http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWsIVXpoBIc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWsIVXpoBIc)
SOLD! Well sort of. *Semi Cthulian horrors plus Mecha Suits means sale. I expect the plot line to be ropey but this is the closest I'll get to a Warhammer Imperial Army Movie.
I've read the book it's based on All You Need Is Kill and the suits, or Jackets as they are called, look about what I pictured them to be.
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Groundhog Day meets Starship troopers. Read it's a 'light Novel' for young adults.
Very unusual to take such a financial risk with such an unfamiliar source material. Never heard or read anything about 'All you need is Kill' till now but if a big Hollywood star gives the nod then the money smile and green light it.
Read the novel (didn't know it was aimed at young adults) but if Tom Cruise is in it will they keep the downbeat feel? :-*
Emily Blunt looks to be the best thing about this. She out-perfoms Cruise even in the trailer.
The xeroxed Battle: L.A. trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt7ofokzn04&t=1m43s) music doesn't do it any favours.
Is cruise a closet Sci-Fi fan?
He has made some movies of the nature we on this board would also choose.
Just wondered was it pure $$$ or an actual level of fantasy roles he liked the idea when he was young
Quote from: Devons Daddy on 14 December, 2013, 03:50:54 PM
Is cruise a closet Sci-Fi fan?
He is a member of that sci-fi writer's official fan club
Now that looks awesome!
2nd Trailer; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmSVcttXnI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmSVcttXnI)
Now it get good review from Empire so something good to watch then?
Certainly has my interest. Blunt is terrific in those trailers, and the setting and premise seem like fun.
However, is Cruise ever going to age? He's almost 52 now. 52. That's 9 years older than me and he looks about 10 years younger. I reckon I could pass for his Da.
It seems to be getting surprisingly strong reviews across the board, though one review noted that Cruise is clearly far too old for the role of 'raw recruit'.
I read the book back when it was first optioned, and it was pretty entertaining, sort of like a prose version of a mecha anime. I liked how the unknowable enemy force was explained (IIRC it is revealed late on that [spoiler]they were a swarm of nano-organisms created by mankind to terraform planets that went awry and returned to Earth many years later in mutated form - can't remember how the time-loop aspect was explained though, something about tachyon particles and them phasing in and out of parallel dimensions or something[/spoiler]) but I expect they will have a different origin and explanation in the movie.
One thing I didn't realise till the review, of the casting of Bill Paxton as sarge in the film! Very exciting! :)
Ha! I wonder if he'll be doing a reprisal of his famous whimpering Hudson from Aliens (my favourite character in that film)!
"Why don't you put Cruise in charge?" :D
I watched this the other day and it was surprisingly intelligent for a mainstream, blockbuster movie.
Solid performances throughout and Cruise, in particular, gives a gutsy, fully committed performance and is the energy that drives the film.
An engaging storyline, that wouldn't seem out of place in 2000AD and while the video game inspired plot comparison has been well documented, it is done in a nicely dark and dryly humorous fashion.
Recommended.
Enjoyed it immensely. Cruise and Blunt give great performances and Bill Paxton is a treat. Blunt could easily take over from Sigourney Weaver in an Alien film.
I've read the book and I think this is the film is a credit to the source. May have to duck out to see this one again.
top movie, wish there were more like this one out there, Cruse really gets the Sci-fi made these days. Surprisingly funny in places and well acted throughout, third act wasn't as good as what came first[spoiler]there's some arsom scenes when he's in the time loop both action and character scenes, it just all seems to get a bit sci-fi action at the end[/spoiler].
Thoroughly recommend to fans of good sci-fi out there, something nice and original. Oh and I think that director has finally learnt to hold a camera straight :)
CU Radbacker
Quote from: Radbacker on 07 June, 2014, 03:55:26 PM
Cruise really gets the Sci-fi made these days
Isn't the reason he and Will Smith are the only folk still making sci-fi films for geek audiences nowadays that they're too famous to get in on the Marvel/DC blockbuster action by playing superheroes? If Tom Cruise suddenly announced he was Batman, folk would (correctly) point out
No you're not, you're Tom Cruise. See Ben Affleck.
It was OK, I guess.
The story wasn't all that tbh, and the script seems to have passed through many hands before it was finished. Never a good sign, but still a fun enough diversion whilst waiting for the England match to start...
Quote from: Islamic State of Iraq and Sauchie on 07 June, 2014, 04:06:07 PM
Isn't the reason he and Will Smith are the only folk still making sci-fi films for geek audiences nowadays that they're too famous to get in on the Marvel/DC blockbuster action by playing superheroes?
It's because they're both members of the biggest Sci-Fi nerd-cult.
Quote from: Devons Daddy on 14 December, 2013, 03:50:54 PM
Is cruise a closet Sci-Fi fan?
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155090/tom-cruise-wont-come-out-of-the-closet (http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155090/tom-cruise-wont-come-out-of-the-closet)
One thing I did like about EoT was the not entirely daft change from Kaiji Kiriya to William Cage. At least they didn't call him something really groan inducing.
This was a fun movie. Of the 3 movies I have seen this year (in theaters) this grabs my #2 spot. Right after X:DOFP and knocks Godzilla to the 3rd spot. Although the movie's only downside for me was the very end. It suffers from the Slate Grey effect and just to much shaky cam.
Whoops, didn't realise there was a thread for it. Saw it last night - very entertaining. Good aliens - quite spooky. The action shots are good, and there's even a nice running joke re one of his squad.
Definitely a film to be seen on the big screen. Unfortunately for the first time in an age I saw it in 2D, not 3D. I was sat there the whole time thinking 'wow, I bet this would be great in 3D!'
Saw Edge Of Tomorrow tonight, loved it! I create this illustration for the film
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One of the best things about living in America - excellent second-run cinemas (a rarity in the UK in my experience).
Off to my local tonight to finally see this - 2x tickets for the princely sum of $5 (£3!), and they serve pizza and have a full bar right in the theater!
Yeah but does it have a sticky floor and wankers playing with their phones?
Nah, they make you pay extra for that.
It was really good. Not one for the Blu Ray collection, but solidly entertaining and a cut above the usual brainless blockbuster fare.
Proof that good leads and a sense of fun can go a long way towards getting an audience to go along with a pretty preposterous premise.
A high 3 stars, bordering on 4.
Overall it's been a pretty solid Summer for blockbusters.
Bizarrely, Warner bros. seems to be trying to retroactively change the name of the film to Live. Die. Repeat. and bury the actual title.
I know it didn't do great box office, but surely changing the title of the film post-release isn't going to help matters?
As it happens, I actually think the film would have been just as memorable had it been made on a quarter of the budget. I guess you need all of the cgi excess to lure in the average punter, but I found all the explosions and gunfire a little much for my tastes. Something a little more subdued would have been more effective IMO.
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ISTR in the novel that the Mimics resemble giant dust-mites and have such a dense cellular structure that they're impervious to bullets, which is why Rita uses a specially made axe instead and the lead character eventually abandons ballistic weapons too. Would have been cool if they'd had this more in the film. As far as adaptations go though, it was actually pretty good. The novel was enjoyable but hardly a great work of literature - ISTR it had a very contrived ending where the lead characters had to fight each other? I didn't quite understand why Cage was conscripted in the movie - it seemed a bit of a stretch, and something they could have explained away very easily. There was quite a lot you just had to not think about too much to enjoy the film I guess.
The title hurt it for me, it just sounded incredibly generic and didn't inspire any curiosity or interest. It's only since the film's release that I read the book and became keen to watch it. Still, if people see it on shelves with a name they don't recognize they may just assume it's a straight to DVD turkey and be even less interested so probably won't help much either.
Wind-Chill and some other film I wanted to watch was shown early this morning, but I missed all the good after falling asleep again.
Just caught this on 3D Blu Ray and loved it.
Cruise is great as the smarmy ass working his way to being a weapon and Blunt and Paxton are also great. Funny, action packed and moving - I love the dawning realisation of why he won't leave the farmhouse.
Thought the "CG excess" of the invasion was fantastic and fitted with the "Saving Private Ryan" vibe
Not sure why some reviewers thought Cruise was too old to be playing a raw recruit. You might think that from the trailer but not from the film itself.
Thoroughly recommended... right up to the very last reset. I just can't get it to make sense in my head. Ah well, "timey, wimey!".
But yeah - great fun - oh and great 3D too.
As I said on the "Last Movie Watched" thread: I loved this right up to the paradox ending.
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 27 October, 2014, 06:13:00 PM
As I said on the "Last Movie Watched" thread: I loved this right up to the paradox ending.
The dumb ending :P
I don't particularly mind a paradox but I really am struggling to figure out how that last reset even works. It takes him back to a time before he even meets Brendon Gleeson.
Quote from: radiator on 15 August, 2014, 06:20:15 PM
Bizarrely, Warner bros. seems to be trying to retroactively change the name of the film to Live. Die. Repeat. and bury the actual title.
Finally, this decision starts to make sense. There's a sequel in development putatively called Live. Die. Repeat. Repeat. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5617712/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_4)
Quote from: I, Cosh on 27 October, 2017, 12:56:09 PM
Quote from: radiator on 15 August, 2014, 06:20:15 PM
Bizarrely, Warner bros. seems to be trying to retroactively change the name of the film to Live. Die. Repeat. and bury the actual title.
Finally, this decision starts to make sense. There's a sequel in development putatively called Live. Die. Repeat. Repeat. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5617712/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_4)
What...how's that even work? It's like making a sequel to Groundhog Day.
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Well they could re-release the original film and change the name.
I love that film....ropey ending or not.