Trailer for Netlix's sci-fi movie, ARQ

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They should announce a sequel to Groundhog Day but then just re-release the original.

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Groundhog Day fans would have no problem with this. Everyone else would but they don’t matter in general anyway.

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20 comments and no one has mentioned “Edge of Tomorrow”?

Do we hate Tom Cruise that much?

- Loops through time and dies each day

- Pieces it together incrementally

- Love interest who’s in on it

- Looping caused by technology explained in the universe

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Thanks for the spoilers alert. Oh wait. There wasn’t one. Nice work brainiac.

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Why do you think someone took the time to write an entire screenplay around the idea of killing Tom Cruise over and over?

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I believe a Broadway musical is due shortly.

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You guys don’t remember making these comments yesterday?

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There are some really, really good ones out there, though. I recommend reading Palimpsest!

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Good joke, but it was more like Tom Cruise wanting to be killed over and over - the screenplay was done before engaging talent, and the role was first offered to Brad Pitt (who passed).

Maybe Cruise hoped this ritual would free his thetans or something.

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Sorry, that sounds like almost everything I hate in pseudo SF fantasy. I had to stop listening to Escape Pod after Steve Eley left because of so many stories like this.

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He was great in it, one of my all time favourite roles for him.

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Groundhog Day and Edge of Tomorrow were mentioned, but has no one else seen the 1990 short film “12:01 PM”? It pre-dates Groundhog Day by 3 years, and is based on a short story from 1973. (Apparently it was made into a full length movie later, but I never saw it.)

In the short film Kurtwood Smith is stuck in a loop that’s just one hour long, so even though he can remember each loop he has much less time to try to find a solution. Very much worth watching if you can find it.

From that wiki page, I found another that lists all films with time loops! There are a few before “12:01 PM”, but they don’t seem to have that exact same “stuck in a loop” plot.

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Bill Murray did it better.

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So, is this NetLix you speak of some sort of porn site?

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All narrative tends to involve time travel, otherwise there would be no beginning or end to it. And as Brion Gysin explained: “Time is that which ends.”

I would tend to describe ARQ (based upon what little I know about it) as precisely the opposite, a story where people do not travel through time for a change. They instead occupy the same time.

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No mention of Primer or Predestination on that list?

Maybe they don’t quite fit the description. Both well worth watching, mind.

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Hold that thought while I try to find that joint I squirreled away years ago.

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The TVTropes page covers all forms of media, even real life.

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It covers real life with time loops?

Hold that thought while I try to find that joint I squirreled away years ago.

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Haven’t seen Predestination, but Primer was just a time travel movie. Yes there are loops, but the characters control the time machine, and they aren’t stuck in the same repeating block of time, over and over (like 12:01 PM, Groundhog Day, Edge of Tomorrow etc.) That kind of plot device gives a story a very different feel from the usual time machine story. But of course there are gray areas and room for debate, as evident in that wiki’s Talk page.

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