Edge of Tomorrow: Best Sci-Fi flick evah

[Syt]

To be fair, I felt the characters deserved to have a happy ending after dying hundreds of times so the schmaltzy Hollywoodness of the ending seemed fitting to me.

Yeah, I thought that it would have been fine to quit after the final battle, but I thought after all they've been through (even though only Cruise and Blunt remember what was going on) they deserve a bit of a happy end.

[Neil]

To be fair, I felt the characters deserved to have a happy ending after dying hundreds of times so the schmaltzy Hollywoodness of the ending seemed fitting to me.

Yeah, I thought that it would have been fine to quit after the final battle, but I thought after all they've been through (even though only Cruise and Blunt remember what was going on) they deserve a bit of a happy end.

And really, only Cruise remembers what's going on.  She keeps finding out every day for the first time.  I'm glad they didn't go hard on a love story.

[Syt]

And really, only Cruise remembers what's going on.  She keeps finding out every day for the first time.

That's true, but she's the only one who'll understand is what I meant.

But yeah, not having the damsel in distress as mentioned in the article, and the love arc hinted at rather than front and center was great. And it made sense that he reaches a point where he kinda snaps because he's gotten to know her so well but can't bear to see her killed time and time again. (Again, something she'll understand.)

[FunkMonk]

Also Emily Blunt is really hot.

[Admiral Yi]

I think she's bug-eyed and plain.

[Siege]

With pointy elbows.

[Siege]

The aliens though, are a copy from Orson Scott whatever's Enders Game.
There is only one thinking/self-aware alien and everybody else are cells of the central organism.
I think is more pausible if you look at it from a biotech point of view and see them as wi-fi connected to the central server.

By the way, in the book the Omega is called a Server, the Alphas are Antenae, and I forgot what the grunts were called.

[Eddie Teach]

 

She has nice eyes. Nice elbows too.

[Siege]

[Syt]

There is only one thinking/self-aware alien and everybody else are cells of the central organism.

Well, it's a narrative device that's supposed to explain why the heroes have to fight their way through hordes of enemies on the way to the Big Bad, but once that Big Bad is defeated, it immediately solves the problem and destroys all baddies.

It's a way to get around having to mop up all the millions of aliens afterwards.

[Siege]

There is only one thinking/self-aware alien and everybody else are cells of the central organism.

Well, it's a narrative device that's supposed to explain why the heroes have to fight their way through hordes of enemies on the way to the Big Bad, but once that Big Bad is defeated, it immediately solves the problem and destroys all baddies.

It's a way to get around having to mop up all the millions of aliens afterwards.

Of course.
My point was Enders Game is the first instance in which this type of alien is used, in which it meant humans lost a lot of people while the aliens lost only one.

From a technological point of view, it makes sense to me to build a biomechanical army with individual grunts having narrow AIs connected through a wi-fi-like sytem to a strong AI in charge of the whole expedition. Of course, this doesn't mean they will all "die" when the strong AI is destroyed. Pretty sure aliens or future humans would use back-up systems, and narrow AIs would have to be tactically self-sufficient since the laws of warfare dictate the first target would be to sever the wi-fi connection to the strong AI by EMP, some sort of jamming, or some type of virus. I would say destuction of the strong AI would mean the collapse of strategy level planning and support, but whatever is happening on the tactical level will keep going until drone/grunts are destroyed or they run out of power.

[Admiral Yi]

Starship Troopers had brain bugs.

[Siege]

By the way, in the book the aliens are not an invading force, but rather a terraforming biomachine sent to terraform Earth to the needs of an alien race that did not bother to check if the planet was inhabited. They eat soil and release poisonous gas to transform the atmosphere. Humans of course attacked, and the alien machine started to build weapons.

[Siege]

Starship Troopers had brain bugs.

The book? I don't rememeber if they were all controlling like in Enders Game.
I remember the character of Flores was a man, and all the pilots were females, all the infantry were males.

[Admiral Yi]

The film for sure.  Can't remember if the book did or not.