Tom Cruise

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

face-melting

― Nhex, Monday, June 30, 2014 3:01 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

"all you need is kill" is ungrammatical engrish

― Rrrhhhh (abanana), Monday, June 30, 2014 11:41 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so

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

whole thing felt like such an 80s throwback, wanna see it again and ~think~ on it

"all you need is kill" is ungrammatical engrish

― Rrrhhhh (abanana), Monday, June 30, 2014 11:41 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

http://i.imgur.com/U33LrjH.jpg

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)

grammar isn't real

all u need is stfu

Lol @ labeling "Dark of the moon" as "inappropriately poetic" but "All you need is kill" is straight up "engrish"

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.

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?

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

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

― 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?

Gauntlet thrown

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.

I hate Cruise but p much loved EoT, apart from the nonsensical tacked on happy ending.

yeah, EoT was great fun

Edge of Tomorrow! Good movie!
And yes, I also thought of Space Ace while watching it.

Heh, good call

Space Ace, the ... sequel to Dragon's Lair?

three posts up was too far to look?

I was just asking if that was the Space Ace mentioned, since I literally have not thought about it in ... 30 years?

yup

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.

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.

video game movies need the most love

oh damn i did not recognize noah taylor. good premise but ending, yeah, was straight schlock.

Dunno if I would call it schlock, but it was consciously lite entertainment for sure.

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.

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

i really hated the way the aliens looked like glowing metal spaghetti

decent flick tho

everyone otm about this film falling apart in the last reel, but still decent yes.

though what's up with them changing the title for the video release? isn't that a marketing team's nightmare?

rock of ages is on abc family right now

this is a very weird film

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

tom cruise is licking a gal's face in front of a large crowd rn

I watched 12:01 recently. Was surprised at how high-energy it was, like EoT and not at all like Groundhog Day. 12:01's ending is also incredibly bad.

David Thomson's entry on Cruise now ends with "Edge of Tomorrow (14, Doug Liman), in which Lieutenant Colonel Bill Cage fights aliens."