dusematic
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Can't WAIT to see this!
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angry.bob
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Does Tom Cruise ever die tragically in his movies? Was anyone honestly expecting him to in this one?
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Tebonas
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I certainly would watch this move if Tom Cruise wasn't in it. I don't know why they keep tainting Scifi-movies with his Scientologist douchebag presence. He is not good enough an actor to let me forget who he is when I try to watch his movies.
Except Tropic Thunder. Maybe because I didn't realize until afterwards that it even was him.
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dusematic
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I certainly would watch this move if Tom Cruise wasn't in it. I don't know why they keep tainting Scifi-movies with his Scientologist douchebag presence. He is not good enough an actor to let me forget who he is when I try to watch his movies.
Except Tropic Thunder. Maybe because I didn't realize until afterwards that it even was him.
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NowhereMan
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I kind of enjoyed Cruise in this but I didn't really feel he added a huge amount to the movie, it was more the plot device and action that I really liked.
That said he does play a total douchebag well and he can do the love angle well enough to, which covers the main character arc. And we get to see him get fragged in a few dozen ways.
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I certainly would watch this move if Tom Cruise wasn't in it. I don't know why they keep tainting Scifi-movies with his Scientologist douchebag presence. He is not good enough an actor to let me forget who he is when I try to watch his movies.
Except Tropic Thunder. Maybe because I didn't realize until afterwards that it even was him.
Everyone knows Tropic Thunder was his greatest acting performance! My vote is for The Outsiders. |
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Ginaz
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I certainly would watch this move if Tom Cruise wasn't in it. I don't know why they keep tainting Scifi-movies with his Scientologist douchebag presence. He is not good enough an actor to let me forget who he is when I try to watch his movies.
Except Tropic Thunder. Maybe because I didn't realize until afterwards that it even was him.
Everyone knows Tropic Thunder was his greatest acting performance! My vote is for The Outsiders. Man, I forgot he was in that. That movie had pretty much every major Tiger Beat heartthrob from the 80's in it. |
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Kitsune
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Cruise was actually pretty good in this role, I thought. Unlike Oblivion and his other recent non-Tropic Thunder roles where he was flat as cardboard, this character actually got some acting out of him. It really seems like Cruise responds well to playful roles, because whenever he's serious grimdark action hero he pretty much sucks.
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Khaldun
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Just saw it. Was pretty good. Watchable.
It struck me that it might be the first good video game movie despite not actually being a video game movie. By that I mean it's the first film to have the narrative logic of a video game, more or less, and to have that logic supply a kind of fun in its own right. Cruise's character even ragequits the game at one point, more or less doing the equivalent of throwing his controller at the wall.
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Ozzu
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Finally had a chance to see this. I came away very impressed. It was one of the better sci-fi movies I've seen in recent years.
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shiznitz
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Waiting for this to be cheaper on Amazon.
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Setanta
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Just watched it. I was pleasantly surprised. Cruise was good (WTF?) and the plot diverged from the book in a good way - enough elements to carry the story and enough innovation to make it far enough from the book to keep me interested.
Sci-fi groundhog day wins.
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lamaros
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This was very good.
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kaid
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It is a good movie and it has something to offer people who both like and hate tom cruise. For those who like him its one of his better sci fi movies and its a pretty fun amusing take on ground hog day type time loops.
For those who hate tom cruse its a ground hog day type time loop that involves tom cruise being killed/murdered constantly and in inventive and amusing ways.
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Merusk
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I keep seeing this at Best Buy and forgot they rebranded it to something more straightforward. I'm not paying $24 for a dvd, though, so maybe it'll be on Amazon or Netflix in the next 6 months.
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shiznitz
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I saw this on Netflix DVD (yes, I am still old school that way) over the weekend. Loved it. Skillful balance of re-living and new scenes.
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Surlyboi
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This was spectacularly good for a Tom Cruise movie.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Ruvaldt
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It was just spectacularly good. I don't think it needs the qualifier.
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Pennilenko
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I really was extremely satisfied watching
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Margalis
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Good movie but the last 5 minutes left a really sour taste in my mouth. Without going into spoilers it felt un-earned, didn't make a lot of sense and had horrible music that almost seemed like parody. It definitely had a "test audiences didn't like the original ending" vibe.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Teleku
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I wouldn't got that far, but I agree I wish it had gone a different route at the very end (more similar to the ending of the book). Still a great movie.
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shiznitz
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I thought the ending was better than I expected from a Hollywood big budget. A little ambiguity is fine.
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shiznitz
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I thought the ending was better than I expected from a Hollywood big budget. A little ambiguity is fine.
And boy does Emily Blunt look hot doing planks.
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Kitsune
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I would've loved to have seen the book's ending done in the movie just to hear the howls of moviegoers across the US as they all get trolled by a very Japanese "ha ha, fuck you protagonist" ending.
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jakonovski
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Movie was pretty great, but the ending could've done with some emotion.
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