I loved the movie too! I can't believe I haven't see it before.

I also am slightly ashamed that I found Gene Kelly very sexy. Rowr.

There is no shame in that le n. Rowr is right.

BTW Dragon report: three thumbs up (saw it with the kids).

I found Gene Kelly very sexy.

As is right and proper, IMHO.

Fourthing the sexiness of Gene Kelly.

I saw an interesting oldie yesterday -- Lightning Strikes Twice . "Trev" Trevelyan (Richard Todd) is accused of murdering his wife, Lorraine (who doesn't appear in the movie). After a hung jury (largely because one juror insisted on Not Guilty), the DA dismisses the charges. But the town (Texas desert and nearby ranches) believes he's guilty, even though they believe that Lorraine was no good. So Trev disappears. Then along comes Shelley (Ruth Roman), an actress who's come out to a dude ranch for her health. Shelley runs into Trev by accident. Shelley falls in love. And eventually we find out how Lorraine really died.

There isn't anything new here. At times, this movie feels like Rebecca as done by the junior varsity. And yet, it has so many of the virtues of the post-WW2 B picture. It doesn't try to be a bigger deal than it is. Todd and Roman make a fine pair of romantic leads. Some names among the supporting cast -- Zachary Scott as Harvey, Trev's competition for Shelley, Mercedes McCambridge and Darryl Hickman as Liza and "String," the operators of the dude ranch.

Not great, but satisfying in its own way.

Dammit, I just realized the end to Edge of Tomorrow, though satisfying, doesn't work. I can handwave it to work, but it really doesn't work.

Which part, Zen? The reset to him on the helicopter? Or something else?

Dammit, I just realized the end to Edge of Tomorrow, though satisfying, doesn't work. I can handwave it to work, but it really doesn't work.

Pretty much, yeah.

Steph, yes. Everything else worked, but that last time when he reset, he reset to the helicopter when he was flying in, before he got arrested, before he did any of the things that ended with the Omega's death. Yet the Omega was dead anyway. He would have had to have been killing the Omega the night before, while he was sleeping on the helicopter. But it all happened the same day. It's impossible. The only way I can make it work is to say, instead of each repeated day being an actual time reset, they were all a chain of forward-moving continual do-overs, all "powered" by the Omega. Then when the Omega died it could no longer make resets happen, but because the Omega existed outside of normal time, its death became a "fixed point", so that even though Cage got one last chance to reset the day, the Omega was still dead.

I'm happy to have the ending we got, regardless, because we never got a definitive explanation of how the Omega's time-altering powers worked (and we couldn't have anyway, since no one sat down and had a cuppa with it and asked). All we had was the scientist's guess, which worked well enough but may not have been entirely correct.

that last time when he reset

I was able to explain it when we saw the movie, but I already can't remember how I justified it.