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Diddly
July 14, 2014, 12:47am Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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"Starship Troopers meets Groundhog Day" is an oddly accurate summary for Edge of Tomorrow starring Tom Cruise.

Tom Cruise plays a smug and selfish Major who has no combat experience or training.  His job has been marketing military actions to the public.  The situation is pretty dire, as an alien force has established a beachhead on earth (specifically Eurasia) and all opposition has completely failed.  While ordered to the front lines for a final offensive, Tom gets doused in alien blood that sends him back to the start of the day before.

We witness, and re-witness, the same two days playing out again and again, as Tom learns what he should do, and shouldn't do, to try and save himself.  While everyone else resets to their former selves, we see Tom mature and grasp the bigger picture.

Luckily he's not alone.  Emily Blunt plays a tough-as-nails hero who went through the very same thing he's experiencing.  She teaches him to learn and fight and use his resets to gain supernatural advantage.  Oh and she also repeatedly shoots him in the head to force a reset.

Groundhog Day was designed to make the audience feel the pain of "Oh no!  Again?!".  It made you empathize with Bill Murray's frustration.  This movie thankfully doesn't go that route.  Instead it becomes clear we're going to breeze through the drudgery of the same events if nothing changes, eventually skipping them all together.  We begin to see just the differences, and that's very effective for this story.

The Good: Quite enjoyable movie!  Great battles.  Vicious aliens.  A dash of humour.  Also, Tom Cruise repeatedly shot in the head.
The Bad: I don't understand why the military was shooting Tom and Emily after talking to the General
The Ugly: Ignore the last reset.  It didn't happen.  You'll understand why when you see it.

This is not like other movies that involve time travel.  There's no paradox here, because essentially the universe resets whenever Tom dies, like a video game.



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July 14, 2014, 6:08pm Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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The real question is does Tom do his nearly patented run?  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-RuIsxGX4M

In case you've never noticed, here is a compilation of Tom Cruise running throughout many of his movies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJdMDvjfyQ0

And here is a list of the top 15 things Tom Cruise can outrun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0S5ErGZKG4
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July 15, 2014, 12:21am Report to Moderator Report to Moderator

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It was an action movie, so there was running, yes. Although, the only thing that seemed out of place was Tom leisurely driving a motorcycle.


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