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career (career arc):
Eyes Wide Shut → Edge of Tomorrow.
Edge of Tomorrow is a blockbuster version of Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia where the hero keeps failing and dying.
“Edge of Tomorrow, for example, is kind of like a newfangled,”
The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:33:49 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them) -
verdict (ranking):
Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Edge of Tomorrow.
Fallout is argued in over Edge of Tomorrow because it cemented Cruise's reinvention and made Top Gun: Maverick possible.
“without fallout being what it is and being as successful.”
The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:36:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them) -
verdict (ranking):
Collateral → Edge of Tomorrow.
Collateral and Edge of Tomorrow are the self-indulgent last picks; the group questions whether the list reflects Big Picture taste.
“this is a big picture self-indulgent list.”
The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:38:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Edge of Tomorrow → Top Gun: Maverick.
Edge cracked a new era of Cruise; Ethan Hunt and Maverick run on what he learned here.
“That Maverick is really running on a lot of this.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:03:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Edge of Tomorrow → The Mummy.
The Mummy is named as another place the post-Edge Cruise persona shows up.
“The mummy?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:03:29 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Edge of Tomorrow → Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Bourne, Smith and Edge all had the 'is he ever going to finish' chaos, with actors replaced mid-shoot.
“Bourne and Smith and Edge of Tomorrow all had that thing of like, is he ever going to finish this thing?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:10:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Edge of Tomorrow → Groundhog Day.
The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes.
“Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Edge of Tomorrow → American Made.
Edge is the end of the run where Cruise looks like an aged-well human; by American Made he looks 'nuts'.
“This is the end of that run.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:15:00 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Edge of Tomorrow → Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
By the time Fallout came out people were saying Edge also ruled; these are modern Cruise's high points.
“these are now kind of his high points for modern Tom.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:16:59 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Edge of Tomorrow → The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Edge is better than half of the 2014 Oscar movies.
“I would say Edge is better than half of those movies.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:17:50 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Edge of Tomorrow → Boyhood.
The speaker ranks Edge over Boyhood, which is respectable.
“I like this more than boyhood, but boyhood is respectable.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:17:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Edge of Tomorrow:
The title fight: announced as All You Need Is Kill, retitled with 'Live Die Repeat' as a tagline on a badly laid out poster; on home video they flipped them.
“they flipped them because their takeaway from the confusion was”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:19:33 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Edge of Tomorrow → Cocktail.
Unlike Cocktail or The Color of Money, Cruise's character does not have all the moves; he has to learn them.
“It's not cocktail, it's not color money.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:20:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Edge of Tomorrow → The Color of Money.
Same point: the earlier Cruise plays the guy who has the moves; Edge has him work for them.
“not this guy has all the moves.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:20:55 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Edge of Tomorrow:
The Blank Check joke: the show's own scheduling was a time loop, as the episode was pushed three times.
“The day would reset and you'd be like, next week we are recording edge of tomorrow.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:26:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Edge of Tomorrow → Battleship.
Most 2010s movie aliens were CGI things in an armored suit like Battleship.
“It was the battleship thing”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Edge of Tomorrow → Arrival.
Edge and Arrival were the two 2010s alien movies that finally went non-humanoid.
“this and arrival were the 2 that were like, what if it's not humanoid at all?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:10 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Edge of Tomorrow → The Tomorrow War.
Tomorrow War has half a good alien design, like a fleshy version of Edge's.
“it kind of felt like it was just like a fleshy version of this”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Edge of Tomorrow → Lady in the Water.
The mimics look like the scrunts from Lady in the Water, with tendrils.
“They look kind of like scrunts from Lady in the Water”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Edge of Tomorrow → District 9.
District 9 is good alien design but traditional: bugs.
“I guess district 9 is good alien design.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:30:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Edge of Tomorrow → Cowboys & Aliens.
Cowboys & Aliens has entirely CGI aliens still designed as if putting a suit on a person.
“Like Cowboys and Aliens has the same problem”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:30:37 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Edge of Tomorrow → The Matrix.
The mimics recall the Matrix Sentinels but do not feel derivative.
“There's a little bit of the Matrix Sentinel.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:31:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Edge of Tomorrow:
Exposition lands at literally minute 40: Noah Taylor's briefing, timed by a host's time-code check.
“I just did the time code check.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:32:27 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Edge of Tomorrow → Ghostbusters.
The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams.
“The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Edge of Tomorrow → Groundhog Day.
Groundhog Day's loop is unexplained and mystical (a witch after a bad date); Edge gives a rule-based answer, the aliens' reset ability as competitive advantage.
“the wise decision that Groundhog Day was supposed to be like a witch curses him after a bad date.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:35:06 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Edge of Tomorrow → Big.
Time-loop and magic movies like Big refuse to explain the magic (a fortune-teller machine); Edge justifies its premise.
“Usually it's better to not explain these things.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:35:28 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Edge of Tomorrow → Groundhog Day.
Both are about depression and being stuck; Edge adds the stakes that you keep dying, and it stays hopeful.
“Groundhog Day, I would say is also like about depression.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Edge of Tomorrow → Groundhog Day.
Groundhog Day hits an inflection point where Bill Murray tries suicide and then just lives through it; Edge is about repeated violent deaths and the hope of advancing.
“Groundhog Day hits the inflection point about halfway through where he's like, let me kill myself.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Edge of Tomorrow → Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Smith is a movie where you feel the Liman chaos; one host does not like it, the other finds it messy and enjoyable.
“It is a movie where you feel the Lymania.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:43:35 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
Brad Pitt → Edge of Tomorrow.
Pitt was Liman's first choice for the lead and dropped out; the hosts think Cruise is better.
“I mean, like, I think cruise is better.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:45:54 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Edge of Tomorrow → Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.
Ghost Protocol had the same chaos, with a hundred writers, which McQuarrie solved by starting to film and figuring it out.
“This was the Macquarie thing, and this is exactly what happened on Ghost Protocol”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:47:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
people (people):
Christopher McQuarrie → Edge of Tomorrow.
McQuarrie joined halfway through filming, connected the dots, and became the writer on set; he then got Mission Impossible.
“They hire Macquarie like halfway through filming and he immediately looks at what they have and starts like connecting dots and solving problems.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:47:22 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Edge of Tomorrow → Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The black blood burning through Cage's face in his first death is 'end of Raiders shit'.
“like end of Raiders shit.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:50:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Edge of Tomorrow:
Cage dies in a close-up of his face melting with black blood, and the audience reacts because Tom Cruise doesn't fail.
“Tom Cruise doesn't fail.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:50:56 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Edge of Tomorrow → Locked Down.
Liman's post-Edge filmography: The Wall, American Made, Locked Down.
“But then it was locked down, which sucks.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:55:27 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Edge of Tomorrow → Oblivion.
Oblivion is the other movie Cruise made in this stretch where he is messing with his persona: a man who looks and acts like Tom Cruise but does not know who he is.
“oblivion, the other movie he made in this time where he's trying shit”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:56:13 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Edge of Tomorrow → Oblivion.
Oblivion is sad and quiet; Edge gets the humor Oblivion needed.
“I think that movie needs more humor.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:56:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Edge of Tomorrow:
On day two, Liman said they had to reshoot everything; the studio nearly fired him and Cruise backed him.
“Lyman was like, we have to reshoot everything we shot.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:00:57 · Ben Hosley (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Edge of Tomorrow:
The practical exosuits weighed 80 to 100 pounds; Liman called making them practical the stupidest thing they did, yet they look great.
“the stupidest thing we ever did was make those practical”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:01:56 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
Edge of Tomorrow → Jumper.
Same director, similar practical-effect obsession; Jumper has a good idea and a bad story, Edge solves it.
“you're like, he figured out this one thing and the story sucks.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:02:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Edge of Tomorrow:
Liman wanted to shoot on the Normandy beaches; the assistant director talked him into a set.
“Lyman originally wanted to shoot this at the beaches of Normandy.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:04:22 · Ben Hosley (0.60 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Edge of Tomorrow → RoboCop.
The hosts recorded a RoboCop commentary in the slot where Edge was originally scheduled, and the opening news montage reminds them of RoboCop's.
“I mean, we just saw it with like Robocop.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:05:18 · Ben Hosley (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Edge of Tomorrow:
The 'how are we not already dead' question: in the source material the mimics are terraforming Earth slowly.
“they're just eating the earth and poisoning the water.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:07:21 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Edge of Tomorrow → Mission: Impossible III.
Casting Brendan Gleeson parallels Philip Seymour Hoffman in MI3: the best foil for Cruise comes from a different acting discipline.
“like casting Philip Seymour Hoffman in Mission Impossible 3”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:12:38 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Edge of Tomorrow → Snabba Cash.
Dragomir Mrsic from Edge is in Snabba Cash, the Swedish film that got Joel Kinnaman English-language work and Espinosa the RoboCop remake.
“It's the thing that got Joel Kinnaman in English language productions, and then Daniel Espinoza gets hired to do the Robocop remake”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:20:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Edge of Tomorrow:
The Louvre as the aliens' hideout: a host jokes it should be a Bulgarian mountain, not under a glass pyramid next to the Mona Lisa.
“Wouldn't you be in like some like mountain in Bulgaria”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:24:58 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Edge of Tomorrow → Groundhog Day.
The choreography of the repeated day (dodging people, counting it off) is what Groundhog Day does.
“It's what Grandhog Day does.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:25:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Edge of Tomorrow:
The kiss at the end was improvised, and a host argues it works because it reads as 'we made it', not romance.
“even that kiss at the end was improvised”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:27:22 · Ben Hosley (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Edge of Tomorrow:
The farmhouse: the hosts agree it lifts the film into masterpiece territory, as it is farmhouse number 100 for him.
“this is farmhouse 100.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:29:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Edge of Tomorrow → Monsters, Inc..
The ambiguous final beat mirrors Monsters Inc.: you want to know he goes back to her but no more definitive answer.
“the perfect ending because it's like the Monsters Inc. ending”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:35:37 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Edge of Tomorrow → Mission: Impossible – Fallout.
Fallout has the same ending as Edge: cut on Cruise's smile with a weird pop-song needle drop.
“Fallout kind of have the same ending.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:27 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Edge of Tomorrow → The Bourne Identity.
The end-credits pop song sounds like the Moby song Bourne ends with.
“it sort of sounds like the Moby song that Bourne ends with”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Moby → Edge of Tomorrow.
The pop song over Edge of Tomorrow's final cut sounds like the Moby song that ends Bourne.
“it sort of sounds like the Moby song that Bourne ends with, which then the later borns all use.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
Edge of Tomorrow:
Box office: opened third behind Fault in Our Stars and Maleficent, about $100M domestic, $367M worldwide.
“It made 367 worldwide.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:38:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
programming (programming):
Edge of Tomorrow → X-Men: Days of Future Past.
On the opening weekend chart, Edge opened third behind Fault in Our Stars and Maleficent; X-Men DoFP was still fourth.
“Edge of Tomorrow is number three.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:40:54 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Tom Cruise → Edge of Tomorrow.
A foreign actress can't volley the ball back; Emily Blunt does in Edge of Tomorrow, so Cruise's chemistry works.
“Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:14:09 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Edge of Tomorrow → Vanilla Sky.
Edge of Tomorrow almost threads the needle of an idiosyncratic filmmaker doing a big genre movie.
“almost threads the needle of what we're talking about.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:45:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Doug Liman → Edge of Tomorrow.
Doug Liman's career is baffling: Go, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Bourne, Jumper, Edge of Tomorrow.
“His career is insane.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:45:45 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Edge of Tomorrow → Vanilla Sky.
Edge of Tomorrow is a better, later film because we know Cruise now wants us to like him.
“because we know that Cruz desperately wants us to like him again.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:17:32 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if):
Emily Blunt → Edge of Tomorrow.
Blunt as a female Bond because of action credibility in Edge of Tomorrow and Sicario.
“She's the biggest badass and you buy it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:18:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)