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Re:Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore... by MonkeyClub on Monday June 27, 2022 @07:34AM (#31893117)
+1 for Edge of Tomorrow!

As a Cruise film, it may fall off many people's radars, but it's got some really well worked out trippy stuff in there.

But I'm a sucker for non-completely-dumb time travel stuff. If you are too, be sure to check out Tenet and Predestination, if you haven't watched them already.

Both are well done, evoke consistent atmospheres, and didn't get the attention they deserve. Predestination is more physical in a Cronenbergian sense, while Tenet is pure Nolan administered intravenously.

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Re:Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore... by jowdones on Monday June 27, 2022 @09:09AM (#31894060)
I generally like Tom Cruise movies, they're good more often than not. Edge Of Tomorrow was one of his best.

I've even shown it to my 9 years old kid, he was flabbergasted. Might have not understood everything (he doesn't have the context) but overall he said it was the best movie he ever saw (so far).

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Re:Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore... by native_samples on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:15AM (#31895721)
It's such an underrated movie. I watch it at least once a year. Watching it with your kids must bea lot of fun.
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Re:Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore... by nailer on Monday June 27, 2022 @07:55AM (#31893274)
Fun fact: Edge of Tomorrow is also known as 'Live, Die, Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow' and the original Japanese Novel was called 'All You Need Is Kill'.
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Re:Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore... by GauntletWizard on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:24PM (#31898565)
I only wish that Hollywood had had the balls to keep the original's ending. Much sadder, much more poignant.
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Re:Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore... by stavros on Monday June 27, 2022 @04:11PM (#31900126)
Here is the original ending (movie spoilers):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Need_Is_Kill

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Re:Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore... by causi on Monday June 27, 2022 @08:56AM (#31893918)
Tenet would fall solidly into the "completely dumb" time travel category for me.
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Re:Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore... by herodoturtle on Monday June 27, 2022 @09:27AM (#31894312)
Watch it backwards.

The special effects of reverse polarity were well executed.

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Re:Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore... by Izkata on Monday June 27, 2022 @09:49AM (#31894568)
> Predestination

Based on the short story All You Zombies (which I've read, but haven't seen the adaptation)

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