So I just today saw Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, quite late I should say, because my strategy for budgeting my limited time to catch the occasional movie is to wait and see if (a) it's sufficiently reviewed, (b) I remain interested months after all the opening week hype, and (c) it comes to one of my favorite pub theaters where I can see the movie and down a pint of microbrew all for a Paper Hamilton.
The movie has been reviewed thousands of times by bloggers and critics already. Most reviewers pick up on the action-adventure version of Groundhog Day. Far fewer make the connection of the video game plot--you play and die, play and die, play and die, until you figure it out and win. You kill the mothership (yeah, I guess there's a little Xevius to the plot). I couldn't help but think of Dragon's Lair, the first video-anime arcade game where Dirk The Daring dies over and over again (Over the Edge? - shout out to LA Guns classic). But that point's been made, even if I'm the first to compare Tom Cruise to Dirk The Daring.
I would much rather talk about Emily Blunt, the movie's heroine than Tom Cruise....
