Edge of Tomorrow
POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Saturday, October 18, 2025 16:24
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Emily Blunt on Letterman tonight.
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I found it confusing when he said that he was in the U.S. Military when he was wearing UDF insignia. Was this ad-lid on Cruise's part? Was the script screwed up? Did the costume people screw up? Regardless, it is in the film, so it must be canon.
This means that he was Commissioned by the United States Congress, and no doofus UDF clown can strip him of his Officer Commission, and regardless of what doofus General wants, Cage remains a Commissioned Officer of the United States, and his rank is Major. He can only be Decommissioned, or stripped of his Rank or Commission by the United States Command Authority, or a panel of fellow U.S. Officers in a Court-Martial. All claims of him being a non-officer in any situation other than being a Prisoner of War held by the UDF are preposterous. Even POWs retain their Commission, and their rank, and opposing forces such as the doofus UDF have no authority to change that.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Emily Blunt on Letterman tonight.
So she almost kills Cruise during EoT filming, but she saves Meryl Streep. Will this become a weave of her backstories?
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I have come to cringe at the thought of watching Farell's scenes again because of all the fantasies mentioned here about how great he is or how powerful his speechifying is. But I do try to produce the illusion in my mind that would match what others here have said.
This last viewing I did notice something that I hadn't before.
All of J-Squad also knows Farell is a moron. And so does General Brigham. Of all the places Brigham could have put Cage, who could possibly be stupid enough to fall for such a ridiculous story as the one Farell swallows from Brigham? Maybe Farell was a Lance Corporal in the United States Military, but in the doofus UDF he is so retarded that they promote him to Master Sergeant. Why else would Farell get Brigham's gift of Cage?
J-Squad plays cards all the time because they have no respect whatsoever for the retarded dipstick MSgt they are stuck with. J-Squad is his top squad, his "tip of the spear" and they seethe with contempt whenever his gibberish is frothing from his pie-hole. J-Squad has to train the MSgt, like in the real military the MSgt would need to train the LT.
When Farell blathers on about having control of your fate, J-Squad knows better, but you can hear the contempt for him in every word they parrot back to the retard.
When Farell comes out with his moronic "ironic" revelation, J-Squad is practically stunned to silence with his ineptitude.
When Farell offloads his responsibility of training Cage, getting him ready for combat, all of J-Squad completely ignores the idiot, and clearly they have always ignored the idiot, and make no attempt whatsoever to train Cage to even unsafe his weapon.
In the Lift, when brainless Farell spouts "there is no courage without fear" J-Squad takes this as cue for joke time - every single one of them openly ignores Farell so they can poke fun at the noob.
During PT, they all ignore his chanting and jabber about, yakking away while retard Farell calls cadence, and they are "grab-assing".
When Farell turns Cage around on the beach, he is not heading him toward J-Squad, he has no clue where J-Squad is, that Kimmel is dead, whether Kuntz or Skinner are dead, and J-Squad is not assembled.
When Farell bumbles into J-Squad, and announces his moronic presence, Griff wakes up and mentions to the retard Farell that the mimic horde was not supposed to know they were coming, Ford informs idiot Farell that they are getting slaughtered here. Farell blusters to get in line, give sitrep, flank the position.
Moron Farell tells all to wait (don't shoot) until the mimic are right on them, while the mimic is amidst the squad.
On another note, why does Cage tell Rita to take the minivan, don't wait for me - if he does not go, the rest happens. What is the point of telling her to not wait for him? Between this set of resets and the set at the farmhouse/helicopter, is when Rita talks to him, time after time. He doesn't seem to get to know her before getting off the beach, other than the "is something on my face." But this driving time of talking seems to be where he gets to know her better than ever, and he seems to become more taken with her than before.
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Finally saw it. Emily is a real treat. I just didn't buy the whole alien invasion thing though. I mean, how did such an advanced species take YEARS to over run the planet ? How was there news coverage and any semblance of society 6 months after they attacked ? They seem damn near impossible to defeat...
Having not read the 4 pages or so of this thread, I guess most of the particulars have been hashed over by now.
I don't hate Tom Cruise as much as I thought I did. He's actually quite watchable. But I liked this movie less than Oblivion. Even with Emily in it.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Finally saw it. Emily is a real treat. I just didn't buy the whole alien invasion thing though. I mean, how did such an advanced species take YEARS to over run the planet ? How was there news coverage and any semblance of society 6 months after they attacked ? They seem damn near impossible to defeat...
Having not read the 4 pages or so of this thread, I guess most of the particulars have been hashed over by now.
I don't hate Tom Cruise as much as I thought I did. He's actually quite watchable. But I liked this movie less than Oblivion. Even with Emily in it.
'Edge Of Tomorrow' lacked a few key elements that a really good bug movie needs ...
.. Neil Patrick Harris in a leather Gestapo trench coat saying "We're in this for the species people!"
.. Michael Ironside getting his limbs ripped off. (that's just a given)
.. Denise Richards crawling on the ground in agony with a serious flesh wound.
.. The obligatory naked coed shower scene. (unforgivable omission)
.. Catchy slogans, like "the only good bug is a dead bug!"
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Finally saw it. Emily is a real treat. I just didn't buy the whole alien invasion thing though. I mean, how did such an advanced species take YEARS to over run the planet ? How was there news coverage and any semblance of society 6 months after they attacked ? They seem damn near impossible to defeat...
Having not read the 4 pages or so of this thread, I guess most of the particulars have been hashed over by now.
I don't hate Tom Cruise as much as I thought I did. He's actually quite watchable. But I liked this movie less than Oblivion. Even with Emily in it.
Yes, they were hashed out. I agree that the film didn't include enough of the backstory, but it apparently was in the books, and is reasonable.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Finally saw it. Emily is a real treat. I just didn't buy the whole alien invasion thing though. I mean, how did such an advanced species take YEARS to over run the planet ? How was there news coverage and any semblance of society 6 months after they attacked ? They seem damn near impossible to defeat...
Having not read the 4 pages or so of this thread, I guess most of the particulars have been hashed over by now.
I don't hate Tom Cruise as much as I thought I did. He's actually quite watchable. But I liked this movie less than Oblivion. Even with Emily in it.
Yes, they were hashed out. I agree that the film didn't include enough of the backstory, but it apparently was in the books, and is reasonable.
Did they have to get over the Earth cold and flu season first ? And as a movie watcher, who did NOT read the books, such back story is important ! Like Dr Evil said... " Need the info, people !" Hell, at least make some off hand reference to the long drawn out war. From what I can tell, even w/ those new battle suits, the humans are still getting mowed down like summer grass.
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.. Catchy slogans, like "the only good bug is a dead bug!"
And don't forget... " We're gonna fight ! And we're gonna win ! "
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
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Quote:The information you seek was in THE VERY FIRST MINUTE of the movie, while film company logos were running. The Omega arrives on a meteorite that crashes in Germany. (Later, Doctor What's-His-Name will explain it to Cruise.) A map shows the slow spread over FIVE YEARS as the Omega moves to Paris. It is ONE OMEGA versus Earth.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Having not read the 4 pages or so of this thread, I guess most of the particulars have been hashed over by now. . . .
Did they have to get over the Earth cold and flu season first ? And as a movie watcher, who did NOT read the books, such back story is important ! Like Dr Evil said... " Need the info, people !" Hell, at least make some off hand reference to the long drawn out war. From what I can tell, even w/ those new battle suits, the humans are still getting mowed down like summer grass.
It is rather an arrogant plan to send only one invader, but the Omega's time technology is so good that it should make an Omega overconfident. But the Omega never watched a Tom Cruise movie or else it would have been more cautious.
That meteorite was NOT big enough to carry billions of mimics. The mimics were grown on Earth, with DNA mimicking Earth DNA, custom made to kill Earthlings. I guess the Omega had to make mimics like Nabisco bakes cookies or Winchester loads ammo or Raytheon makes Tomahawk Cruise Missiles. It takes years to cook 7 billion cookies, one for every human, in batches of a few million at a time.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Fair enough. I'll rewatch & pay closer attention.
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
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