Edge of Tomorrow
POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Saturday, October 18, 2025 16:24
VIEWED: 42006
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BTW, JSF, we could embark in a real interesting discussion of this movie now, because the real you and I have a lot in common. Too bad that you can't just be yourself and take part in an honest discussion. All your socky game playing destroys that possibility.
Shame.
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Not seen it, and might not, but man, Emily is a absolute stunner. Keep seeing her on interview shows ( Graham Norton most recently ) and she keeps telling the same story about just having her baby, and the nurse's comments.
My god, the woman does accents amazingly! Too damn funny.
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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
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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Gorram it! Get out of my head, Mal4Prez.
Okay, I have to say it. Brilliant review, spot on, Bulls Eye!
I agree that the writers really made this movie work for me, much more so than the FX, but special mention should go to them for the look of the film.
Awesome work all around. The writers worked their magic with the set ups and plot line - perfectly - so much so that this is damn near the perfect movie.
I say damn near because I had one itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie problem: the aliens. But this is a less than minor quibble on my part.
I said to my son, who went with me, that I loved how they explained the whole premise within the story without spoon feeding it to the audience. I may be repeating myself here, but brilliant writing and credit must go to the director as well. Bill Paxton, you gotta love him. Emily Blunt, the perfect woman - tough yet feminine - perfectly cast as the female lead and equal to the task opposite Tom Cruise. No question this was a guy's movie, but it had something for the ladies as well. A little destiny music if you please.
I like your comparisons to Momento, and of course, Groundhog Day. I loved the start-over sequences, the soldier banter and how they meet. But I wasn't sure of the reversal, the moment the hero discovers his truth, that wasn't clear to me. Again though, minor in the grand scheme of the movie's story line. Which I found satisfying just the way you said it - complete and clear - everyone knew the mission and why. Then they spring the uncertainty of what the future holds and you feel that they could lose it all. You feel for the heroes and you want th
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Was it this interview where she talks about burping her baby and her movie exo-suit being so heavy she cried?
Originally posted by AURaptor:
I saw Emily Blunt being interviewed.
Wow. She is one frelling cool chick!
Emily Blunt FULL Interview on Ellen show May 14, 2014
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
I absolutely love Emily Blunt. She's awesome as Sargent Vitarski and it was so cool for them to give her the Final Fantasy "Sword" as her weapon of choice. To see her in action took me back to Firefly and Zoe, warrior woman who kicks ass.
O Bliss and heaven-spun gold!
SGG
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Has no one else gone to see this?
Hey, I'm in large part overjoyed at the poor ratings because I want to see the Cult Man's movie returns go to crap as a message of what the USA thinks of his cult way of living. FAIL you Scientology freak LOL! Get a real life before you try selling us a movie!
And yet... The goodness of this movie is not the the lead actor cult freak with the nice hair. I'm sad to say that anyone who avoids this movie based on Tom Cruise disgust is really missing something worthwhile, something created by a whole bunch of non-cult folks who deserve recognition.
If only they had cast it differently, I would love this movie all out.
*sigh*
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Quote:Maybe not getting recognition, but the movie is selling many more tickets than Serenity did.
Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
Has no one else gone to see this?
. . . I'm sad to say that anyone who avoids this movie based on Tom Cruise disgust is really missing something worthwhile, something created by a whole bunch of non-cult folks who deserve recognition.
Edge of Tomorrow, according to www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=allyouneediskill.htm
Tickets USA: $84,155,000
+ Foreign: $234,500,000
= Worldwide: $318,655,000
That $318,655,000 after 4 weekends is more "recognition" than Serenity's Worldwide Ticket sales of $38,869,464 after 7 weekends.
www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=serenity.htm
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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I did go to see it a couple of weeks ago, and I liked it. Not sure why it took so long to write my review.
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I have not, not gone to see it because who is in it. I am waiting for it to hit Netflix. The next movie I am going to see is Serenity in August. They do it every year here.
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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
BTW, JSF, we could embark in a real interesting discussion of this movie now, because the real you and I have a lot in common. Too bad that you can't just be yourself and take part in an honest discussion.
Did you fill this in, edit after I read it? Don't recall seeing this.
Note: this is not RWED.
What discussion? Have you seen Galaxy Quest?
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If only they had cast it differently, I would love this movie all out.
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Okay, let's say you were casting this movie, who, pray tell, would grace the screen.
Curious minds want to know!
SGG
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