10 Reasons Edge Of Tomorrow Is The Most Important Blockbuster Of 2014

3. It Could Ignite The Time Loop Genre

Just as Primer proved the time loop genre can work on a shoestring budget, Edge of Tomorrow proves it works at the opposite end of the spectrum, with more money than you could possibly count. Picture Huell taking five on Walt€™s enormous stacks of cash in Breaking Bad, multiplying that by two, and turning it into a movie. The genre is understandably a niche one; unless you have bottomless pockets, most people are afraid to go near it because they think it needs a lot of money €“ a misconception proved wrong by Primer. The knock-on effect means that, because very few films even exist in the genre, there are even fewer success stories to serve as proof to studios that it€™s possible to succeed in this territory. It takes the success of a tentpole of a scale of Edge of Tomorrow to ignite the genre, leading to more low- and mid-budget movies getting made, inevitably then leading to further high-budget projects. In the right hands, the results can be amazing. Like Primer, like Source Code, and like 12 Monkeys, Edge of Tomorrow gets it right.