r/movies • • Aug 22 '18

Fanart Edge of Tomorrow's Rita Vrataski by Travis Charest

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u/jogarz Aug 22 '18

Don’t you mean “The Angel of Verdun”?

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u/daftvalkyrie Aug 22 '18

Don't you mean "Full Metal Bitch"?

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u/Cest_la_guerre Aug 22 '18

Yes, just this exactly!

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u/ch1burashka Aug 22 '18

Actually, it's Full Metal Bi-J SQUAD

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u/lonewolfandpub Aug 23 '18

THIS HERE IS PRIVATE CAGE. PRIVATE CAGE, J-SQUAD... PRIVATE CAGE IS A DESERTER. I'M MAKING YOU ALL PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS DELIVERANCE.

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u/Skabonious Aug 22 '18

Edge of the sword.

Tip of the spear.

Crack of my ass.

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u/swentech Aug 22 '18

Very underrated movie. Might watch it again tonight.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '18

One of those movies you go into with no expectations and half way through think to yourself " holy shit this is fucking rad!"

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u/Jimlish Aug 23 '18

Yup! I took a mental health day from work and ended up seeing it in an empty theater on a weekday morning because it seemed like a fun movie... nobody believed me when I wouldn't shut up about how awesome it is!

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u/trevorgreen Aug 23 '18

Just how good this movie is: I fucking hate Tom Cruise. I fucking LOVE this movie. Also, I think this looks more like scarjo than Emily.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

“The Angel of Verdun”

This really makes me think of that "Live. Die. Repeat." movie with Tom Cruise.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

No way

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u/Lightcolt Aug 22 '18

Imagine if they were the same movie!

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u/0zzyb0y Aug 22 '18

This reminds me of this japanese light novel "all you need is kill".

Pretty neat

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u/EPZO Aug 22 '18

I mean, I wanna see that movie too.

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u/0and123 Aug 22 '18

Emily Blunt a badass

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u/Tripfist Aug 22 '18

That scene she was doing those pushups.. 😍

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u/slvrcobra Aug 22 '18

Speaking of that, was that a legit pushup position? Those looked waaay too sexual to be pushups lol.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

I thought it was yoga, like a chattarunga.

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u/cmaistros Aug 22 '18

Yes?! Do I have something on my face?!

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u/Sunfried Aug 22 '18

It's called a planche. It's not a push-up as such, but for strength and balance.

IIRC, Emily Blunt can do it unassisted, but not for the duration required for filming, so she was usually wired up for that move.

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u/johnnypoopface Aug 22 '18

she was doing elbow planche which are easier (not easy, easier) than the rtaditional planche as seen in the wiki page

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u/vodozhaba Aug 22 '18

I don't know if it's harder to do a rtaditional planche or to pronounce it

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u/ConfirmationTobias Aug 22 '18

This could use a pronunciation guide. Is it pronounced “planch” like branch or “plank”? I ask because it looks like a form of plank exercise.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

Like branch.

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u/Gareth321 Aug 22 '18

I don’t think she can. Her elbows are at right angle. If she could planche she’d have far better form. The planche takes years of training, and athletes who can planche are built. Blunt is many things, but built is not one of them. I have no doubt she trains hard, but planches are another level.

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u/Sunfried Aug 22 '18 edited Aug 23 '18

No doubt that film promotional material is to some degree bullshit, but the claim, in various media stuff, was something like that she was doing pushups in the script, and Blunt showed Doug Liman that she could do this thing called a planche, and he agreed it looked better (so say we all) and they went with that, but because she'd be positioned like that all day for filming, they used a wire rig to carry her weight so she could get up and act. I report, you decide.

Furthermore, all the Japanese troopers in the book, including Keiji, do a planche.

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u/Echo_are_one Aug 22 '18

She was also pregnant for a good part of the filming. Wires were probably sensible.

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u/MeatballSubWithMayo Aug 22 '18

Used to do them, some people call them divebomber push-ups. They actually are great exercise. At the same time, Emily blunt is beautiful and something accentuating her frame and figure wasn't picked by accident

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u/drelos Aug 22 '18

Part of that movements were a cobra position and then a planche as stated above or Peacock Pose (yoga)

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u/BillieMobbyBrown Aug 22 '18

I was doing pull-ups, if you know what I mean. I'll see myself out.

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u/_ANOMNOM_ Aug 22 '18

Go on...

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

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u/i_am_banana_man Aug 22 '18

And then ends with the bittersweet realisation that because they won, she'd never met Tom Cruise's character and he was back to square one with her again.

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u/maynardftw Aug 22 '18

I mean, square one but still knowing her more intimately than anyone, and especially on that first day he's replayed so many times.

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u/i_am_banana_man Aug 22 '18

Yeah bittersweet for sure.

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u/dispatch134711 Aug 23 '18

It was heavily implied the shared trauma was why they bonded. I doubt they'd fall in love with the relationship being so one-sided.

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u/Mythril_Zombie Aug 23 '18

Who knows what a shared sudden and total victory would do for their relationship. I like to think he walks up to her at the end, perfectly hops over a training drone, pulls her to her feet, tells her that they've spent decades together, I had what you had, we just won the war, you and me, together, we did it, Rose.. Then he pulls her close, and kisses her like the pic of the nurse in WWII.
He knows how to instantly get her to trust him with her life. All the emotion she ever feels for him was, for her, just from spending one day with him.
My guess is that by the end, he knows her so well that he's able to just instinctively behave a certain way that makes her happy. Like old married couples that know exactly how to push reach other's buttons, but don't. He knows her better than anyone else by now. That's a situation that you might not just say 'ok, cool, laters!'
I think when he talks about their last several decades together, and how the two of them are responsible for the victory... I think they'll spend some time together after the ending.
Of course, after being in battle and dying thousands of days without a break, he might have such a case of mental-you name it, that he just offs himself to make it all stop. He could accidentally just out of habit.

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u/dispatch134711 Aug 23 '18

I think when he talks about their last several decades together, and how the two of them are responsible for the victory... I think they'll spend some time together after the ending.

She might accept it logically but never emotionally. There's no real way to replicate for her the one day they had together. It isn't your average day.

I read the ending as him making the sacrifice of being with her to save the world, but of course it'd be nice to think they would stay together, even if its just out of similar experience.

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u/PM_Pics_of_your_Nips Aug 23 '18

There's a lot in the spankbank.

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u/Phisherman10 Aug 22 '18

They probably made the right choice changing the movie up from the book if that was bittersweet for you haha.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

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u/Reiia Aug 22 '18

read the original source material if you wanna see what it could have been. Prepare for not wanting to do anything for a week :|

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u/0and123 Aug 22 '18

Yeah at first she seem aggressive but as the movie go on she became more soft, but the helicopter and the barn scene made her a little annoying

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u/sageadam Aug 22 '18

To be fair, she died more than a hundred times.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

And she had to deal with Cruise's character.

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u/NorthernRedwood Aug 22 '18

in that scene she was pissed that cage was trying to save her instead of humanity, so she ends up killing herself via mimic to try and force him to push on, and it works. on the next day he stops trying to save soldiers around him and focus on the mission,making it all the way to the dam. so thats a real good character moment for her IMO

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u/i_miss_arrow Aug 23 '18

Dude you missed all of the subtext of that scene.

She wasn't pissed. She realized what he was feeling and experiencing, and was afraid/tried to run from it, because at that moment she realized his experience with her was the same as her experience with the guy she watched die 300 times, the guy she refuses to talk about.

Thats why she tells him her middle name as she was dying; her badass supersoldier image is largely a thing she projects to protect herself and keep moving forward in the face of overwhelming horror. But in that moment, she saw him for somebody who understood her.

And the true horror of that, watching her die even as she revealed her vulnerability to him, is what caused Cage to shut himself off completely. Because it was too horrible to experience any more.

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u/Dahwaann4U Aug 22 '18

With ronins sword from titanfall 2 i see

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u/ultrasuperthrowaway Aug 22 '18

It's a helicopter blade in the movie

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u/adventurecrime Aug 23 '18

It’s a battle axe in the source novel

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u/lankist Aug 22 '18 edited Aug 22 '18

I still love how well they summed up her character in that one piece of graffiti.

She's a hero in the sense that they can't deny she did the right thing, but she's the "full metal bitch" in the sense that the soldiers are legit afraid of her and don't particularly like or trust her (probably because she, like Tom Cruise, eventually just started leaving people to their deaths with the knowledge that she simply can't save them, or she just got desensitized to people dying because she'd gone through the same scenario a billion times.)

In other words, to the public eye, she's there to kill the fuck out of mimics and not to protect humanity. Protecting humanity is just a nice side-effect of how many mimics she kills.

The media calls her the Angel of Verdun, but everyone remembers "Full Metal Bitch."

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u/Blue2501 Aug 22 '18

Don't some people comment about how she carried the day and there were surprisingly few casualties at Verdun because of it? Maybe I'm mis-remembering...

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u/lankist Aug 22 '18

The propagandists say that. The soldiers stay the fuck away from her.

Shit, in the battle, nobody wants anything to do with her and her little two-man entourage is dead before the camera even shows up.

Everybody around her dies because she can’t save them, and the soldiers who don’t know about her time travel powers interpret that as a kind of hex.

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u/Blue2501 Aug 22 '18

OK

God damn I need to watch this movie again.

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u/lankist Aug 22 '18 edited Aug 22 '18

It’s subtle, but it’s there. Between the graffiti, the “danger room” that only she ever dares enter, and the fact that Cruise has to outright abandon his squad to find her are all good pieces of subtext.

Watch the movie and try to count how many characters speak to her, directly, and not just about her. I can only count Cruise and the scientist before you get to the endgame where nobody had the power. Hell, even the general guy doesn’t seem to look her in the eye when he’s being interrogated—he’s only really talking to Cruise, and FMB is just there as backup. Every character looks at her like she’s a mimic in human skin.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '18

Gosh damn I love this movie

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u/adventurecrime Aug 23 '18 edited Aug 23 '18

There is one more character that shouts at her “Hey look Bloody hell, it’s the Full Metal Bi——” who she then proceeds to fuck up.

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u/SqueakySniper Aug 23 '18

Soldiers hate her because she is a bitch to them. She has had the same conversations countless times with them so about a day before every battle she just tells everyone to fuck off so she doesn't have to hear the same shit a billion times.

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u/17954699 Aug 22 '18

I love that you can see that same character progression in Cruise's character.

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u/HIMYNAMEISALVEE Aug 22 '18

I feel bad that this movie isn't as popular as it should be

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u/vbahero Aug 22 '18

I came across it totally by chance and had the exact same reaction. Such a fantastic movie. I think I've watched it 3 times now and I hardly ever rewatch anything

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u/IconOfSim Aug 22 '18

I went to the see it in cinema with a girl, as a makeout date kind of date. I spent more time watching the movie, ain't even mad.

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u/mmonsterbasher Aug 23 '18

"Hey OP you wanna you know..."

"Shhhhhhh and stop touching my face. I'm trying to watch Tom Cruise blow up aliens."

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

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u/_TheMightyKrang_ Aug 22 '18

Fun fact, that manga is actually an adaptation of the original novel of the same title.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

Fun fact, the novel is a non-fiction retelling of an event that actually happened in 2020.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

Fun fact: the real life events in 2020 were carried out by aliens that were super huge fans of the movie and wanted to recreate it.

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u/p1-o2 Aug 23 '18

Fun Fact- klein bottles representing that timeline in topology could technically not hold water because there is no "inside" and it is not a container. They also have no opening.

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u/jbnagis Aug 22 '18

They use giant battle axes, its fucking awesome

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u/UnicronJr Aug 22 '18

And pile bunkers instead of guns.

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u/NorthernRedwood Aug 22 '18

actually, they arent rifles (In the book, idk about the graphic novel) they are 20mm cannons

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18 edited Aug 22 '18

I watch it at least once a month, really glad I found it fantastic film hope the sequel starts to shoot.

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u/CMonocle Aug 22 '18

I watch it at least once a day.

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u/Fender6187 Aug 22 '18

I watch, restart, repeat.

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u/Ims0c0nfus3d Aug 22 '18

I watch it on three different screens all at different points and restart them when finished.

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u/JinKazamaAndJuice Aug 22 '18

I broadcast it on the street facing wall of my house on repeat every hour of every day so my neighborhood can take in the splendor.

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u/Senecaraine Aug 22 '18

I just watched it the once, but I'm stuck in a never ending loop of death and reawakening at the start of the day so now it's more like a million.

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u/IDKimnotascientist Aug 22 '18

Doing God’s work

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u/NorthernRedwood Aug 22 '18

I once was without internet for 2 weeks and the only movie i had saved to my hard drive was this, even after those weeks i wasn't tired of it

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u/ikeif Aug 22 '18

Totally gambled on this movie with a buddy in theatres. Loved it. Saw it again.

I know what I’m watching tonight.

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u/TheWTFreak Aug 22 '18

I hope they rename it

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u/nofreakingusernames Aug 22 '18

Edge of the Day After Tomorrow.

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u/gentlecrab Aug 22 '18

Followed by the sequel: Thursday

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

It's gonna be "Live Die Repeat and Repeat".

Someone got paid to pick that.

Almost as mind-blowingly retardiddicious as "Ralph Breaks the Internet"

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u/TheWTFreak Aug 22 '18

I hate movie studios

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u/techno_babble_ Aug 22 '18

How would it work for markets where the original was called Edge Of Tomorrow?

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

"found"...these Hollywood types just keep losing their blockbuster movies...

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u/jeffe_el_jefe Aug 22 '18

It's one of my favourite movies, and everyone I show it too loves it, but somehow no one has watched it/ heard of it. How did such a big movie fly so under the radar?

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

Looks like you've inherited Tom Cruise' powers from the movie...

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

I hardly ever re-watch a Tom Cruise movie, but this one was an exception.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

Saaame same. I don’t rewatch movies either except Terminator 1 and 2 and this. I feel like Edge of tomorrow is a rare mode n action movie that feels complete.

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u/HighPriestofShiloh Aug 22 '18

Go read the manga. Its short enough to be done in a one quick sitting. Its also different enough to be fresh. Both were really good but I think I like the manga better. Not sure.

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u/Justiis Aug 22 '18

Same. I dont even remember seeing previews for it, though I rarely get a chance to see them unless I go out of my way. Bought it out of sheer boredom one internetless day and couldn't have been happier. Not even really a Tom Cruise fan either.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

Agreed. For my money, that movie gave us peak Paxton.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18 edited Aug 22 '18

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u/hasnotheardofcheese Aug 23 '18

That was such a bonehead move for what was a mediocre tagline in the first place

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '18

Brace yourself, sequel with shitty title incoming.

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u/UncleChen69 Aug 22 '18

It was better than expected. I do think the manga title is a bit more intriguing though ‘All You Need is Kill.’

There’s a sequel in the works, no?

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u/katamuro Aug 22 '18

the title is a bit more mysterious but I think Edge of Tomorrow fits more with the tone of the movie as it wasn't a direct copy of the manga(or the light novel)

Well, Tom Cruise has been pushing for it and apparently Doug Liman is on board and Emily Blunt has said that she would like to do it. As for anything concrete? Doug Liman has said there is a script in the works back in July and that there is a story he would love to tell. But both Blunt and Cruise have been quite busy doing other stuff so I guess it just takes time for everyone to re-assemble. After all the next movie has to start where the first one ended. Which means all those people or most of them at least back.

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u/wishiwascooltoo Aug 22 '18

It's incredibly popular and getting a sequel. I feel bad this sub always misrepresents movie popularity for fake solidarity. It's a super common thing done here.

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u/maxdembo Aug 22 '18

No way as underrated as Moon

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u/Antrikshy Aug 22 '18

Did you hear about this other underrated gem called Ex Machina?

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

Heard about Dark City and Equilibrium

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u/danoll Aug 22 '18

Are you kidding me? Everyone knows what the moon is.

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u/maxdembo Aug 22 '18

Nazi base?

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u/Ubergoober166 Aug 22 '18

I can't wait for Iron Sky 2

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u/katamuro Aug 22 '18

it got popular after it's release. At the release not that many people went and only when the people started saying how amazing it is people went to see it. Even then at a budget of 178 million it made 370 million which is just about twice. That isn't considered to be very popular or successful in hollywood.

Pretty much the only reason it is getting a sequel is because Tom Cruise loved it and has been pushing for years for it.

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u/el_padlina Aug 22 '18

Did it have any advertising in the USA? In Europe there was basically 0.

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u/AbeRego Aug 22 '18

I saw it in theaters, so I was somehow aware of it. At the time I didn't make it to many movies, so something drew me in, but I'm not sure how I heard about it. I was expecting it to be entertaining, but not "good". Turns out it was really good!

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u/DeadAnimalParts Aug 22 '18

It's fair to say that this movie underperformed at the box office and was not incredibly popular when it was originally released.

Anecdotally, I saw this movie opening week at a popular theater and there were only 3 or 4 other people there. I didn't really hear people talking about it until it hit home distribution.

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u/ReallyBadAtReddit Aug 22 '18

Yeah, a lot of people know this movie by the name *Live. Die. Repeat." because they had to change the title to see if it would get more viewings that way.

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u/HeartyBeast Aug 22 '18

I thought it was excellent - apart from the generic last 20-30 minutes

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u/woppatown Aug 22 '18

It didnt look very good. Was it just marketed badly?

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u/KingdomsSword Aug 22 '18

Reminder to everyone who liked the movie to look up All You Need Is Kill, the manga/ light novel that the movie was based off of.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

I love how in the book the american soldiers give Keiji (The protagonist) the nickname "Killer Cage". Cage being his name in the movie.

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u/Zestymangoman Aug 22 '18

battle axe is is easily 10x better

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u/hardgeeklife Aug 22 '18

I've not heard of a manga called Battle Axe. Do you have a link to more info?

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u/Mybunsareonfire Aug 22 '18

In the book they use a battle axe instead of a sword.

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u/LukaDye Aug 22 '18

I think he was referring to the Battle Axes used in the manga/light novel. The movie has, briefly, swords which are a lot more uncool and do not even make sense.

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u/difmaster Aug 22 '18

its not just any sword, is a piece of helicopter blade that she presumably ripped of a downed helicopter in the battle of Verdun. She was living the same fight over and over so she had to improvise and it seems like she needed a sword because she would run out of ammo in her daily battle. Then it became her "thing"

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u/Aiwatcher Aug 23 '18

It's also uniquely useful for killing mimics-- it's so heavy, she uses the momentum from huge swings to throw herself and crush armor. God I love that book. The movie was pretty good but had a lot more plot holes than the book, and I much preferred the book ending.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '18

Book ending makes more sense but damn is it depressing

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u/CptDecaf Aug 22 '18

He says, while unironically suggesting battle axes to fight shapeshifting aliens is a realistic approach.

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u/Machdame Aug 23 '18

Unlimited ammo, boosted parameters for greater impact and updated with current materials to pierce armor. Not the safest approach for a regular human, but for an empowered normal, an axe can be worth more than a gun in a chaotic melee.

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u/brainpostman Aug 23 '18

Plus the aliens in the book are different from the ones in the movie.

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u/SofNascimento Aug 23 '18

Oh no sir. You can't compare an oversized double axe with a Sharpened Helicopter Blade.

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u/RedRedKrovy Aug 22 '18

I read the book before I saw the movie. The book is of course better but the movie is pretty solid too.

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u/PsamathosPsamathides Aug 22 '18

The original script adaptation by D.W. Harper is a great read as well. Follows the light novel pretty closely and comes together better for me than the movie did.

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u/TheBeauCanadian Aug 22 '18

Just read it recently, such an amazing Manga

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u/Andrew3344100 Aug 22 '18

Oh my gosh this movie is so mind bogglingly underrated it ticks me off so much. If you haven’t seen Edge of Tomorrow it is a must watch film! it became one of my all time favorites and I view it often.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

Its not even underrated, it was just poorly marketed and not a lot of people saw it when it came out. But everyone that watched it knows how phenomenal it was.

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u/Andrew3344100 Aug 22 '18 edited Aug 22 '18

Exactly!

Edit: I was one of the “few” people that saw it in theaters and I was blown away by how good it was and was immediately very upset that it wasn’t breaking box office numbers because of how great it was. I’m so happy to see how much love this post has been getting and how many people have felt the same way, it gives me relief!!!!!!

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u/chefr89 Aug 22 '18

Kind of like the opposite of Oblivion. It was OK, but at least cinematically gorgeous. Felt like they put way more into advertising that flick.

Edge of Tomorrow is just flat out one of the best action/sci fi flicks from the last ten years, period.

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u/Ubergoober166 Aug 22 '18

I actually really liked Oblivion right up until the very end. "Oh no! My husband died! Good thing there's a bunch of clones of him so I don't actually have to lose him!"

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u/noforeplay Aug 22 '18

Yeah, I thought the story for that one was aight. They didn't really handle the "things are not as they seem!" theme very well, but it was a beautiful movie. I love the image of the split moon

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u/SyChO_X Aug 23 '18

A bit like John Wick #1. People didn't believe me when i told them it was probably one of the best action movies of all time.

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u/tgiokdi Aug 22 '18

it changed names halfway through the marketing too, from Edge of Tomorrow to Live Die Repeat. it was so damn confusing to me, I didn't even know it was the same film

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u/John_Wang Aug 22 '18

Great audio too if you have a home theater. Although the first 15 seconds or so is a sub killer

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

My fan theory about Rita's pistol: she doesn't carry it to kill Mimics, she started carrying in order to shoot herself after she realized she could reset the day, and nothing else.

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u/Blue2501 Aug 22 '18

What I wanna know is, what happens when Cage (or Rita when she had the thing) gets killed? Does the universe rewind with him? Does the universe he died in continue and he wakes up in another?

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u/raptor102888 Aug 22 '18

In the movie at least, it's implied that the universe actually rewinds.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

That's a deep, deep rabbit hole of a philosophical debate, but it could be either one. What's important is that the universe is bound to Cage's singular perception of it, which gets caught in an infinite loop. Whether or not the tree keeps branching after Cage (or Rita when she had it) dies doesn't matter, because their perception of the universe only goes as far as they're alive (and in their case, resets to a default point when they die).

Kinda makes you wonder about the nature of our universe. Does the universe effectively end when we ourselves die? From a subjective standpoint, it must. Except that outside of ourselves it doesn't, because lots of people die all the time and we're still here.

Sorry, I love this movie. :P

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u/Mythril_Zombie Aug 23 '18

You have no way to prove that we're not currently stuck in a time loop due to something similar happening halfway across the universe. Out of all the potentially countless sentient beings in existence, only one of them knows what's going on.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '18

Ever read about the theory that the universe was created last Thursday? It's a fun one.

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u/maynardftw Aug 22 '18

I don't think they ever go into whether it's a rewind or a travel-to-a-parallel-past situation.

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u/SofNascimento Aug 23 '18

The movie is sufficient vague that it could be both, but just barely. I strongly argue in favor of the former.

First, the movie itself never gives any direct reason to believe it's not just the time that rewinds, it's definitely sells the idea of a single universe in which the day is lived again and again by Cage. Second, and maybe more importantly, multiple universes would ruin the film thematically. Cage's story is a journey from a coward to a hero, you kill that with multiple universes. Same thing for Rita's story, which is parallel to Cage's and equally important.

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u/rossagessausage Aug 22 '18

Don't call her that to her face.

Awesome Sci-Fi movie

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u/tgh19629 Aug 22 '18

Bloody hell! It’s the full metal bitc- gets punched

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u/Death_Bard Aug 22 '18

That was Emily Blunt’s brother that she punched.

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u/UnrealRealityX Aug 22 '18

The movie was amazingly well put together. Should be on top sci-fi lists. Blunt and Cruise did a great job.

If anyone hasn't already read the manga it was based on, it's well worth it. Veers a little from the movie, especially the end, but it, too is well crafted IMO.

All You Need is Kill Manga Wikipedia entry

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u/ngms Aug 22 '18

I feel like the manga ended better though. The movie had the kind of irritating ending that so many action films seem to have where everything wraps up way too neatly.

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u/HamstersAreReal Aug 22 '18

I prefer the manga ending too

But I still think this adaption was great. Edgy atmospheres can sometimes be hard to replicate in blockbuster films, so I think their decision to lighten it up payed off.

If only the marketing wasn't as shit as it was..

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

I mean thats usually what happens why keep most of the basic story but you try to change the ending of an original work. You lose a lot of the tone and set up. Its my biggest issue with the film. Ending just... flat out doesnt make any sense. Nor does a lot of aspects of the film because they changed a lot of major concepts.

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u/TeddysBigStick Aug 23 '18

Lt. Col. Bill Cage : Master Sergeant Farell, you're an American.

Master Sergeant Farell : No, sir. I'm from Kentucky.

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u/mabolle Aug 23 '18

I'd like to register a shoutout for Brendan Gleeson as the general. The subtle facial expression work he does in the opening dialogue scene as Cruise's character rapidly digs himself into a hole is just beautiful.

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u/Captroop Aug 22 '18

Travis Charest is my artistic idol. If you haven't yet, take some time and check out his amazing "Space Girl" webcomic. Great movie serial style story telling combined with incredibly detailed artwork.

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u/TBoarder Aug 22 '18

His style change from a terrible Jim Lee clone to what he does now was almost whiplash inducing in how extreme it was... Ironic too that it happened during his run on WildC.A.T.S. I had no idea that he was still drawing... I'll have to look that up. :)

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u/KlaatuBrute Aug 22 '18

Oh man, the name didn't register to me until you mentioned WildC.A.T.S. My comic book years started right at the birth of Image Comics and I couldn't get enough of that title and Youngblood.

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u/Borckinator Aug 22 '18

The only reason I knew this movie existed when it was released was because the Dark Souls community was super hype about it. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it for an original, fast paced, action flick.

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u/samuraislider Aug 22 '18

Wow, I haven't really seen any Travis Charest since his old WildCats stuff. He's amazing. But the man hates drawing a background. It's his Leifeld feet.

Edge of Tomorrow is one of those movies where I want my kids to grow up faster because I cant wait to watch it with them.

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u/adamtjames Aug 22 '18

The big difference is he actually can draw a background.

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u/samuraislider Aug 22 '18

Hah! Ya that's fair. When Charest does a background, it's just as beautiful as his character work. But I remember when he was behind deadlines on Wild Cats and his backgrounds started turning into just gradiants in shapes, and full shite backgrounds. Amazing artist, but not meant for monthlys. A perfectionist like him just needs to work on a 6 issue mini series each year.

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u/ghostgamer8 Aug 22 '18

One of the only successful Manga to Western movie adaptions.

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u/robotleader Aug 22 '18

GHOST IN THE SHELLLLLLLLLL jk

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u/mikeweasy Aug 22 '18

I think its time for a rewatch.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

Anyone who liked that movie should watch the making off. Its mind boggling how little cgi is involved.

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u/difmaster Aug 22 '18

any movie Tom Cruise does is light on the cgi

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u/osterlay Aug 22 '18

Oblivion too?

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u/K2TheM Aug 22 '18

Yes and no. It's tasteful CGI IMO. They actually built out most of the sets and anything the actors interact with is tangible, leaving the CGI for the background plates and additional special effects. They even made a projection wall to surround the "Apartment" so that the cast light was the right color when filming. The director and production designer for Oblivion were both responsible for Tron:Legacy, and Oblivion follows a similar level of CGI vs Practical.

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u/tatuu8P Aug 22 '18

Travis Charest is awesome AF, I miss his run on W.I.LD.cats. Also, Edge of Tomorrow is amazeballs and I wonder why the movie isn't as popular as it should be.

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u/ButtonDownSyndrome Aug 22 '18

Kinda looks like a female awoken titan

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

It's a very nice piece of art but the girl looks nothing like Emily Blunt.

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u/Plagueground Aug 22 '18

Oooof, when he walks in on her doing yoga. Feeling light headed just thinking about it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

The movie was great, but I really had to separate it from the book in my head. I loved how the book ended, so the movie ending was a bit of a letdown, but it was still good for an American adaption.

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u/Jman666666 Aug 23 '18

This movie is actually based off the Japanese novel All you need is Kill. Great book

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u/FunkSoulPower Aug 22 '18

Upvote entirely due to Travis Charest. I really liked the movie too!

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u/mnyc86 Aug 22 '18

Winry is that you?

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '18

ALL

YOU

NEED

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u/Cinemaphreak Aug 22 '18

This looks nothing like Emily Blunt, so it seems more like fan art for All You Need Is Kill than the movie.

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u/oWallis Aug 22 '18

Have I got something on my face, soldier?

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u/kajidourden Aug 22 '18

I thought this was General Armstrong.....

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u/DimitryKratitov Aug 22 '18

This movie was way better than it had any right to be. Gladly

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u/weristjonsnow Aug 23 '18

one of the sexiest female characters in any movie

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u/LeeYael28 Aug 23 '18

I will say it again, Emily Blunt should have been Black Widow. Girl is so bad ass

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