Edge of Tomorrow
POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Saturday, October 18, 2025 16:24
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I said LOOKS LIKE, and from the trailer, it does.
Why or how that offends anyone, I really don't care.
I was not offended. I just didn't understand the context or comparison. Was hoping you would enlighten me about what you were referring to.
The only one who was offended is one who always looks for ways to get annoyed by things I say, no matter what.
Tom Cruise, in the future, battling aliens... pretty much what we've seen from him in Oblivion and w/ John Travolta in Battlefield Earth.
Scientology is steep w/ the whole advanced alien stuff in their made up religion. Just figured it was more of his religious based propaganda being passed off as action / sci-fi.
That it DOES involve aliens and the future, hell, that might be close enough for him to have taken the job anyways. Even if it's not connected to scientology.
Same again goes for Will Smith, in his goofy futuristic movie w/ his kid. I don't think it's any coincidence that so many scientology stars end up doing sci-fi movies. Their cult leader was , after all, a sci-fi writer.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
Thanks. Didn't know Scientology was into aliens.
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Oh, there be aliens a plenty w/ the Scientology.
Xenu (/'zi?nu?/ zee-noo),[1][2][3] was, according to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, the dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy" who 75 million years ago brought billions[4][5] of his people to Earth (then known as "Teegeeack") in a DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes and killed them using hydrogen bombs. Official Scientology scriptures hold that the thetans of these many people remained, and that they cling to people, causing them spiritual harm.[1][6]
These events are known within Scientology as "Incident II",[7] and the traumatic memories associated with them as "The Wall of Fire" or the R6 implant. The narrative of Xenu is part of Scientologist teachings about extraterrestrial civilizations and alien interventions in earthly events, collectively described as "space opera" by Hubbard. Hubbard detailed the story in Operating Thetan level III (OT III) in 1967, warning that the R6 "implant" (past trauma)[8] was "calculated to kill (by pneumonia, etc.) anyone who attempts to solve it".[8][9][10]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
Seriously, you can't make this stuff..., well, actually you CAN!
HA!
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I liked Oblivion...it's just hat Tommy's ego is so friggin huge you have to lean over in your seat to see the movie from around his bloated head!
Oblivion was perfect.. I mean..a million Toms...and he gets to fight himself...it's his ultimate dream flick come true..
that said... I look forward to this movie.. course we'll place bets as to how many minutes into the movie it'll take before he has hist shirt/clothes off...
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I did like it when a million Tom's died.
So yeah, it was a decent flick.
This one will probably be better.
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How many Toms you conjure die in this one?
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How many Toms you conjure die in this one?
It's only how long a movie ? Can't be a full ship load.
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Maybe the reason I like the looks is I have a weakness for time travel concepts.
Groundhog Day wasn't really that.
Saw EoT trailer again, makes me think of the paradox possibilities even if it's not strictly time travel. Or parallel universe travel.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Maybe the reason I like the looks is I have a weakness for time travel concepts.
Groundhog Day wasn't really that.
Saw EoT trailer again, makes me think of the paradox possibilities even if it's not strictly time travel. Or parallel universe travel.
Hey JSF,
I recently took a glimpse at a positive review (I skimmed over it to see the final word) and all indications is that this is a good one. It is somewhat between Groundhog Day and time travel concept. A recent trailer shows that it's more like a time loop, in the style of Looper (also starring our gal Emily Blunt).
As an aside, I happen to like the better title of: All You Need is Kill.
This is gonna be so AWESOME! ahem, SHINY!
SGG
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Saw it last night. Theater was about 10% occupied, while that chick flick was sold out all showings, and the corridors of the Cinemaplex were filled with those in lines for the next showings.
I didn't think it a parallel to Groundhog Day, but I was reminded of Galaxy Quest. Any GQ fans want to guess the name of the device in EoT? I also found it similar in some ways to Aliens.
I was expecting to enjoy it and I did. I don't want to give away which parts I liked most.
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Just saw it in 3d IMAX. Was thoroughly satisfied. (No spoilers to follow.)
I hate Tom cruise with a passion because he a cultish freak. But the point of this movie is not him. (If I'd thought it was, I wouldn't have gone to see it!) He fills the role all right, but really it's all about the writers and the effects. The effects, as you'd expect of a big budget film, are fabulous. The writing is the real star. In a fun thrill ride kind of way.
It's no Primer, nothing that I'll be watching 20 times to enjoy the over the top brilliance, but I'll likely see in the theater another time or two just for how visually awesome it is and more so for how cleverly it intertwined the plot and the story telling. Probably only people who have tried to tell/write a story will really know what I mean there: sometimes you have to make plot choices base on the way you will be telling the story. If you do it well, the audience won't never suspect, it will just work.
Momento, another movie that plays with time, is like that. The plot itself is nothing spectacular, which you can witness if you see an edit of the movie told in proper time sequence. But told in short scenes that run backward in time: brilliant.
EoT had that Groundhog Day repetition and made ful use of the possibilities, but still managed to move the story on to new settings and new plot twists in a way that was seamless and clear and completely reasonable. I am a physicist; it is rare that I see time travel movies that I watch once and find reasonable.
Which is also a bit of the weakness in this movie for me. I am so completely sure of what I saw, so completely satisfied with it, that probably one more viewing will be enough for me. Unlike primer, which I've seen at least 20 times and will likely watch 20 more. EoT is kind of a bit of fluff. Really fun, really satisfying fluff that did what it meant to do damned near perfectly.
And yes, Emily Blunt rocks. It also helps that Tom cruise's character starts off as a bit of a douche, so my distaste for the man fit right in.
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