Terminator Salvation
June 4th 2009 10:59
i am a huge fan of the Terminator films and because I am and because of my sorry disapointment with T3 I went into this movie with scepticism. Usually when I set myself up for a fall I get one but this time it was not the case. I enjoyed Salvation. It was a good movie and time magazine were completely right in describing it as an action film, wrapped in an action fil with a side of explosions.
The first installment in what will be a thrillogy of salvation movies follows the grown up(by my estimate about 33 but I only know that cause I am a nerd) John Connor in the year 2018. He knew what the future had in store for him and he is ready for it, sending out daily messages to kepp the hopes of the masses alive. Connor uses the tapes that his mother made for him(end of T2) as his guide to get him through. this I like because it goes back on the original form of the movies thatr I knew and loved and it inculdes the information, though not Sarahs original voice that fans are farmilar with. I as a fan appreciate that sort of thing in a sequal but not so much the repeating of old tag lines that are only thrown in to get a hoot from the audience( "What will I tell them when they find you gone?" J.C:" Tell them I'll be back") Other than that it did fell like an extension of the frachaise, things are done a little differently but they have to be for the movie to work as a new entity and part of the thrilogy that it is going to be.
We know from T3 that the timeline has changed so you can expect a few things to be slightly different they were origianally destained to be. I accept that and the things that are different are only reallt things that nerds like me would notice, like the fact that young Kyle Reece tells his new friend that we don'r go out at night whern old Kyle Reece in T2 told Sarah Connor that they could only go out at night and even then it was still very dangerous.
That sort of thing though most people will not notice and the other five people in the cinema with me did not notice it but still I can't help mentioning it because it annoys me when a new director ignores that subtlies of the old movies. That is just one thing though. One of the main plots of the movie is that skynet is trying to kill Kyle Reece, we can only presumes to stop him fathering our friend J.C. but what puzzels me greatly is how did they know that. There was no way of them finding out. It makes no sense.
In terms of action its a good one but not a perfect one. You are never really in fear of Connors life cause you kinda know that is is ogoing to have to come back so that they can make three movies. otherwise there are a lot of explosions and some good shoot out betweens the rebels and the T600(which didn't have rubber skin as promised) but it was if anything tamer then it predcessors and I am not really sure why because with the amount of people killed off it really had more scope to be as distructive as possible.
Actaully forget what I just said go see it.
We know from T3 that the timeline has changed so you can expect a few things to be slightly different they were origianally destained to be. I accept that and the things that are different are only reallt things that nerds like me would notice, like the fact that young Kyle Reece tells his new friend that we don'r go out at night whern old Kyle Reece in T2 told Sarah Connor that they could only go out at night and even then it was still very dangerous.
That sort of thing though most people will not notice and the other five people in the cinema with me did not notice it but still I can't help mentioning it because it annoys me when a new director ignores that subtlies of the old movies. That is just one thing though. One of the main plots of the movie is that skynet is trying to kill Kyle Reece, we can only presumes to stop him fathering our friend J.C. but what puzzels me greatly is how did they know that. There was no way of them finding out. It makes no sense.
In terms of action its a good one but not a perfect one. You are never really in fear of Connors life cause you kinda know that is is ogoing to have to come back so that they can make three movies. otherwise there are a lot of explosions and some good shoot out betweens the rebels and the T600(which didn't have rubber skin as promised) but it was if anything tamer then it predcessors and I am not really sure why because with the amount of people killed off it really had more scope to be as distructive as possible.
Actaully forget what I just said go see it.
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