Posting this earlier than usual to give you a better chance
to catch this awesome movie this weekend!
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to catch this awesome movie this weekend!
Photo Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Movie Review
(No Spoilers)
“The Edge of Tomorrow” is the sci-fi battle version of “Groundhog Day”, an action-packed thrill ride teeming with intrigue, suspense, and laughs.
Yes, the tagline says: “Live. Die. Repeat.” Which doesn’t sound funny. But as I explain in my series “How to Write All Kinds of Comedy Jokes”, one of the “secrets to comedy” is repetition.
Yes, the tagline says: “Live. Die. Repeat.” Which doesn’t sound funny. But as I explain in my series “How to Write All Kinds of Comedy Jokes”, one of the “secrets to comedy” is repetition.
Directed by Doug Liman. Starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie and Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth, based on the novel “All You Need Is Kill” written by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. Kudos to everyone involved.
I’ve been enjoying movie since I found out the Matinee price is only $5.75. If you go to the first showing of the day for a movie, as long as it’s before 3 pm or so, that’s all you pay. Found that out when I went to see the first showing of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” on May 2.
With this movie, however, Cobb learned how to tweak that rule in their favor. The first showing of the movie was the 3-D version, which isn’t $5.75. But since it was the first showing of that movie, they charged $7.50 for the first showing of the regular movie. Even so, “The Edge of Tomorrow” is well worth the price!
Of course, just being able to see Emily Blunt on the big screen is more than worth the price.
There’s so much I want tell you, but I don’t want to ruin the movie by giving away any plot twists; and this movie has lots of those! So I’ll just say I loved it.
I watched it on June 6, which seemed like the perfect day, being the 70th anniversary of the Normandy Beach invasion. Which is cool, because the beach invasion scenes reminded me of that. Making this movie an homage to D-Day presented as “Alien” meets “Groundhog Day”.
Fun, fun, fun, with lots of cool twists and turns. Thank you Warner Brothers!
I don’t know if this is the “official” theme song,
but it plays during the closing credits.
(This video has nothing to do with the movie):
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And now for some comedy, humor,
jokes, funny videos, etc.:
Some may find some of the language in this video offensive:
Woody Allen
(from “The UFO Menace”
in The New Yorker, June 13, 1977):
Interestingly,
according to modern astronomers,
space is finite.
This is a very comforting thought —
particularly for people who can
never remember where they have left things.
Alex Kirlik:
I heard that in relativity
theory space and time are the same thing.
Einstein discovered this
when he kept showing up
three miles late for his meetings.
Dean Burkey
(from the UFO Chapter
of “Monster Laughs”):
Generally speaking,
people who claim to see UFOs
are the same as you and me in every respect,
except for an excessive hankering
for chewing tobacco, Nascar, and banjo music.
(Actually, General Lee speaking would be:
“Howdy folks, I’m General Lee;
but you can call me Robert E.”)
Moonshine entrepreneur
Skeeter J. McCracker declared,
“UFOs is as real as wrestlin’!”
Odder still, the folks who say flying saucers are real,
claim NASA faked the moon landings.
But why would NASA do such a thing?
Well, of course, to sell tons of Tang!
Mitch Hedberg:
When I was on acid,
I would see things like beams of light.
And I would hear things
that sounded an awful lot like car horns.
Steven Wright:
A friend of mine once sent me a post card
with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space.
On the back it said, “Wish you were here.”
