movies

The book's english title was All you need is kill .

Live Die Repeat was the name the Director wanted to use for the movie.

I don't know why the naming is so... bad

Hehe get up maggot!

I appreciated that at the height of the Thank you For your Service propaganda in the US, Cruise played a character that was honest about wanting to avoid combat.

What made it a better Tom Cruise movie was that he wasn't Tom Cruise right away.

In his movies he is always the best soldier and never makes a mistake, in this he started off unlikable and had to become the best, one mistake at a time.

Blunt said this movie left her in tears and pain from all the suit work.

But

She would be up for a sequel if it worked. Only trick is convincing John to do it.

Cruise is fresh out of franchises, so it makes sense.

If you haven't seen Palm Springs with Andy Samberg, it's really good. Another Groundhog Day kinda movie

I prefer to see this one as a video game, the main character keeps dying and respawning at the beginning of the game, and it could be days between spawn and respawn.
Then about 2/3 through, it goes into Survival Mode.

Oo that is a bridge too far for me. I am going to have to think on that statement.

Not Everything Everywhere All At Once?

Not a complete list but here's a selection of movies that have come out since the turn of the century that I feel beat it out in ranking for "best action movie":

Matrix Reloaded

Lord of The Rings trilogy

John Wick 4

Logan

Mad Max: Fury Road

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

House of Flying Daggers

Dredd

Everything Everywhere All At Once

But yeah, I mean it's up there in rarefied air.

Ehhhhhhh....

I'm still personally giving that to Dredd (2012).

Its... basically the distilled, platonic ideal of 'a dumb action movie', at least to me.

Extremely simple in general concept, not a complex story at all.

But executed fucking brilliantly.

Don't get me wrong, other movies have better combat, more intricate and realistic choreography, crazier stunts, more mind bending stories.

But Dredd?

The movie is ... literally like the character.

Efficient, decisive, to the point, with exactly the right amount of spectacular violence, world building, action movie 'zinger' type lines, plot and character developement, with near perfect timing/pacing...

...and holy shit that soundtrack.

Oh, you want to convey furious intensity restrained into controlled bursts of maximally efficient destruction?

Cool!

Lets make the entire soundtrack out of angry sawtooth waveforms.