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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The actor playing Gandalf almost quit in tears because acting all alone in a green room, to portray chatting with a quaint roomful of dwarves, was not anywhere close to why he acts.
Actually, “Eyes Wide Shut” was a great movie. But you need to look at the symbology and wonder about what exactly Kubrick was trying to say...
Ray Millard and Frankie Avalon star.
Talk about moral conflicts in a plot.
Looters going after them is bad, but him robbing a gas station owner because he is being charged too much (gauged him) is OK. (the loophole is the gas station owner didn't tell him the price till after he pumped it). Its all wrapped up in protecting his family.
He teaches his son to kill but lectures him to hate it.
His wife seems to have a suicide wish.,
AHH, Panic in the Year Zero 1962
That sounds interesting.
The last old science fiction movie I’ve seen is X the Unknown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_the_Unknown
1956, there’s a local show in Chi called Svengoolie, they play old horror and sci-fi b-movies.
Wikipedia says they’re national now on MeTv.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svengoolie
Oh you young whippersnappers.
You are so used to your iphones that you missed the golden age of black and white TV. :)
I was about 12 when my parents finally got color TV and cable TV was years away. I was sure my parents were cheapskates
NFhale, you definitely relate to Panic in The Year Zero. Right?
AH!
Between that movie, and Caltiki – The Immortal Monster....
Takin’ me back, FRiend.
Speaking of cheapskates, you are talking to the youngest man in America who’s phone is not so smart.
My uncle rolled his eyes at me!
HAHA, in 2012 I finally decided to get a smart phone, Iphone5
I got tired of all the kids making < half my salary showing off theirs to me.
Its a great toy.
My favorite app is waze navigation , its full GPS navigationapp with real time traffic, police, accidents, red light cams,.... reporting.
I never got a GPS and now I am glad I didnt.
“I am surprised.”
Me too. Very.
It’s not doing well at the box office. It’s getting best by the teen love story of the sick girl falling in love. Why is Tom Cruise considered a top draw at the box office again?
I hadn’t heard that one before. I can see his point, though. It used to be you might occasionally have to do a scene like that, usually in a sci-fi movie. But, with Peter Jackson, it would be the whole movie. Especially since he decided to use normal sized actors for the dwarves instead of, ya know, dwarves. Ron Howard did a whole movie with dwarves (Willow), so, it can be done.
Testing 1-2-3.
welcome back!
Kinda.
I am weary of all the CGI monsters and robots. I saw the coming attractions for this and said to the wife that I would see this only at the point of a gun. Dreck is right—let him fight all the green screen monsters he wants to, but I’m not paying any scratch to see it.
http://www.forum.exscn.net/showthread.php?10194-most-scientologists-are-republicans
I came across this discussion, I have no idea what they are talking about, clearly they are using terminology only someone more familiar with the details of Scientology would understand.
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