Watching *Edge of Tomorrow* FOR THE FIRST TIME! The Edge of Tomorrow (2014) Reaction & Commentary 

react to KGF CHAPTER 2

"(isekai) is a subgenre of fantasy in which a character is suddenly transported from their world into a new or unfamiliar one. The western world is no stranger to this concept as it appears in well-known works of western literature such as Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Frank L." ..... it kind of annoyed me when you kept saying it, I didn't think you know what it meant.

Waiting for your KGF Chapter 2 reaction guys !!!!!

Best review channel yet. @20:30 conversations like this are why we watch. we wanna hear your ideas. We KNOW what will happen, and listening to your figuring it out is the money shot.

@24:00, no other timeline matters because they all end in beach death.

The only small thing I hate is the fall and tumble cage takes at the end. I wish it was so over the top.

for me 11/10. Still wait for sequel

Oblivion is 10/10. Edge is more a 9

He does that often, even before the movie, through his favorite time warping artifact called: plastic and cosmetic surgery clinic.

@@FreddieHg37 invidia invidia

@@alba4203 what?

@@FreddieHg37 he’s saying you’re jealous

@@JustAGuy216 Well, I'm in my 20s, I do have great genes and I look way younger and jovial and handsome than he does now, so…

Also a major dick move by that General. Horrible and petty leader. While Cruise was kind of scummy in the beginning of the film, the fact the General was using his position to protect some (his secretary's son), but willing sacrificing individuals with important skills sets for the longer game shows what a joke he was. We may not like a certain person, but you still do the job separate from your personal feelings. And I say that having lead infantrymen over the last 21 years with 57 months in combat.

When civilians are recruited into the military because of their civilian skills, they are awarded a rank that matches their pay grade. Cage didn't "earn" the rank of major,he received it so he could be paid accordingly. I entered the military during Operation Iraqi Freedom as an interpreter, and was made LTJG in the navy, even though I had no military experience.

Also there are all sorts of branches, contractors and specialized forces or squadrons working in, with or alongside military forces and intelligence all over the world on a regular basis it's not that they know how to operate all sorts of machinery, equipment and weaponry, because they don't have to be specialized in that area in particular. And yeah, some of those teams are definitely publishing and marketing.

@@bloodymarvelous4790 exactly.

That and to be fair, most of the military, while partaking in the “fighting forces”, most aren’t combat ready in the sense of “alright dental tech, you’re hitting the frontlines tomorrow” kinda gig. I understand civilians thinking all military personnel are like hardened combat veterans, but even some people who are combat qualified don’t even see combat. It’s just a misconception is all. Haha

this !

Exactly

Oh, I saw it as since the Omega died time just reset again to a failed invasion (due to the Omega being dead) this makes more sense though lol.

@@popump2617 your's makes since itself. How about a social experiment. Anybody who reads this what makes more sense: my comment or Kaleb's? What does the majority vote say. 1 for mine 2 for Kaleb's

Also after reading my comment several times it got me wondering; why didn't time reset for the Omega after it died. So I thought of a couple of possibilities. 1) The power works differently between the Omega and a human. The Omega needs to consciously (not be dead) activate the power while a human does not. We can even go deeper and say it's because humans ultimate fear is death and so that is why the power activates with death. 2) Time isn't actually rewound, but alternate timelines and/or universes are created instead. So in one timeline/universe the Omega just resets and Cage is still continuing his loops. (In turn creating more timelines/universes) While this ending is Cage's reset and is the "happy" timeline/universe. 3) It's just a plot hole. Simple as that.

The general's original plan wasn't meant to be a death sentence. Certainly dangerous, but it wouldn't do the general any good to have his PR team die. That's why he planned to embed Cage and his camera crew with a hundred thousand trained soldiers and send them to surprise attack a beach where all their intel said they would have very little resistance. Those soldiers would certainly have been given orders to protect Cage and the camera crew, so Cage would have been as safe as possible on a battlefield. Obviously the general changed plans after Cage threatened him.

He was not right to object. He is a soldier, his duty is to follow orders.

@@ryanakers1372 Except he had literally zero battlefield experience. Hell, zero FIELD experience. He isnt a soldier even if he has a rank. He was a PR person. It was a stupid idea in the first place. There was nothing there he could accomplish other than being a liability to everyone around him who had to protect him. You wouldnt throw the US Press Secretary into an active war zone.

@@ComicCrossing It's not an uncommon practice in the real world for journalists to be embedded with troops on the battlefield. It's been done during virtually every war/conflict in modern history. I don't know what precautions are taken to protect journalists irl, but it seems like the general was taking every precaution he could here: 1. Cage would be surrounded by thousands of well trained soldiers using the latest and best mimic killing weapons. 2. It was expected to be a surprise attack the mimics could not have prepared for. 3. All their satellite intel said there was only a small number of mimics at their landing zone. Based on the info they had all their strategists would expecting a quick victory with minimal causalities, which sounds like the ideal place to put a PR person you want to use to convince the world the war is going well.

@@ryanakers1372 yes obviously. But those journalists sign up for that assignment and are prepared for something like that. You cant just go to someone and say "hey pack up youre going on the frontlines tomorrow" when they have literally never done anything like that before.

Or at least if he does still have the power he won't have it for long because his body will eventually be filled with new blood in about 4-6 weeks. (I believe that's how long it takes). Of course unless it's a District 9 scenerio. Probably not though.

The best theory I've heard is this: when Cage got the Alpha's blood on him he "replaced" that Alpha within the alien nervous system and that's why Cage's death always reset the day. It also kinda explains why the mimics on the beach never seemed to adapt to Cage, because the Alpha that was supposed to be watching that area was gone. Fast forward to the Omega getting blown up, Cage gets the Omega's blood on him just before the Omega resets the day meaning that Cage "replaces" the Omega within the alien nervous system. Since the mimics and Alphas can't connect with Cage the mimic horde's ability to fight collapses.

@@ryanakers1372 Yep, this is basically it. In his original loop, Cage, as an analogy, replaced a nerve cluster. In his final loop, he replaced the brain itself.

@@ryanakers1372 perfect explanation..thats how i see it aswell. He can reset the day and do whatever the f... he wants...

Cage technically would not have the power to reset time. The Alpha could only do that because it was an organic computer with the command line to do so. Cage has the blood (DNA) to respawn during resets, but not the capacity to activate that command line. Look at it this way for how the Omega operates: 1. The Omega is just a Server that runes programs based on a bunch of predetermined factors. 2. Alphas are just client programs being run by the Server. 3. The clients are constantly sending data over to the Server data of what they've witnessed and scene, similar to how players in a multiplayer shooter are sending over their actions to the singular game server to calculate. Let's say every real world second is a new backup file being sent to the server. 4. When an client dies, the server looks at the last backup sent over by that client and resets time back 24 hours. 5. It then sends that most recent backup data to every client upon them spawning during the time reload, giving them the information they need to avoid their death. 6. The server simultaneously then teleports itself 24 hours back in time as well, and then makes correction to it's production line (how it creates new mimics), so that they've physically adapted to being able to handle the next situation. Cage is only a client in this situation. Cage was never resetting time, it was the Omega doing so. The omega doesn't necessarily think and choose when to reset time, it only has a set perimeter for what it MUST follow when certain requirements are met. Cage was considered another Alpha to the Omega in terms of how it was supposed to operate and execute it's command lines, even if it was eventually able to become aware that something was wrong. If an Alpha dies, the Omega MUST execute that command line no matter what, Cage included. The reason why cage is able to survive and respawn the last time starts at command line 5 but causes a sort of paradox for the Omega. The Omega is able to backup data back 24 hours (remember, Cage and his group invaded at night, so it'd send him back earlier than the other times) successfully. Cage is prepped for backup and respawn as it moves over to the 6th command line to backup itself. The issue and error comes with the fact that the Omega itself is now dead and cannot send itself back in time. All the Alphas and mimics move entirely based on the Omega (Server's) instructions, so they cease to operate without the existence of the server running them. This leaves us with the result of only Cage being brought back and the mimics are ceasing to function, ending the war. If Cage gets hit by a car right now, he'll die. His blood will be some super rare material to be researched but that's about it.

Well unless it's a District 9 type scenario his body will eventually have new blood in it within 4-6 weeks.

Could just get a blood transfusion to be sure.

I was under the impression that the blood power only worked for a single day, and if he survives past that day, it'll go away.

@@100nitrog2 I don't think so because he gets the power from Omega there, so in a way he becomes Omega himself. As the guy says he might be able to reset to the same time after like he is really old and dying and potentially live forever

Tom Cruise can do another sequel !!

Sometimes he dies a day before invasion at PT to get to Rita or gets shot by Rita in training but still wakes up right at the maggot moment. He would wake up 24h earlier in the heli or so. Or he should wake up later cause he managed to get further and further from the first death on the beach to his death on the dam. Still a good movie but it has his flaws with time.

@@neb-taui-djeser1060 The reset point is a day before the first death, each death always resets to that point regardless. The final death counts as a new first death, because it was as if he'd never had the power before.

Ground troop day

I've watched this movie so many times...had no idea it was a manga adaptation...

@@hassnainkhalid2416 it was first a light novel, and then a manga!

Yeah oblivion is underrated

@@yt45204 Some do go through basic training, others are actually reporters turn military. All are ranked and considered full military officers (not the unit, the officers of the unit and the head). In this movie, I believe, Tom Cruise plays the head of the unit, meaning, the spokesman of the US army. Other non-combatants in an army are HR, kitchen workers etc. Yes, they are in the army and went through basics, but they are not sent into battle, ever.

@@yt45204 Unless said uniform, say spokesman, has a medical problem, like poor eyesight, or hard of hearing, then no field activity is in her/his cards. But not only medical (or so I'm told).

@@yt45204 The Generals will do the latter, because not all people are built for even basic training, I am one of these people. I helped where I could, but the medics who approved my enlistment decided my limits, not even I was privy to the decision of what I can, or cannot do. There is some order to an army, and for a good reason. An untrained person can hurt him/herself better than an enemy can, and in the western world, at least, these rules are upheld. Is the movie cool? yes. Is it a possibility (if we are talking about the real world)? no. This is why it's done in a movie, for fun, like all fictional stories.

@@yt45204 I wore uniform, and got up in ranks, but had no basic training, bore no personal gun, as I've stated before, lastly, I served a year less than my peers... For medical reasons. This was the law here, when I was younger - as for today, I assume it's the same.

@@yt45204 Why does that matter? All I'll say is I'm from a western country, I gave too many public details already...

Now that's a deep cut. I haven't thought about that film in years.

@@epbrown01 last time i thought about that movie i was an atheist 👀

i just said this....

@@naytheartist1257 neat

or "all you need is kill"

It is the first time I have seen it referred to as "Groundhog loop". It's commonly called as a time loop afaik

Give me Minority Report any day over Oblivion (LOVED Minority Report!). Also loved Edge of Tomorrow - quite a bit!

Pandorum an oldie? How old are you? Pandorum came out in like 2009. That's only 13 yrs. At least wait 20 yrs before calling something an oldie. But if I'm missing a joke or something than someone can give me a r/whoosh

@@cosesu8929 Just over a decade is a long time in my book. When you take into consideration just how much has changed in the world in that time. Maybe I just feel older than I am *shrugs*

Oldie? Damn you make me feel old and I'm 24. Funny how someone else thought the same thing lol... But bruh that kinda hurts.

Also the soundtrack at the end is fantastic

Dennis Quaid is one of the greatest and most underrated actors.

@lazarus921 I'd argue Cage does fulfill the true purpose of reincarnation as best as the setting of this story allows. When we first meet him, he blackmails the general to avoid putting his own life in danger even though that danger is supposed to be minimal and during the early parts of his training with Rita he's constantly looking for a way to get rid of or transfer the power to someone else. But his growing connection with Rita slowly makes him see beyond himself. This first manifests as him trying to keep Rita alive, but eventually he reaches the point where he is willing to see the mission through to the end even if he and Rita don't make it out alive.

@lazarus921 .....beliefs and projections of human existence is fine, but there comes a line to decide how stretched out the ideals being preached on. Religion says reincarnation (if such thing even happens) for being a better human is to be devoid of stuff needed to actually exist as living thing- a human like every living creature derive nutrient flow from other living sources, whether plants or animals. Plucking a plant from its roots is causing harm to it just to cook it and turn it to dish for consumption, let alone consuming other creatures. Every living creature follows this pattern but human is the only being who gets to decide how bad something looks depending how much blood spill or how many plants uprooted. Cause human brain developed special hypocritical deductive logic/reasoning based on where it fits the narrative.

lol I'm from the USA and still don't get it 😅

Imagine saying, "You're a European." "No, sir. I'm German." Or any other country. Many US states have pride in their state over their country.

@@Juice1984 yup

@@Juice1984 Ok 😁

@@Juice1984 Ahhh Thought that's what it was..thx 😁

Time loop victories are usually kind of sad, as the hero doesn't get any glory for it. But a win is a win, so at least there's that.