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Apr 24^th, 2013 at 11:10pm

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Tom Cruise is a maintenance worker on an earth that's been devastated by an alien invasion and abandoned by the entire population. The film looks great but the plot is slow starting. Some good surprises in it but you may guess a lot of them.

I can't complain but sometimes I still do. Life's been good to me so far.

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Reply #1 - Apr 25^th, 2013 at 6:47am

Frank Offline
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da_Bunnyman wrote on Apr 24^th, 2013 at 11:10pm:

I have not seen it yet. However, my daughter saw it and told me it's OK, but don't pay money at a theater to see it. All the warning that I needed.

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Reply #2 - Apr 26^th, 2013 at 3:38pm

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ok. let's move on. i hear iron man 3 is good.

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Reply #3 - Apr 27^th, 2013 at 12:03am

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It's pretty good, actually; I would have wanted all the toys if it came out thirty years ago. It's maybe not hugely original but it is executed Very Well Indeed; it's easy to laugh at Tom Cruise but there's a reason he's been a big movie star for a quarter-century without every really falling out of favor with audiences. It's more a synthesis of sci-fi ideas than something wholly original, but it's fun and looks and sounds good enough (Kosinski has a knack for getting great soundtracks) to be big-screen-worthy.

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Reply #4 - Apr 27^th, 2013 at 2:29am

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kirok wrote on Apr 26^th, 2013 at 3:38pm:

ok. let's move on. i hear iron man 3 is good.

I agree!

What is all this talk about a low budget SF movie that was one of our so-so "Premieres" waaaaaaaay back at SF/20? Yeah, it's got George Takei and Isaac Hayes, but Takei has never been box office outside of TREK and Hayes has passed on.

And, why in you know who's name would a major studio re-release it 18 years later? Puzzling.......... Huh

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