I finished this just to see if it could turn itself around. I was wrong, it started ok then progressively slipped into mediocrity then into down right ridiculousness. The original Terminator falls into the category described as Hella Dope, the sequels do not. Most people who where happy in 1984 when they went to the video store and rented a movie called Terminator just because the dude from Conan was on the box with shades and a gun will know what I mean. My brother and I were those people, chances are there are more of you out there. People like us want to see the war between man and machines in Terminator Salvation. People like us want to see John Connor teach Reese how to "Smash those metal motherfuckers into junk" like he said in the original. Instead we get another installment of the machines coming up with a more advanced Terminator who still fails to kill a teenage kid and erase the existence of their nemesis. Another good movie whose legacy is destroyed by summer lacklusters with bad dialogue and rappers in the cast. Beside Chrisitan Bale, the actors are bad.
Common is in this movie.
Michael Ironside is in this movie.
The machines want to kill Reese as a teenager in the film. They have the technology to track him down in L.A. The technology to identify him with facial recognition software, where they got his image in the first place is beyond me considering it is post apocalypse. It is not like the dude took a drivers test and got a state issued ID. If you have his image, that means you have seen him before. Why did they not kill him then? Oh that is right, that would make sense and there would be no summer movie. My bad. Anyway, they have the technology to travel back in time, yet they lack the foresight to kill Reese immediatley when they capture him. Kill Reese and John Connor does not exist, right? But that plan is too simple, insteadthe machines keep him alive so they can lure the one guy who can kill them all into their lair so they can send ONE cgi Arnold Schwarzenegger to fight him naked. That is a good plan.
Oh yeah, and when they do kill John Connor by spiking him through the heart the Deus Ex Machina will arrive in the form of a good terminator who actually has a heart to spare. Nice
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I've completely passed on this sucker based on your bits here and several other comments elsewhere. I just don't wanna throw money at blockbusto-trash if I can help it.
ReplyDeleteIt's kinda satisfying to see that the sub-par film underperformed in the realms of box office and reviews. I know the peeps who made the shit were hoping for way more. And this is off of a long weekend too.
Hopefully it'll get buried by decent upcoming films and we can forget about it.
sadly, I know of few upcoming films this summer that look decent. Transformers 2? The preview shows those gay little robots pulling a t-1000 and melting into some other form. if the technology is that good then why dont they just make a super virus that kills all humans?
ReplyDeleteGI Joe? The cheap pretty boy slight yo boy dude from Step Up is playing Duke? They might as well get emo kids to play Cobra Commander. Oh wait, they have Joseph Gordon LEvitt, close enough
GI Joe is probably going to be the worst movie ever made. That said, I'm going to see it opening night just to laugh at how truly awful it is. There is no way this movie won't be good for tons of laughs.
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