Edge of Tomorrow 2

[Christopher]

From a marketing standpoint, in my professional opinion, All you Need is Kill makes no sense as a movie title for the original, as it says nothing about what the movie might entail (Yes I know there was a lot of killing, but that wasn't the point of the story). The point is for the title to actually have something that alludes to what's going on in the movie, because the now shorter-than-it-used-to-be attention span of the average movie viewer would see that and go "huh?"...

Granted, but Edge of Tomorrow is even worse in that respect. It doesn't say it's a war movie, it doesn't say it's science fiction, it doesn't clearly say it's about time travel. Sure, it has "Tomorrow" in it, but so do plenty of movies that have nothing to do with time travel (No Tomorrow, Tomorrow Never Dies, If Tomorrow Comes, etc.). It could be the title of a sappy romance or a psychological thriller or a thoughtful drama or just about anything.

 

[marillion]

Certainly granted. It's all a matter of perspective. And the big studios are going to go with what sounds safe (at least they have been, pre-Deadpool) for the most part and hope that bank rolls in on the strength of the trailers and the star.

 

[JWPlatt]

Deadpool sounds like a Dirty Harry movie to me. Oh yeah, it was, close enough. I was looking forward to more Clint Eastwood. Alas.

 

[davejames]

I really liked Oblivion and find it to be an underrated movie, but I think EoT/L.D.R. was the superior movie it excited me more and had a more interesting premise. For me. That said, Oblivion lends itself better to a sequel than EoT/L.D.R. does; not even sure where they can go from here. What, he gets the ability again? Since he already knows how it works and likely would have told Blunt's character about it afterwards (since it happened to her to) isn't half any potential story gone since part of the "fun" of it was him learning and manipulating the rules of the resetting day? Not really sure where a sequel can go.

Yeah I see that as the main problem too. Most of what made the movie work was the fun of watching Cruise learn all the time travel rules and go through the trial and error of getting things right.

By the end he was a complete pro at it (and also a much better person to boot), so it's hard to imagine where a sequel could really go from there.

Unless the power just works completely differently this time for some reason.