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Crappy Jack posted:Now I've got this image in my head of Cage living a nice, full life, growing to a ripe old age, passing peacefully in his sleep. I figure that the Omega's body contained the hardware required to reset time and the final reset only occurred for Cage because he was temporarily merged with it, i.e. it was brain-dead from being fragged but the blood linked Cage's mind the Omega's corpse, allowing it to reset. But since Cage went back in it's place, all future loops lack the hardware to cause a reset.
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Crappy Jack posted:Now I've got this image in my head of Cage living a nice, full life, growing to a ripe old age, passing peacefully in his sleep. I would think that after a few months your body would filter out and replace your blood naturally, so if you haven't died in that time you would lose the blood power.
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Drifter posted:I would think that after a few months your body would filter out and replace your blood naturally, so if you haven't died in that time you would lose the blood power. Nah man those midichlorians live FOREVER.
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Pander posted:Nah man those midichlorians live FOREVER. The element in the mimic blood that allows your to retain your memories during a reset may be non-living. It could be some element or compound that the Omega can "lock on" to as part of the reset process. As a result, it may never be filtered out naturally. It might accumulate in your tissue and continue to function. In that case, after a certain point the ability might not be removable with a blood transfusion. But obviously this is all speculation.
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Basically humanity is locked into a dark future where it can never advance past Tom Cruise's natural lifespan.
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Cardboard Box A posted:Basically humanity is locked into a dark future where it can never advance past Tom Cruise's natural lifespan. You mean.... like REAL LIFE? 
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Harime Nui posted:You mean.... like REAL LIFE?
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And all that's left to do is LIVE DIE REPEAT??? 
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I just got done watching this movie, and I just wanted to post that I thought it was really good. I hope they keep making Tom Cruise science fiction movies.
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Dahbadu posted:I just got done watching this movie, and I just wanted to post that I thought it was really good. I hope they keep making Tom Cruise science fiction movies. Good news. Cruise is set to star in another Japanese novel adaptation about fighter pilots battling weird aliens that are emerging from a portal above Antartica.
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That sounds maybe dumb, but after Oblivion and Edge of Tomorrow, there's a good chance it is worth watching twice.
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Trump posted:I'll make my point clear then instead of being snide. You can't compare how Jack Reacher or Knight and Day performed to Edge of Tomorrow. Lower budgets, different expectations, though you could see Jack Reacher as a failure on another level since it was meant as a franchise starter. For what it's worth, Jack Reacher is indeed getting a sequel because, like Edge of Tomorrow, it's a movie that actually made decent money despite the press calling it a failure. Knight and Day also made pretty big money, but like Edge of Tomorrow it was mostly outside of the US. They seem like okay comparisons to make. The MSJ posted:Good news. Cruise is set to star in another Japanese novel adaptation about fighter pilots battling weird aliens that are emerging from a portal above Antartica. English translations for the Yukikaze novels are on Kindle for pretty cheap, and could potentially make for a good film. But it's by no means a lock. For example,the animated adaptation of Yukikaze is colossally dull garbage, mostly as a result of significant deviations/omissions from the source material. There is no chance in Hell a Tom Cruise movie would go down the path the animated one chose to--which was basically "man is in love with another man, who in turn is in love with his computerized airplane and probably mentally disabled"--but they'd still have to change things up. Daryl Surat fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Sep 10, 2014 |
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The MSJ posted:Good news. Cruise is set to star in another Japanese novel adaptation about fighter pilots battling weird aliens that are emerging from a portal above Antartica. That AMV of Yukikaze they linked was pretty cool - in an I know have epilepsy sort of way. All kidding aside, it seems like it could be pretty drat fun. It's been a while since there was a good plane fight movie.
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The MSJ posted:Good news. Cruise is set to star in another Japanese novel adaptation about fighter pilots battling weird aliens that are emerging from a portal above Antartica. So Pacific Rim meets Top Gun?
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computer parts posted:So Pacific Rim meets Top Gun? More like Top Gun meets Top Gun. I think they're normal aliens in normal vehicles, not Godzilla wannabees.
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Drifter posted:More like Top Gun meets Top Gun. I think they're normal aliens in normal vehicles, not Godzilla wannabees. That's pretty funny considering he's making another actual Top Gun. vvvvvv He created the ads. They featured Rita Vritaski. kiimo fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Sep 10, 2014 |
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If Cage was in ads that led to millions joining the military, why did nobody recognize him? edit: kiimo posted:vvvvvv He created the ads. They featured Rita Vritaski. You're right, I forgot he was only in the news report at the start and not the ads. Spacebump fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Sep 10, 2014 |
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Yeah it showed up in my iTunes account as "Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow".
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Live, Die, Repeat: All You Need is Kill on the Edge of Tomorrow (did we already make this joke?)The MSJ posted:Good news. Cruise is set to star in another Japanese novel adaptation about fighter pilots battling weird aliens that are emerging from a portal above Antartica. Is Tom Cruise really big in Japan or does he just like Japanese SF novels? Because someone should tell this man about Legend of the Galactic Heroes if they haven't already.
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Harime Nui posted:Is Tom Cruise really big in Japan or does he just like Japanese SF novels? Because someone should tell this man about Legend of the Galactic Heroes if they haven't already. Who would Cruise play in LoGH? A renamed Yang or Reinhardt? Although, thinking about it, him as an older Yang bring his historian hobby into practice versus the up-and-coming young talent Reinhardt played by Michael Fassbinder would be pretty great.
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Ideally, Tom Cruise would play Ruenthal. He gets to be crazy ambitious and chew scenery!
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The MSJ posted:Good news. Cruise is set to star in another Japanese novel adaptation about fighter pilots battling weird aliens that are emerging from a portal above Antartica.  Please make all the sci-fi movies you want, Tom Cruise, I will go see every single one of them.
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Tom Cruise's Neon Genesis Evangelion. He plays Gendo.
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"YEUGH GNEEEUUU it was for one purpose I brought you here!"
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So he's making both Top Gun 2 and Top Gun versus Aliens: Even More Homoerotic Edition?MonsieurChoc posted:Tom Cruise's Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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Cardboard Box A posted:So he's making both Top Gun 2 and Top Gun versus Aliens: Even More Homoerotic Edition? Flying straight into the danger zone (of homoeroticism).
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Cardboard Box A posted:Jaden Smith as Shinji Such a thing is too good for our sinful world
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Tom Cruise is pretty much the only person keeping sci-fi together and its the best.
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The MSJ posted:Flying straight into the danger zone (of homoeroticism). There is a character that can accurately be described as "Gay Roy Fokker". He even had the same voice actor in the English dub as Roy Fokker from Robotech.
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I wouldn't mind a prequel where we get to watch Emily Blunt gain the power and become badass as well. Sorry if it was mentioned earlier in the thread, but is there any speculation or concrete answer as to how many times Cage had to repeat?
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I was going to make a stupid joke about fat Ice (cream) Man but now looking at this I think he could actually pull off a big-craniumed smug four star general quite well. 
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Man, Tom Cruise is on a roll. Again. Or maybe he simply never stopped rolling. First Oblivion, now this. I want more sci-fi Tom Cruise. And I thought Emily Blunt was great. The action sequences were so much fun to watch. You could really feel the weight of those mech-suits in combat.
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Sci-fi Tom Cruise also appeared in Minority Report, which was awesome, and War of the Worlds, which would've been so much more awesome without the Spielberg-y kids he got stuck with.
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Can we get a thread title change? I have been missing this thread because I had no idea it was about Live Die Repeat
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Harime Nui posted:Live, Die, Repeat: All You Need is Kill on the Edge of Tomorrow This has my vote.
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I liked this film a lot. Normally I'd hate the ending but gently caress it, Cage put himself through enough to earn it.Snak posted:It's helpful to remember that when Cage killed the alpha, he replaced it and it was missing from all subsequent loops.
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This was great. My 14-year old self would have seen this 3 or 4 times in the theater. I am not familiar with the source material, but I have watched Groundhog Day about 20 times. I wrote this off as "Tom Cruise vs. Aliens movie but this time he's in Groundhog Day". That interpretation is actually astoundingly accurate, but the movie is so well-paced and written (adapted?) that it doesn't matter. If you hate science fiction and/or Tom Cruise, then you'll obviously want to steer clear of Edge of Tomorrow, but otherwise, it's a pretty great action flick that actually uses the "Groundhog Day" premise to raise the stakes in the last act of the film. quote:Sorry if it was mentioned earlier in the thread, but is there any speculation or concrete answer as to how many times Cage had to repeat? This film makes this impossible to guess with any sort of accuracy, as there are several sequences that we see only a single time (stealing the van). Un-l337-Pork fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Sep 13, 2014 |
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