Edge of Tomorrow
POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Saturday, October 18, 2025 16:24
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Quote:What will the Omega do with Earth after it kills all humans? Maybe do nothing.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Fair enough. I'll rewatch & pay closer attention.
France was a mighty quiet and sleepy place, except when Cruise woke up mimics with noisy helicopters or Cruise stepped on a sleeping mimic buried in beach sand. After all the excitement of invading Earth is over, I suppose that the Omega might not do anything with Earth because it had all the time in the world.
Now that Cruise has endless time, what is he going to do with his unlimited time? Celebrating with Emily Blunt the end of the war might get boring after too many repetitions.
Maybe he starts a war, or something equally dangerous, for the fun of it? That's a problem with eternal life -- what to do with it after the first million years and passions have cooled. See "Last Days of an Immortal" -- www.amazon.com/Last-Days-Immortal-Fabien-Vehlmann/dp/1936393441
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second, your last comments don't make any sense when you consider that both Rita and Cage have lost their ability to reset time. Now they're stuck with just their one life like the rest of us poor mortals.
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Quote:Did you see the same movie I did? Cruise, who no longer has the reset time ability, kills the Omega with hand grenades. Then Cruise drowns in the blood of his vanquished enemy, the Omega. Remember, the blood is magical, giving Cruise amazing powers to reset time.
Originally posted by ecgordon:
second, your last comments don't make any sense when you consider that both Rita and Cage have lost their ability to reset time. Now they're stuck with just their one life like the rest of us poor mortals.
Cruise dies, only to come back to life on the morning that Victory is declared in London. He visits Rita in the very last scene, where she meets him for the first time, except for the thousand previous first times.
Now Cruise can drink as much as he wants in celebration with Rita. The cure for his hangover is to kill himself and start drinking again. It can be a drunken Victory Day forever, unless Cruise has a wiser plan.
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 guess watching it four times wasn't enough to figure everything out. But just because Cage got his mojo back doesn't mean he'll live that long. He could be in an accident and bleed out enough to need a transfusion again. Back to being mortal.
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Quote:Buffy could kill Cruise with a stake into his heart. Then his choices are cremation or burial.
Originally posted by ecgordon:
But just because Cage got his mojo back doesn't mean he'll live that long. He could be in an accident and bleed out enough to need a transfusion again. Back to being mortal.
The Omega, with all its resources -- thousands of Alphas and millions of mimics –- lost its magic time reset blood and died the eternal death. No more reincarnations. The same could happen to Cruise, who has only one Rita and one Scientist to save him. He better do some estate planning, sign a will and a medical power of attorney.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Fair enough. I'll rewatch & pay closer attention.
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Sorry, that information is incomplete. The backstory is not detailed in the film, other than what was just mentioned above your post.
I agree it should have been included at some point, but it was not. And I also did not read these books.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:
Great flick. Saw it a few nights ago. Well made, a clever script, and really well staged action. Way better than most anything in theatres right now.
Unfortunately, it is no longer in my local theaters. But I agree with this at this point.
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CONTAINS SPOILER DISCUSSION
Although Mal4prez has gone off the deep end, one point was brought up, and I wonder if any others consider it valid.
When the Angel of Verdun goes through the couple thousand versions where only Cage has the experience, and she can only trust what he says, we see her reaction much of the time. When she hears it for the final time, at the end, we don't see it. Will it be a different reaction, merely because the end has come, they have victory, there is no battle or combat or death before them, where all prior versions (which we saw) the promise of death and potential extinction prevailed?
I have not yet wrapped around this entirely. I had not thought it would be different, and the reaction would be much the same as each other time we saw. But do any of you think it would have been different at the end? Not that she would not believe it, but would she have a different sense of it?
I think I forgot about my comment here. Must revisit.
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RapKnight: yes, the details were buried in the first 4 pages of this thread. Since I had an idea of what to look for, I went and found it.
To be clear, although second is listed as being quoted, I must again thank second for posting this, because it also helped my understanding and enjoyment even after many viewings.
This was posted September 10.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Amazon has two versions of the digital download. The longer version is plus bonus features!
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Got it on Amazon................
Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes www.amazon.com/Live-Die-Repeat-Edge-Tomorrow/dp/B00KW25MFY/
Runtime:2 hours 8 minutes www.amazon.com/Live-Die-Repeat-Tomorrow-features/dp/B00N45UAZS/
Edge of Tomorrow will be available to rent on October 7, 2014.
FROM AMAZON REVIEW: What I like about the book over the movie is it took the time to tell the reader what Mimics are..
On a planet far, far away, a race of highly advance and intelligent beings on an over populated planet sent out nanobots to terraform a distant planet they felt could sustain their life. That planet being Earth.
Upon arriving Earth the ship broke into eight parts while the mothership remained in orbit. 4 parts fell into the sea, the rest on land. All communications from Earth were ignored. After the world's nations finished auguring among themselves it was decided that they blasted the mothership to space bits with missiles. Meanwhile In the depths of the oceans, the machines chanced upon echinoderms—starfish
The nanobots penetrated the rigid endoskeletons of the starfish and began to multiply in symbiosis with their hosts.
The resulting creatures fed on soil. They ate the world and spat out poison. Toxic to earth life but suitable to the beings that sent them. When the machines arrived on land, they concluded that in order to fulfill their objective of xenoforming the planet, they would have to remove the obstacles standing in their way.
That's where the movie starts.
The name change from "Edge of Tomorrow" to "Live Die Repeat" makes it sound like a made-for-TV movie, not a huge motion picture. Talk about a marketing department that has no idea what they're doing.
Much of the other posts were attempted discussions, bickering, and justifications about how a Field Grade Officer Commissioned by the United States Congress (Major Cage) could have his Commission revoked and all rank stripped by a Staff Non-Commissioned Officer of the United Doofus Fartwads (Sgt Farell) in a matter of hours, and how Farrell and the General were not really cowardly treasonous bastadges.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Buffy could kill Cruise with a stake into his heart. Then his choices are cremation or burial.
Originally posted by ecgordon:
But just because Cage got his mojo back doesn't mean he'll live that long. He could be in an accident and bleed out enough to need a transfusion again. Back to being mortal.
The Omega, with all its resources -- thousands of Alphas and millions of mimics –- lost its magic time reset blood and died the eternal death. No more reincarnations. The same could happen to Cruise, who has only one Rita and one Scientist to save him. He better do some estate planning, sign a will and a medical power of attorney.
Wondering about this.
The time detonation at the end of the film:
was it a result of the Omega dying? Doesn't seem so, otherwise the time it took Cage to absorb the blood would have not happened.
was it a result of Cage absorbing the blood? not sure, traversing to another species didn't have too much reaction when coming from Alphas.
was it a result of Cage dying after, or as the blood was absorbed? if this is the case, it could happen again when Cage dies again. Perhaps it works differently when in another species.
Has this been discussed before?
If Cage dying ends the time reset ability, then him dying right after the Omega does would have not resulted in the final scenes.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Although Mal4prez has gone off the deep end, one point was brought up, and I wonder if any others consider it valid.
OK Kiki/Sig/Rap clone. Keep it up LOL! I disagree with any of you trolls and the only way you can dismiss it is by declaring me crazy. So funny! You are so full of yourselves!
Quote:We see her reaction to Cage wearing his fancy shmancy uniform rather than the Private duds. Her reaction is different. Go watch the movie. The last time, she says something like: "Can I help you?" She's never said that before. (I have pointed this out before, but like Sig/etc you don't seem to actually read anyone's posts but your own.)
When the Angel of Verdun goes through the couple thousand versions where only Cage has the experience, and she can only trust what he says, we see her reaction much of the time. When she hears it for the final time, at the end, we don't see it.
As for why I hardly reply to you JSF, it's because you're as pointless here as you are in RWED. You've desperately re-written Farrell just to preserve your odd interpretation of this movie. Hey, whatever makes you happy.
You're still wrong. *kisses*
Replying to reasonable people: I also find it amusing to think about the consequences if Cage still has the uber-reset power. Does the whole universe have to keep resetting and resetting every time he grows old and dies, so that time can't move forward anywhere until he messes up and gets a transfusion?
Fun.
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