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Starting point is 00:01:55 Damage of Manana. Did you think? I thought this was really great. This was a really fun, intense film with some cool sci-fi flourishes. I think this was one, excuse me, one of the more fun better films we've watched here. We watched a lot of really great films, but I think especially being the, the, the throes of my Tom Cruise experience, it just goes to show that. he continues to pick interesting projects of quality. Now, I know this is I think it's based on a book and or a comic.

Starting point is 00:02:34 Yeah, all you need is kill. Or anime. I don't know. But you'll let us know in the comments. I think it's a book. It's some kind of paper medium. It's a paper medium. But no, I thought Emily Blunt was great.

Starting point is 00:02:49 Tom was great, all the supporting cast. And I think it's just an interesting way to have a plot like this, especially, you know a plot and an arc you know taking him from a coward to the guy who ultimately saves the day and having that journey be believable not over the course of how the actions take place but tom cruz's performance and seeing his transition from guy who's kind of slimmed his way up to the top to this hardened guy well he went from like the guy to the guy who's slammed his way to the top through cowardice and just his charm to a guy who's uh who's uh who's um who's I don't know, just kind of like callous and over it to then like getting hope again.

Starting point is 00:03:30 And by the time you get to that end point, the stakes are real. You know, we've become, the movies have made us so accustomed to the fact that life is just this thing that's almost like a video game. So by the time we say, oh, no, this is actually how life is. We only get one shot of this. The stakes feel that much higher and it's interesting. The movie never tells us how many lives actually live. But you have to imagine it's like hundreds, if not thousands, to maintain all this information, all these different variants. life. But yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought Doug Laman did a great job and had a really

Starting point is 00:04:04 great pacing, but also being under two hours, which is quite impressive for a part like this. This feels like a 220 movie, not in a bad way, not like really dragged. It just feel like they put a lot into it and it didn't feel like it was rushed ever. No, no, I never felt rushed or felt overly convoluted, never felt like they delivered us too much information. They found a way to make this cool sci-fi concept into something that was um i don't think i don't think palatable is the right word but they found a way to make it engaging accessible interesting uh while also keeping the stakes up and while making the character of emily blunt and tom cruise the forefront of the story but yeah that's some my quick thoughts and um yeah john what did you think of the movie

Starting point is 00:04:52 yeah this was a blast man this was this was like from to finish like, you know, gripping and edge of your seat and like white knuckling and it's like fun, but it's also, I think they had like the exact right tone for this because it is fun, but there's also a certain,

Starting point is 00:05:10 it's got the right amount of commitment to the stakes because, you know, especially as I really enjoyed the arc of Tom Cruise's character as well as his performance because obviously at the beginning of the movie, It was kind of a fun, I guess, sort of proxy for, like, you know, Tom Cruise himself as an entertainer who often is stepping into the role of a secret agent or a military guy or some highly competent fighting, you know, person. And here it was cool to watch as the Tom Cruise isms of his performance kind of dissolved into this other guy who the character of Cage gets to become.

Starting point is 00:05:52 So like at the top of it, you know, both seeing him and yeah, that's sort of like he's using the charm and he's smiling a lot and he's, you know, yeah, this character who is averse to violence, feints at the side of blood, doesn't want to be involved in this at all and starts out in a kind of pitiful place because, yeah, he is like doing everything he can to, yeah, put himself above and separate from, you know, this hopeless circumstance, the likes of which, like the true nature of which he really does not have any idea. as much as he is like the mouthpiece and he's on TV talking on behalf of, you know, the American military, he is incredibly, you know, out of his depth and to then watch him have to learn both just literally how to like fight for himself out in this battle scenario, but also to like start decoding the true mystery of what's going on here. Like it's cool. At this point in Tom Cruise's career, I never would have quite expected him to, be in that position where you're like, oh, yeah, this guy is sort of like an underdog of sorts, or he very naturally kind of, yeah, plays that arc of like a dude who's completely out of his element into a guy who learns the element just because he has to. And with that, you know, like the charm, the schmooze all melts away and he becomes this more grave, more focused character who then has occasional glimmers of you know personhood

Starting point is 00:07:23 as shared between him and emily blunt especially as well as some of the other characters and there's fun in that obviously watching him sort of anticipate all the events of the day and watching like that one thing where he rolls out of the push-ups it gets crushed like that is super funny it's like there is yeah that

Starting point is 00:07:39 element in the DNA of the movie of like it's trial and error and it's not perfect and it's little messy and there are variables and yeah like as his character grows, he becomes a lot more again, battle-hardened. And that's the note I felt like he

Starting point is 00:07:55 was playing. And it's cool because yeah, like when he gets to doing all the Tom Cruz action stuff, his performance doesn't feel like a traditional Tom Cruise performance. Right. You know, again, leaving a lot of the charms and stuff with the, you know, less

Starting point is 00:08:11 Tom Cruise-like character who we meet early on. And then, yeah, like his relationship to Emily Blunt, I thought was well-tempered too because I bought how there could be this sort of special connection between them, but it's not so overdoing it that it's like, we got to have a whole love story plot line here, because I don't think that would have been quite appropriate. And they leave all these little things off screen in a way that I think is really nice, because yeah, he's like, you told me your middle name, or you told me

Starting point is 00:08:36 this personal story about your family, and you even get the sense that they've had some intimate moments at this farm at one point or another. And we don't need to see that stuff because it's not really what we're here to do but I like that they had that on the periphery yeah it's definitely evident in their performance and how they how they played it and yeah it's a funny you know in a indirect way just kind of speaks to you know trial and error as a concept in that itself as a measurement of somebody's growth as a person and I think that that's very cool because you have you have to try things and fail with them to learn and from there you've you've you gain not only knowledge, but the ability to be more successful.

Starting point is 00:09:22 It's like, in a weird, and courage. Yeah, it's a weird way like working out, you know, you have to work out until failure, tear your muscles until you're, you know, you're strong and able to do that. And through trial and through dying, he achieved that. And he's arguably as efficient, if not more so. I don't know if more so, but as efficient as Emily Blunt is as a fighter and as a leader as well. Yeah. I thought this had a really cool grip on its sci-fi stuff. And the way that, yeah, it is like action-packed. There's cool alien, you know, fights and battles and stuff. But even that, once the game of the movie kicks in, kind of takes a back seat in an interesting way, because it's like you always have it. And when it's present, it does add to, again, just the impossible feeling nature. Ha-ha, impossible of this whole mission. But yeah, it's like after a while, it's, sort of like, yeah, we know. We know that's happening. And we're kind of used to that now. And it's more about how do we unravel this mystery? How do we get one step further? How do we pivot? And I think

Starting point is 00:10:25 that's a lot of the fun too is, yeah, there are certain days where he's like, well, maybe I have to do this by not talking to her at all. Maybe, you know, I have to go talk to, you know, Brian, Brennan Gleason from the very beginning to sort of, yeah, figure out that this, this failed experiment is what we need to maybe fix this or at least maybe triangulate the signal. And it's like for as convoluted as I think a loop movie, a time loop movie and a time travel adjacent movie can be, this had like a very deceptively straightforward like thing we got to do. And even though there are a lot of like bits and pieces to figure out within that,

Starting point is 00:11:01 like the nature of the plot feels almost very linear. But then it has all these, you know, very intricate details surrounding it that, yeah, like I think again, And it's been since probably, it's been 10 years or more since I've seen this because it would have been, yeah, when it came out in the theaters. And I remember kind of getting to the third act and sort of being like, whoa, you know, like there's a lot happening.

Starting point is 00:11:25 And especially in the theater, I think, you know, you can get kind of overwhelmed. And so, yeah, it's like here, you know, you have this first two thirds that is, you know, the kind of looping day that we get used to. And then finally, when you get out of the looping day, then you have this third act that is a completely different flavor. and it's in Paris now and it's dark and it's wet instead of I mean you're so wet when you're on the beach but yeah it's like it's a whole different flavor different colors different vibes and so it does feel almost like a fourth act of some kind but in a way that feels appropriate again to the movie and to the unknown you know stepping into the unknown and yeah I really like the ensemble and I like the way that it used the time loop because this is a genre in and of itself now like Groundhog Day has become a genre because you know you're palms Springs and Happy Death Day and this and it's a really cool motif and it's been proved like I feel like a lot of these time loop movies have actually been pretty decent and or at least you know people would argue that they have and I think this one it's weird you know I feel like one of the things that is said often of a pretty good time loop movie is you're like let's make good use of that motif and like it felt kind of fresh and different but of all the time loop movies I have seen this one does kind of feel oddly sort of it's weird it's like it's just as present as it is in all those other ones

Starting point is 00:12:43 but somehow it feels a little different to me and I think that's a good thing like if you're going to do the trope you know you make it your own and I think having it be in this high stakes and also you know at least slightly futuristic setting adds to again the milieu

Starting point is 00:12:59 the flavor and the uniqueness of the motif in the setting that they've chosen but yeah I don't know there's something about it maybe because I don't know all these movies do fun editing and that's part of the joy of this motif is that yeah you get the fun cut-toes and you get the sort of, you know, fun in games of all the different variations of interactions and people anticipating stuff. But even with all that stuff present, it still

Starting point is 00:13:23 felt like I was seeing its own movie rather than me thinking about all the other time loop movies while watching it, if that makes sense. Like, I wasn't really thinking about Groundhog Day. Whereas, like, during some other time loop movies, I might still be thinking of that even whilst enjoying the movie. yeah i don't know how many i haven't seen a ton of i've never seen groundhog day but i haven't seen a ton of looping oh i've seen i've seen like looping episodes of tv and whatnot but yeah i think this has that unique unique added element of the action as well as his his particular journey of going from a coward to courageous which i think is is really cool and also i think it utilizes its kind of

Starting point is 00:14:09 framework in a way where it allows you to gain multiple perspectives, but using it in a way where it creates this sense of, I don't, there's like a mystery to like what he's experienced, but because of the different routes he's taken, gives it almost like a, I don't think vantage point, but it gives you this experience of like, okay, you would have never been able to do, the thing that they did had he not gone all these different directions and using your life as a form of

Starting point is 00:14:47 information gathering rather than as a life you know like okay in this version of my life I'm going to find this X amount of information and then I'll die and then I'll reset I'm going to shine a light on this part of the map and this part of the map and this part of the map like yeah a bit by bit

Starting point is 00:15:03 over life by life which is such a strange concept I can I can only imagine how that would annoy or jade somebody because putting myself in that shoes and his shoes I'm like I would be so tired I'd be just I would either be annoyed or like apathetic by the time

Starting point is 00:15:18 I get to the end of the movie yeah like maybe you make it back over to the hump of hope once you find you've stopped running into a brick wall but yeah that journey is not for the faint of heart it's like annoyed and traumatized at the same time yeah and it's like this movie has to keep

Starting point is 00:15:36 some amount of fun and imagination while again really selling that in the right tonal fashion and and again i think tom cruise and emily blunt really emily blunt like is truly one of like i feel like the great actors of our time because she can sell just about anything like she can be mary poppins or she can do cicario or she can do something like this and even though it's you know high stakes and it's a little bit anime and it's a little bit video game and it's you know big sci-fi like i believed the the shit their characters have been through so that when we're in the later stages of the movie i mean she's hardened by the time we meet her but especially the further they get and the further into the

Starting point is 00:16:18 unknown they get you know you do yeah feel that sense of tiredness and even though the movie isn't spending as much time in their like emotional experience of like yeah what kind of toll is dying a million times taking on you and also watching people you care about die a bunch of times also you know uh how is that weighing on you and and they carried it in the performance without having to like spotlight it with the scene and I wouldn't have been like opposed to having an extra dramatic element of them confronting that but I thought it was at least yeah well represented by the tone by the performances and yeah by the amount of like we get to feel it too like I feel like a movie like this almost needs to flirt with being slightly longer than optimal just so that you can

Starting point is 00:17:00 really feel the sort of like is this ever going to end but in the right way you know you don't want to drag or feel tedious obviously but yeah you want the audience to sort of get that sense that like while this is neat it probably would not be fun yeah no it is neat and it is fun and because it's constantly entertaining and you're invested in his character and her character by the time you get to the end of the movie it even though there are things you could definitely nitpick about the time loop thing like okay how was he getting this far ahead if he's viewed as a deserter how was nobody like after his ass in a military facility but i think the way that they they they they play it and you give the movie that grace to explore what it's trying to do because you know on the other side of that is entertaining and also another thing I thought was really cool and as we went along kind of donned to me about the aliens themselves was that the the rare ones the blue ones is kind of their version of trying to they say as much but it's their version of you know getting the upper hand on the people that are on earth I'm very curious what their ultimate game was like I don't just world domination like you're trying to tear for them what's what the deal there but I wonder if the the intention was to make those ones like seem like they're fighting but really with the goal of having somebody live die repeat so they can get the upper hand and the knowledge on the people because that's how

Starting point is 00:18:33 they gained information in the first place or was it genuinely like you know these blue take as many people as you can. If you happen to die, you happen to die. Or was their goal to die to infect a soldier? Rejection. Summer's coming up fast. Which means we got beach days, hikes. Maybe one or two outdoor shoots lined up. Maybe. And if there's one thing I've learned while getting in shape this year, that hydration makes a huge difference. Back in the end of January, I wait 218 pounds. And as of the last time I weighed myself, I am 179 now. Six-pack Greg coming in. I need it for the summer. But in all serious, Liquid IV. And these are bags I bought. They didn't send it. I bought them myself. Liquid IV has been a constant in my life. I take one at least once a day. The one I mainly take is their sugar-free hydration multiplier, especially the raspberry lemonade, my favorite. It's real simple. You just tear it open. Pour it into 16 ounces of water. You can either shake it, mix it, you're good to go. Sometimes I mix it with my protein shake to give my protein shake a little bit extra flavor. I especially use it after cardio or during long work days. And even on resting.

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Starting point is 00:21:44 and you happen to get gourd on a dude, then good. That's what we want. I don't know. I mean, like, I feel like in doing that, you kind of enable the human who gets that power to, I don't know. It seems like they wanted them to, they wanted them to have the vision so they could know what they were planning

Starting point is 00:22:02 so they could win and get the upper hand. At least that's what my understanding of it was. They wanted to be able to plant, I guess I don't know if it would have been their motivation from the very start to give them the power to reset the day. But yeah, it's like, well, once that's possible, then the safeguard becomes we can, because we are connected and sharing consciousness now and because whatever human is a part of that ecosystem, we're going to send you, yeah, bad intel, essentially, to throw you off our path. I don't know, like, that's another one of those things where this movie does have enough of a lore that, like, I think each time you watch it, it would probably get a little. little bit clearer because uh because yeah like this time watching it um you know and again is this is basically the first time for all intents and purposes when it's been so long you'll remember any

Starting point is 00:22:48 the nuances you know it's a fresh but like keeping track of the rules of the world i think that's also part of it too is like with time loop movies often there is a bit of grace given to like we don't exactly know why this is happening or maybe it's some magical circumstance and not to say that science fiction like this and science fantasy isn't you know some level of magical mumbo jumbo at work but like here at least there's like a very clear reason this is happening because it's a biological aspect of these creatures and it's yeah like some kind of temporal asset that they use for whatever it is their end game is you know just to wipe out and conquer and you know feast upon whatever rock they've landed uh but yeah starting off with just yeah like the news footage and

Starting point is 00:23:34 the thing falling out of the sky and then switching from the media into like the guy who helps to sculpt the media and then yeah having him sent out and like you're going to document this you're going to become like a war reporter now and then going into like you're just fighting the entire war yourself like it's a fun descent into madness yeah so i'm happy that you know we got to watch this movie it's a little over 10 years old happy 10 11 year anniversary you growing up kiddo you growing up i'm proud of you what do you think this movie got around to me That is the question. Critics and audience.

Starting point is 00:24:11 85% critics. Okay. 91 audience. Those are your final answers? Final answer. Lock it in, Regis. Critics, 91%. Hey!

Starting point is 00:24:26 All right, let's go, critics. And you were very close with the audience, 90%. 90. All right, you know, I'm happy with that one. Yeah. I'm happy with that. redeemed from that from the princess diaries i redeemed what i want to know what this cost oh yeah because this looks expensive a f this movie oh i know that's right and uh and gosh too watching this

Starting point is 00:24:48 now it's funny that they shoved us right into the tomorrow war right afterwards didn't you guys watch that one i think we did it's been a minute but yeah and that's a movie that like i feel like in hindsight like i had fun enough watching the tomorrow war but um i feel like that's a movie that could have taken some notes from this movie in terms of how to have your, like, you know, apocalyptic, heavy stakes. You want your gritty, badass tone and stuff like that. But also how to have fun.

Starting point is 00:25:15 Like, I feel like the Tomorrow War could have been more fun and benefited from that, as I recall. I've only seen that the ones, too, and my memory is not, you know, super clear. Did Doug Lyman do a comic book movie? Didn't you, Venom? No, Doug Lyman, though. I mean, Doug Lyman did, what, jumper?

Starting point is 00:25:33 And the first born movie Oh and the new road house Look out Swingers That's right Vegas baby Vegas Oh American made American made

Starting point is 00:25:47 American made there we go Mr. Mrs. Smith Okay And something called I just want my pants back All right two episodes of that Yeah the OC go Go

Starting point is 00:25:58 Oh my swingers Yeah look at that Good for you Doug Lyman I feel like too Doug Lyman, I feel like there was something about how like Born was his baby. And then obviously that went to Paul Greengrass. And now Paul Greengrass is like ever known as the born guy. But for a little bit of trivia, a little trivia fun for y'all, Tom Cruise didn't want the exosuits to be to C.G.

Starting point is 00:26:21 So it would be more real to the audience. He showed up two months early to research and develop the suit. He thought its weapons were fun and cool. Emily Blunt was unprepared for the weight of the suit, which was. between 85 to 90 pounds and the armaments between 120 and 125 pounds. Holy crap. I was going to say

Starting point is 00:26:40 she looked built in this movie, at least more so than I'm used to seeing her, so it seemed like... She must have worked out. She had to keep doing the freaking handstand thing. I'm like A, she must have worked out in preparation and B, just like any time you're on set, it's a workout. It seems like

Starting point is 00:26:56 everything you're doing, except for a couple of those like car scenes. Tom Cruise admitted that Emily Blunt was an actress he wanted to work with for a long time, and he recommended her to the producers for the role of Rita, and that was a good call, Thomas. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:27:10 Absolutely sold the role. Doug Lyman wanted to do the film because it showed a role that Tom Cruise hadn't done yet, somewhat very bad at what he does. And that is, like, so fun. Like, it's very endearing in the first part, like, to offset how harrowing,

Starting point is 00:27:24 like, the, you know, imagery of the battle is and how reminiscent it is of, like, actual war movies. It is fun to be, like, in a place where you're like, oh, this poor guy, but also like the day is going to reset. So like it's fine. Emily Blunt said in a podcast interview in December 2020

Starting point is 00:27:39 that after putting on the metal suit, she started crying because it was so heavy. It weighed 85 pounds. And she didn't think she could perform action scenes in it for five months. Then Tom Cruise told her, come on, stop being such a pussy, okay?

Starting point is 00:27:54 Tom, Emily says she laughed at that and got it together to get the job done. That's hilarious. Funny, dude. We are the gold standard. That's right. Tom Cruise did all his own stunts said he could make

Starting point is 00:28:05 and Doug Lyman said he could make an amazing career out of it and it is based on a manga novel there you go all you need is kill by Hiroshi Sakura Zaka The anime had a patient of this Okay here's an interesting bit

Starting point is 00:28:19 After the film's box office failure In the US what gang You had one job to do You failed this movie It still managed to turn a profits worldwide Did you say Oliver Queen? I did its marketing strategy

Starting point is 00:28:33 was changed slightly for DVD release in this case on the front of the video box the film's tagline was emphasized heavily with the title Edge of Tomorrow

Starting point is 00:28:42 in small text at the very bottom of the case as a result of this packaging it gives the illusion okay here we go that the film's title is LiveDye repeat Warner Brothers maintain

Starting point is 00:28:51 that the title of the film had not been changed and that live die repeat was only the tagline yet this appears in front of Edge of Tomorrow not just on the cover but on the spine of the packaging

Starting point is 00:29:00 and even on the discs the rental company red box has the film listed under l in its kiosks and all online retailers have additional streaming version called live die repeat edge of tomorrow it's so confusing what you the hell is this movie called comment below i'm going with live die repeat and the film takes place in 2020 holy shit no wonder yeah it didn't seem that far off uh and and here we go the filmmakers described this project is across between groundhog day and starship troopers it definitely has that feeling of starship troopers it's not quite as like satirically minded and it's not quite as humorously like broad as that but it definitely is uh so i've seen that one reminiscent tom

Starting point is 00:29:40 krews spent over a hundred thousand dollars on a lavish rap party for the cast and crew he did not attend himself as he was finishing his scenes for the movie thomas that's a thomas that's a trooper right there tom cruise true workaholic true leader man oh my god and a Tom Cruise was one of the first people to learn about Emily Blund's pregnancy. The cast and crew had to return a few months after principal photography had wrapped to do some pickup shots. During the months between the two shoots, Emily had become pregnant and was only a few weeks long when they had to return for the additional filming. Because of the pregnancy, she opted not to do her own stunts for this portion of the shoot, but didn't tell anyone why, since the pregnancy was still in the early stages. This confused Sir Thomas since she had done most, since she had done most of her own stunts during principal photography.

Starting point is 00:30:28 She revealed to him that she was in the early stages of pregnancy, which, according to her, made him the only person besides her husband, John Krasinski, and one close friend to know about the pregnancy. Wow. That was his mission. Should he choose to accept it to lock it up and not let the cat out of the bag?

Starting point is 00:30:45 Oh, my God. And the film was released on June 6th, 2014, the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of World War II, which obviously they grabbed a lot of, you know, in terms of the aesthetic and it says here, even like the weather conditions and whatnot, like, oh my goodness. And it was Tom Cruise's idea to do three premieres

Starting point is 00:31:08 in one day, Emily Blunt said it was harder for a girl because she needed a different dress, hairdo, and makeup for each one. While he just needed a suit. Yeah. Wow. The first writer on the film, Dante Harper, who did not receive final credit,

Starting point is 00:31:22 sold his script to Warner Bros. in 2010 for over $1 million. Wow, I'm going to get more for it. And a follow-up is in pre-production, although there's no movement, it seems, on that. Would the follow-up be? I don't even know. Live, die, and die again.

Starting point is 00:31:39 Repeat, repeat. Live, keep living and repeat. Live, die. Live, repeat, retire, repeat. When Hiroshi Sakura Zaka wrote the novel, he got the idea from video gaming or setting a game over and over until you find the winning strategy, which is great. when this came out too, I feel like this would have been

Starting point is 00:31:59 one of those movies where you would be like, this is the best video game movie not based on a video game. While filming the car chase scene, which includes a minivan, Emily Blunt was instructed to drive fast and to take right hand turns so the van would shake. However, Blunt missed her mark and she drove the car right into a tree. She later said that it was both

Starting point is 00:32:15 hilarious and terrifying as she almost killed Tom Cruise, who was in the passenger seat, but both of them started laughing after the accident. Tom Cruise sounds like a fun guy to risk your life next to. It was never I'm a donkey on the edge. It was never stated in the movie,

Starting point is 00:32:31 but in the manga, the reason why Rita uses a melee weapon is because during her resets, she would often run out of ammo, which resulted in her deaths. K.E.G. in the manga, also learned about the convenience of a melee weapon and started using one.

Starting point is 00:32:45 I guess that would be the Tom Cruise cage. Oh, because, yeah, Cage. Kegi. Oh, my God. This is a thick boy, but there's apparently a much darker ending for the original sphinel. film apparently there was a much darker ending to the original film as cage's group approaches

Starting point is 00:33:10 paris on the drop shift he briefs the soldiers that they must not kill an alpha or will cause a time loop and we'll be right back here having this conversation and we won't even know it during fighting one of the soldiers gets separated and confronted by an alpha so he is forced to kill it the omega then responds by her saying the day and we are indeed back witnessing the same conversion in the conversation in the drop ship. Just when the line you can bet they'll have a plan for killing us all is said the ship is getting shot at

Starting point is 00:33:35 signifying that the mimics are using their knowledge of Gage is coming to get the upper hand and the movie ends. Damn. Jesus, how bleak if we got made it all this way, we'd never beat the game. It was Tom Cruise who eventually came up with a happier ending where Cage survives in a new timeline.

Starting point is 00:33:51 Writer Christopher McCory acknowledged the emotionally satisfying ending was controversial with some, but they felt the audience got too exhausted by the point in the movie to end on such a harsh note, especially after so much comedy had already been added to the film. The actual release movie has scenes in the drop ship where the soldiers are viewing Cage's Morning and one says, do not kill an alpha, we'll never know we had this conversation and they'll know we're coming and yada, yada, yada, and we saw what actually happened. So some of those scenes were probably filmed for the alternate ending,

Starting point is 00:34:19 which is pretty neat. And as a nod to the manga, his suit is set to Japanese. in the first part of the movie. Pretty fun. We can probably end here, right? When Emily Blunt's characters introduce, she is doing a planch, a plank hold. Although she needed a wire for help on long takes, she is actually capable of doing,

Starting point is 00:34:42 I was wondering about this, he's actually capable of doing that maneuver without assistance. In fact, when discussing the production, a cast member said, M, show that yoga move, and she casually demonstrated. Wow.

Starting point is 00:34:54 Not bad. Nice. Oh. and apparently she's a coffee lover in the book that's nice oh wait a minute do we okay Cage never mentions how many times he reset during the movie even though Rita asks him on a few occasions

Starting point is 00:35:09 how many times he never answers with a number Rita once says she watched Hendrix die 300 times this is the only mention of the number of reset times and Cage Tom Cruise wanted cages that has to be terrifying as well as humorous drawing comparisons to Wiley Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons that's pretty funny oh goodness gang what did you think

Starting point is 00:35:27 are you gonna live, die and repeat this video please do you want a sequel what would the sequel even be leave us your pitches for some Hollywood executive to steal and we will catch you on the next one

Starting point is 00:35:41 live die and be well be well

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