I think you missed some details of their first conversation. The General didn't think Cage was a very important factor, he just wanted him on the beach for some more PR to promote the war. That was his job after all. And when Cage CLEARLY attempted to blackmail him into getting out of the dangerous assignment, he had him arrested for it and busted down to private and sent to the front lines as a deserter. The General likely felt that was a better and more useful punishment that putting him in a "cage". :)
@@JayM409 Sure you can. Article 15 of the UCMJ with regard to Non-judicial punishment. Not to mention, this is a military force which does not even exist. Appears to be the UN on steroids, and during wartime. Regulations may be different than that of the U.S., and may be relaxed during such a pressing, extinction-level threat.
This isn't the US military, and it isn't peacetime. There is no way to tell what the regulations are. Equally important, Cage is stripped of rank and reassigned while he is still unconscious. The general apparently pulled strings on the assumption that Cage is too much of a wuss to survive being on the invasion force, so the irregularities can get lost in the shuffle. He probably figures that if the invasion is successful he'll be effectively untouchable, and if the invasion fails Cage's irregularities will be the least of his troubles.
As for the ending - when Cage killed the Alpha, he overwrote the Alpha's saved game slot turning it into his saved game slot. The Alpha's saved game slot was set for the beginning of the day when Cage wakes up on the pile of duffel bags. We never see the Alpha Cage killed on the beach again because Cage's mind takes over the save slot. When the save loads there's no mind to load into the Alpha's body and the save loads Cage's mind into his own body instead When Cage kills the Omega, he overwrites the Omega's save slot, which is set at Cage's chopper ride to see the general. Loading the Omega's save causes the big burst of energy mentioned in the news at the end of the movie. When the save loads, now Cage takes the Omega's place like he previously took the Alpha's place in the save. Thus there's no Omega mind to load into the Omega's body and, since the Omega's save includes all of the saves for every Alpha and drone, there's no minds to load into their bodies either. So they all just go inert. Or something like that, anyway.
It's not that complicated at all. When Cage dies it always causes the Omega to reset him back to the same place, before the attack at the beach begins, because the Omega wants to win the fight on the beach without losing any Alphas. However when the Omega gets killed in the end, the attack on the beach no longer has any value meaning the reset point changes. The large energy surge happens because the Omega tries to reset time as it is dying, thereby causing the death of all Mimics back in time to when Cage wakes up on the chopper. But seeing as Cage is a human and therefor can live when the Omega dies, he doesn't get killed by the reset like the Mimics do. The fact that Cage gets reset to wake up in the chopper is really just a happy accident.
I think the energy surge detected was simply the explosion that killed the omega. It's the screenwriter's way to let the audience the death of the omega was noticed as being something of note.
@@williamjordan5554 The energy explosion was on the news after Cage awoke on the copter ride to see the general. Cage and the gang killed the Omega that night - after Cage got busted to private, confronted the general and got the doohickey from him. So the energy explosion occurred in the morning. Cage and Rita killed the Omega that night. So it had to be related to Cage getting reset after killing the Omega.
@@Tantalus010 Oblivion hits you in the feels a little bit more, especially with that Anthony Gonzalez and Joseph Trapanese sweet synth score blaring. But Oblivion was more fun
Agreed and neither one of them get the attention they deserve. In the original manga "All you need is kill", the aliens are able to send information back in time to their previous selves, giving them a massive tactical advantage. The way they did it in this movie is clever and preferable in my opinion. Another underappreciated Tom Cruise movie is "The Mummy". Just kidding. That movie was a real stinker.
And what is great about the writer of the Manga said that he got the inspiration from playing video game(s) that had a reset point until he got good enough to beat it. Great that the feel of the movie and manga inspiration was picked up by Duaffy!
Wouldn't say only one and yeahhh i had read the manga way before movie was made but i 'd say bleach live action movie wasnt a bad adaptation , same goes for Nana ,same goes also for Nana to Kaoru
I know, it seems to be described in circles as being one of the best adaptations or movies inspired from an anime/manga. I haven’t read the source material that inspired this movie but I really should do so eventually. It seems that the other one is Alita Battle Angel. That one has received a high amount of praise and James Cameron has said that if the film did well enough he really does want to be able to continue the story. I argue that the live-action Ghost in the shell movie with Scarlett Johansson is also really good but it seems a lot of people still don’t like it. Which is a bit unfair really as when you look at how much care and love is put into the story and the visual effects and the art put into the film, it feels like the hate it receives is unwarranted.
The general wasn't being silly. He ordered Cage to go film on the beach. Cage was insubordinate, and then even tried to blackmail the general by subtly threatening to use his skills in PR and media manipulation against the general. So... the general had him arrested and then sent to the front lines as a soldier. Probably both because he didn't like Cage's insubordinate attitude or having his authority questioned and wanted to put him in his place, and also because he knew that Cage was not experienced in combat and would likely die on the beach, which effectively removes the threat of blackmail.
Plus that the fact millions had already shown bravery and died fighting the Mimics and that Cage was disohonouring them by trying to get out of doing his part for the cause...And that Cage threatened the General with blackmail in his attempt to get out of going to the front, which would be seen as cowardice. This would be a court marshall offence, and during a time of war...would be a sentence of "death by fireing squad."..So..it's either firing squad..or take yeah chances on the front line....he put him on the front line. He was deemed as a desserter because he had tried to run away from his responabilites as a Major to do his job and had dishonoured the uniform and those who had already died trying to save the world.
The only one that doesn't really fit (in terms of charges) is "Impersonating an officer" Cage wouldn't have been on the beach in the front originally, its only because he tried to get out of there completely that he ended up on the front line.
@@TearDownGenesis He was ordered to go to the front by the General to report on the invasion and sell it to the public....Cage didn't want to go..Hence he tried to blackmail the General so he wouldn't have to. The General got permission to send Cage from Cage's own CO. As for Cage "Impersonating an officer". He would have been "stripped of rank" by the General..The act of being stripped of rank or stripped of command was a form of discipline or punishment deemed more severe than a demotion. While a demotion was the reduction in rank, to be completely stripped of rank was to lose all privileges of rank whatsoever. And as Cage was then dressed as a Major...The General could deem him as"impersonating an officer" as another charge to level at Cage. Making sure Cage knew exactly where he stood..."Up shit creek without a paddle."
@@Bodneyblue No a general could not. 1. You cannot strip a person of rank on the field like that. 2. Even if you could, you cannot strip a person of rank then immediately say they are impersonating an officer because they're still wearing the uniform seconds after you strip them of the rank. Such a thing would not hold up AT ALL, and would likely lead to severe disciplinary action (criminal charges) against the general. It would be like a police chief firing a cop then immediately arresting them for being dressed like a cop. You cannot create a situation that makes something illegal and immediately penalize that person for doing it. I can't believe you're actually arguing some idea of legitimacy in what was done. Again, you can hand wave the moving him to the front. The fast track from desertion to being sentenced (since there was no actual trial for desertion) to movie magic. But the point that the impersonating an officer is complete nonsense and made up even in the context of the movie.
@@Bodneyblue The only "reasonable nature" you could argue if is you rebuild the entire idea of a military. Which can be possible in that world. First, Cruise seemed to go from a PR guy to a military officer...not how the military works, People don't just walk into officer roles. You have to go to training. Then a single individual general cannot strip someone of rank and deploy them with non-officers. THEN you cannot force a person into war, that would be a penal legion situation, which isn't legal in any modern militaries (1st world). The only possible solution is this is a dystopian regime in which the military is compulsory and people within it are slaves. Which, doesn't fit with the idea that he's in PR to get people to sign up. Fun fact: You can quit the military at any time in the US. You will have some legal consequences, but you cannot be forced (literal force) into combat. Even during the draft this was the case. There is the threat of imprisonment but you cannot be sent to the war against your physical will. There is a reason for this....You don't give a person who is clearly against your orders a weapon that can kill you. Additionally, having someone who isn't trained and doesn't want to be there, as part of a squad is an extreme detriment. This general would likely be arrested and charged with murder / manslaughter for his actions. Not just for Cage's death but likely for the unit he assigned Cage to.
I think in the general's point of view, Cage really was a deserter, a man in uniform, refusing an order to perform his task in the frontline. Demoting him to private, while lying that he had been impersonating as an officer, was his way to ensure that the deserter would serve on that frontline no matter how he tried to fight it. Of course we find that he had pulled his strings to place his secretary's son away from the danger, so he was a hypocrite in the end, anyway.
Yep the general only wanted cage to go to the front line to film it but then cage tried to blackmail his way out so the general was like screw you I'm demoting you and sending you to the front line to fight
The thing I like about this movie is it knows what it is, a timeloop movie, when everyone's already seen a bunch of them. So instead of going through the usual motions of realisation of the loop, experimenting with the loop, it just skips right to where Cage already has done a ton of loops and introduces more interesting plot elements like the Omega, invasion of London, plan B, etc, which really helps to keep it fresh.
The guy getting knocked down at 4:56 after saying "Bloody Hell, It's the full Metal B---" is Emily Blunt's Brother doing a cameo. Getting knocked down by your little sister !
This is based on a Japanese light novel, which also got turned into a manga. I think that the General thought that they had a good chance of winning based on what the "full metal bitch" did with the suit, so if one person could make a decisive impact what about a whole army equipped with the same technology. I agree with you about the final reset, it doesn't make that much sense. But apart from that I think that it's a very entertaining film and very much underappreciated. I did watch it at home in 3D and it was a great experience and I do like cruise playing against his usual type at the start.
I think the final reset happens that way because Cage died the PREVIOUS day (invasion had not happened yet), so he "rolled back" to his arrival in London. But it does make for a heckuva ending.
Yeah, that final reset is hard to understand, but from what I understand it's because when the Omega explodes in the water, its blood gets on Cage giving him the ability to reset again. And since the time that this happened is different than the first time he gets the ability, his reset point is different too: 24 hours earlier when he was on his way to see the General.
The build up from scratch by the "private" Cage and having her instead be the real hero and having to bring this wuss up to battle readiness is great story telling in an otherwise trite plot device that is time travel. Refreshing twisting the usual trope that Cruise most of the time plays the seemingly infallible protagonist that does get help from time to time but is the most skilled one in the story! So well done.
This movie is great because: Bill Paxton, RIP you are missed. Emily Blunt, a beautiful badass Seeing Tom Cruise destroyed repeatedly is fun . . . and props to him for playing so well for laughs. He’s no Bill Murray, but he was good enough. Watching along with you; always enjoyable! Be well and stay awesome!!!
So the reason that the General did what he did was because the General originally ordered Cage to cover the battle for PR reasons from the front line. Now because Cage has not combat experience, he refused this order, already a big no no in the military, but then he also threated to blackmail the General if the battle goes poorly, even worst then defying a direct order from a superior officer. As such, the Generals response was to have Cage arrested for desertion and demoted. Even though the General comes off as scumbag for doing this, Cage, as a character, is even worst at this moment and this leads to his growth as both a person and a warrior throughout the rest of the movie. At least that was my take away from this movie.
Agreed. I thought the general's reaction was harsh, but still well within his rights given the crimes Cage tried to pull. It's Cage who needed redemption, and that's what this movie was about. Cage had to die repeatedly for his redemption, but he got there in the end.
Its also really rushed. Like you can't arrest a soldier, then next day have them forced into the front line. That is actually detrimental to the unit. Up to the point of arresting him is 100% legit but after that is movie convenience. Also "Impersonating an officer" is completely false charges and would likely lead to serious problems for the general. But...end of humanity level war is one way to hand wave that away.
It's a great movie. "No matter what I do, it's as far as you ever make it"... is heartbreaking, and you can see the utter despair in his eyes. He's tried to save her hundreds, if not thousands of times. Watching it again will help to answer your questions...
Now that you've watched this movie and Groundhog Day, you should watch the movie Happy Death Day and the Netflix series Russian Doll ( with some other shows in between of course).
1) There are many reasons for the general to submarine Cage, but the bottom line is he didn't appreciate being blackmailed and called him on it by upping the ante by doing what he did to get rid of this mosquito. 2) I'm not sure what you're asking here. 3) In this premise, the events lived after the reset point are completely lost except for those in Cage's memories. The reset at the end to the earlier time is not explained. I assumed that he received the power of the reset again as he killed the big one and received his (the big one) last reset. (Just a guess). But it is still unclear at any rate.
@@jeremyfrost2636 Yep. Tagline is even on the DVD and Blue Ray spines, since that makes more sense to most people. Edge of Tomorrow sounds like the title of a soap opera or a Star Trek (OS) episode.
After he kills the Omega, Cage is the Omega. It controls time, so he now controls time (almost as a reflex now). They don't exist in time.e the way we do. It's not linear for the Mimics, so even after he goes back 2 days they are still dead.
This and Oblivion are so underrated Tom Cruise movies, critics and the general public should have made these two movies bigger than they were. But at least real sci fi fans can enjoy anytime.
About the title, while there is definitely room for interpretation here's my view: Sometimes the word 'edge' is used to describe the point where one thing ends and another begins and the word 'tomorrow' is sometimes used in place of 'the future.' So throughout the movie we constantly see Cage get right to that point where he might have a future and then the time loop pulls him back. So he is constantly living on that edge of tomorrow. It's not til the end of the movie that he finally breaks through that point and gets to see what the future holds. Hope that explanation helps.
I believe the General needed all available military personnel to go to combat because the mimics were killing more people than they expected. When Cage killed the Omega and got covered with its blood it went back to a more previous time because that was the time the Omega had started the "Time manipulation" and when he killed the Alpha, earlier in the movie, he just went back to the same day. The Omega's time manipulation was the power Cage got killing the Alpha but when the Omega died it completely wiped out the mimics and reverted back to an earlier time but with the result of the mimics being defeated. That is my interpretation of the movie.
"You say about the general: A guy with such discipline, such high standards, and that knows what sacrifice means..." But imagine it from the pointview of the general. He has seen countless young men and women being send to death, hell HE HAD send them, knowing fully well they were going to die, but that was the only thing he could do to save humanity. Now here comes this major, wearing a uniform he does NOT deserve, talking about combat he HAS NO IDEA about, basically MOCKING the sacrifices his men had done for years... how many of them were close friends, even family? Can you feel the RAGE and DESPISE this general is feeling towards this major? Yes, the general wants him in the front lines: so that the major can SEE and EXPERIENCE with is own eyes the reality of war! ... and if the major dies... well, a coward less, wasting perfectly good oxigen that could be used better by brave men and women ready to give their life for humanity... the major might even do something there, helping his boys and girls survive for a couple of more seconds before he dies... the best thing the major could do, in this general opinion. I personally feel that the general's motivations are perfectly clear and even reasonable.
Cage got to know everyone and especially Rita a bit more each time the day reset. Who knows how many times he was reset. 365 times would be a year of fighting along side Rita seeing her die over and over. I think it was even more than a year. So it's not shocking if he fell in love with her.
With the more like thousands of days he spent with her, he’d almost have to either love her or hate her. And if he hated her, he wouldn’t keep going back to see her every time.
Have you seen the YTuber that makes "math" videos "estimating" the amount of X times in time travel and the sort in movies ETC?? He estimated a whole lot more that measly 1 000 days dying to learn to be a combat fine tuned machine, I do not recall the numbers he crunched.
@@danballe It goes beyond even that. The implication is hundreds and hundreds of times at each location as well, such as the house with the helicopter and the military HQ. I agree it’s a huge number of loops.
I misread your comment and understood it better, i must be going blind! On a different angle, does one gets to TRULY know another person?? As in at ALL??!! EVER??!!
About the attitude toward main character from the military guys - they consider him as a poser, who wears the uniform, but doesn't deserve it. And, in a way - they are right
Yeah, that final reset is hard to understand, but from what I understand it's because when the Omega explodes in the water, its blood gets on Cage giving him the ability to reset again. And since the time that this happened is different than the first time he gets the ability, his reset point is different too: 24 hours earlier, when he was on his way to see the General.
The original title for rhe movie was "Live Die Repeat" but they thought it too violent for viewer's. The film did give me "Groundhog Day" vibes when I first watched it. I feel that you should watch it again in order to get a full understanding. That's what I had to do and it did make better sense. Check out "Starship Troopers" soon. You'll enjoy it.
I don't care what anyone else ever tells me. From now on that creature is "fish face" and never anything else but "fish face." TY for that Duaffy! Great reaction.
Greetings from the country which got overrun first! So very glad you watched and reacted to this movie:) And that you kind of liked it? Now regarding your thoughts: 1) In the beginning, the General does NOT want to send Major Cage to his death. He just wants Cage to film new advertising clips to keep morale up among the fighting troops and potential recruits. Because after five years of war, the military leaders believe that humanity are finally able to push the aliens back, so the General thinks this planned invasion will be a success. He also mentions that Cage would NOT be on the first wave of invasion but several miles behind the new front, relatively safe. So we only see Major Cage in battle because a) the invasion completely failed (we soon learn why the mimics are so superior and terrifying), and b) not only did the Major refuse a direct order from a General, he also tried to blackmail the General and tried to run away (making him a deserter, I think). Nowadays in western armies, punishment would be jail, I believe, but not that long ago, in the World Wars, deserters were also executed, so... here, the Major is demoted and just now, he has to fight. 2) I didn't fully understand your question but either Sgt. Farell and the other soldiers really don't recognize him or they DO but totally accept all of this as the punishment for the coward-major-who-invited-us-to-join-the-army-but-does-not-want-to-risk-his-own-life. 3) You almost answered it yourself;) I'm just repeating Dr. Carter here: the humans aren't fighting an alien army but only one organism. The "Omega" is like the brain of the organism, the "Alphas" are like the central nervous system and the other mimics are its claws (Alpha/ordinary mimic ratio is 1:6100000 by Dr. Carter's guess). When the Omega notices the death of an Alpha, only the Omega has the ability to reset the day. And what we can only assume is that the Omega, the Alphas and the rest of the mimics are somehow connected (telepathically?). So everytime Major Cage dies (with the Alpha blood inside of him), the Omega thought it was one of its Alphas. But in the end, Cage became the "new" Omega (via blood transfer) WITH the ability to reset time but WITHOUT the connection to the mimics, I guess, which then just "stopped functioning" like if you hack off an arm it just falls down. Idk. i) So per-maybe-haps I did not bring much more light to your questions, but I hope you can still fully appreciate this movie, one of the best sci-fi action films, imo. Like others said, it's very rewatchable. ii) Since you love the Dark Knight Trilogy, I could recommend "In Bruges" written and directed by Oscar-winner Martin McDonagh starring Colin Farrell and half of the Harry Potter cast :P with like Brendan Gleeson (who played the General, too:)), Clémence Poésy and Ralph Fiennes. Also starring Thekla Reuten, Jérémie Renier, Eric Godon, Željko Ivanek and whodidIforget? This movie has everything: comedy, black comedy, christmas time, drama, medieval architecture, suspense, talk of swans, twists here and there, a Tyrion look-a-like (an actor named Jordan Prentice) and loads of BEER :D Cheers!
You are incorrect about that Cage becomes one of the Alphas. He takes the power from all the Alphas which denys the Omega the ability to reset the day for the alien. And the alien feels the loss of power and tries to connect to the one who has it.
Since I started writing a story about time travel, I've become a big fan of time travel movies. I'm not a huge fan of Tom Cruise but his performance in this film might have changed my opinion of him. This film was well written and well executed. The thing about time travel is that it's not scientifically possible (yet). Putting the technology in the hands of the aliens was a brilliant idea. It's got good story and lots of action makes this film so engaging. My favourite time travel film had a budget of $7,000. It's called "Primer" and the first couple of viewings gave me a headache but it's so worth it. A couple of other good time travel movies are "Looper" and "Source Code".
I'm a fan of time travel movies also. Don't know if you have seen these but a few from the late 70's and early 80's are alright and all different. "Somewhere in Time" is a Chris Reeve and Jane Seymour love story, "The Final Countdown" is Kirk Douglas and a modern day aircraft carrier sent back to 1941 before Pearl Harbor and my favorite is "Time After Time" with Malcolm McDowell as H.G. Wells using his time machine to chase Jack the Ripper into modern day San Francisco. Enjoy them if you haven't seen them. It might give you a few new ideas in your writing and best of luck with it.
@@drewg5637 Thanks very much! I'll be sure to add those to my watch list. I'm interested in seeing how other people handle time paradoxes. Everyone seems to have a different take on it. And thanks very much for your kind wishes.
Hmm.. Duaffy said that most of the videos on her channel are from the 1980s or earlier. That didn't sound right to me at all. So... I looked.... and... just sampling the 60 most recent movies or shows that she has reacted to, I came up with this breakdown: 2% were from the 1940s 2% were from the 1960s 5% were from the 1970s 18% from the 80s 18% from the 90s 15% from the 2000s a whopping 35% from the 2010s and actually 5% were from 2020-2021 So... Duaffy: I think the stuff you are watching is more recent than you think it is. A movie from the 2010s is actually the most common thing you react to.
A lot of frontline soldiers dislike PR guys, since they make war seem heroic and glorious, when in fact it's miserable and traumatising. So even if they did recognise Cage, few would be on his side.
Edge of Tomorrow literally means it is almost tomorrow. So, for Cage, every day was the edge of tomorrow but then he would get reset and never get there.
I appreciate you having questions and talking out your thoughts. Some reactors are prone to just show they are enjoying a movie they know most people like. It can be tough to put yourself out there were anonymous people get to critique you (says anonymous person), but then it can help you know if you're on the right track as a reactor.
Thank you so much for your words. I feel that in order to connect and build a community, I need to let people know what I think. On Twitch we tend to chat about these things more often as well as on Discord. I just think it reminds everybody I am human. And if there is something I don't know, I can chat and receive feedback from the community, something I honestly love (except the trolls, obviously)
•In other promotional material, the name of the film is "Live, Die, Repeat!" •By desert, you mean the beaches of Normandy. It's the Second D-Day. •Ahead of you, the enemy. Behind you, everything you're fighting to defend. •This film and Groundhog Day fall into a cliche of sci-fi called the Time Loop, in which one relives the same day over and over again to the point they know how everything happens.
"Edge of Tomorrow" isn't a saying or metaphor in English, so don't feel bad about not entirely understanding it. It doesn't really mean anything. You could use it metaphorically, I suppose, but I've never heard of anyone doing so before this movie. Does sound kinda mysterious and cool, which is appropriate for a high-concept sci-fi action flick. An alternate, rejected title was "Live. Die. Repeat". Yeah, if an alien species shows-up here, they would almost certainly have to have mastered either faster-than-light travel, near-suspended animation, or teleportation (or they're nearby and we missed them somehow, or they're so different we don't identify them as "life", etc.). In any case, if they're that far ahead of us, "better guns" is a real safe bet.
I always thought the Omega reset time and escaped instead of losing in Paris, that last time when he wakes up in the chopper. Would set things up for a sequel if she escaped. On another note, Emily Blunt was really bad ass in this movie :)
Duaffy, The most direct definition of the phrase, not necessarily applied to this movie, means 11:59pm. The minute just on the edge of a new day, meaning tomorrow. Just like you said, the edge of a cliff. That edge is the point of the last solid ground to stand on. The cliff is no more solid ground to stand on at that point. It came said the same regarding time. However how it applies to this movie, since they are always repeating the same day, they are living up until that point and never quite seeing tomorrow thus they are just getting up to the edge of that time.
4:51 This is from a Japanese light novel so some influence is possible. :) 13:04 Hahaha :D 16:41 Hhmm...? :) 19:19 At least he dosen't have to watch her die. :( 28:39 Emily, why are you so blunt? ;) So what will happen to Cage when he dies? To what day will he return or not return?
You said that when Cruise leaves Rita that means she will die on the beach, but not necessarily. On the first pass she only died when she got distracted by Cruise, that won't happen if he is not there.
I watched this movie once on TV, knowing nothing about it. I fell in love with it. By the end of the movie I immediately placed it among my all time favorite movies. Which is a VERY hard thing for any movie for me. For me this is perfect entertainment. Also, while not the first time I saw Emily Blunt, it was the first time I paid so much attention to her. Partly for how she looked yes, but also because of her character who I found fantastic.
In order for the Omega to reset time, it has to exist partially separate from time. So when Tom Cruise killed the Omega, it died in all the different time streams. The Mimics were like a hive creature all connected and all part of a single creature, the Omega, so when the Omega died, all the Mimics died too.
i think that is what happens when the armed forces are so desperate to have a draft, they need people so badly even with the likelihood of just being a casualty
When Major Cage refused an legal order from the General to go the the Invasion and then tried to runaway - that is 'desertion'. The penalty for desertion during wartime is death. Being assigned to J-squad is the fairer decision instead if a death sentence.
OMG I was so thinking you're going to relate to the plot given Dark Souls! "Ooh, you touch her tralala." 🤣 So glad you watched this one. The General decided, rather than go through the trouble of having him executed, it was simpler to just throw him into combat where he'd surely die. I love the end....after all that it makes you wonder what Cage would say. And if there is more beyond the Omega, and if he has any of that power now.
29:27 The UK General would have thought it cowardly for Major Cage to not give a first hand eye witness account of this D-Day invasion. The General was only ordering him to do his job, but he refused the order an attempted to intimidate him which is a big no no for a lower ranking officer to do to a Commanding General. That is why he rightly charged him with desertion, but he was being a petty vindictive liar by claiming he was a Private & ordered him to frontline service as a grunt without the training.
La cúspide del mañana. When Cage blew the Omega up, it closed the time loop, so that in effect, he blew up the Omega "Yesterday" as well, which was when he woke up on the helicopter again. Think of it as the Omega starts the day holding a rubber band of energy that keeps a path to that anchor point in time accessible. As he goes through the day, the rubber band stretches, while remaining in the past, adding more energy to it. When Cage blows up the Omega, the rubber band snaps back and the energy it carries with it kills the Omega of the past too, closing the time loop. And without its blood, it won't wake up anymore in the past. Recall the reports of the day stating the surge of energy coming form the Louvre (un beau musée!) I do have to wonder if, when Cage dies again, regardless of when that is, will he wake up on the helicopter again?
The thing that always gets me about when Cage tries to roll under the truck the first time and gets run over is that we see the Sergeant react to it, which means Cage wasn't actually dead yet. I just hope he wasn't conscious.
Well, maybe in a final attempt at self preservation, it tried to roll back the day but it wasn't in time to avoid the blast, so it died. It's blood bonding with Cage rolled him back 24 hours instead, while the Omega still died.
Now that you've seen the movie the title makes more sense. The type of title reminds me of an original Star Trek episode titled The City on the Edge of Forever. Also there is a Ray Bradbury time travel story titled The Door into Summer. Bradbury got the title from his family's who during the winter would do to door to door wanting let out only to change its mind once the door was open. Ray father complain that he didn't understand the cat's behavior. But Ray's mother explained that the cat was looking for the door that went into summer.
This is a great movie that didn't get the greatest results but Cruise and Blunt are awesome in it... I for one would love to see you react to a few of Tom Cruise's movies: Oblivion, The Jack Reacher movies (there are 2), The Mummy, the Mission Impossible Saga (specially the later ones), A Few Good Men, Jerry Maguire, Rain Man, The Last Samurai, etc. etc. etc... He has some really really good and entertaining movies both action wise and more dramatic roles
@@DJLtravelvids I found it entertaining for what it was, not a great movie but entertaining... At the end of the day she is going to be the one to decide on her own whether she liked a movie or not and the only way to do that is by watching it... But I guess we can recommend to her that she prioritizes the other movies over that one.
This was one helluva movie. And it owes a small debt to “Starship Troopers” (another one you should definitely check out). “Starship Troopers” was based on a book by Robert A. Heinlein. In the book, the titular troopers used mechanical battle armour, much like what you see here, but the movie version had to jettison that idea because all of the FX budget had been dedicated to creating the aliens. So this movie was the first successful attempt at bringing the body armour from “Troopers” to life onscreen. And yes, it owes just as much to “Groundhog Day”. I like to describe this as “Groundhog Day” meets “Independence Day”.
A lot of people writing about Gleason's general. Here's how it is. First, he thinks the beach-head tomorrow is going to be the start of victory over the Mimics, and he wants the allies' most famous public affairs guy to cover it. Then the public affairs guy tries to get out of the duty by blackmailing the general - so he fucks him over with the story about desertion.
I try not to think too hard about it. But when you started to question the Generals motives. I thought that maybe the General had the "ABILITY" before and he lost it but before he did he had found a way to get Blunt and Cruise to finish the battle. He just couldn't tell him because Tom would think he's crazy and would use that against him to get out of the war. The General sacrifice himself as all good generals should. The General had to commit suicide every night until Tom would come to his office then knew that his nightmare would be over soon. Wow that took longer to text than the idea popping up in my head. or as Emily Blunt might say You're talking out of your ARSE. I really don't care about likes and comments but I'm interested some comments from people that understand the movie at the next level. Everyone have a Happy & Healthy New Year.
It's a shame this movie didn't get more love at the box office. It wasn't a failure, but from what I remember, the studio botched the advertising campaign - for instance, people weren't sure what the movie was even called, because the tagline ( "Live. Die. Repeat." ) was given as much prominence as the title in promo material! At least it's find its audience since then. Such a well-made film, even if the ending is a bit "Huh. Ohhhhkay?" 😁
Many people misunderstand what happened to him in the beginning. He refused to follow orders. You can't continue to fight a war especially a war overseas without showing The Bravery if the battle goes bad. So he was asked to go out with a camera crew. You are not allowed to reject orders and you're certainly not allowed to Blackmail the general of the entire war. So because of that he was given the perspective of impersonating an officer because an officer would never do that...
The General had him sent to the front because he was a coward and didn't want to cover the war from the front. The reset period was 24 hours so at the beginning he always woke up as he arrived at the staging area. He killed the omega and became infected again, it was before the attack was launched so he woke up on the helicopter and everyone was still alive, but the omega was dead. He did love her and had to watch her die over and over again. She said one time as she was dying that she wished she had gotten to know him. Naturally the first thing he did when he woke up the last time was to go to find her so they could get to know each other without having to die.
Awesome I was really looking forward to your reaction to this movie, this movie is awesome one of my favorite movies from Tom Cruise ever 🙌🔥, also I think the general and all of the other people knew exactly who Cage was they just didn't care who he was because they saw him as a coward with the rank that he has as Major and wanted him to nut up and actually help out in the war
He was disobeying a direct order. You can't just refuse a direct order without any consequence. IRL he would have been tried in a military court and probably sentenced to prison. The General put him in the front-line figuring that maybe he would serve more for the war on the field than if he was just rotting away in some prison somewhere... And he didn't initially want him to FIGHT in the front-line, he ordered him to shoot video and cover the war from the front-line. Basically do the job he was supposed to do, just more where the action is.
Well, I think the General's attitude was more that the soldier - the officer no less - in front of him had refused to obey a lawful order and stooped to comitting crimes against his superior out of pure personal cowardice. The General was quite rightly furious that the scumbag Cage was happy to receive all the benefits of his position but utterly unwilling to take the risks or make the sacrifices that everybody else in uniform was required to. Making him take part in the invasion after Cage's refusal was just making him obey the spirit of his orders, and take a soldier's chance on the battlefield. In other wars, soldiers who pulled a breathtaking act of cowardice in the face of the enemy like Cage typically got charged, tried and shot. By refusing to take any of Cage's crap, the General was being more lenient than Cage deserved. It was a short term solve for a would be deserter. Like Cage said, as soon as he got to a phone he could establish his identity. The General just made sure he could not do that until after he had done his duty in the invasion of France.
@@curtism-w6b I'll accept he is a little bit hypocritical, he does seem to have posted Iris' son (not his?) to Australia largely for personal reasons. Of course we don't know for sure, and presumably someone needed to be sent to Australia anyway. If Iris's son was qualified for the job should he not have been sent? As to the General being a coward, we see no evidence of that. The only evidence we see of his ego is that the commanding General of humanity's armies has the confidence to order his troops into battle. The situation with Cage was not an either/or situation. Regardless of what our opinion of General is, his first meeting with Cage had Cage refusing point blank do his duty, refusing a lawful order, refusing to risk his own precious personal arse to take the same risks and accept the same responsibility as literally every other person wearing a uniform. He even commits the crime of blackmail, purely out of personal cowardice. It's not surprising that the General is infuriated and disgusted by him. I've known officers in the British Army and New Zealand army who in the same circumstances would have made sure that Cage did not leave the building alive. At the beginning of the movie Cage is guilty of attempted desertion in the face of the enemy. (It's arguable that "attempted" is even the right word, but we'll go with it just because he was caught while first attempting to run away.) He absolutely deserved to be put up against a wall and shot. Thanks to the General's leniency, he got the opportunity in combat to (very slowly and reluctantly) become the saviour of humanity. I'm curious, do you not think Cage started the movie as criminal and coward who deserved everything done to him and more? If so, why?
@@michaelnolan6951 he busted an officer to a private, lied, and it was HIS son he sent to Australia to be safe. He wasn't on the line. He was a coward and a hypocrite, a liar and a hard headed ego-maniac.
@@curtism-w6b "He busted an officer to a private, lied..." Yes, and if the invasion had gone as expected, Cage would have been released as soon as he could have gotten to a phone. If the General had pressed formal charges against Cage, he would have been convicted of desertion and put up against a wall and shot. Rightly so, in my opinion. "it was HIS son he sent to Australia to be safe..." OK, I didn't catch that in the movie. Yes, that is definately a dick move for the army commander to make, however understandable it may be on a personal level. "He was a coward and a hypocrite a liar and a hard headed ego-maniac." I agree on his hypocracy, I really don't see where you get the rest of this from. Regardless, for the sake of argument if we stipulate that the General was the worst and most evil man who ever lived, I'll ask again: After his first meeting with Cage, did it not become obvious that Cage was a criminal who tried to blackmail his boss, a coward who tried to desert from the military on the eve of battle, and was the General's response to him not more lenient than he deserved?
You really underestimate military hierarchy and the egos that are in play there. What the general did was absolutely realistic, even if it was an asshole move and abuse of power. He did get threatened with blackmail first.
How is it an "abuse of power"? Refusing combat duty is about the most basic betrayal a military member can make of their oaths. Given it was wartime and Cruise was in-theatre, he's damned lucky he wasn't shot on the spot. They don't fuck around with this stuff.
It was quite sweet at the end. They have 2 jobs for the 2 of them. Both will result in certain death, but he was still trying to protect her from suffering. He didn't want her to get the alpha.
I was content in seeing this movie; and I could have gone on without all the questions you had about it, now I'm going have to re-watch the movie, until I have answered your questions. - The secondary name of this movie is: "Live, Die & Repeat"
I think you missed some details of their first conversation. The General didn't think Cage was a very important factor, he just wanted him on the beach for some more PR to promote the war. That was his job after all.
And when Cage CLEARLY attempted to blackmail him into getting out of the dangerous assignment, he had him arrested for it and busted down to private and sent to the front lines as a deserter. The General likely felt that was a better and more useful punishment that putting him in a "cage". :)
You can't bust someone without a Court Marshall.
@@JayM409 Sure you can. Article 15 of the UCMJ with regard to Non-judicial punishment. Not to mention, this is a military force which does not even exist. Appears to be the UN on steroids, and during wartime. Regulations may be different than that of the U.S., and may be relaxed during such a pressing, extinction-level threat.
@@JayM409 I've known a lot of people with firsthand experience who would disagree with you.
This isn't the US military, and it isn't peacetime. There is no way to tell what the regulations are.
Equally important, Cage is stripped of rank and reassigned while he is still unconscious.
The general apparently pulled strings on the assumption that Cage is too much of a wuss to survive being on the invasion force, so the irregularities can get lost in the shuffle.
He probably figures that if the invasion is successful he'll be effectively untouchable, and if the invasion fails Cage's irregularities will be the least of his troubles.
I think the General just had a disdain for Cage and wanted Gage to suffer for being such a coward.
As for the ending - when Cage killed the Alpha, he overwrote the Alpha's saved game slot turning it into his saved game slot. The Alpha's saved game slot was set for the beginning of the day when Cage wakes up on the pile of duffel bags. We never see the Alpha Cage killed on the beach again because Cage's mind takes over the save slot. When the save loads there's no mind to load into the Alpha's body and the save loads Cage's mind into his own body instead
When Cage kills the Omega, he overwrites the Omega's save slot, which is set at Cage's chopper ride to see the general. Loading the Omega's save causes the big burst of energy mentioned in the news at the end of the movie. When the save loads, now Cage takes the Omega's place like he previously took the Alpha's place in the save. Thus there's no Omega mind to load into the Omega's body and, since the Omega's save includes all of the saves for every Alpha and drone, there's no minds to load into their bodies either. So they all just go inert.
Or something like that, anyway.
Thank you so much for explaining! :)
It's not that complicated at all. When Cage dies it always causes the Omega to reset him back to the same place, before the attack at the beach begins, because the Omega wants to win the fight on the beach without losing any Alphas. However when the Omega gets killed in the end, the attack on the beach no longer has any value meaning the reset point changes. The large energy surge happens because the Omega tries to reset time as it is dying, thereby causing the death of all Mimics back in time to when Cage wakes up on the chopper. But seeing as Cage is a human and therefor can live when the Omega dies, he doesn't get killed by the reset like the Mimics do. The fact that Cage gets reset to wake up in the chopper is really just a happy accident.
I think the energy surge detected was simply the explosion that killed the omega. It's the screenwriter's way to let the audience the death of the omega was noticed as being something of note.
@@williamjordan5554 The energy explosion was on the news after Cage awoke on the copter ride to see the general. Cage and the gang killed the Omega that night - after Cage got busted to private, confronted the general and got the doohickey from him. So the energy explosion occurred in the morning. Cage and Rita killed the Omega that night. So it had to be related to Cage getting reset after killing the Omega.
@@flatebo1 sounds reasonable
This and Oblivion are two pretty solid Tom Cruise Sci-fi action movies, just entertaining every time I watch them
Agreed. I like EoT better than Oblivion, but I do watch both of them from time to time.
@@Tantalus010 Oblivion hits you in the feels a little bit more, especially with that Anthony Gonzalez and Joseph Trapanese sweet synth score blaring. But Oblivion was more fun
Agreed and neither one of them get the attention they deserve. In the original manga "All you need is kill", the aliens are able to send information back in time to their previous selves, giving them a massive tactical advantage. The way they did it in this movie is clever and preferable in my opinion.
Another underappreciated Tom Cruise movie is "The Mummy". Just kidding. That movie was a real stinker.
Whatever you think of Oblivion as a movie, the design work on that movie is incredible.
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This movie is underrated as hell. Is actually the only good movie that inspired/adapted from a manga "All you need is kill"
Imo it's the best sci-fi and action movie from that decade.
And what is great about the writer of the Manga said that he got the inspiration from playing video game(s) that had a reset point until he got good enough to beat it.
Great that the feel of the movie and manga inspiration was picked up by Duaffy!
Wouldn't say only one and yeahhh i had read the manga way before movie was made but i 'd say bleach live action movie wasnt a bad adaptation , same goes for Nana ,same goes also for Nana to Kaoru
I know, it seems to be described in circles as being one of the best adaptations or movies inspired from an anime/manga. I haven’t read the source material that inspired this movie but I really should do so eventually. It seems that the other one is Alita Battle Angel. That one has received a high amount of praise and James Cameron has said that if the film did well enough he really does want to be able to continue the story. I argue that the live-action Ghost in the shell movie with Scarlett Johansson is also really good but it seems a lot of people still don’t like it. Which is a bit unfair really as when you look at how much care and love is put into the story and the visual effects and the art put into the film, it feels like the hate it receives is unwarranted.
The general wasn't being silly. He ordered Cage to go film on the beach. Cage was insubordinate, and then even tried to blackmail the general by subtly threatening to use his skills in PR and media manipulation against the general. So... the general had him arrested and then sent to the front lines as a soldier. Probably both because he didn't like Cage's insubordinate attitude or having his authority questioned and wanted to put him in his place, and also because he knew that Cage was not experienced in combat and would likely die on the beach, which effectively removes the threat of blackmail.
Plus that the fact millions had already shown bravery and died fighting the Mimics and that Cage was disohonouring them by trying to get out of doing his part for the cause...And that Cage threatened the General with blackmail in his attempt to get out of going to the front, which would be seen as cowardice. This would be a court marshall offence, and during a time of war...would be a sentence of "death by fireing squad."..So..it's either firing squad..or take yeah chances on the front line....he put him on the front line. He was deemed as a desserter because he had tried to run away from his responabilites as a Major to do his job and had dishonoured the uniform and those who had already died trying to save the world.
The only one that doesn't really fit (in terms of charges) is "Impersonating an officer"
Cage wouldn't have been on the beach in the front originally, its only because he tried to get out of there completely that he ended up on the front line.
@@TearDownGenesis He was ordered to go to the front by the General to report on the invasion and sell it to the public....Cage didn't want to go..Hence he tried to blackmail the General so he wouldn't have to. The General got permission to send Cage from Cage's own CO. As for Cage "Impersonating an officer". He would have been "stripped of rank" by the General..The act of being stripped of rank or stripped of command was a form of discipline or punishment deemed more severe than a demotion. While a demotion was the reduction in rank, to be completely stripped of rank was to lose all privileges of rank whatsoever. And as Cage was then dressed as a Major...The General could deem him as"impersonating an officer" as another charge to level at Cage. Making sure Cage knew exactly where he stood..."Up shit creek without a paddle."
@@Bodneyblue No a general could not.
1. You cannot strip a person of rank on the field like that.
2. Even if you could, you cannot strip a person of rank then immediately say they are impersonating an officer because they're still wearing the uniform seconds after you strip them of the rank.
Such a thing would not hold up AT ALL, and would likely lead to severe disciplinary action (criminal charges) against the general. It would be like a police chief firing a cop then immediately arresting them for being dressed like a cop.
You cannot create a situation that makes something illegal and immediately penalize that person for doing it.
I can't believe you're actually arguing some idea of legitimacy in what was done. Again, you can hand wave the moving him to the front. The fast track from desertion to being sentenced (since there was no actual trial for desertion) to movie magic. But the point that the impersonating an officer is complete nonsense and made up even in the context of the movie.
@@Bodneyblue The only "reasonable nature" you could argue if is you rebuild the entire idea of a military. Which can be possible in that world.
First, Cruise seemed to go from a PR guy to a military officer...not how the military works, People don't just walk into officer roles. You have to go to training.
Then a single individual general cannot strip someone of rank and deploy them with non-officers.
THEN you cannot force a person into war, that would be a penal legion situation, which isn't legal in any modern militaries (1st world).
The only possible solution is this is a dystopian regime in which the military is compulsory and people within it are slaves. Which, doesn't fit with the idea that he's in PR to get people to sign up.
Fun fact: You can quit the military at any time in the US. You will have some legal consequences, but you cannot be forced (literal force) into combat. Even during the draft this was the case. There is the threat of imprisonment but you cannot be sent to the war against your physical will.
There is a reason for this....You don't give a person who is clearly against your orders a weapon that can kill you. Additionally, having someone who isn't trained and doesn't want to be there, as part of a squad is an extreme detriment.
This general would likely be arrested and charged with murder / manslaughter for his actions. Not just for Cage's death but likely for the unit he assigned Cage to.
I think in the general's point of view, Cage really was a deserter, a man in uniform, refusing an order to perform his task in the frontline. Demoting him to private, while lying that he had been impersonating as an officer, was his way to ensure that the deserter would serve on that frontline no matter how he tried to fight it. Of course we find that he had pulled his strings to place his secretary's son away from the danger, so he was a hypocrite in the end, anyway.
Yep the general only wanted cage to go to the front line to film it but then cage tried to blackmail his way out so the general was like screw you I'm demoting you and sending you to the front line to fight
The thing I like about this movie is it knows what it is, a timeloop movie, when everyone's already seen a bunch of them. So instead of going through the usual motions of realisation of the loop, experimenting with the loop, it just skips right to where Cage already has done a ton of loops and introduces more interesting plot elements like the Omega, invasion of London, plan B, etc, which really helps to keep it fresh.
The guy getting knocked down at 4:56 after saying "Bloody Hell, It's the full Metal B---" is Emily Blunt's Brother doing a cameo. Getting knocked down by your little sister !
This movie = Groundhog Day + Starship troopers.
I remember watching this movie without reading the description, so I went in completely unaware of what was to come. A great movie to do that with.
Such an amazing change in who Cage was as a person at the beginning compared to the end. Talk about forced personal growth
This is based on a Japanese light novel, which also got turned into a manga. I think that the General thought that they had a good chance of winning based on what the "full metal bitch" did with the suit, so if one person could make a decisive impact what about a whole army equipped with the same technology. I agree with you about the final reset, it doesn't make that much sense. But apart from that I think that it's a very entertaining film and very much underappreciated. I did watch it at home in 3D and it was a great experience and I do like cruise playing against his usual type at the start.
I think the final reset happens that way because Cage died the PREVIOUS day (invasion had not happened yet), so he "rolled back" to his arrival in London. But it does make for a heckuva ending.
Yeah, that final reset is hard to understand, but from what I understand it's because when the Omega explodes in the water, its blood gets on Cage giving him the ability to reset again. And since the time that this happened is different than the first time he gets the ability, his reset point is different too: 24 hours earlier when he was on his way to see the General.
The build up from scratch by the "private" Cage and having her instead be the real hero and having to bring this wuss up to battle readiness is great story telling in an otherwise trite plot device that is time travel. Refreshing twisting the usual trope that Cruise most of the time plays the seemingly infallible protagonist that does get help from time to time but is the most skilled one in the story! So well done.
*Manga
This movie is great because:
Bill Paxton, RIP you are missed.
Emily Blunt, a beautiful badass
Seeing Tom Cruise destroyed repeatedly is fun . . . and props to him for playing so well for laughs. He’s no Bill Murray, but he was good enough.
Watching along with you; always enjoyable!
Be well and stay awesome!!!
Speaking of laughs, Mr. Cruise was memorable in the comedy, "Knight And Day," with Cameron Diaz.
She is a badass with a good ass :)
So the reason that the General did what he did was because the General originally ordered Cage to cover the battle for PR reasons from the front line. Now because Cage has not combat experience, he refused this order, already a big no no in the military, but then he also threated to blackmail the General if the battle goes poorly, even worst then defying a direct order from a superior officer. As such, the Generals response was to have Cage arrested for desertion and demoted. Even though the General comes off as scumbag for doing this, Cage, as a character, is even worst at this moment and this leads to his growth as both a person and a warrior throughout the rest of the movie. At least that was my take away from this movie.
Agreed. I thought the general's reaction was harsh, but still well within his rights given the crimes Cage tried to pull. It's Cage who needed redemption, and that's what this movie was about. Cage had to die repeatedly for his redemption, but he got there in the end.
Its also really rushed. Like you can't arrest a soldier, then next day have them forced into the front line. That is actually detrimental to the unit. Up to the point of arresting him is 100% legit but after that is movie convenience.
Also "Impersonating an officer" is completely false charges and would likely lead to serious problems for the general. But...end of humanity level war is one way to hand wave that away.
Except General Menalaus pulled strings to place his secretary's son away from the danger, so he was a hypocrite
It's a great movie. "No matter what I do, it's as far as you ever make it"... is heartbreaking, and you can see the utter despair in his eyes. He's tried to save her hundreds, if not thousands of times. Watching it again will help to answer your questions...
Yes! Love this movie and almost no one reacts to it. Thank you so much for watching this movie. It deserves way more attention.
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Movies to watch for Christmas: Home Alone, Die Hard, Krampus, Its a wonderful life, gremlins, miracle on 34th street (black and white 1947)
Now that you've watched this movie and Groundhog Day, you should watch the movie Happy Death Day and the Netflix series Russian Doll ( with some other shows in between of course).
Bill Paxton is such a legend in this, he's hilarious. RIP.
That close-up on Tom Cruise's face during the "Maggot montage" is basically how I felt every day of my working life in the service industry
You’re my hero. No joke, I couldn’t do what you do. I can only work well 1 on 1.
Saw this at the theater and loved it. I thought this movie should have been more popular.
1) There are many reasons for the general to submarine Cage, but the bottom line is he didn't appreciate being blackmailed and called him on it by upping the ante by doing what he did to get rid of this mosquito.
2) I'm not sure what you're asking here.
3) In this premise, the events lived after the reset point are completely lost except for those in Cage's memories. The reset at the end to the earlier time is not explained. I assumed that he received the power of the reset again as he killed the big one and received his (the big one) last reset. (Just a guess). But it is still unclear at any rate.
As a native English speaker, "The Edge of Tomorrow" makes no sense to me either. That's why I call this movie, "Live. Die. Repeat." Better title.
That was the tagline wasn't it?
@@jeremyfrost2636 Yep. Tagline is even on the DVD and Blue Ray spines, since that makes more sense to most people. Edge of Tomorrow sounds like the title of a soap opera or a Star Trek (OS) episode.
well the Japanese light novel this is based on is called All You Need Is Kill, so pick your poison.
After he kills the Omega, Cage is the Omega. It controls time, so he now controls time (almost as a reflex now). They don't exist in time.e the way we do. It's not linear for the Mimics, so even after he goes back 2 days they are still dead.
This and Oblivion are so underrated Tom Cruise movies, critics and the general public should have made these two movies bigger than they were. But at least real sci fi fans can enjoy anytime.
About the title, while there is definitely room for interpretation here's my view: Sometimes the word 'edge' is used to describe the point where one thing ends and another begins and the word 'tomorrow' is sometimes used in place of 'the future.' So throughout the movie we constantly see Cage get right to that point where he might have a future and then the time loop pulls him back. So he is constantly living on that edge of tomorrow. It's not til the end of the movie that he finally breaks through that point and gets to see what the future holds.
Hope that explanation helps.
I believe the General needed all available military personnel to go to combat because the mimics were killing more people than they expected. When Cage killed the Omega and got covered with its blood it went back to a more previous time because that was the time the Omega had started the "Time manipulation" and when he killed the Alpha, earlier in the movie, he just went back to the same day. The Omega's time manipulation was the power Cage got killing the Alpha but when the Omega died it completely wiped out the mimics and reverted back to an earlier time but with the result of the mimics being defeated. That is my interpretation of the movie.
"You say about the general: A guy with such discipline, such high standards, and that knows what sacrifice means..."
But imagine it from the pointview of the general.
He has seen countless young men and women being send to death, hell HE HAD send them, knowing fully well they were going to die, but that was the only thing he could do to save humanity.
Now here comes this major, wearing a uniform he does NOT deserve, talking about combat he HAS NO IDEA about, basically MOCKING the sacrifices his men had done for years... how many of them were close friends, even family?
Can you feel the RAGE and DESPISE this general is feeling towards this major?
Yes, the general wants him in the front lines: so that the major can SEE and EXPERIENCE with is own eyes the reality of war!
... and if the major dies... well, a coward less, wasting perfectly good oxigen that could be used better by brave men and women ready to give their life for humanity... the major might even do something there, helping his boys and girls survive for a couple of more seconds before he dies... the best thing the major could do, in this general opinion.
I personally feel that the general's motivations are perfectly clear and even reasonable.
Oh, I've been waiting for someone to react to this movie. I personally love it.
Cage got to know everyone and especially Rita a bit more each time the day reset.
Who knows how many times he was reset. 365 times would be a year of fighting along side Rita seeing her die over and over. I think it was even more than a year.
So it's not shocking if he fell in love with her.
With the more like thousands of days he spent with her, he’d almost have to either love her or hate her. And if he hated her, he wouldn’t keep going back to see her every time.
@@maxducoudray Agree
Have you seen the YTuber that makes "math" videos "estimating" the amount of X times in time travel and the sort in movies ETC?? He estimated a whole lot more that measly 1 000 days dying to learn to be a combat fine tuned machine, I do not recall the numbers he crunched.
@@danballe It goes beyond even that. The implication is hundreds and hundreds of times at each location as well, such as the house with the helicopter and the military HQ. I agree it’s a huge number of loops.
I misread your comment and understood it better, i must be going blind!
On a different angle, does one gets to TRULY know another person?? As in at ALL??!! EVER??!!
This movie is massively underrated. I'd also recommend Oblivion, which is also massively underrated.
About the attitude toward main character from the military guys - they consider him as a poser, who wears the uniform, but doesn't deserve it. And, in a way - they are right
They were right at the beginning of the movie. By the end of the movie, he had earned his stripes.
If you liked this then you would enjoy "Source Code" (2011)
Yeah, that final reset is hard to understand, but from what I understand it's because when the Omega explodes in the water, its blood gets on Cage giving him the ability to reset again. And since the time that this happened is different than the first time he gets the ability, his reset point is different too: 24 hours earlier, when he was on his way to see the General.
The original title for rhe movie was "Live Die Repeat" but they thought it too violent for viewer's. The film did give me "Groundhog Day" vibes when I first watched it. I feel that you should watch it again in order to get a full understanding. That's what I had to do and it did make better sense. Check out "Starship Troopers" soon. You'll enjoy it.
They used "Live Die Repeat" as the tagline
I don't care what anyone else ever tells me. From now on that creature is "fish face" and never anything else but "fish face." TY for that Duaffy! Great reaction.
Greetings from the country which got overrun first!
So very glad you watched and reacted to this movie:) And that you kind of liked it?
Now regarding your thoughts:
1) In the beginning, the General does NOT want to send Major Cage to his death. He just wants Cage to film new advertising clips to keep morale up among the fighting troops and potential recruits.
Because after five years of war, the military leaders believe that humanity are finally able to push the aliens back, so the General thinks this planned invasion will be a success. He also mentions that Cage would NOT be on the first wave of invasion but several miles behind the new front, relatively safe.
So we only see Major Cage in battle because a) the invasion completely failed (we soon learn why the mimics are so superior and terrifying), and b) not only did the Major refuse a direct order from a General, he also tried to blackmail the General and tried to run away (making him a deserter, I think).
Nowadays in western armies, punishment would be jail, I believe, but not that long ago, in the World Wars, deserters were also executed, so... here, the Major is demoted and just now, he has to fight.
2) I didn't fully understand your question but either Sgt. Farell and the other soldiers really don't recognize him or they DO but totally accept all of this as the punishment for the coward-major-who-invited-us-to-join-the-army-but-does-not-want-to-risk-his-own-life.
3) You almost answered it yourself;) I'm just repeating Dr. Carter here: the humans aren't fighting an alien army but only one organism. The "Omega" is like the brain of the organism, the "Alphas" are like the central nervous system and the other mimics are its claws (Alpha/ordinary mimic ratio is 1:6100000 by Dr. Carter's guess). When the Omega notices the death of an Alpha, only the Omega has the ability to reset the day.
And what we can only assume is that the Omega, the Alphas and the rest of the mimics are somehow connected (telepathically?).
So everytime Major Cage dies (with the Alpha blood inside of him), the Omega thought it was one of its Alphas.
But in the end, Cage became the "new" Omega (via blood transfer) WITH the ability to reset time but WITHOUT the connection to the mimics, I guess, which then just "stopped functioning" like if you hack off an arm it just falls down. Idk.
i) So per-maybe-haps I did not bring much more light to your questions, but I hope you can still fully appreciate this movie, one of the best sci-fi action films, imo. Like others said, it's very rewatchable.
ii) Since you love the Dark Knight Trilogy, I could recommend "In Bruges" written and directed by Oscar-winner Martin McDonagh starring Colin Farrell and half of the Harry Potter cast :P with like Brendan Gleeson (who played the General, too:)), Clémence Poésy and Ralph Fiennes. Also starring Thekla Reuten, Jérémie Renier, Eric Godon, Željko Ivanek and whodidIforget?
This movie has everything: comedy, black comedy, christmas time, drama, medieval architecture, suspense, talk of swans, twists here and there, a Tyrion look-a-like (an actor named Jordan Prentice) and loads of BEER :D
Cheers!
You are incorrect about that Cage becomes one of the Alphas. He takes the power from all the Alphas which denys the Omega the ability to reset the day for the alien. And the alien feels the loss of power and tries to connect to the one who has it.
Since I started writing a story about time travel, I've become a big fan of time travel movies. I'm not a huge fan of Tom Cruise but his performance in this film might have changed my opinion of him. This film was well written and well executed. The thing about time travel is that it's not scientifically possible (yet). Putting the technology in the hands of the aliens was a brilliant idea. It's got good story and lots of action makes this film so engaging. My favourite time travel film had a budget of $7,000. It's called "Primer" and the first couple of viewings gave me a headache but it's so worth it. A couple of other good time travel movies are "Looper" and "Source Code".
Since I liked the other 3 time travel movies you liked, I'll have to be on the lookout for Primer. Never heard of it before.
For a really interesting take on time travel, I'd recommend "The Man Who Folded Himself" by David Gerrold.
Timecrimes is a good watch too...
I'm a fan of time travel movies also. Don't know if you have seen these but a few from the late 70's and early 80's are alright and all different. "Somewhere in Time" is a Chris Reeve and Jane Seymour love story, "The Final Countdown" is Kirk Douglas and a modern day aircraft carrier sent back to 1941 before Pearl Harbor and my favorite is "Time After Time" with Malcolm McDowell as H.G. Wells using his time machine to chase Jack the Ripper into modern day San Francisco. Enjoy them if you haven't seen them. It might give you a few new ideas in your writing and best of luck with it.
@@drewg5637 Thanks very much! I'll be sure to add those to my watch list. I'm interested in seeing how other people handle time paradoxes. Everyone seems to have a different take on it. And thanks very much for your kind wishes.
Hmm.. Duaffy said that most of the videos on her channel are from the 1980s or earlier. That didn't sound right to me at all. So... I looked.... and... just sampling the 60 most recent movies or shows that she has reacted to, I came up with this breakdown:
2% were from the 1940s
2% were from the 1960s
5% were from the 1970s
18% from the 80s
18% from the 90s
15% from the 2000s
a whopping 35% from the 2010s
and actually 5% were from 2020-2021
So... Duaffy: I think the stuff you are watching is more recent than you think it is. A movie from the 2010s is actually the most common thing you react to.
I didn't consider the Marvel movies when I said that, because it's like a pack for me. But yes, I should have probably specified that :(
@@DuaffyMS well, even without them... still a lot. And Marvel movies started in the 2000s.
A lot of frontline soldiers dislike PR guys, since they make war seem heroic and glorious, when in fact it's miserable and traumatising. So even if they did recognise Cage, few would be on his side.
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I just want to tell you both, good luck. We're all counting on you.
Edge of Tomorrow literally means it is almost tomorrow. So, for Cage, every day was the edge of tomorrow but then he would get reset and never get there.
I appreciate you having questions and talking out your thoughts. Some reactors are prone to just show they are enjoying a movie they know most people like. It can be tough to put yourself out there were anonymous people get to critique you (says anonymous person), but then it can help you know if you're on the right track as a reactor.
Thank you so much for your words. I feel that in order to connect and build a community, I need to let people know what I think. On Twitch we tend to chat about these things more often as well as on Discord. I just think it reminds everybody I am human. And if there is something I don't know, I can chat and receive feedback from the community, something I honestly love (except the trolls, obviously)
•In other promotional material, the name of the film is "Live, Die, Repeat!"
•By desert, you mean the beaches of Normandy. It's the Second D-Day.
•Ahead of you, the enemy. Behind you, everything you're fighting to defend.
•This film and Groundhog Day fall into a cliche of sci-fi called the Time Loop, in which one relives the same day over and over again to the point they know how everything happens.
"On your feet maggot!" :D
I believe the original manga was called Kill and Kill Again.
In a way, he was a deserter.
He tried to run away when the general gave him a direct order to report for duty on the front during the invasion.
This movie needs a sequel.
Cage has the power of the OMEGA now.
Imagine saving the world and no one knows about it. ?
"Edge of Tomorrow" isn't a saying or metaphor in English, so don't feel bad about not entirely understanding it. It doesn't really mean anything. You could use it metaphorically, I suppose, but I've never heard of anyone doing so before this movie. Does sound kinda mysterious and cool, which is appropriate for a high-concept sci-fi action flick.
An alternate, rejected title was "Live. Die. Repeat".
Yeah, if an alien species shows-up here, they would almost certainly have to have mastered either faster-than-light travel, near-suspended animation, or teleportation (or they're nearby and we missed them somehow, or they're so different we don't identify them as "life", etc.). In any case, if they're that far ahead of us, "better guns" is a real safe bet.
I was going to say, edge of tomorrow doesn't mean a damn thing to us either lol
I always thought the Omega reset time and escaped instead of losing in Paris, that last time when he wakes up in the chopper. Would set things up for a sequel if she escaped.
On another note, Emily Blunt was really bad ass in this movie :)
This movie WAS AMAZING. I had no expectations and I was totally blown away! You should also see Collateral with the Cruise.
This is one of my favourite movies man, wish they continued the movie or made a prequel, would be so awsome!
Duaffy,
The most direct definition of the phrase, not necessarily applied to this movie, means 11:59pm. The minute just on the edge of a new day, meaning tomorrow. Just like you said, the edge of a cliff. That edge is the point of the last solid ground to stand on. The cliff is no more solid ground to stand on at that point. It came said the same regarding time.
However how it applies to this movie, since they are always repeating the same day, they are living up until that point and never quite seeing tomorrow thus they are just getting up to the edge of that time.
4:51 This is from a Japanese light novel so some influence is possible. :)
13:04 Hahaha :D 16:41 Hhmm...? :)
19:19 At least he dosen't have to watch her die. :(
28:39 Emily, why are you so blunt? ;)
So what will happen to Cage when he dies? To what day will he return or not return?
If you're in the mood for some more alien war, try Starship Troopers :)
RIP Bill Paxton. One of my favorite actors, ever. Favorite role was Chet from 'Weird Science.'
You said that when Cruise leaves Rita that means she will die on the beach, but not necessarily. On the first pass she only died when she got distracted by Cruise, that won't happen if he is not there.
I watched this movie once on TV, knowing nothing about it. I fell in love with it. By the end of the movie I immediately placed it among my all time favorite movies. Which is a VERY hard thing for any movie for me. For me this is perfect entertainment. Also, while not the first time I saw Emily Blunt, it was the first time I paid so much attention to her. Partly for how she looked yes, but also because of her character who I found fantastic.
Good news, or bad news. They're working on a sequel. Both leads are rumored to return.
You should really consider watching the six "mission impossible" movies if you haven't already, from 1996 to 2018, before the seventh one comes out :)
In order for the Omega to reset time, it has to exist partially separate from time. So when Tom Cruise killed the Omega, it died in all the different time streams. The Mimics were like a hive creature all connected and all part of a single creature, the Omega, so when the Omega died, all the Mimics died too.
i think that is what happens when the armed forces are so desperate to have a draft, they need people so badly even with the likelihood of just being a casualty
Every war needs cannon fodder
When Major Cage refused an legal order from the General to go the the Invasion and then tried to runaway - that is 'desertion'. The penalty for desertion during wartime is death. Being assigned to J-squad is the fairer decision instead if a death sentence.
OMG I was so thinking you're going to relate to the plot given Dark Souls!
"Ooh, you touch her tralala." 🤣
So glad you watched this one.
The General decided, rather than go through the trouble of having him executed, it was simpler to just throw him into combat where he'd surely die.
I love the end....after all that it makes you wonder what Cage would say. And if there is more beyond the Omega, and if he has any of that power now.
The general wasn't being silly. Cage was insubordinate, and then tried to blackmail the general
29:27 The UK General would have thought it cowardly for Major Cage to not give a first hand eye witness account of this D-Day invasion. The General was only ordering him to do his job, but he refused the order an attempted to intimidate him which is a big no no for a lower ranking officer to do to a Commanding General. That is why he rightly charged him with desertion, but he was being a petty vindictive liar by claiming he was a Private & ordered him to frontline service as a grunt without the training.
welcome to the "Time reset" genre ^_^
La cúspide del mañana. When Cage blew the Omega up, it closed the time loop, so that in effect, he blew up the Omega "Yesterday" as well, which was when he woke up on the helicopter again. Think of it as the Omega starts the day holding a rubber band of energy that keeps a path to that anchor point in time accessible. As he goes through the day, the rubber band stretches, while remaining in the past, adding more energy to it. When Cage blows up the Omega, the rubber band snaps back and the energy it carries with it kills the Omega of the past too, closing the time loop. And without its blood, it won't wake up anymore in the past. Recall the reports of the day stating the surge of energy coming form the Louvre (un beau musée!) I do have to wonder if, when Cage dies again, regardless of when that is, will he wake up on the helicopter again?
The thing that always gets me about when Cage tries to roll under the truck the first time and gets run over is that we see the Sergeant react to it, which means Cage wasn't actually dead yet. I just hope he wasn't conscious.
Well, maybe in a final attempt at self preservation, it tried to roll back the day but it wasn't in time to avoid the blast, so it died. It's blood bonding with Cage rolled him back 24 hours instead, while the Omega still died.
You have such nice beautiful blue eyes. It looks even more gorgeous when you are surprised while watching this movie
One of my favorite movies. It's so rewatchable
my new wake up alarm: Duaffy saying "wake up maggot!" :D
Love your Eddie Murphy style laugh
Now that you've seen the movie the title makes more sense. The type of title reminds me of an original Star Trek episode titled The City on the Edge of Forever. Also there is a Ray Bradbury time travel story titled The Door into Summer. Bradbury got the title from his family's who during the winter would do to door to door wanting let out only to change its mind once the door was open. Ray father complain that he didn't understand the cat's behavior. But Ray's mother explained that the cat was looking for the door that went into summer.
I really like how every member of J squad turns into a hero when ask.
This is a great movie that didn't get the greatest results but Cruise and Blunt are awesome in it... I for one would love to see you react to a few of Tom Cruise's movies: Oblivion, The Jack Reacher movies (there are 2), The Mummy, the Mission Impossible Saga (specially the later ones), A Few Good Men, Jerry Maguire, Rain Man, The Last Samurai, etc. etc. etc... He has some really really good and entertaining movies both action wise and more dramatic roles
I agree Tom has a good hit rate with his movies, but I'd skip the Mummy
@@DJLtravelvids I found it entertaining for what it was, not a great movie but entertaining... At the end of the day she is going to be the one to decide on her own whether she liked a movie or not and the only way to do that is by watching it... But I guess we can recommend to her that she prioritizes the other movies over that one.
This was one helluva movie. And it owes a small debt to “Starship Troopers” (another one you should definitely check out).
“Starship Troopers” was based on a book by Robert A. Heinlein. In the book, the titular troopers used mechanical battle armour, much like what you see here, but the movie version had to jettison that idea because all of the FX budget had been dedicated to creating the aliens. So this movie was the first successful attempt at bringing the body armour from “Troopers” to life onscreen.
And yes, it owes just as much to “Groundhog Day”. I like to describe this as “Groundhog Day” meets “Independence Day”.
Alright I burst out laughing when you said “you touched her tra-la-la”
Nice , love this movie too. this movie sooo underrated
I like to describe this movie as groundhog day crossed with halo
Groundhog Day set a standard. Before I Fall is another movie that takes the same time approach. Its also a very good movie.
A lot of people writing about Gleason's general. Here's how it is.
First, he thinks the beach-head tomorrow is going to be the start of victory over the Mimics, and he wants the allies' most famous public affairs guy to cover it.
Then the public affairs guy tries to get out of the duty by blackmailing the general - so he fucks him over with the story about desertion.
One of if not THE greatest science fiction films of all time.
What you got to remember is that when the day resets he is the only one who remembers the previous day
I try not to think too hard about it. But when you started to question the Generals motives.
I thought that maybe the General had the "ABILITY" before and he lost it but before he did he had found a way to get Blunt and Cruise to finish the battle. He just couldn't tell him because Tom would think he's crazy and would use that against him to get out of the war. The General sacrifice himself as all good generals should. The General had to commit suicide every night until Tom would come to his office then knew that his nightmare would be over soon.
Wow that took longer to text than the idea popping up in my head.
or as Emily Blunt might say
You're talking out of your ARSE.
I really don't care about likes and comments but I'm interested some comments from people that understand the movie at the next level.
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It's a shame this movie didn't get more love at the box office. It wasn't a failure, but from what I remember, the studio botched the advertising campaign - for instance, people weren't sure what the movie was even called, because the tagline ( "Live. Die. Repeat." ) was given as much prominence as the title in promo material! At least it's find its audience since then. Such a well-made film, even if the ending is a bit "Huh. Ohhhhkay?" 😁
Many people misunderstand what happened to him in the beginning. He refused to follow orders. You can't continue to fight a war especially a war overseas without showing The Bravery if the battle goes bad. So he was asked to go out with a camera crew. You are not allowed to reject orders and you're certainly not allowed to Blackmail the general of the entire war. So because of that he was given the perspective of impersonating an officer because an officer would never do that...
Another great choice...
Groundhog Day with Bill Murray, another version of time repeat
The General had him sent to the front because he was a coward and didn't want to cover the war from the front. The reset period was 24 hours so at the beginning he always woke up as he arrived at the staging area. He killed the omega and became infected again, it was before the attack was launched so he woke up on the helicopter and everyone was still alive, but the omega was dead. He did love her and had to watch her die over and over again. She said one time as she was dying that she wished she had gotten to know him. Naturally the first thing he did when he woke up the last time was to go to find her so they could get to know each other without having to die.
"If they managed to come here, their technology is way far advanced..." Or, they are very patient and don't mind long trips.🙂
Awesome I was really looking forward to your reaction to this movie, this movie is awesome one of my favorite movies from Tom Cruise ever 🙌🔥, also I think the general and all of the other people knew exactly who Cage was they just didn't care who he was because they saw him as a coward with the rank that he has as Major and wanted him to nut up and actually help out in the war
He was disobeying a direct order. You can't just refuse a direct order without any consequence. IRL he would have been tried in a military court and probably sentenced to prison. The General put him in the front-line figuring that maybe he would serve more for the war on the field than if he was just rotting away in some prison somewhere... And he didn't initially want him to FIGHT in the front-line, he ordered him to shoot video and cover the war from the front-line. Basically do the job he was supposed to do, just more where the action is.
Motives for that general = Ego. He was refused, and wanted Cage to pay for it.
Well, I think the General's attitude was more that the soldier - the officer no less - in front of him had refused to obey a lawful order and stooped to comitting crimes against his superior out of pure personal cowardice. The General was quite rightly furious that the scumbag Cage was happy to receive all the benefits of his position but utterly unwilling to take the risks or make the sacrifices that everybody else in uniform was required to. Making him take part in the invasion after Cage's refusal was just making him obey the spirit of his orders, and take a soldier's chance on the battlefield. In other wars, soldiers who pulled a breathtaking act of cowardice in the face of the enemy like Cage typically got charged, tried and shot. By refusing to take any of Cage's crap, the General was being more lenient than Cage deserved. It was a short term solve for a would be deserter. Like Cage said, as soon as he got to a phone he could establish his identity. The General just made sure he could not do that until after he had done his duty in the invasion of France.
@@michaelnolan6951 the General hid his own son far from the fighting. He's a coward and a hypocrite with a big ego.
@@curtism-w6b I'll accept he is a little bit hypocritical, he does seem to have posted Iris' son (not his?) to Australia largely for personal reasons. Of course we don't know for sure, and presumably someone needed to be sent to Australia anyway. If Iris's son was qualified for the job should he not have been sent? As to the General being a coward, we see no evidence of that. The only evidence we see of his ego is that the commanding General of humanity's armies has the confidence to order his troops into battle. The situation with Cage was not an either/or situation. Regardless of what our opinion of General is, his first meeting with Cage had Cage refusing point blank do his duty, refusing a lawful order, refusing to risk his own precious personal arse to take the same risks and accept the same responsibility as literally every other person wearing a uniform. He even commits the crime of blackmail, purely out of personal cowardice. It's not surprising that the General is infuriated and disgusted by him. I've known officers in the British Army and New Zealand army who in the same circumstances would have made sure that Cage did not leave the building alive. At the beginning of the movie Cage is guilty of attempted desertion in the face of the enemy. (It's arguable that "attempted" is even the right word, but we'll go with it just because he was caught while first attempting to run away.) He absolutely deserved to be put up against a wall and shot. Thanks to the General's leniency, he got the opportunity in combat to (very slowly and reluctantly) become the saviour of humanity. I'm curious, do you not think Cage started the movie as criminal and coward who deserved everything done to him and more? If so, why?
@@michaelnolan6951 he busted an officer to a private, lied, and it was HIS son he sent to Australia to be safe. He wasn't on the line. He was a coward and a hypocrite, a liar and a hard headed ego-maniac.
@@curtism-w6b "He busted an officer to a private, lied..." Yes, and if the invasion had gone as expected, Cage would have been released as soon as he could have gotten to a phone. If the General had pressed formal charges against Cage, he would have been convicted of desertion and put up against a wall and shot. Rightly so, in my opinion.
"it was HIS son he sent to Australia to be safe..." OK, I didn't catch that in the movie. Yes, that is definately a dick move for the army commander to make, however understandable it may be on a personal level.
"He was a coward and a hypocrite a liar and a hard headed ego-maniac." I agree on his hypocracy, I really don't see where you get the rest of this from. Regardless, for the sake of argument if we stipulate that the General was the worst and most evil man who ever lived, I'll ask again: After his first meeting with Cage, did it not become obvious that Cage was a criminal who tried to blackmail his boss, a coward who tried to desert from the military on the eve of battle, and was the General's response to him not more lenient than he deserved?
You really underestimate military hierarchy and the egos that are in play there. What the general did was absolutely realistic, even if it was an asshole move and abuse of power. He did get threatened with blackmail first.
How is it an "abuse of power"? Refusing combat duty is about the most basic betrayal a military member can make of their oaths. Given it was wartime and Cruise was in-theatre, he's damned lucky he wasn't shot on the spot. They don't fuck around with this stuff.
It was quite sweet at the end. They have 2 jobs for the 2 of them. Both will result in certain death, but he was still trying to protect her from suffering. He didn't want her to get the alpha.
I was content in seeing this movie; and I could have gone on without all the questions you had about it, now I'm going have to re-watch the movie, until I have answered your questions. - The secondary name of this movie is: "Live, Die & Repeat"
28:46 It’s a great song. The best ending/transition to song ever.
I love you blue sky eyes! Very beautiful! :) Nice reaction,Duaffy
the general framed him as a deserter because Cage tried to blackmail him to try to get out of his orders