Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Read the book. It's a quick read, and was also surprisingly good. It reminded me a lot of Starship Troopers, tbh, and it was interesting to see a cultural military perspective that did NOT (for the most part) involve the United States Armed Forces. It was really interesting to me for the assumptions it worked off of as much as what the story actually was -- which is fine. It was just all around a quick, good read.

After reading it you can see both why they adapted the general story and reinterpreted it. They're basically locked into a war that is impossible to win, no matter what victories they may have on the battlefield. Even if they manage to purge the mimics, which is doubtful in its own right, they are still fucked. If Americans wanna see they they turn on the nightly news, not go to the movie theater.

Chillz brings up a good point - dying has to take some sort of psychological toll on you. And he does it over and over and over again with no rest. After a couple you'd probably want to curl up in a ball and rock back and forth.

Not a criticism, just an interesting observation.

It seems like it just hardened their personalities, after all it was war time. Honestly it'd probably give me a sort of God complex, since you're not really dying.

They show him getting more and more rigid and emotionless as it goes on. More fucked up by seeing Rita die over and over. What did people want, another half hour of him just being depressed? It's an action movie, they paid enough attention to it.

Am I missing something here?


This is the only thing that I don't quite get. Otherwise, a great flick! 8/10

It's basically nonsensical, but, "The power" is in the blood, or whatever. So when cruise killed the blue one on the first day and died in the blood he took the power. That's why the blue one couldn't go back to un-kill itself. That particular one didn't have the power anymore, it was transfered to Cruise through the mutual death. Every time cruise died the Omega was reacting instinctively resetting the loop for cruise, just like it would had cruise been the blue one. As far as instinct was concerned, cruise was the blue one. As far as intelligence was concerned, that's why they "wanted his blood", rather than to just murder him, at the dam.

Don't think about it too deeply. It falls apart. It kinda does in the book too, and he kinda explains it the same way in the book. There's a page or two where "the scientists" say, "I dunno. Shit's magic." and our hero through Rita goes "Whatever the hell that means."

For whatever reason, I recall them saying that "he (Cruise) took that power from it and they wanted it back". A bit confusing, for sure.

Lovecraftian alien creator race dies off and it's tools/slaves run amok? The aliens are a bio-synthetic A.I. weapon system or an artificially created servitor race that is designed to have third party organisms as a master switch. The aliens who created the system are dead and gone but elements of the original design will forever remain intact; such as the master switch functioning better for the third party than it does for the synthetics.

Need At the Mountains of Madness to be filmed now.

In the manga it definitely takes a mental toll with all the dying. Also, the manga doesn't explain how they get the power either. They don't understand how it is obtained but they do understand how it works once it is obtained.

Foggy_sl said:

In the manga it definitely takes a mental toll with all the dying. Also, the manga doesn't explain how they get the power either. They don't understand how it is obtained but they do understand how it works once it is obtained.

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They explained how it was obtained. TACHYONS AND BRAINS AND SCIENCE!!!!!

This was delivered to my office today by the UPS driver. I guess it finally came out on Blu-Ray. Thank you, Amazon!

Can't wait to watch this again. Probably tonight.

Can someone toss me the manga, I read the novelette and it was good... but to say Edge of Tomorrow was "clich? Hollywood" ending- that it was, was drastic change from the novel...well... the novel IMO was clich? anime with the "one of us MUST die" out of the blue. In that respect it was a great retelling of the story... I was more WTFBBQ over why the brit dude was all like "lets throw cage into the fray and kill him off"

The blood and reaction made more sense to me than server and antenna and tachyons oh my! Both where good and I enjoyed the read and the movie quite well.

Badass movie. Ending was Hollywood but that is expected from summer blockbuster.

I enjoyed the changes they made from the light novel to make it their own. Still liked the manga better story wise, but that doesn't take away from the movie.