain beefheart of personal hygiene (soda), Saturday, 24 January 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
Dunno if I would call it schlock, but it was consciously lite entertainment for sure.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 January 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link
The first act was so knowing, so well-edited. The whole film felt carefully attenuated to an audience's ability to twig onto the rules and scope of the time-fuckery. There wasn't a lot of unnecessary story, and the military-pr0n made a nifty backdrop. Cruise was well-cast. The stakes changed appropriately in the second act, and Blunt was a good charact. Third act just felt lazy and perfunctory. I don't know what would have been better. Also, I think that if the two leads had switched roles the movie would've worked a lot better.
― the captain beefheart of personal hygiene (soda), Saturday, 24 January 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
I could see Blunt perhaps doing as a good job as the protagonist, but Cruise definitely felt more suited (esp. the first half) as a cocky propagandist
― Nhex, Saturday, 24 January 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
i really hated the way the aliens looked like glowing metal spaghetti
― Punny Names (latebloomer), Saturday, 24 January 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
decent flick tho
― Punny Names (latebloomer), Saturday, 24 January 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
everyone otm about this film falling apart in the last reel, but still decent yes.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:42 (nine years ago) link
though what's up with them changing the title for the video release? isn't that a marketing team's nightmare?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
rock of ages is on abc family right now
this is a very weird film
― polyphonic, Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
xpost They didn't really change the title, did they? So much as radically downplay the astoundingly daft generic title, which was all the more baffling, because "All You Need Is Kill" is an AMAZING title. "Edge of Tomorrow" is like:
http://static.rogerebert.com/uploads/movie/movie_poster/mercury-rising-1998/large_22MTY11yZg6fmdI9u7lwi4uoP1P.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link