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SvennoJ on 11 November 2014
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Hiku said:

Speaking of Edge of Tomorrow, in the clip they question why not everyone is using the same type of sword as Rita is using.
The answer to that is in the manga that this movie is based on, called All You Need Is Kill. (Which has a lot of differences from the film btw)

Basically, Rita became so good at killing aliens that she eventually ran out of ammo every time she went into the battlefield. So she needed a weapon that had infinite ammo. The main character encountered the same problem, and also ended up weilding that weapon for the same reason. (Although in the manga they are weilding a giant halberd axe instead of a buster sword)
Also, random fun fact. Rita hasn't lost her ability to loop in the manga. So both of them have that capability.

http://www.mangareader.net/all-you-need-is-kill/11/20

Interesting. Does that mean time resets as soon as one of the dies? different starting points or same?

I thought it would be a nice twist if he keeps the ability, as well as the alpha(s). Yet when he dies and time resets the alpha doesn't remember, if the alpha dies and time resets he doesn't remember that instance. Then it becomes an arms race in trying to out predict the opponent. At some point Rita and him notice that certain things keep changing blocking their progress and it must be because at some point they kill the alpha although he has no memory of that. Which turns it into a race to keep the other alive until they have reached the goal.

I misunderstood the movie at first and through Rita lost her power because she lived on too long after she got it (not because of the blood transfusion), so it wears off over time. That would have been a better reason for the aliens to let her win Verdun. Plus a cooler scene where tom cruise desperately tries to kill himself after being restrained in the hospital.