Edge of Tomorrow
POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Saturday, October 18, 2025 16:24
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Looks interesting. Seems like another high-concept or thinker flick. Is Cruise working up an arc with Minority Report, Reacher, Oblivion, and now Edge of Tomorrow? I know some didn't pay attention to Oblivion, but it was another movie where the cinema audience which didn't pay attention during the showing were confused at the end, and those who did were explaining it to them. Sure, Reacher is a book series, but the flick was portrayed as a puzzle to solve until the last part.
Maybe Inception struck a chord.
Is he trying to copy Arnold's arc of Terminator, Predator, Total Recall? Or Paxton with Terminator, Weird Science (wasn't deep, but got him face time), Aliens? Or Biehn with Terminator, Aliens, Seventh Seal, Abyss? Or Pitt with Seven, 12 Monkeys, Sleepers?
I'm sure many have discounted Cruise's roles, but maybe his production partner is picking them better now.
Any comments?
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I haven't seen Reacher and I thought Oblivion was a big hot mess, but I'll still be seeing Edge of Tomorrow. I don't judge a film by who is in it or who directed, because I've been burned too many times by projects from former favorites (Prometheus comes to mind). I take them each as they come and judge accordingly.
Plus, any film with Emily Blunt can't be total waste. 
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Quote:Some of the trailers make the story look more complicated than it is, but not this one. The movie is based on a straight forward book.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Looks interesting. Seems like another high-concept or thinker flick. . . .
Any comments?
This is Tom Cruise's point of view in the novel. Emily Blunt is “red Jacket”.
Quote:Adapting the book to a movie was easy, not like Apocalypse Now adapted from Heart of Darkness.
I decided not to die with three rounds left in my pile driver.
I lifted a leg. I put a hand on one knee.
I stood.
I screamed. I forced myself to keep going.
The red Jacket turned to me. I heard some noise over my headphones, but I couldn’t tell what she was trying to say.
One of the Mimics in the pack stood out from the rest. It wasn’t that it looked different from the others. Just another drowned, bloated frog. But there was something about it that set it apart. Maybe proximity to death had sharpened my senses, but somehow I knew that was the one I was meant to fight.
So that’s what I did. I leapt at the Mimic and it lashed out at me with its tail. I felt my body lighten. One of my arms had been cut off. The right arm—leaving the pile driver on the left intact. Lucky me. I pulled the trigger.
The charge fired, a perfect ninety-degree angle.
One more shot. A hole opened in the thing’s carapace.
One more shot. I blacked out.
Sakurazaka, Hiroshi; translated by Smith, Alexander O. (2011-09-05). All You Need Is Kill (Kindle Locations 189-198). Haikasoru/VIZ Media. Kindle Edition.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Looks like more of the futuristic, Scientology based go-se from Tom.
Not that Oblivion was a total train wreck. I mean, it wasn't Battlefield Earth, but it's getting a bit worn out.
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Quote:This will be another high energy Mission Impossible rather than another snooze Oblivion. Even the name said what Oblivion was. Instead of killing a thousand confused Tom Cruise clones in Oblivion, the one true Tom Cruise gets killed a thousand times, which has got to be a dramatic improvement.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Looks like more of the futuristic, Scientology based go-se from Tom.
Not that Oblivion was a total train wreck. I mean, it wasn't Battlefield Earth, but it's getting a bit worn out.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Yep, I figured some here were not Cruise fans.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Looks like more of the futuristic, Scientology based go-se from Tom.
Not that Oblivion was a total train wreck. I mean, it wasn't Battlefield Earth, but it's getting a bit worn out.
??? Scientology is future based? His films are based on his religion/cult?
I'm not familiar with this (nor really Scientology other than in passing), care to elaborate? Like the relationship between his career, other films made by scientologists?
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I found Oblivion to be fun, though highly derivative.
I really liked Jack Reacher, and am glad they're working on another.
This, Ill definitely check out. The script was supposedly really good, and I like what Ive seen in the trailers. And while the "Groundhog Day" scenario is hardly original, I dont recall Bill Murray fighting aliens, so Im confident it'll be different enough to stand out.
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov
Americans killed under Obama due to "intelligence failures": 4
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Looks like more of the futuristic, Scientology based go-se from Tom.
Uh, oh kay....
Its based on a book (All You Need is Kill), that has nothing to do with Scientology... and had been greenlit as a film long before Cruise was involved.
But yeah, whatever....
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov
Americans killed under Obama due to "intelligence failures": 4
Americans killed under Bush due to "intelligence failures": 7000+
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Here, here! Prometheus does come to mind......I mean Ridley Scott for crying out loud. My guess is that Cruise and company are going for the actioners with a bit of thinking thrown into the mix.
Oblivion was a bad Twilight Zone episode, although I give points for style, but that's about it. But I like the previews to Edge of Tomorrow, looks good, I just hope that it has a good script.
The one BIG plus it has going for it is Emily Blunt. I could watch her read the Encyclopedia Britannica, she is just such a cutie and as down to earth as I dreamed she would be. The fact that she married John Krasinki softened the blow a bit (I happen to like the dude, lucky stiff). I once saw her down 3 shots of Tequila at the Toronto Film Festival with Guillermo on Jimmy Kimmel Live. My kind of gal.
SGG
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Originally posted by ecgordon:
I haven't seen Reacher and I thought Oblivion was a big hot mess, but I'll still be seeing Edge of Tomorrow. I don't judge a film by who is in it or who directed, because I've been burned too many times by projects from former favorites (Prometheus comes to mind). I take them each as they come and judge accordingly.
Plus, any film with Emily Blunt can't be total waste.
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My guess is that Cruise is going for the older roles, sort of in the Arnold vein, some action but the kind of film that makes you think. I really liked Knight and Day (that "With me/Without me" skit had me rolling with laughter) a comedy/action thriller. Oh and the last Mission Impossible was solid, until the end (that ending was a bit lame) otherwise a very good M.I. movie.
SGG
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Looks interesting. Seems like another high-concept or thinker flick. Is Cruise working up an arc with Reacher, Oblivion, and now Edge of Tomorrow? I know some didn't pay attention to Oblivion, but it was another movie where the cinema audience which didn't pay attention during the showing were confused at the end, and those who did were explaining it to them. Sure, Reacher is a book series, but the flick was portrayed as a puzzle to solve until the last part.
Maybe Inception struck a chord.
Is he trying to copy Arnold's arc of Terminator, Predator, Total Recall? Or Paxton with Terminator, Weird Science (wasn't deep, but got him face time), Aliens? Or Biehn with Terminator, Aliens, Seventh Seal, Abyss? Or Pitt with Seven, 12 Monkeys, Sleepers?
I'm sure many have discounted Cruise's roles, but maybe his production partner is picking them better now.
Any comments?
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