Terminator Triage: rate the termination
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Friday, August 6, 2010 22:25
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Them's strong words, pardner.
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
I finally got to see Terminator Salvation. I have to say I loved it!
I get a kick every time- seen it five times now.
The laughing Chrisisall
I guess I could summarize my feelings for the flick by saying that it was the Terminator movie I've been waiting to see for 25 years. The first 3 were all basically chase movies that never really ever got into the meat of what it was all about. They all had tiny glimpses of the future machine war, but that is what I always wanted to see anyhow. Terminator Salvation has it all! Plus it has some of my favorite actors: Sam Worthington, Michael Ironside, the kid who played Chekov from Trek, and Christian Bale. I thought they were all terrific! I loved the many different types of machines, early models we never saw before, and some pretty awesome ones at that. I thought the post-nuclear landscape was extremely well conceived too. This movie made all the ones that preceded it believeable, and I imagine that if more Terminator movies are made, we will eventually see John Connor and Kyle Reese find the time travel device that will complete the circle. I resisted seeing this movie mainly because I'm not a big Christian Bale fan. Not that he's a bad actor or anything, but it just seemed silly to me that he seemed to be in every big role movie that came out for a while. I didn't even know who Sam Worthington was until I saw Avatar, and I really like his acting style. He was fantastic in Terminator Salvation. And of course I'll see anything with Michael Ironside in it. He was, is, and will always be....the MAN!
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Jong, I see we are entirely of one mind here.
Have you seen the deleted scenes? If you got blu-ray then you have them in the "Director's Cut." I have the DVD so I took a look at them online. I thought the movie worked a little better without them.
Although, Moon...whoah.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Chris, I don't have the DVD, but I made a DVD from an HBO airing. Glad to hear you love the movie too.
And this challenge is for you.......
Do you recognize the go-go dancer pictured above Chuck Berry?
How about now?
It's our own beloved ditzy hippie girl Miss Roberta Lincoln, aka Teri Garr from Star Trek. She danced with the Shindig Dancers 4 years before Star Trek, and she was 17 years old when she danced at the T.A.M.I. Show in 1964. If you don't have that DVD you're really missing something special.
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Terminator : 9.5 It's simply brilliant. It's grainy dark hues give it plenty of fear factor and the 'jerky' robot animation just lends itself so well to how a robot with that design would move. Arnie was never better than this. A role he was made for! Cracking score by Brad Fidel too - makes this a tough film to beat. Given the complexity of it's superb ending - Cameron's finest perhaps...?
Terminator 2 : 7 It's slick as snot but severly sanitized. Arnie IS the terminator, making him the protector was a mistake! Robert Patrick is sublime but somehow his shiny svelt self doesn't quite cut it for the finalé. Great nuclear bomb nightmare scenes though. But a poor slow mid section and the buddy buddy nature of this segment weakens the premise hugely....
Terminator 3 : 5 Lazy casting in favour of action set-pieces renders this nothing special. Even Arnie coming back doesn't raise this much. Run of the mill pacing through-out made this difficult to sit through but I must admit I did enjoy the way it ended.
Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series- Waddat den?
Terminator: Salvation Not fussed.
Terminator: TSCC : 4 I only watched a few due to the extremely morose nature of the premise. River was great in it though. However by now I really just didn't care what happened to John Connor. In fact I think I wanted him to die, just to see what would happen with the timeline.....
To sum up though - I think the sequels have done little to really take the story any further than the first Terminator, and really aside from some fancy effects did we really gain anything more from having watched 2,3, et al...?
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Terminator: Salvation Not fussed.
The laughing Chrisisall
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...Meaning I haven't seen it yet Chris. I think because I've grown weary of the whole premise...
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Quote:FYI; PBS has been running the T.A.M.I. Show every now again, it's fantastic
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Chris, I don't have the DVD, but I made a DVD from an HBO airing. Glad to hear you love the movie too.
And this challenge is for you.......
Do you recognize the go-go dancer pictured above Chuck Berry?
How about now?
It's our own beloved ditzy hippie girl Miss Roberta Lincoln, aka Teri Garr from Star Trek. She danced with the Shindig Dancers 4 years before Star Trek, and she was 17 years old when she danced at the T.A.M.I. Show in 1964. If you don't have that DVD you're really missing something special.
Those arn't boobs, they're lies! - Stewie Griffin
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Quote:I didn't see it until recently because I didn't think it would be ANY good. But, worth a look, especially if you wasted your time on #3.
Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
...Meaning I haven't seen it yet Chris. I think because I've grown weary of the whole premise...
The laughing Chrisisall
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Quote:He's a CITIZEN!
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
I'll see anything with Michael Ironside in it. He was, is, and will always be....the MAN!
(So you must have seen the 3D classic that is Spacehunter then....
)The laughing Chrisisall
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