I was finally able to see the movie last night and it was awesome! This is the first movie I've seen in theaters this year but it was the one I was most excited for. I've hadn't been wanting to see a movie this much since The Dark Knight.
But anyways, it's a great movie. Bale actually sounds a bit like Batman a few times in the film, and he pulls out a good performance overall. But this movie isn't all about his John Connor, there's some great other characters that get some light shed on them. Oh, and the action sequences are pretty amazing too.
RE: Terminator Salvation -
Posted on 03-06-2009 22:35
Posts: 2061 Location: Gotham City Joined: 30.07.05
it was a good movie, i'm actually not sure why it wasn't well received. i'm assuming it's cuz it's not as good as the first two, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad movie. and it's better than the 3rd movie...to me anyways.
batman vs robots? i'm in! although im not sure where else they could go from here.
Posts: 1631 Location: Rockville, IA Joined: 24.06.05
My brother and I are pretty serious Terminator fans, and after seeing this in the theater, we both have mixed views of it. The first two films are excellent with T2 being in my top 5 all-time favorite films. But as a Terminator film, I could only give Salvation 2 out of 4 stars. I'll explain why (spoilers ahead)...
The bad
The action was a bit overblown. Previous films relied more on suspense and creative scenarios build around the futurist cyborgs, but Salvation went into unrealistic or extreme territory. The large Harvesters, for example, were pretty cool, but after Marcus Wright already failed at blowing one up with gasoline, it emitted Mototerminators (lame name, by the way) from its legs. The Motos themselves could race at high speeds and easily avert oncoming dangers. If this type of overblown technology were to exist, the human race would easily be wiped out.
In this same scene, we see the humans driving a tow truck and, in hitting the brakes and sliding sideways, they manage to fling a Moto into an HK and wrap around it perfectly. This sort of ridiculous action put me off.
In addition, I don't understand some story elements. During the movie, I didn't get why Kyle Reese and John Connor were the top two humans that Skynet was after. Only through reading online do I see that Skynet somehow knows that Reese is the future/past father of Connor and that Connor will be leader of the Resistance. But even with an altered past, I don't see how Skynet could know this in 2018, years before introducing the time displacement technology. I don't think Sarah Connor ever gave out the name of John's father to anyone but John, and that would probably be irrelevant to the Skynet of 2018. Did they simply know about Reese's experiences in 1984 as depicted by the media and assume he was the father?
A few other awkward or unrealistic moments occurred. Early on, Connor plunges off a helicopter about 100 feet into the ocean to swim to a submarine. Later, when John Connor realizes that Marcus Wright is not against him, after dozens of soldiers failed to shoot him and Blair Williams, Wright agrees to help Connor take out Skynet. Out of nowhere, Connor then suddenly shouts "What are you?!" to a sober response of "I don't know..."
The post-apocalyptic world described in the first two films didn't come out quite as I'd hoped. Reese told of Terminators with rubber skin, which I anticipated as being very creepy. But the few Terminators with "skin" I saw barely had any left to be noticed.
The good
The film did have good moments and that's why it gets two stars. My favorite part was probably the introduction of the T-800; the CGI Schwarzenegger looked excellent and left me wanting more. A few film references were surprising too, like Guns N' Roses' "You Could Be Mine" ala T2.
The haunting moan of the Harvester was impressive. I also liked that T-600s and 700s weren't easily destroyed by soldiers. Marcus Wright's part made for an interesting and unique concept for Skynet's early experimentation.
RE: Terminator Salvation -
Posted on 14-09-2009 11:57
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