Posted on 06/04/2014 4:42:39 PM PDT by Perdogg
“Edge of Tomorrow” isn't expected to be the box office smash its $178 million budget suggests Warner Bros. hoped it would be, but at least audiences can expect one of the best big-budget movies in theaters this summer.
Critics love Tom Cruise's latest action film, which blends science fiction elements with a premise borrowed from classic Bill Murray comedy “Groundhog Day.” Like Murray, Cruise plays a man who is forced to “Live. Die. Repeat” for what must feel like an eternity, except instead of picking up women and causing trouble in a sleepy Pennsylvania town most famous for a rodent, Cruise must team up with a female war hero (Emily Blunt) to figure out how to stop an alien race from wiping out humanity.
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“Cruise dies dozens of times over and over, often in comical ways. Does this sound like a great movie, or what?… Dying again and again, Cruise has rarely been so likable,”
Okay, I’m sold.
Met mom a few times ....
Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in this instance, IMHO.
The distinction is pretty clear if you look at say, the first Star Wars trilogy versus the second one. Even though the effects are cruder in the original, the second is less satisfying because it all looks so fake.
I don’t think we’ll see much in the way of old school effects for big productions, because CGI is probably a lot cheaper than models and makeup at this point. I just hope the CGI quality improves, and the moviemakers start learning to use it more tastefully.
SE’s are for movies that have little to no stories and zero interesting characters.
LOL! Thought the same thing!
I agree he’s a nut but he makes a great movie. You almost always get your money’s worth.
Looks like a good action movie, even if it does star Tom Cruise.
I agree... Oblivion was a special film and Cruise did not ruin it... same go3s for War of the Worlds.
That’s a really good and apt comparison.
I’ve never known how much to blame my own subjective biases, but when I see these films with all their overdone CGI, my eyes just glaze over, and I lose all interest in the proceedings. Yet, I’ll see some rinky-tink, old-time film with plastic-models and back-projection, or some actor wearing a rubber alien mask, and... somehow, despite an obvious fakiness, there’s still something about it that will draw me in.
Is Tom Cruz in it?
He is?
No thanks, then.
I wasn’t so crazy about Oblivion. For some reason I expected more. Minority Report was fairly good, though.
What nonsense. Paramount parted ways with Cruise for box office performance at the time. That’s the only reason a studio cuts anyone loose ever.
And MI Ghost Protocol came out AFTER the couch jumping, and made a gazillion dollars. The couch thing didn’t hurt Cruise at the box office. At all.
Of course, he’s fifty-one, at the outside age for hunkiness and action roles. It remains to be seen if he can parlay his experience into more mature roles, a la Sean Connery. But for right now, Cruise was and is one of the last great American movie stars, a reliable draw. To claim otherwise is to ignore the only measure that counts: ticket sales.
“frankly, he’s nuts.”
Well, some people who were nuts made some pretty good movies. Orson Welles comes to mind.
Loved “Jack Reacher” “Knight and Day” was also good plus all the “Mission Impossibles”
I lime Tom Cruise and this movie looks GREAT.
And “Knight and Day”was great, too.
LOL, absolutely loved it.
I saw it twice in Houston, and once in Vegas. The singing, of course is phenomenal, but the story telling . . it really wraps it all up. I bought the cast CD as well.
Bob Gardio (sp) actually had a hand in writing the stage play, told in 4 acts, one for each of the main players.
And the music... it truly was something to see at 3 generations in the audience all singing along.
LOL, but watch the F bombs, they are legion!! :-)
For some reason Hollywood actors and nuttiness is like flies on you-know-what. Orson Wells, I’ve heard, was a Hitler fan until that became unpopular. So were a lot of America’s leftists, until like everything they realize later was a mistake, pretended they were never involved.
“Knight and Day” was awesome! Why does everyone hate it?
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