Sci-Fi Edge of Tomorrow - Part 1

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^I really dont get the problem with the ending, I love it, those 2 deserved happiness after both dying hundreds of times.

 

[schereZada]

Hi, I'm new around here.

I loved Edge of Tomorrow. I was so afraid this was going to be another sort of Hunger Games or something like that. But it was very good, character-driven action movie, as opposite to the average Michael Bay flick.

What works? Everything. No matter what they say, Tom Cruise is and has always been a good actor. Not the best out there, but pretty decent. I don't know much about Emily Blunt but she was also very interesting and her character was also more than just the forced bland love interest. And the romantic plot was also good. The action is great and overall, the plot is entertaining simple to understand.

What doesn't work? The ending. I know, it's just me, but I couldn't make sense out of it. Probably need a second viewing?



Cheers everyone.

 

[kedrell]

Domestic: $100,206,256 27.1%
+ Foreign: $269,000,000 72.9%
= Worldwide: $369,206,256

So a disappointment given how good it is but hardly a failure, bomb or flop. This ended up making the studio a little bit of money(maybe $10m in profit) just from the theatrical release.

 

[Tron Bonne]

What doesn't work? The ending. I know, it's just me, but I couldn't make sense out of it. Probably need a second viewing?

I'm kind of glad you bumped this, because I finally got around to watching, too, not too long ago, and I didn't get the ending either. All I could figure is that

Spoiler

Cruise absorbed so much of the Omega's blood that he somehow took over its powers and reset time in a modified manner, but I don't know. He doesn't seem to know what's going on when he wakes up in the past.

 

[schereZada]

I'm kind of glad you bumped this, because I finally got around to watching, too, not too long ago, and I didn't get the ending either. All I could figure is that

Spoiler

Cruise absorbed so much of the Omega's blood that he somehow took over its powers and reset time in a modified manner, but I don't know. He doesn't seem to know what's going on when he wakes up in the past.

Hi there.

I thought something similar. It wouldn't have hurt if they had explained it.

 

[Ken-Kaniff]

The movie was really great imo, I didn't expect it to be this good and entertaining! I also liked the ending. 8/10!

 

[schereZada]

The movie was really great imo, I didn't expect it to be this good and entertaining! I also liked the ending. 8/10!

Hello there, Ken-Kaniff

Honest question: did you understand the ending.? And if you did, could you explain it to me? Pretty-please? I'm really puzzled by it and it's the only part I didn't get from the movie.

Thankies.

 

[Ken-Kaniff]

I can't say that I fully understood the ending, but one can only keep on guessing. I suppose that was the whole purpose? But anyway, I am glad it was a potential "happy ending". However, I don't understand why Cruise didn't get recruited, while witnessing the same events as before, basically he arrived in the same day before he was sent on the battlefield!

 

[Tron Bonne]

Because the war was more or less over at that point, there was no need for it. The whole point of him being recruited was that they wanted to get every single person they possibly could to be in the invasion.

 

[Donut]

Indeed the previous night they had a plan for the invasion like always. But woke up the next day & found the enemy suddenly defeated. They had no need 2 recruit Cruise

 

[Dave McFly]

was only 10 bucks on blu ray bought it blindly (did not see it at all yet) probably gonna watch it tomorrow with some friends.

 

[flickchick85]

Hello there, Ken-Kaniff

Honest question: did you understand the ending.? And if you did, could you explain it to me? Pretty-please? I'm really puzzled by it and it's the only part I didn't get from the movie.

Thankies.

Here's how I interpreted it:

Spoiler

Whenever the Omega resets, it goes back on the timeline by about 24 hours, creating a kind of "time bubble" in which things can be altered but the new timeline you're creating doesn't take hold until you catch up to the moment it reset from (let's call that Point Zero). It's implied that the Omega does this fairly regularly (which is how they always win their battles), including the same day Cage would eventually do it (hence The Omega knowing where they'd attack). Clearly, The Omega's most recent Point Zero would have been different from Cage's, by at least a few hours. So BEFORE Tom/Cage killed that Alpha on the beach, the Omega had done a reset earlier in the morning...pretty much as soon as it learned where the invasion was happening. That would mean it took the Omega back 24 hrs to around the point that Cage was asleep on that helicopter the day before (let's call that Point -1). Cage's resets were taking him back within that original time bubble of the Omega's earlier reset, and their final assault on the Omega happened that night before. So once they destroyed it, not only was the Omega permanently put out of commission, but the Omega's new timeline within its time bubble evaporated, and since Cage got its blood/power at the last second, he was taken back to that original Point -1, where the Omega's original reset took it, and where he was still on the helicopter at the time.

Hope I'm making some sense there. I would find it easier to explain with illustrations, lol.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Am I the only one that keeps thinking it would be sad, but hilarious if they'd shot an extra montage/deleted scene for the Blu Ray where Cage lives out his life, never has major issues, doesn't die early, and finally we see him on his death bed, drifting off...then he wakes up on the helicopter again.

Yeah, a blood transfusion would take care of it, but even just once would be kind of hilarious. and yet sad.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Am I the only one that keeps thinking it would be sad, but hilarious if they'd shot an extra montage/deleted scene for the Blu Ray where Cage lives out his life, never has major issues, doesn't die early, and finally we see him on his death bed, drifting off...then he wakes up on the helicopter again.

Yeah, a blood transfusion would take care of it, but even just once would be kind of hilarious. and yet sad.

Yeah, I was actually thinking about it ending that way before I watched the film.

 

[erehwon0]

Would you rather have an ending where they all died and the scientist/mechanic peiced together what happened and Cruise's Cage and Blunt's Vrataski got military honors? I would have been fine with that ending.

 

[Tron Bonne]

I could've lived with that ending, but it obviously wouldn't have been happy for most people. But I'm really not too down on the ending we got. I get what they were going for.

 

[kvz5]

I watched this again last night (the Blu-Ray was just $6 on Target ) and it just reminded me of how much I love this film. Cruise was so likable and Blunt was such a badass.

RE: Ending - It was a WTF to me the first time I saw it but I never thought too much of it since it was a happy ending and I never expected that.

Am I the only one that keeps thinking it would be sad, but hilarious if they'd shot an extra montage/deleted scene for the Blu Ray where Cage lives out his life, never has major issues, doesn't die early, and finally we see him on his death bed, drifting off...then he wakes up on the helicopter again.

I thought of that too.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Would you rather have an ending where they all died and the scientist/mechanic peiced together what happened and Cruise's Cage and Blunt's Vrataski got military honors? I would have been fine with that ending.

I feel like they really wanted to go with the downer ending, but the studio didn't want it. Either way, I like both ways it could have gone. Plus, with the happy ending, I strangely liked the song they picked for the credits and it works.

 

[Dave McFly]

Finally saw it yet another I wished I saw in theaters it was awesome

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

So glad this seems to be finding an audience at home. Very under-rated movie and one that gets better the more you watch it. Cruise and Blunt are on top form here, same with Paxton and Liman.

 

[liesse00]

Regret not picking this up on Black Friday when it was so cheap. Checked it out last night, it was pretty sweet.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

This is one of those movies that just gets better and better the more you watch it, you notice new things happening every time, or at least I have, including action beats. It's just such a well made movie.

 

[venom892]

It boggles my mind that the film is so well made considering the script wasn't even complete when shooting started. I took a chance and bought it on blu ray when it was on sale on black Friday and don't regret it one bit.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

It boggles my mind that the film is so well made considering the script wasn't even complete when shooting started. I took a chance and bought it on blu ray when it was on sale on black Friday and don't regret it one bit.

Wow, would not have guessed it didn't have a finished script when it began shooting. Though I suppose that is nothing new for Liman. Wasn't The Bourne Identity in the same boat? Both movies turned out superb anyway.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

So I haven't actually checked out the original novel, but I picked up the manga adaption of "All You Need is Kill", and I thoroughly enjoyed the adaption. I don't know if it itself deviates from the novel, but there's a lot a liked and a few things I wasn't as crazy about. I'll spoiler in case anyone wants to check it out themselves.

Spoiler

- Unsurprisingly, being a Japanese story, the main character is named Keiji Kiriya. However, I noticed Keiji somewhat sounds like Cage. And in fact, at the end of the novel, he gains the nickname Killer Cage.

-Rita Vrtaski is basically the same, except she's an American special forces soldier, and has a backstory that basically says her family was killed my a Mimic patrol, and she faked an ID so she could enlist while she was just 15.

-The Mimics, at least in the manga, are giant spherical creatures with huge mouths of teeth and extendable spikes. Think a less stupid looking version of those things in the TV adaption of Stephen King's Langoliers.

-There is no Alpha/Omega. There are the drones, and then there are connected "servers", large Mimics with an antenna on their bodies, that send a pulse to reset the day. Servers must be destroyed an a certain order to prevent the loop from reoccurring.

- The loop works somewhat differently. Partially from the "server" setup above, but there are other differences. For example Keiji doesn't always have to die, if the servers aren't destroyed in order, they reset him.

-Keiji's training is different. He trains with a superior officer for several loops, and also gets a giant axe for close and more efficient combat.

- The ending is far different. It is revealed more than one person can enter the loops at a time. After so long, a person starts to develop headaches because the mimics are getting into their heads. In fact, the main reason the Earth Forces are prevailing is Rita has been entering several loops and repeating until the battle is won. The problem is, if two people are linked for that long, the server transfers the final reset signal to one of them. Which means Keiji and Rita have to fight and one of them has to die. Rita loses.

There are a few more differences but I need to give it another read to get them all. I love the film, it was my favorite film of 2014, and even with the differences, the manga adaption is excellent as well. Really wanting to grab the novel now.