Right? It was kind of a perfect role for Tom Cruise.

Right? It was kind of a perfect role for Tom Cruise.

Dying violently repeatedly? Yeah, I can get behind that. And unlike Mel, his crazy religious bullshit doesn't taint the early and intermittent stuff I've liked in retrospect. But, yeah, TC being Wile E.? I can so get behind that.

Tom Cruise is not a box-office draw for me. He was perfect in this, though. It was funny, too, which I didn't expect. A few times I laughed out loud. I liked that the other members of his team got to be heroes too, even if they didn't remember it, and I was happy when I realized that at the end he didn't just go find her because he loved her, but because he could tell her what really happened and tell her that she saved the world. They did the timey-wimey stuff really well, and it was all internally consistent. And the aliens were scary and weird as shit (though I didn't understand why they called the aliens Mimics). I might even get it on Blu-ray and watch it again.

Right? It was kind of a perfect role for Tom Cruise.

Dying violently repeatedly? Yeah, I can get behind that.

Nah. The way the character is written is seriously perfect for Cruise, and he pulls it off really well.

Tom Cruise is not a box-office draw for me.

Me neither, although he was my dreamboat of choice 25 years ago. (Wait -- how old *is* he? Whatever work he's had done is really good. And now that I think of it, it's interesting that Edge of Tomorrow didn't cast any hot young 21-year-olds in J Company. Clever.)

And the aliens were scary and weird as shit

Seriously, their super-power was flailing, really really quickly. And yet frightening.

(though I didn't understand why they called the aliens Mimics).

Yeah, when they mentioned the name at the very beginning of the movie, I thought the aliens would mimic humans.

The Normal Heart, which I am unable to watch until the end of August, has led me to a Ruffalo binge watch. I'm now on Zodiac, and RDJ's Avery is such a Tony Stark prototype, just less manic. And I'm waiting for the mainstream movie where MR us that guy in a woman's movie (which is one of the reasons not being able to watch TNH is frustrating).

But I can see now how he got cast (perfectly) as Bruce Banner.

Me neither, although he was my dreamboat of choice 25 years ago. (Wait -- how old *is* he? Whatever work he's had done is really good.

He was never my type, but there's no denying he looks good. I'm thinking he's had a facelift, at least, just going by the way the skin pulls underneath his earlobe.

it's interesting that Edge of Tomorrow didn't cast any hot young 21-year-olds in J Company

Ford was young and hot!

Ford was young and hot!

I had to look him up because I didn't remember him. Jesus Christ, he is literally 21. He was born the year I graduated from college. I feel so old.

And I just looked up Tom Cruise -- he's 49. Definitely had work done, but it's pretty decent -- he doesn't look like Denis Leary or anything.

Denis Leary had work done? That disappoints me.

I was going to say that Tom Cruise has to be 49. He went to high school with a friend of mine. Santa Monica HS (or Samohi as it is called). She also went to school with Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen (although I think Sheen is my age). She said that even in high school people would point to Cruise and say that he already had an agent and he was going to be famous one day.

Tom Cruise, pre anti-Xenu. Trying to wrap my noggin around that...