485: Iterative Movies Are My Jam

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Watch movie. Do podcast. Repeat. We’re pretty sure this is our first time discussing “Edge of Tomorrow,” but can you ever really be sure? Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt star in this film about fighting an alien invasion through countless iterations of a single event. But unlike “Groundhog Day”, the origin of the time loops is key to the plot. If you haven’t seen this one yet, you’re missing out on one of the decade’s most under-appreciated sci-fi films. Watch movie. Do podcast. Repeat.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable T-shirts are back on sale through November 17th.
0:03.6	There's the new Incomparable logo, a robot or not shirt, the random trek spaceship, and the total party kill dragon.
0:09.2	Get them now at theincom slash shirt.
0:13.3	The incomparable, number 485, November 2019.
0:25.1	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable. I am your host, Jason Snell.
0:41.2	And on this episode, we're going to be talking about a film. This is almost like a little mini-series of maybe not entirely appropriately appreciated science fiction films of this century. What I'm saying is that this is a movie that we like and you may have not seen. And it's live, die, repeat, edge of tomorrow.
0:49.3	I don't know what the title is. It's all those things. It's all you need is kill. It's many things.
0:53.4	It's Tom Cruise and he keeps dying and it's from 2014. And we're going to talk about it. Just like we talked about source code, which was another one of these kind of not appreciated entirely as much as it should be movies. Joining me to talk about Edge of Tomorrow are these two proud members of J-Squod.
1:13.4	Erica Ensign, fall in.
1:15.1	Hello.
1:15.6	I am currently entertaining the notion that our fate is in hands, not our own.
1:19.7	And John Syracusa.
1:21.2	On your feet, maggot.
1:24.2	That's a different tone than I got you babe the sentiment is similar right it really it
1:32.6	it actually gives me exactly the same feeling like it's just the same so this is a a groundhog day
1:39.3	movie this is a time loop movie this is a you keep repeating the same events over and over again and learn as you go kind of movie. It's sort of the answer to the question that nobody asked, which is, what if, what if Groundhog Day was a violent military science fiction film?
1:57.9	But more importantly, this movie, like Groundhog Day is not interested at all in why we're
2:05.2	looping in time, whereas this movie is very interested.
2:07.9	It's true.
2:08.2	In fact, it's integral to the plot, which is part of why this is a sci-fi movie.
2:12.4	Because sci-fi movies do actually care about, you know, what's the deal with the aliens
2:17.1	or why is there a time loop or, you know, whatever the case may be, whether it's interstellar or just your straight-up sci-fi.
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