Edge of Tomorrow (Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton!)

mrkiscool2 · 03-10-2014 6:51am

The book's ending is a lot darker.

Keiji (Cage in the movie) and Rita find each other pretty much like the movie. This time, different to the movie, they have to kill all the antennae (Alphas) and then destroy the nexus (Omega). When they kill the nexus the day is reset again because they missed one Alpha. The day resets, they kill him but then Rita attacks Keiji telling him they are both acting as antennae and one of them has to die before killing the nexus. He kills her then the nexus and that's how it ends.

pixelburp · 03-10-2014 8:41am

Yeah, I don't get get the love for that original title, it screams of the kind of clumsy mistranslation and bad grammar you see on many tourist photos as they snap the improper or funny/silly use of English by the Japanese. 'All You Need is Kill', god even saying it out loud sounds clumsy and awkward. And frankly it means even less than 'Edge of Tomorrow'; that title was no great shakes, with 'Live, Die. Repeat' being a much more intriguing variant. The original Japanese just looks like ... well, Engrish.

All that said, I don't think the title alone was the reason this movie under-performed at the box office; I'm not entirely sure what was the reason, but I doubt very much the title had that much to do with it.

Bacchus · 03-10-2014 8:47am

mrkiscool2 wrote: »

The book's ending is a lot darker.
Keiji (Cage in the movie) and Rita find each other pretty much like the movie. This time, different to the movie, they have to kill all the antennae (Alphas) and then destroy the nexus (Omega). When they kill the nexus the day is reset again because they missed one Alpha. The day resets, they kill him but then Rita attacks Keiji telling him they are both acting as antennae and one of them has to die before killing the nexus. He kills her then the nexus and that's how it ends.

Nice dark ending but

how would Rita be an antennae? It's Keiji that is the one resetting the day

mrkiscool2 · 03-10-2014 8:51am

Bacchus wrote: »

Nice dark ending but
how would Rita be an antennae? It's Keiji that is the one resetting the day

Basically both of their brains had been rewired by the process. They were exactly like antennas, when they were killed the day started over.

Bacchus · 03-10-2014 8:55am

pixelburp wrote: »

All that said, I don't think the title alone was the reason this movie under-performed at the box office; I'm not entirely sure what was the reason, but I doubt very much the title had that much to do with it.

It could have been something to do with Cruise's previous movie, Oblivion. As enjoyable a movie as that was, EoT was probably too similar looking. A bit of "Cruise in sci-fi thriller" fatigue perhaps?

Marketing was sh*t for it too as far as I can remember. I don't remember many TV spots or posters or anything for it when it came out. Also, didn't come out in the mix of a load of movies targeting the same audience (Godzilla, X-Men, Captain America, Trancedence, Spiderman).

quad_red · 03-10-2014 11:31am

mrkiscool2 wrote: »

Basically both of their brains had been rewired by the process. They were exactly like antennas, when they were killed the day started over.

I think that's why they changed that angle in the movie. They declare that Cage is like an Alpha (rather than an Antenna) and that's why the space frequency transbobulator thingy can 'track' the signal back to the Omega.

Greyjoy · 03-10-2014 11:58am

"All you need is kill" is undoubtedly a silly title but it's weird enough to catch people's attention if for no other reason than "what the hell does that mean?". When the film was announced originally it piqued my interest for that very reason.

"Edge of Tomorrow" on the other hand sounds like a beige, middle of the road, straight to dvd, SciFi Channel, generic title.

gallag · 21-10-2014 12:17pm

All you kills are belong to us!! that's the title right there! Great film, my wife actually really enjoyed it and stayed awake without playing that stupid farm game on her phone! that's about as good a review that is possible.

Slydice · 15-01-2020 7:58pm

Sequel in the works.

Many Timelines!

Excellent!

https://twitter.com/DougLiman/status/1217165872541917184

Josey Wales · 15-01-2020 11:01pm

Slydice wrote: »

Sequel in the works.

Many Timelines!

Excellent!

https://twitter.com/DougLiman/status/1217165872541917184

I hate their attempts to rename the film to Live Die Repeat. They tried this on the Bluray cover of the first film.

Drumpot · 15-01-2020 11:05pm

Josey Wales wrote: »

I hate their attempts to rename the film to Live Die Repeat. They tried this on the Bluray cover of the first film.

I believe That was what the director originally wanted to call it. The studio made a balls of the marketing and decided to use it when they released DVDs and it seems like it helped sales.

Very enjoyable film, watched it again recently and it holds up well.

mikhail · 16-01-2020 12:29am

Drumpot wrote: »

I believe That was what the director originally wanted to call it. The studio made a balls of the marketing and decided to use it when they released DVDs and it seems like it helped sales.

Very enjoyable film, watched it again recently and it holds up well.

I was kind of attached to the (possibly mistranslated) title of the source material - All You Need is Kill. Edge of Tomorrow was as bland a title as a you could possibly focus group, like a rejected Bond movie title. Almost anything was better than it.

Tock · 16-01-2020 1:47am

Live, die, repeat is like a bad spanish translation of the movie plot. I think edge of tomorrow is fine - not sure if a sequel is a good idea, the original was great, in tom cruises scifi phase along with oblivion

tibruit · 16-01-2020 2:45am

Really liked this movie. It slipped under the radar a bit at the time. I think this happens quite a bit with movies with complex plots. You need a second or third viewing to appreciate the intricacies of the story. Wouldn`t be a big fan of Cruise, but Emily Blunt......who`d have thought after The Devil Wears Prada that she could morph into a kick ass action hero. Looking forward to a sequel. There`s a lot of directions they could go with it. As it stands at the end of the first one Cruises character can start off the sequel in live, die, repeat mode.

Tony EH · 16-01-2020 1:31pm

Slydice wrote: »

Sequel in the works.

:rolleyes:

No need. The first movie was perfectly fine. There's no reason to stink it up.

16-01-2020 1:53pm

mikhail wrote: »

I was kind of attached to the (possibly mistranslated) title of the source material - All You Need is Kill. Edge of Tomorrow was as bland a title as a you could possibly focus group, like a rejected Bond movie title. Almost anything was better than it.

Edge of Tomorrow is a great name

Standing on the edge not able to get there and knowing it all comes to an end one way or another, once tomorrow comes.

johnny_ultimate · 16-01-2020 3:53pm

Name ranking for this film:

1. All You Need Is Kill
2. Edge of Tomorrow
3. Groundhog Day
4. Live Die Repeat

pixelburp · 16-01-2020 3:59pm

"All You Need is Kill" was, and will always remain, a deeply stupid name and while the two replacements are no great shakes, the original is exactly the kind of mangled Japanoglish infamous of the region.

Tony EH · 16-01-2020 4:01pm

'All Your Kill are Belong to Us'

johnny_ultimate · 16-01-2020 4:04pm

pixelburp wrote: »

"All You Need is Kill" was, and will always remain, a deeply stupid name

Exactly - gloriously stupid!

pixelburp · 16-01-2020 4:10pm

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Exactly - gloriously stupid!

Nope, sorry. Just stupid

I'm not immune to the charm of wonky translations, but that title's less "charmingly stupid", and more "oh god he has been sniffing the glue" stupid

CatFromHue · 16-01-2020 11:04pm

How about Tomorrow, On the Edge of Kill. Repeat!

:pac:

Tony EH · 17-01-2020 9:13am

CatFromHue wrote: »

How about Tomorrow, On the Edge of Kill. Repeat!

:pac:

That's the sequel title sorted.

17-01-2020 9:54am

"For Tomorrow We Die"

Can we all please agree that there shall be gnashing of teeth, should there be a "2morrow" anywhere near the title?

Kirby · 17-01-2020 3:08pm

Deleted User wrote: »

"For Tomorrow We Die"

Can we all please agree that there shall be gnashing of teeth, should there be a "2morrow" anywhere near the title?

2morrow 2fast 4u!

:P

Arghus · 18-01-2020 12:16am

Kill Tom Tomorrow.

kerplun k · 18-01-2020 12:59am

I’m going with
Happy Live, Die, Repeat Day 2u: The Sands of Tom

El Duda · 20-01-2020 4:44pm

TheWonderLlama · 20-01-2020 4:46pm

https://i.imgur.com/XwGctJh.mp4
beautiful.

cdgalwegian · 20-01-2020 8:18pm

TheWonderLlama wrote: »

https://i.imgur.com/XwGctJh.mp4
beautiful.

The gif that keeps on giffing.

ShineOn7 · 27-02-2021 8:18pm

Rewatched this last weekend and it confirmed to me that it's one of the top 3 best Popcorn films of the last ten years

Is there anything similar from recent years in terms of quality Popcorn movies that aren't overly dumb?

I wouldn't mind watching it

Rodney Bathgate · 27-02-2021 8:21pm

Oblivion is decent.

ShineOn7 · 27-02-2021 8:24pm

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Oblivion is decent.

Compared to Edge Of Tomorrow?

It's shíte ;-)

santana75 · 27-02-2021 8:26pm

I'd say another film with Emily blunt is equally as good, "Looper".

ShineOn7 · 27-02-2021 8:29pm

santana75 wrote: »

I'd say another film with Emily blunt is equally as good, "Looper".

Yes I enjoyed that

I forgot Emily was in it too

28-02-2021 6:04pm

Predestination
The Martian
Life
Upgrade
Lucy
Passengers
Prometheus
Ex-Machina (verging towards arthouse)

Scifis of the 2010s that I've liked aside from the ones mentioned.

Edge of Tomorrow (Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton!)

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