5 Reasons To Go See Edge of Tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow was released in the US almost a month ago and to date has earned just over $84 million stateside. The film has been doing well overseas, which is good news for the studio and producers who financed it at $178 million. Nope. I’ll go to a sci-fi movie, but a sci-fi war movie with time travel and aliens and, uh, Tom Cruise? Suddenly I HAD to go see it, could not wait to go see it, MUST GO SEE IT. I went to the first showing of Edge of Tomorrow the next day at my local cinema and had a blast. It has been a long time since I had so much fun watching a film. I liked it and I want others to go see it and have the same kind of experience of enjoyment I did. Five reasons for you to go see Edge of Tomorrow:
{this list may contain spoilers, read at your own risk}1. Emily had been considered for roles in the past as a sidekick but that never interested her. Her performance is one of the reasons critics have called it “the most feminist summer action flick in years.”Emily says, “In the action movies I’d been offered before, the man is always off saving the world whilst the woman sits at home, wondering where he is. I never had any interest in doing that. Tech Crunch asked Dr. Sanford’s observations give the film an entirely new dimension and I appreciated that even after the fact of watching it. While there are spoilers in her article (heads up) I do think it would have been interesting to have read this before I saw the movie so that I could have appreciated some of the production elements of the film more. According to Liman, they used current DARPA designs as a starting point, but necessarily had to make changes to take use and movement into account.”
3. Reviews are Good
It’s a simple reason, but since this film is getting passed over by so many, I really do urge you to take a moment and read the reviews. However, you can tell critics had fun watching it and some seemed genuinely surprised to have enjoyed it as much as they did. Variety had one of my favorite lines about Edge of Tomorrow, “Among other things, Edge of Tomorrow is a movie that slyly teaches you how to watch it.”
4. Yes!! Last week I told someone, “remember the clever and fast pace of the Robert Downey Jr. James Herbert’s work is so good it is worth seeing the film. At some point the audience will grow exhausted if there isn’t some smart way to speed up and slow down at the crucial moments. David Edelstein referred to these points as the ellipses in the film and James Herbert is genius at knowing just where to place a …
5. He dies a lot in this movie. Doug Liman, the director of the film, had fun coming up with different ways for this to happen. He told the Los Angeles Times, “I enjoyed it as a filmmaker and audiences seem to love it.” He’s not the only one who got into it. Image Credit: Edge of Tomorrow Site
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