Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Live. Die. Repeat.
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
Edge of Tomorrow keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E14 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)E11/E12/E13 · Action, Science Fiction
Avatar (2009)E9/E10/E13 · Action, Science Fiction
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)E9/E11 · Action, Science Fiction
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)E6/E11 · Action, Science Fiction
Men in Black (1997)E11/E13 · Action, Science Fiction
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)E11/E12 · Action, Science FictionAlso bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
The Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Back to the Future (1985)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Interstellar (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Avengers: Endgame (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
