Edge of Tomorrow - New Tom Cruise movie
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Saw this yesterday. Starship Troopers meets Matrix Revoloutions meets Source Code. I don't want to see another CGI rendered squid, tentacle type villain for a while. Man of Steel and Matrix 2 and 3, I'm thinking about you here. Enjoyable film making very little sense.
Tom plays somewhat against type for about 15 mins as well! Worth seeing.
Saw this today.
Really enjoyed it and although they have changed away from the book it's based on (all you need is kill) personally I thought those changes were for the better.
Cruise is actually superb and really sells the journey his character goes on. And Emily Blunt does 'tough action b
h' brilliantly!!
Special mention to Bill Paxton for just chewing up every single scene he is in. It's a smallish role but every time he is on screen he just steals it.
Clear comparisons with starship troopers are obvious although as brutal as the fighting is there is obviously a lot less blood and guts. The Groundhog Day moments are very cleverly utilised in seeing him die, then try again slightly different, and repeat.
All in all I thought it was pretty smart, quite funny (some of Toms deaths are perfectly timed to get a laugh) and all in all a great sci-if movie.
Ps. A guy I work with's wife is a costume designer/maker and she worked on this movie. One of her jobs was making Emily Blunts T-shirts. Must remember to thank her...
Really enjoyed it and although they have changed away from the book it's based on (all you need is kill) personally I thought those changes were for the better.
Cruise is actually superb and really sells the journey his character goes on. And Emily Blunt does 'tough action b
h' brilliantly!!Special mention to Bill Paxton for just chewing up every single scene he is in. It's a smallish role but every time he is on screen he just steals it.
Clear comparisons with starship troopers are obvious although as brutal as the fighting is there is obviously a lot less blood and guts. The Groundhog Day moments are very cleverly utilised in seeing him die, then try again slightly different, and repeat.
All in all I thought it was pretty smart, quite funny (some of Toms deaths are perfectly timed to get a laugh) and all in all a great sci-if movie.
Ps. A guy I work with's wife is a costume designer/maker and she worked on this movie. One of her jobs was making Emily Blunts T-shirts. Must remember to thank her...
Saw it Saturday evening, the cinema was dead though, maybe 20 people in there which was worrying.
As for the film it was OK, as someone else has said the alien tentacle thing is a bit tired now and the story does unfold as it goes on. It's probably one of those films you can watch again and pick loads of other stuff up which you've missed initially.
7/10 for me.
As for the film it was OK, as someone else has said the alien tentacle thing is a bit tired now and the story does unfold as it goes on. It's probably one of those films you can watch again and pick loads of other stuff up which you've missed initially.
7/10 for me.
Halb said:
Not seen this yet. Might do.
Can Cruise still cut it as an action hero? He looked a bit plastic on Graham Norton. Though not as 'frozen eyed glassy stare' as the Seth character.
Yes he does in this instance because of the way the character develops. Its not his best performance but it is very good. Emily Blunt was good as well. Can Cruise still cut it as an action hero? He looked a bit plastic on Graham Norton. Though not as 'frozen eyed glassy stare' as the Seth character.
Id put it as an equivalent to Independence Day. Cheesey summer nonsense. I left feeling entertained. It certainly didnt leave a horrible aftertaste like Prometheus but I didnt find it as "fun" to watch as Pacific Rim. Its kind of like Starship Troopers in some feel but not as fascist.
Cinema was half full at best, much less than Godzilla that I saw previous to this and even X-Men 2 had more people.
Haven’t been to the cinema for ages but been 3 times in almost a week to see Godzilla, X-Men and now this.
I enjoyed it. I found it pretty funny in places-don’t know if it intended to be quite as funny as I found it but it was good that it didn’t take itself so seriously IMO. I didn’t realise it was based on a book so if the squiddy things were present in the book perhaps the film was trying to be true to the book?
Like most films these days which are diluted down to appeal to a wider audience it could have done with more gore, and the beach landing could have been made into much more a spectacle-See Private Ryan for details.
I enjoyed it. I found it pretty funny in places-don’t know if it intended to be quite as funny as I found it but it was good that it didn’t take itself so seriously IMO. I didn’t realise it was based on a book so if the squiddy things were present in the book perhaps the film was trying to be true to the book?
Like most films these days which are diluted down to appeal to a wider audience it could have done with more gore, and the beach landing could have been made into much more a spectacle-See Private Ryan for details.
richtea78 said:
Halb said:
Not seen this yet. Might do.
Can Cruise still cut it as an action hero? He looked a bit plastic on Graham Norton. Though not as 'frozen eyed glassy stare' as the Seth character.
Yes he does in this instance because of the way the character develops. Its not his best performance but it is very good. Emily Blunt was good as well. Can Cruise still cut it as an action hero? He looked a bit plastic on Graham Norton. Though not as 'frozen eyed glassy stare' as the Seth character.
Id put it as an equivalent to Independence Day. Cheesey summer nonsense. I left feeling entertained. It certainly didnt leave a horrible aftertaste like Prometheus but I didnt find it as "fun" to watch as Pacific Rim. Its kind of like Starship Troopers in some feel but not as fascist.
Cinema was half full at best, much less than Godzilla that I saw previous to this and even X-Men 2 had more people.
a311 said:
Like most films these days which are diluted down to appeal to a wider audience it could have done with more gore,
I agree.Its definately worth seeing but suffered for not having the 18 rated violence of something like Starship Troopers or Judge Dredd.
Judging by the virtually empty cinema we watched it in it probably isn't going to do that well either which is a shame when dross like transformers and the latest superhero b
ks rakes in millions.richtea78 said:
Yes he does in this instance because of the way the character develops. Its not his best performance but it is very good. Emily Blunt was good as well.
Id put it as an equivalent to Independence Day. Cheesey summer nonsense. I left feeling entertained. It certainly didnt leave a horrible aftertaste like Prometheus but I didnt find it as "fun" to watch as Pacific Rim. Its kind of like Starship Troopers in some feel but not as fascist.
Cinema was half full at best, much less than Godzilla that I saw previous to this and even X-Men 2 had more people.
I enjoyed it, for balance cinema was 80% full at 9pm on SaturdayId put it as an equivalent to Independence Day. Cheesey summer nonsense. I left feeling entertained. It certainly didnt leave a horrible aftertaste like Prometheus but I didnt find it as "fun" to watch as Pacific Rim. Its kind of like Starship Troopers in some feel but not as fascist.
Cinema was half full at best, much less than Godzilla that I saw previous to this and even X-Men 2 had more people.
Again it was part very funny, and it had decent suspense, and avoided the worst excesses of Hollywood BS and jingoistic crap (see Independence Day which is just junk, and Pacific Rim, which was ok but disappointing given director), and way less tongue in cheek than ST
I preferred it to X Men, and it had more depth (two puddles not one) than Godzilla - so my pic out of those 3
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