What's up with all the Groundhog Day rip-offs lately?

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So the Tom Cruise sci-fi/action movie Edge of Tomorrow was a live action movie of an Anime based on Groundhog day. Ok.

Then I saw a trailer for the exact premise of Groundhog's day starring a Wayans brother but this time is a comedy. Something about him waking up everyday to his wedding day but he's unprepared.

Now, while in the cinema watching the trailers of another Tom Cruise movie, American made, I watched another trailer of the exact same premise except this time it's a horror/thriller. It's about a girl waking up on her birthday just to be murdered again and again until she discovers how not to be. How original.

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I'd post the trailer but who cares?
 
SSgt Dickweed said:
So the Tom Cruise sci-fi/action movie Edge of Tomorrow was a live action movie of an Anime based on Groundhog day. Ok.

Then I saw a trailer for the exact premise of Groundhog's day starring a Wayans brother but this time is a comedy. Something about him waking up everyday to his wedding day but he's unprepared.

Now, while in the cinema watching the trailers of another Tom Cruise movie, American made, I watched another trailer of the exact same premise except this time it's a horror/thriller. It's about a girl waking up on her birthday just to be murdered again and again until she discovers how not to be. How original.

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I'd post the trailer but who cares?
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In all fairness, Edge of Tomorrow was a completely different movie.
 
It's like what do you call it?

Groundpig day?
 
A person reliving the same day over & over again wasn't invented by Groundhog Day, though that movie is a bona fide classic. It's been done a bunch. The earliest 'time loop' story I know of is a short story by Malcolm Jameson called Doubled and Redoubled, which was published in the early 1940s. And I wouldn't be surprised if that isn't the first one either.

http://www.unz.org/Pub/Unknown-1941feb-00087
 
fuck you guys I'm no groundhog expert.
 
Comparing Edge of Tomorrow to Groundhog Day is a bit of a stretch, IMO
 
Peteyandjia said:
A time loop short film, starring Clarence Boddicker?

Thanks, I am so watching this later.



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What, you don't think of him as "the dance choreographer from the start of Staying Alive?"
 
BisexualMMA said:
What, you don't think of him as "the dance choreographer from the start of Staying Alive?"
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The horror movie concept was already done as well in a mid-2000's film called Salvage. Had an almost found footage feel to it despite not being a found footage film (due to being shot on early 2000's digital cameras), the twist was pretty solid.
 
I think it's in response to the critical and financial success of Edge of Tomorrow that is prompting more of these Groundhog Day movies.
 
Piece of Sheet said:
The new horror movie doing it looks interesting but will probably turn out bad
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I think it is actually a good twist on groundhog day and has the potential to do some really interesting things. Hope it doesn't suck.

Edge of Tomorrow was fucking great.
 
I like the concept of reliving the same day over and over and I'm down with seeing more takes on it, from comedy to horror.
 
SSgt Dickweed said:
about a girl waking up on her birthday just to be murdered again and again until she discovers how not to be.
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Saw this preview the other day, GHD was the first thing I thought of too. Obvious rip off.
 
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