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‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Reviews: Tom Cruise Kills It
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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at thewrap.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: billpaxton; brendangleeson; dougliman; edgeoftomorrow; emilyblunt; sciencefiction; scifi; tomcruise
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I am with you, I will see it this weekend. Looking forward to it.


61 posted on 06/04/2014 6:27:00 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

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.


62 posted on 06/04/2014 6:34:12 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Steely Tom

He’s NUTZ!


63 posted on 06/04/2014 6:35:47 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: GOPsterinMA; Impy; sickoflibs; NFHale; Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj

I really don’t understand the “hate” for Cruise. Some of his movies have had conservatives messages in them.


64 posted on 06/04/2014 6:35:55 PM PDT by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: Perdogg
Hell, I'll go to any film with Emily Blunt in it.  photo emily-emily-blunt4_zps434eebd0.jpg
65 posted on 06/04/2014 6:51:14 PM PDT by februus
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To: Perdogg

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.


66 posted on 06/04/2014 6:58:09 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: Jonty30
I don’t like Tom Cruise.

He's a helluva actor, I have to concede. Though his "religious" beliefs stink.

67 posted on 06/04/2014 7:01:54 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: GOPsterinMA

I tried to watch Maleficent today. Shut it down after about 30 minutes. Seriously boring.


68 posted on 06/04/2014 7:07:42 PM PDT by sheana
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To: Perdogg; GOPsterinMA; Impy; NFHale; Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj
RE:”I really don’t understand the “hate” for Cruise. Some of his movies have had conservatives messages in them.”

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

69 posted on 06/04/2014 7:26:41 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: GOPsterinMA; Perdogg; Impy; NFHale; Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj
RE:”Are you going to see this? I’ve kinda soured on Tom Cruise. He’s just weird.”

I think the last Cruise movie I saw, on cable of course, was War of the Worlds.

It was OK, nothing great.

70 posted on 06/04/2014 7:31:14 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: 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.

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.

71 posted on 06/04/2014 7:43:14 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Perdogg

Edge of Tomorrow Review - CineFix Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbbUmOoBFaY


72 posted on 06/04/2014 8:18:46 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: 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.

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.

73 posted on 06/04/2014 9:42:17 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Perdogg

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?”


74 posted on 06/04/2014 9:52:39 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: sheana

The Angelina Jolie flick? That bad, eh? That’s actually too bad.


75 posted on 06/04/2014 10:16:58 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Khent is not stable... be advised...)
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To: Perdogg; Impy; sickoflibs; NFHale; Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj

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”.


76 posted on 06/04/2014 10:20:16 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Khent is not stable... be advised...)
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To: RikaStrom

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’.


77 posted on 06/04/2014 10:23:33 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Khent is not stable... be advised...)
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To: GOPsterinMA; Perdogg; sickoflibs; NFHale; Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; Fair Paul

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.


78 posted on 06/05/2014 1:45:34 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Perdogg

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.


79 posted on 06/05/2014 4:50:15 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: BenLurkin

My question exactly.


80 posted on 06/05/2014 5:56:37 AM PDT by verga (Conservative, leaning libertatian)
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