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TopicGauntlet Crew Ranks Sci Fi Films I-2
Mega Mana
12/10/18 6:50:11 PM
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Glad to see Edge of Tomorrow win it, and Moon in the top five. I'm with Lopen on the ending of Edge being a bit too pat, but it actually works pretty well. The alien invasion was only so fast and so successful because the hivemind could replay scenarios over and over and over again and go with the best strategy to take down their opponents. The destruction of the queen in that suicidal gambit pretty much spelled the end for the opponents. It remove their timeloop strategy where, like Cage's many many many deaths, they presumably just did things until they died but were told what to do better the next millions of times, and now they just go out and die because they're drones with no direction. Not only that, but given its a hive society, their queen is their brain, their general, and their everything AFAIK. Who knows when the last time they had an individual self or thought or ability to think or to do without being given explicit instructions? Subtracting their queen, their strategy, the massive upward and downward shifts in morale on both sides, and with the newfound knowledge from both Blunt and Cruise on the other side, I can see decimation of the aliens with a much much lesser loss of life on the humans' side turning things around extremely quickly.

It makes more sense than Independence Day, that's for certain.
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