Their anatomy is never explicitly stated, but they seem to be silica based lifeforms with an extremely high body temperature (which is why they’re able to move so quickly)! Their blood looks like molten rock, and when it gets on Tom Cruise, his face literally melts! Very cool design and great visual storytelling!
@@jonathansiagian2729 A lot of chemical reactions go way faster when it's hotter so they can just perform every action faster. In the human body alone we need a lot of katalysts to even allow for certain bodily functions to not shut down due to the reactions not being feasible at body temperature without aid.
Edge Of Tomorrow was derived from the Light Novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka - Despite some parts being wildly different I was pleasantly surprised when I watched the film at how well it adapted the Light Novel and the Manga.
It is honestly amazing how he never mentions it in this video. He keeps going on about the filmmakers decision this and that, completely ignoring that they did not create any of this from scratch.
@@speziell1575to be honest, the movie is so different from the novel it might as well be called its own thing that's only inspired by All you need is kill.
@@speziell1575blatantly false. The mimics here are nothing like the mimics in the light novel or manga at all. They may as well be different species due to how different they are. So yeah, he should concentrate on the filmmakers here, since the only thing they took out of the manga and ln mimics is the name and the time travel ability. Everything else is original work that the studio did.
@randomdude3578 but the time travel ability is literally what sets the apart from other aliens in film... If All You Need Is Kill hadn't been written then this film wouldn't exist and that's a fact so I don't see how it's too much to ask to just at least name drop the original author to recognise that this story exists because of him.
@@randomdude3578 They changed the location from Japan to Europe but they kept the Exoskeletons, the male & female protagonists, the time mechanics and most of the solution to the invasion - The only major plot point they changed was the every ending between Keiji and Rita, because I doubt they felt they could get away with that and still feel like the film ended positively which would have left viewers feeling very unsatisfied. This is very similar to say The Lion King which is based on Hamlet, or She's the Man which is basically Twelfth Night in a modern setting. Yes, they restyled the mimics as they wouldn't have worked very well on screen, but besides that the core ideas are all still there.
Part of the reason it is probably such a solid movie is that it was based on what I have heard is a solid anime/manga. And not the fan service kind. The graphic novel mode. Sort of why the first Pacific Rim movie is great also. That + Guillermo and his weird obsession with Lovecraftian nightmare fuel themes lol.
I remember watching this in the theater and being absolutely HORRIFIED by the mimics. It felt so hopeless to even try to fight them. But it was so cool to see the main characters confidence grow throughout the movie, which in turn increased my confidence as well. Amazing story telling through character design 👌
The mimics kicking up sand and dirt makes sense even from an in-universe perspective. They would have to push with a massive amount of force to move that quickly. And the way the tentacles dig into the ground, and how they shift their body weight, would account for why they don't skid when sharply changing direction. Just really, really good creature design.
My favourite aspect of the Mimics is how their totally alien style of movement connects to their different relationship to space and time, their ability to control time makes their super fast alien movement seem all the more fitting. Similar to how the aliens in Arrival in the way that their slow, deliberate movements reflect their different relationship to time.
In the Halo games there's this species that partly makes up The Covenant called the Lekgolo (i.e. the Hunters) that are somewhat similar to how the Mimics in Edge Of Tomorrow originally were designed that being as many smaller worm-like creatures that can make a singular larger and more capable entity when working together
@@ed32568there are the scarabs, harvesters from spartan ops which are mining vehicles, and goliaths in halo wars which are basically just bigger hunters without a cannon
One shudders to think what circumstances create creatures who have evolved to be literally so unpredictable that the only way of surviving a hostile encounter from them is to reset time over and over and over again. Great job, Doug Liman.
Super cool to hear how much work went into these. I always thought that having so many limbs/tentacles moving so fast made them scarier, because it was impossible to track their movements.
If their speed could be believable, maybe. And then, if that were believable, then some explanation how the humans had the slightest chance of surviving and holding out against them as long as shown, maybe - because their equipment didn't _look_ in any way like it gave them any chance to keep up in close combat.
It was pretty nice how that tied into their ability to control time, Mimics were fast because they themselves had already been on that beach a thousand times and they were just hyper efficient at slaughtering resistance and mastering every scenario. What is better is that the audience doesn't need to be hand held to understand how powerful and planet destroying they are, it's just self evident. Fantastic monster design imho. The original 'All you need is kill' manga delves deeper into these concepts
It's iconic but it's also far more familiar, with a body shape that's similar to many primates (two legs, two "arms" and a tail) and a life cycle based on that of parasitoid wasps which are truly fascinating and horrifying creatures in their own right - they're examples of viral symbiosis, each wasp species carrying a unique polyDNA virus encoded in its own genome which is only expressed in the ovaries of the female wasp. Viral particles are produced to be injected into the host organism along with the egg, and the virus wipes out the host's immune system!
Ah damn! I've forgotten about that! Yea that alien was amazing, one of the few that I couldn't figure out how they did! Might have to do a video on it at some point
🛑Why we always show “aliens” as ugly scary creatures? 😒 I assume if they r smarter & more advanced than us, they at least would look stunning & magnificent🤏
I think it flopped because it was a boring movie. The only good thing about it were the visuals but they were just a bunch of ideas that werent connected to the narrative. Whatever the writers had in mind they said "the shimmer did it". And the characters are all boring and not likeable at all.
Agreed on that. Not only was it visually unlike anything in other alien movies, but it was so unworldly that even its intentions were never really understood, if there were any. As for tanking at the box office, I think the movie was a little too cerebral for most people. When movies need non-stop action and simplistic plots to draw tons of people, movies like Annihilation get side-lined.
I've used the thematic stories in this movie and the monster design in so many of my own ways throughout tabletop games I've run since it's release and I'm honestly doubtful if any of my players ever picked up on the ways I'd done it... this movie is so underrated honestly... like holy hell is it badly unappreciated in my own perspective.
It feels like so many amazing sci-fi films go unlooked. Edge of Tomorrow, District 9, The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008), Arrival, The Tomorrow War, even The Happening or The Fourth Kind. Films that aren't only meant to entertain but also to give people even a small grasp on what is realistically possible. Thank you so much. I just found your channel and will be checking out more soon
The only Cruise film I rewatch regularly. This was a really informative video. The minute I imagined those moving without all of the sand and dirt being kicked up I could see how awful it would have looked. Just genius effects artists. Not even nominated for the Visual Effects Oscar
The Xenomorph from the alien franchise is definitely my favourite alien design. Maybe you could do a video on that? They're not really CGI for the most part, though.
🛑Why we always show “aliens” as ugly scary creatures? 😒 I assume if they r smarter & more advanced than us, they at least would look stunning & magnificent🤏
@@CGWHY i guess, you will have a good time with Alien 3, where they manage to make the Xenomorph miniature look like pure and not that good CGI in some shots :)
I was a sailor on my first contract, and this movie was running non-stop on the TV monitor in my cabin, for at least a month. My roommate set it up and I didn't even want to change anything. Just muted it sometimes, from time to time. And you know, what? It was perfectly fine. And still, I can watch it anytime and enjoy it.
In my opinion, the shape-shifting or shape-assimilating alien in Carpenter's "The Thing" is also a completely unique design. The fact that the alien can constantly change its shape, splitting off and reassimilating parts to create something completely new, and that you never know what it really looks like, makes it an equally unique and terrifying opponent that is in no way inferior to the Mimics.
The more I see this movie, the more I like it. The action scenes are some of the best in any sci-fi movie, especially one so military-centric. Definitely a classic to me.
Idk, i would give the "truly alien" reward to Annihilation, its alien is completely unlike anything. You dont even see it until the last few minutes of the film, and even then it can be assumed that that is STILL not its "true" form. Try to describe the appearance of the Annihilation "alien" to someone who's never seen it. It's REALLY difficult and almost impossible.
My only problem is that we didn't get MORE of the Mimics. I know they're constantly throughout the film, but they're always shrowded by dirt and debris. The only good glimps you get of them is right before Cage dies and when hes ambushed at the damn. The rest of the time, they're moving too fast to see anything. It would have been cool to see one in captivity or something.
I like the design of the mimics here than the manga. They tried to keep it close to how mimics moved in the manga since they were literally spheres. They made it more alive and alive which is very nice to see
I really like how the mimics move as though time is different for them. As for alien-looking aliens, the microscopic crystalline organism in The Andromeda Strain is pretty alien, not even a mouth!
The Mimics in the Edge of Tomorrow and the White Spikes from The Tomorrow War are my favourite modern movie aliens. They are perfectly portrayed as relentless and unstoppable civilization ending invaders. Makes me yearn for a Xenomorph movie shot with the same grand battles instead of the usual trope of a whole hive chasing a handful of stricken space miners down some corridors. I also like the invaders from Battle: Los Angeles but they don't have the primal animalistic viciousness of the Mimics and White Spikes. They're just the updated version of the humanoid alien invaders with guns.
One of the main things i like about this movie is that you get to see the creatures very well. They succeed in making them even more scary than if you had to resort to the tired troupe of "what you can't see is scarier". No, No it's not scarier. Show me what to be scared of and do that right. Then you have a good basis for a movie.
One of my fav movies of all time. Considering it's almost a decade old, it still holds up as one of the best VFX I've ever seen in movies. The practical stuff definitely helped the VFX artists to serve as reference but it also helped them to keep everything touch with reality and speaking of the aliens, after watching the VFX breakdown, it broke my brain seeing how big brain the artists went doing RnD for the aliens in this movie.
This is one of my top 5 sci-fi films of all time and I always feel the need to show it to people because it fell between the cracks and under the radar for most people.
I loved them, they are underrated really. Perfect aliens. Their look, their anatomy, the unknown, the movements, the abilities, the sounds. Just like aliens should have - all different from everything we know on our planet yet logically possible
This movie is actually based on a manga called "All you need is kill". In it, the mimics are spheres with huge creepy human mouths that send out stabbing spikes from everywhere on their bodies at will. The problem would be those don't look very compelling. The mouths are hugely unsettling, but they wouldn't translate well to the big screen. Also, you really labor the point of requiring time resets and time loops to defeat them and that's the only way, but it's the other way around. We're the infinitely adaptable, incredibly versatile, and totally unpredictable monsters, and these alien invaders required time resets to defeat US.
You beat me to it! I think the "Invasion" aliens (well, the ones from season one, at least - the ones that appear midway through season two are less impressive) are great - very alien and yet somehow quite believable.
War of Tomorrow, the white spikes are so far my fav of all aliens, aside from the xenomorph but that ios ofc classic cinema and concept. Alien will forever be iconic but from the modern types of alien monsters white spikes are by far my fav, the design is truly beautiful and agressive. They have nothing special in what they do but the visual design is what captured my attention and the CGI on the movie is really well done.
Loved that movie. Honestly read the book before watching it and was semi expected to be disapointed. In the end though this is the perfect blend of adaptation one could have. They took the concept, but changed it for the better in my opinion, giving both the movie and the book its own life. Also really happy how they changed the mimics from the books to the movie ones. I absolutely loved how they were on screen and would have probably laughed my ass off seeing the book version waddling about.
My personal favorite for aliens from space are the heptapods from Arrival. Yes, there's a lot of metaphysical thought tied up in this movie like the TRUE DIFFICULTY trying to establish communication with an intelligent galaxy traversing race. Also their ability to write being completely independent of their ability to "speak". Yes, Arrival is not a shoot 'em up movie but you were asking about totally nonhuman aliens.
I watched this movie with my dad several times and it is one of my favorites. It does have a lot of flaws, but also a lot of feats that makes it truly unique and very enjoyable.
I never realized that it didn't garner wide attention. I saw it early on due to my dad telling me about it, and I have seen it SO MANY times since. Might go watch.
These Mimics remind me a lot of the game Prey, the way they move and look, their almost random nature with the twisting organic parts, this movie came out before the game so it may have taken inspiration from this, and if so, that is really cool!
I think the best portrayal of an alien in any media is the colour from „the color out of space“ by H.P. Lovecraft. Its a thing that is alive, but can not be grasped by humans in any way, and even science, the tool that so far, has explained almost everything to us, cant explain it either
I'm STILL hoping for a second movie. Evidently, it would be more a 'Prequel' with the story of how/when/where these aliens first came and how it developed from there with more of 'Rita's first encounter and experiences with her time reset abilities. IF it's made as well as the first, it would be as great as the first movie was (shame though that it didn't do as well as hoped in the cinemas). I loved this film! 👍 😎🇬🇧
I remember picking this film up back at family video yeah that long ago and when I finished watching it, I said to myself wow that was actually pretty darn good. No idea why no one else gave it another chance.
I remember watching this movie like a year or two after it came out and honestly I was thoroughly impressed with it and surprised that I never even heard of it before seeing it. I actually found it by accident because my dad had it randomly downloaded and I decided to watch it. Very good movie and do recommend.
I very much enjoyed this film. I also enjoyed 'Arrival' and the protagonists of the alien species, Abbott and Costello. A very interesting concept of communication between us and the alien species who are not here to eat us or appropriate our resources.
When i watch the movie for the first time i gravitate that the monsters look like how those clumps of centipedes move together. For me it's still grounded in human perception.
THis game was/ is a winner. So damn underrated. It can be watched over and over again. No wokeness, no Alphabet, just good action, good acting, good storyline. I just wish the very end was handled a little bit "nicer" and loving.
I actually jumped for joy and fear! Best aliens I've seen since the xenos of Alien movies. I bought the movie and have watched multiple times just trying to follow their movements. Excellent!
One of my favorite movies! I never read the novel it was based on but I did read the manga adaptation of the novel before watching the movie. The mimics are pretty different in both, as in the manga you cant kill them besides with a special piston spike weapon (or a giant anime axe lol), and their designs are very diffeent, looking more spherical. Honestly I like what they did with the movie mimics more, theyre much easier to kill but that movement is mesmerizing, its so unique. The movie kept the basic concept and had similar character dynamic between the leads but the ending is very different and the two leads have rather diffeent personalities in the manga. Also, the character in the movie being Cage is almost certainly taken from "Killer Cage" the name Keiji gets at the end of the manga. Idk how it is in the novel but while the movie is pretty different, taking a more grounded approach, I love both
most unique in a stretch, def one of the most slept on sci fi films of the 2000's but most unique is pretty wild, i thought in terms of niche uniqueness the arrival aliens were pretty new and something i hadnt seen, as well as annihilation
This and few other unique aliens in cinemas such as from Nope, Annihilation, and the Thing is what makes "alien" become a different term for space creature aside from simply being humanoid or human-like in my opinion Another unique alien I'd like to point out is the ELS (Extraterrestrial Living-metal Shape-shifter) from animated movie Gundam 00 Awakening of the Trailblazer and Coral from the game Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. These are unique on their own
I think Annihilation (2018) with Natalie Portman got another great example of how otherworldy aliens can be, in the movie the environment and people within it were physically changing and going crazy by merely existing in the entity's area of effect really cements how dangerous and unpredictable the universe can be and all the things in it.
Their anatomy is never explicitly stated, but they seem to be silica based lifeforms with an extremely high body temperature (which is why they’re able to move so quickly)! Their blood looks like molten rock, and when it gets on Tom Cruise, his face literally melts! Very cool design and great visual storytelling!
thats a good point actually
Always thought their blood was a sort of acid which was acidic enough to melt through skin
Black griffon! You here?
just curious, how does having high body temperature allow such speed? Or is it to do with silica based life?
@@jonathansiagian2729 A lot of chemical reactions go way faster when it's hotter so they can just perform every action faster.
In the human body alone we need a lot of katalysts to even allow for certain bodily functions to not shut down due to the reactions not being feasible at body temperature without aid.
Edge Of Tomorrow was derived from the Light Novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka - Despite some parts being wildly different I was pleasantly surprised when I watched the film at how well it adapted the Light Novel and the Manga.
It is honestly amazing how he never mentions it in this video. He keeps going on about the filmmakers decision this and that, completely ignoring that they did not create any of this from scratch.
@@speziell1575to be honest, the movie is so different from the novel it might as well be called its own thing that's only inspired by All you need is kill.
@@speziell1575blatantly false. The mimics here are nothing like the mimics in the light novel or manga at all. They may as well be different species due to how different they are.
So yeah, he should concentrate on the filmmakers here, since the only thing they took out of the manga and ln mimics is the name and the time travel ability. Everything else is original work that the studio did.
@randomdude3578 but the time travel ability is literally what sets the apart from other aliens in film... If All You Need Is Kill hadn't been written then this film wouldn't exist and that's a fact so I don't see how it's too much to ask to just at least name drop the original author to recognise that this story exists because of him.
@@randomdude3578 They changed the location from Japan to Europe but they kept the Exoskeletons, the male & female protagonists, the time mechanics and most of the solution to the invasion - The only major plot point they changed was the every ending between Keiji and Rita, because I doubt they felt they could get away with that and still feel like the film ended positively which would have left viewers feeling very unsatisfied.
This is very similar to say The Lion King which is based on Hamlet, or She's the Man which is basically Twelfth Night in a modern setting. Yes, they restyled the mimics as they wouldn't have worked very well on screen, but besides that the core ideas are all still there.
This movie is VERY underrated. Shame it didn’t do well in theatres.
Part of the reason it is probably such a solid movie is that it was based on what I have heard is a solid anime/manga. And not the fan service kind. The graphic novel mode.
Sort of why the first Pacific Rim movie is great also. That + Guillermo and his weird obsession with Lovecraftian nightmare fuel themes lol.
wdym? It did amazing!
@@ThatOneRussianTank That is incorrect.
@@nikolai3620 really?
Underrated??? HELL NO!
I remember watching this in the theater and being absolutely HORRIFIED by the mimics. It felt so hopeless to even try to fight them. But it was so cool to see the main characters confidence grow throughout the movie, which in turn increased my confidence as well. Amazing story telling through character design 👌
The mimics kicking up sand and dirt makes sense even from an in-universe perspective. They would have to push with a massive amount of force to move that quickly. And the way the tentacles dig into the ground, and how they shift their body weight, would account for why they don't skid when sharply changing direction. Just really, really good creature design.
And with their momentum being their main strength they must really hate fighting on the beach!
My favourite aspect of the Mimics is how their totally alien style of movement connects to their different relationship to space and time, their ability to control time makes their super fast alien movement seem all the more fitting. Similar to how the aliens in Arrival in the way that their slow, deliberate movements reflect their different relationship to time.
The design of these aliens always fascinated me, they're essentially a living blender
In the Halo games there's this species that partly makes up The Covenant called the Lekgolo (i.e. the Hunters) that are somewhat similar to how the Mimics in Edge Of Tomorrow originally were designed that being as many smaller worm-like creatures that can make a singular larger and more capable entity when working together
I know we've seen this in Halo Landfall, but imagine if we had different forms of Lekgolo combinations in the games, they could be amazing to fight.
@@ed32568 Scarabs are also Lekgolo
@@ed32568there are the scarabs, harvesters from spartan ops which are mining vehicles, and goliaths in halo wars which are basically just bigger hunters without a cannon
One shudders to think what circumstances create creatures who have evolved to be literally so unpredictable that the only way of surviving a hostile encounter from them is to reset time over and over and over again. Great job, Doug Liman.
This is probably one of my favorite Sci-fi movies I've seen, glad to see it covered
Yeah, I've only seen it like 9 times now. Better give it another chance, or read that manga again :D
You should watch "The Tomorrow War". It's amazing!
Super cool to hear how much work went into these. I always thought that having so many limbs/tentacles moving so fast made them scarier, because it was impossible to track their movements.
If their speed could be believable, maybe. And then, if that were believable, then some explanation how the humans had the slightest chance of surviving and holding out against them as long as shown, maybe - because their equipment didn't _look_ in any way like it gave them any chance to keep up in close combat.
It was pretty nice how that tied into their ability to control time, Mimics were fast because they themselves had already been on that beach a thousand times and they were just hyper efficient at slaughtering resistance and mastering every scenario. What is better is that the audience doesn't need to be hand held to understand how powerful and planet destroying they are, it's just self evident. Fantastic monster design imho. The original 'All you need is kill' manga delves deeper into these concepts
"Made the mimics into the most 'alien alien' in all of cinema."
Xenomorph casual crying in the corner of the vent.
It's iconic but it's also far more familiar, with a body shape that's similar to many primates (two legs, two "arms" and a tail) and a life cycle based on that of parasitoid wasps which are truly fascinating and horrifying creatures in their own right - they're examples of viral symbiosis, each wasp species carrying a unique polyDNA virus encoded in its own genome which is only expressed in the ovaries of the female wasp. Viral particles are produced to be injected into the host organism along with the egg, and the virus wipes out the host's immune system!
Annihilation has a fantastically alien "alien"
So alien it's arguably the reason the movie kind of tanked at the box office 😅
Ah damn! I've forgotten about that! Yea that alien was amazing, one of the few that I couldn't figure out how they did! Might have to do a video on it at some point
🛑Why we always show “aliens” as ugly scary creatures? 😒
I assume if they r smarter & more advanced than us, they at least would look stunning & magnificent🤏
I thought they did a great job with that alien. It was like seeing something the human mind can't understand.
I think it flopped because it was a boring movie. The only good thing about it were the visuals but they were just a bunch of ideas that werent connected to the narrative. Whatever the writers had in mind they said "the shimmer did it". And the characters are all boring and not likeable at all.
Agreed on that. Not only was it visually unlike anything in other alien movies, but it was so unworldly that even its intentions were never really understood, if there were any. As for tanking at the box office, I think the movie was a little too cerebral for most people. When movies need non-stop action and simplistic plots to draw tons of people, movies like Annihilation get side-lined.
I freaking love this movie and it's a shame we barely get anything like it anymore.
I've used the thematic stories in this movie and the monster design in so many of my own ways throughout tabletop games I've run since it's release and I'm honestly doubtful if any of my players ever picked up on the ways I'd done it... this movie is so underrated honestly... like holy hell is it badly unappreciated in my own perspective.
I'd add to this excellent critique that Edge of Tomorrow is one of the few films that does time travel correctly.
It feels like so many amazing sci-fi films go unlooked. Edge of Tomorrow, District 9, The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008), Arrival, The Tomorrow War, even The Happening or The Fourth Kind. Films that aren't only meant to entertain but also to give people even a small grasp on what is realistically possible.
Thank you so much. I just found your channel and will be checking out more soon
The only Cruise film I rewatch regularly. This was a really informative video. The minute I imagined those moving without all of the sand and dirt being kicked up I could see how awful it would have looked. Just genius effects artists. Not even nominated for the Visual Effects Oscar
I took my oldest kids to see it in the theater. It was cool seeing it on the 70th anniversary of D-day.
Extremely underrated sci-fi movie. Cool story, great acting, exceptional designs. I love it
Underrated? Really? For the rest I agree that this is a highly entertaining story although the script has some annoying shortcomings.
The Xenomorph from the alien franchise is definitely my favourite alien design. Maybe you could do a video on that? They're not really CGI for the most part, though.
That's a great idea, would be cool to see their progression over time from "real" suit to CG character and how that affected each film's production
Strong agree
🛑Why we always show “aliens” as ugly scary creatures? 😒
I assume if they r smarter & more advanced than us, they at least would look stunning & magnificent🤏
@@CGWHY i guess, you will have a good time with Alien 3, where they manage to make the Xenomorph miniature look like pure and not that good CGI in some shots :)
I think the arachnids from Starship Troopers took the top alien design spot for me.
I was a sailor on my first contract, and this movie was running non-stop on the TV monitor in my cabin, for at least a month. My roommate set it up and I didn't even want to change anything. Just muted it sometimes, from time to time. And you know, what? It was perfectly fine. And still, I can watch it anytime and enjoy it.
I've seen "Edge Of Tomorrow" least 8 times already. Have it in 3D. Awesome film.
My dad took me and my brother to see this movie in IMAX when it premiered, hands down one of the best cinema experiences I've ever had.
In my opinion, the shape-shifting or shape-assimilating alien in Carpenter's "The Thing" is also a completely unique design. The fact that the alien can constantly change its shape, splitting off and reassimilating parts to create something completely new, and that you never know what it really looks like, makes it an equally unique and terrifying opponent that is in no way inferior to the Mimics.
The more I see this movie, the more I like it. The action scenes are some of the best in any sci-fi movie, especially one so military-centric. Definitely a classic to me.
Literally my favorite movie. It was fantastic in the theater back in 2014 and it still slaps today.
I love ambience of chaotic battle, where no one knows what is going on, like in this film. It's so real
Idk, i would give the "truly alien" reward to Annihilation, its alien is completely unlike anything. You dont even see it until the last few minutes of the film, and even then it can be assumed that that is STILL not its "true" form. Try to describe the appearance of the Annihilation "alien" to someone who's never seen it. It's REALLY difficult and almost impossible.
I never watched this movie cuz it looked stupid from the previews but dang this makes me want to watch it.
It's one of the best if not the best alien invasion movie
I’ve lost count how many times I’ve watched it!
It's based on an anime. now you make the choice.
@@rano12321 OK, that instantly makes me skip it, thanks!
One of the top 5 action movies of the past 10 years. 1000% worth a watch!
My only problem is that we didn't get MORE of the Mimics. I know they're constantly throughout the film, but they're always shrowded by dirt and debris. The only good glimps you get of them is right before Cage dies and when hes ambushed at the damn. The rest of the time, they're moving too fast to see anything. It would have been cool to see one in captivity or something.
I like the design of the mimics here than the manga. They tried to keep it close to how mimics moved in the manga since they were literally spheres. They made it more alive and alive which is very nice to see
I really like how the mimics move as though time is different for them.
As for alien-looking aliens, the microscopic crystalline organism in The Andromeda Strain is pretty alien, not even a mouth!
The Mimics in the Edge of Tomorrow and the White Spikes from The Tomorrow War are my favourite modern movie aliens. They are perfectly portrayed as relentless and unstoppable civilization ending invaders. Makes me yearn for a Xenomorph movie shot with the same grand battles instead of the usual trope of a whole hive chasing a handful of stricken space miners down some corridors.
I also like the invaders from Battle: Los Angeles but they don't have the primal animalistic viciousness of the Mimics and White Spikes. They're just the updated version of the humanoid alien invaders with guns.
Is the tomorrow war any good?
God, I LOVED Edge of Tomorrow, the design of the Mimics just tickled my brain in JUST the right place. This is awesome.
One of the main things i like about this movie is that you get to see the creatures very well.
They succeed in making them even more scary than if you had to resort to the tired troupe of "what you can't see is scarier". No, No it's not scarier.
Show me what to be scared of and do that right.
Then you have a good basis for a movie.
One of my fav movies of all time. Considering it's almost a decade old, it still holds up as one of the best VFX I've ever seen in movies. The practical stuff definitely helped the VFX artists to serve as reference but it also helped them to keep everything touch with reality and speaking of the aliens, after watching the VFX breakdown, it broke my brain seeing how big brain the artists went doing RnD for the aliens in this movie.
Personally it looks up there with graphics from District 9 and the first few Bayverse Transformers movies.
This is one of my top 5 sci-fi films of all time and I always feel the need to show it to people because it fell between the cracks and under the radar for most people.
Finally saw it on Netflix earlier today. Gonna rewatch it tonight.
EoT is one of my fav movies, same for the manga "All you need is kill" which is the inspirition for EoT.
I loved them, they are underrated really. Perfect aliens. Their look, their anatomy, the unknown, the movements, the abilities, the sounds. Just like aliens should have - all different from everything we know on our planet yet logically possible
It's such a phenomenal movie, absolutely underrated.
This movie is actually based on a manga called "All you need is kill". In it, the mimics are spheres with huge creepy human mouths that send out stabbing spikes from everywhere on their bodies at will. The problem would be those don't look very compelling. The mouths are hugely unsettling, but they wouldn't translate well to the big screen.
Also, you really labor the point of requiring time resets and time loops to defeat them and that's the only way, but it's the other way around. We're the infinitely adaptable, incredibly versatile, and totally unpredictable monsters, and these alien invaders required time resets to defeat US.
You might be interested in the aliens in the Apple TV series Invasion, which resemble ferrofluid.
You beat me to it! I think the "Invasion" aliens (well, the ones from season one, at least - the ones that appear midway through season two are less impressive) are great - very alien and yet somehow quite believable.
exactly my first thought!
One of my favourite films for sure. Clever, entertaining and strong characters. I have watched it multiple times.
War of Tomorrow, the white spikes are so far my fav of all aliens, aside from the xenomorph but that ios ofc classic cinema and concept. Alien will forever be iconic but from the modern types of alien monsters white spikes are by far my fav, the design is truly beautiful and agressive. They have nothing special in what they do but the visual design is what captured my attention and the CGI on the movie is really well done.
I have no idea how often I've watched this movie, it's really so well done!
Loved that movie. Honestly read the book before watching it and was semi expected to be disapointed.
In the end though this is the perfect blend of adaptation one could have. They took the concept, but changed it for the better in my opinion, giving both the movie and the book its own life. Also really happy how they changed the mimics from the books to the movie ones. I absolutely loved how they were on screen and would have probably laughed my ass off seeing the book version waddling about.
My personal favorite for aliens from space are the heptapods from Arrival. Yes, there's a lot of metaphysical thought tied up in this movie like the TRUE DIFFICULTY trying to establish communication with an intelligent galaxy traversing race. Also their ability to write being completely independent of their ability to "speak". Yes, Arrival is not a shoot 'em up movie but you were asking about totally nonhuman aliens.
The gravitational pull on the mimic's planet was most probably very stronger than earth's if they can move that fast if you think about it.
I watched this movie with my dad several times and it is one of my favorites. It does have a lot of flaws, but also a lot of feats that makes it truly unique and very enjoyable.
i remember watching this on the plane and loved it so much
I never realized that it didn't garner wide attention. I saw it early on due to my dad telling me about it, and I have seen it SO MANY times since. Might go watch.
One of my best movies of all time, brilliant movie, I loved it, I have watched this sp many times, and was entertained every single time
I saw this in a cinema when it came and i loved it
Edge of Tomorrow is one of those movies you can watch 6 times and still get enjoyment out of the 7th
the first time i saw it, it was amazing seeing such an original idea. As the british say Splendid!
I really want more Edge of Tomorrow content. Live Die Repeat is so great
These guys are tied with the Typhon from Prey (2017) for my favourite alien designs
This is one of my favorite films ever
The sand making them more realistic is a good point.
Watched this film like 20 times, one of my favorite post-2010 movies. Incredibly sad that we lost Bill Paxton.
These Mimics remind me a lot of the game Prey, the way they move and look, their almost random nature with the twisting organic parts, this movie came out before the game so it may have taken inspiration from this, and if so, that is really cool!
I didn't know this movie was a thing but now i want to watch it.
I swear I saw a manga with this exact premise that is a decade old, but it’s the aliens time traveling using the MC as a conduit so they never lose
This was a fantastic video!! Great stuff!
One of my favorite movies that came out of nowhere for me.
Dave in 2001 A Space Odyssey has a smart phone watching the news at breakfast.
Completely agree with everything you said. Thank you for unearthing this underrated piece of sci-fi genius, and looking so great doing it.
Mimics deserve their own movie
The only Hollywood adaptation of a manga/novel that was impressive.
I think the best portrayal of an alien in any media is the colour from „the color out of space“ by H.P. Lovecraft. Its a thing that is alive, but can not be grasped by humans in any way, and even science, the tool that so far, has explained almost everything to us, cant explain it either
This is such an underrated movie. Super original and fun to watch.
Oh man thxs for the reminder. I've forgotten about this movie
I saw it in cinemas. Instant love for this film. It remains one of my overall favorites.
I'm STILL hoping for a second movie. Evidently, it would be more a 'Prequel' with the story of how/when/where these aliens first came and how it developed from there with more of 'Rita's first encounter and experiences with her time reset abilities. IF it's made as well as the first, it would be as great as the first movie was (shame though that it didn't do as well as hoped in the cinemas). I loved this film! 👍
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How in the hellis this beautiful movie filled with monsterous creatures not more popular then the predator franchise.
I remember picking this film up back at family video yeah that long ago and when I finished watching it, I said to myself wow that was actually pretty darn good. No idea why no one else gave it another chance.
Edge of Tomorrow is one of my favorite movies.
I remember watching this movie like a year or two after it came out and honestly I was thoroughly impressed with it and surprised that I never even heard of it before seeing it. I actually found it by accident because my dad had it randomly downloaded and I decided to watch it. Very good movie and do recommend.
I very much enjoyed this film. I also enjoyed 'Arrival' and the protagonists of the alien species, Abbott and Costello. A very interesting concept of communication between us and the alien species who are not here to eat us or appropriate our resources.
I'd love to see a sequel that focuses a bit more on the mimics themselves. They are some of my favorite aliens ever
Despite the amount of lore around them, the flood also fits nicely into this category. Tyranids and orks from 40k also carry an air of unknown
Absolutely the most horrifying aliens ever depicted. They would slaughter Giger's creations.
Absolutely LOVED this movie!
She was kinda my celebrity crush too haha
I was so amazed by this film
I think Nope’s Jean Jacket is a very alien looking alien too (when on full attack mode, not in Stetson mode)
When i watch the movie for the first time i gravitate that the monsters look like how those clumps of centipedes move together. For me it's still grounded in human perception.
This was an awesome movie! Wish we'd have seen a sequel.
THis game was/ is a winner. So damn underrated. It can be watched over and over again. No wokeness, no Alphabet, just good action, good acting, good storyline. I just wish the very end was handled a little bit "nicer" and loving.
I actually jumped for joy and fear! Best aliens I've seen since the xenos of Alien movies. I bought the movie and have watched multiple times just trying to follow their movements. Excellent!
The Expanse got some nice "aliens" with the protomolecule.
Perfect Aliens in all of Sci-Fi PERIOD.
One of my favorite movies! I never read the novel it was based on but I did read the manga adaptation of the novel before watching the movie. The mimics are pretty different in both, as in the manga you cant kill them besides with a special piston spike weapon (or a giant anime axe lol), and their designs are very diffeent, looking more spherical.
Honestly I like what they did with the movie mimics more, theyre much easier to kill but that movement is mesmerizing, its so unique. The movie kept the basic concept and had similar character dynamic between the leads but the ending is very different and the two leads have rather diffeent personalities in the manga.
Also, the character in the movie being Cage is almost certainly taken from "Killer Cage" the name Keiji gets at the end of the manga. Idk how it is in the novel but while the movie is pretty different, taking a more grounded approach, I love both
most unique in a stretch, def one of the most slept on sci fi films of the 2000's but most unique is pretty wild, i thought in terms of niche uniqueness the arrival aliens were pretty new and something i hadnt seen, as well as annihilation
This movie wasn't expired by video games. It was based off of an anime.
Edge of Tomorrow was one of the first live actions movies.
Haven't read the light novel, but I can tell it looks so great that they decided to make a movie adaptation of it
This and few other unique aliens in cinemas such as from Nope, Annihilation, and the Thing is what makes "alien" become a different term for space creature aside from simply being humanoid or human-like in my opinion
Another unique alien I'd like to point out is the ELS (Extraterrestrial Living-metal Shape-shifter) from animated movie Gundam 00 Awakening of the Trailblazer and Coral from the game Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. These are unique on their own
This movie is legit awesome.
I think Annihilation (2018) with Natalie Portman got another great example of how otherworldy aliens can be, in the movie the environment and people within it were physically changing and going crazy by merely existing in the entity's area of effect really cements how dangerous and unpredictable the universe can be and all the things in it.