OT - Terminator Salvation

[WayOutWest]

B -

Eh....not much better than the last terminator.  The SFX were terrific but not much to this movie.  Very convuloted story and very predictable climax and ending.  Split the kids up between this movie and the Night at the Museum one and I think I got the short end of the stick.

Hope "Up" and "Transformers" is better.  That "District ??" movie about aliens looks to be better.

[Joe Vancil]

Wow.  I couldn't disagree more.

Was the climax and ending a bit predictable?  Sure.  Isn't that about the same with the Star Trek movie?  The difference is that one stays true to the story;  the other does not.

I thought the movie was a good movie, and far more in line with the first two movies than with the awful third one.  Lots of action, a good story (although, in fairness, a bit predictable), and an introduction to the future as seen by the Terminator series.  I was especially interested to see how John Connor was going to be portrayed, and I liked what I saw from it.

[Wolverine]

I've never understood the fascination with the Terminator series.  I like the second one, but that's the only movie in the franchise I found entertaining.  The others pretty much blow, but that's just my opinion.

[Lurker]

For you fans...

Why was John Conner so surprised that there was a terminator with human skin?  Doesn't he remember his childhood?


BTW we thought it was an ok movie...

[SPURSX3]

Wow.  I couldn't disagree more.

Was the climax and ending a bit predictable?  Sure.  Isn't that about the same with the Star Trek movie?  The difference is that one stays true to the story;  the other does not.

I thought the movie was a good movie, and far more in line with the first two movies than with the awful third one.  Lots of action, a good story (although, in fairness, a bit predictable), and an introduction to the future as seen by the Terminator series.  I was especially interested to see how John Connor was going to be portrayed, and I liked what I saw from it.

WHO let the Trekkie in?!

j/k


I heard some mixed reviews on the movie, last opinion was to wait for dvd...wow.

District 9 looks interesting, up and transformers seem worth watching, still want to see night at the museum 2. 

[Wolverine]

The movie I'm most looking forward to is "Public Enemies."  Johnny Depp stars as Dillinger.  I have high hopes.

[Joe Vancil]

I've never understood the fascination with the Terminator series.  I like the second one, but that's the only movie in the franchise I found entertaining.  The others pretty much blow, but that's just my opinion.

I'm with you in that I didn't like either Terminator or Terminator 3.  This one was okay, and made better because it didn't really do major damage to the story.

[westkoast]

I am with the T2 only club....

Though I hope this movie is awesome to see visually.  That's really what I expect from this movie and the reason I want to see it.  As far as story line goes I just never thought they did a good job with the story to begin with.  The idea that this system becomes awake and takes over is a great concept but the execution of the story was always poor IMO.  I just liked the shoot em up slash hunting aspect of the movies.

Anyone else looking forward to Land Of The Lost?

[ziggy]

I've never understood the fascination with the Terminator series.  I like the second one, but that's the only movie in the franchise I found entertaining.  The others pretty much blow, but that's just my opinion.

OK Caleb, what were you 3 years old when the original Terminator came out?  This movie must be viewed in the prism of the time in which it first came out.

The first Terminator was a watershed movie, and it was totally unlike any other movie before it, and in some regards any movie since.  Was it great art or a great story?  That is all a matter of opinion, and maybe T2 was a better story, or better art, but T1 was like nothing that had ever been produced.  That is why it has had 3 sequels.  I watched it 3 times in the theater, and the only other time I did that was Star Wars.  Every person I talked to about the movie at the time saw it the same way, it was WOW!!!  It was by far the most intense movie ever made to that point, and it changed the way people viewed action movies.  The only other movie since, that compared was Die Hard.

[WayOutWest]

OK Caleb, what were you 3 years old when the original Terminator came out?  This movie must be viewed in the prism of the time in which it first came out.

The first Terminator was a watershed movie, and it was totally unlike any other movie before it, and in some regards any movie since.  Was it great art or a great story?  That is all a matter of opinion, and maybe T2 was a better story, or better art, but T1 was like nothing that had ever been produced.  That is why it has had 3 sequels.  I watched it 3 times in the theater, and the only other time I did that was Star Wars.  Every person I talked to about the movie at the time saw it the same way, it was WOW!!!  It was by far the most intense movie ever made to that point, and it changed the way people viewed action movies.  The only other movie since, that compared was Die Hard.

Agreed, Terminator was a "first".  T2 was the first time I got blown away by the SFX and the story was incredible.  T3 and T4 have been let downs, I was so looking forward to this movie.  Star Trek was better than X-Men and I expected T4 to be better than Star Trek but it turned out it was the weakest of the 3.  The story was all over the place and it was agonizingly slow for the Terminator to hook up with Conner.  The best part of the movie was the opening 10 minutes and it was down hill from there.

[Wolverine]

I've never understood the fascination with the Terminator series.  I like the second one, but that's the only movie in the franchise I found entertaining.  The others pretty much blow, but that's just my opinion.

OK Caleb, what were you 3 years old when the original Terminator came out?  This movie must be viewed in the prism of the time in which it first came out.

The first Terminator was a watershed movie, and it was totally unlike any other movie before it, and in some regards any movie since.  Was it great art or a great story?  That is all a matter of opinion, and maybe T2 was a better story, or better art, but T1 was like nothing that had ever been produced.  That is why it has had 3 sequels.  I watched it 3 times in the theater, and the only other time I did that was Star Wars.  Every person I talked to about the movie at the time saw it the same way, it was WOW!!!  It was by far the most intense movie ever made to that point, and it changed the way people viewed action movies.  The only other movie since, that compared was Die Hard.

Well, I guess it's because I'm not an 'action' guy then.  I love Star Wars, but because of the story and mythology of the universe ... not the special effects.  If a movie's just gonna be SFX, then I don't have any interest in it.

[Skandery]

My sister took me to see Terminator: Salvation in downtown Montreal.  For what it was, I thought the movie was alright.  Really not too much to the story, the environment\setting was really the focus.

Let me be the second person on this thread to echo the exact sentiments of Ziggy.  Caleb, there is a reason Terminator spawned sequels, attractions, cult followings, and contemporary one-liners.  The first I ever saw "Terminator" was on DVD in 2002.  I had always called my friend Jim Struglia crazy for saying it was his favorite; of course, having never seen it.  When he sat me down and showed it to me, I understood.  Sure it didn't have the liquid metal or the record-breaking budget of the second, but it WAS a better movie.  Beyond the fact it was innovation for cinema, the story was an original concept, very simply introduced and very well executed.

T2 was a step down, yet had its own innovation.  T3 and T4 have been little more than uninspired, summer-season spectacles; moreso resting on laurels.

[WayOutWest]

For you fans...

Why was John Conner so surprised that there was a terminator with human skin?  Doesn't he remember his childhood?


BTW we thought it was an ok movie...

It wasn't the skin that surprised Conner, it was the heart and the fact that the Terminator thought it was human.