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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I am with you, I will see it this weekend. Looking forward to it.
Mission Impossible was turning into a shark jumping exhibition as it progressed. Riding his motorcycle on just the front wheel? I know the title contains the word impossible, but please...the action must be believable to be enjoyable.
He’s NUTZ!
I really don’t understand the “hate” for Cruise. Some of his movies have had conservatives messages in them.
Jeez, based on the comments in this thread you would think Tom Cruise and John Travolta were going to strap you down and read L Ron Hubbard to you.
It’s a movie review. And it sounds decent. If you cannot watch an actor without seeing his private life, I guess I can understand it. But that’s why they call it acting.
He's a helluva actor, I have to concede. Though his "religious" beliefs stink.
I tried to watch Maleficent today. Shut it down after about 30 minutes. Seriously boring.
My guess is Born of the Fourth of July(a very depressing movie) . I vaguely recall that,
I know its silly being that that war was long over by that movie 1989, but remember in the GWB first term a popular ‘conservative’ theme was complaining about the Dixie Chicks. America either won every war or was on the threshold of doing it gloriously.
FLAGS WAVING
I think the last Cruise movie I saw, on cable of course, was War of the Worlds.
It was OK, nothing great.
There was just a story out last week about Viggo Mortensen complaining about Peter Jackson and his growing reliance on special effects through the making of the LOTRs trilogy. The first pic, good experience; then, all CG all the time. Mortensen seems to think it hurt the storyline and film.
Edge of Tomorrow Review - CineFix Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbbUmOoBFaY
Yep, that's why I like old movies, especially 40's. Lots of wonderful dialogue.
These days, if you've seen the trailer - you've seen the movie.
Groundhog Day meets Starship Independence Day Troopers?
“Bugs, Mister Cruise! Jillions of Bugs today, and today, and today, and today, and when will this simulation exercise ever end, Mister Cruise?”
The Angelina Jolie flick? That bad, eh? That’s actually too bad.
Not so much “hate” from me, just...”icky”.
“Risky Business”, which is on as I watch this, is one of my favorite ~20 movies of all time.
He was hilarious as “Les Grossman” in “Tropic Thunder”.
Good to hear!!!
I regret not seeing it when it was in Boston. :(
“LOL, but watch the F bombs, they are legion!! :-)”. That must be why the movie is rated ‘R’.
I find him a likable actor. Many good performances.
This movie looks intriguing.
Weird, yeah to be a scientologist you have to be weird. I have to say I never thought he was a homo as so many do, I wouldn’t bet any money on my “gaydar” but I just don’t see it.
IMDB lists a “Top Gun 2” as being in the works, WTF?
<<<<<Fair Paul: Does anyone else feel like I do that special effects killed movies? Special effects just suck the life out of a great plot or story line.”<<<<<<<<<
I wouldn’t go that far, I sure prefer better effects to looking at cheesey old ones. But it does unable lazy and crappy writers to make pretty movies with terrible plots and get away with it, case in point the last Star Trek Movie (and the first one for that matter, lot’s of pointless shots of then state of the art effects, weak plot).
No reason you can’t have good special effects and a good plot/good acting.
If I recall, there were two other films that came out around the same time as Groundhog Day (not uncommon in Hollywood) with the “day repeating” plot device. One was a SF film that aired on Fox (broadcast). I don’t remember the name.
These appeared to be made concurrently to Groundhog Day, not in response to the box office success.
My question exactly.
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