Terminator Reboot

~~Sumac~~ · 07-05-2015, 08:59 AM

July 3, 2003, I was in the cinema watching Terminator 3. Fast forward 12 years and its once again July 3 and I once again in the cinema watching new Terminator movie.

TG feels like it took parts from all previous movies and series and mixed them into some crazy cocktail of which I can't make head or tails.

On one had, its plot looks like a crazy fanfiction, which make stuff from T4 development sound like a mere child play. Actors were not really good, though, Clarke sometimes looked like Linda Hamilton in certain shots. Reese was a prominent as a sofa. Arnie was cool as well as the guy who played T3000. He was deliciously evil.

While plot, kind of make sense, it's still far from being coherent or at least from being nicely explained. It's just some things appear out of nowhere and people must take as is. World building sucks.
Episodes where characters talk to each other were kind of boring, due to not very convincing actors.

On the other hand I can't say that movie felt like it was lacking scale. On contrary: it felt even more epic than Salvation, which should have been a war movie set in the Terminator universe and thus EPIC beyond measure.

Now about what I liked: actions scenes were awesome. The best in Terminator series (after T2). Everything related to T3000 was cool. T1000 was also awesome (I liked couple of his new tricks). Pops was cool.

Beginning of the movie made me scream internally: "YES!! That's what Salvation should have been, instead of boring desert with boring Bale and 1/2 Terminators".

Just as I thought, TG is not better than T1 / T2, but it's a good action movie. While not groundbreaking it's rather pretty and fun, which is all I care, when I go to see action movie like this. So, I feel like time and money were spent wisely.

Though, TG definitely lacks in wholenes and plot, why theoretically, interesting, presented in a way that can confuse the hell out of people with its pseudotechnobabble, overall I liked this move a lot more than T3 and especially T4.

07-05-2015, 08:59 AM	#13
~~Sumac~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 6,129	July 3, 2003, I was in the cinema watching Terminator 3. Fast forward 12 years and its once again July 3 and I once again in the cinema watching new Terminator movie. TG feels like it took parts from all previous movies and series and mixed them into some crazy cocktail of which I can't make head or tails. On one had, its plot looks like a crazy fanfiction, which make stuff from T4 development sound like a mere child play. Actors were not really good, though, Clarke sometimes looked like Linda Hamilton in certain shots. Reese was a prominent as a sofa. Arnie was cool as well as the guy who played T3000. He was deliciously evil. While plot, kind of make sense, it's still far from being coherent or at least from being nicely explained. It's just some things appear out of nowhere and people must take as is. World building sucks. Episodes where characters talk to each other were kind of boring, due to not very convincing actors. On the other hand I can't say that movie felt like it was lacking scale. On contrary: it felt even more epic than Salvation, which should have been a war movie set in the Terminator universe and thus EPIC beyond measure. Now about what I liked: actions scenes were awesome. The best in Terminator series (after T2). Everything related to T3000 was cool. T1000 was also awesome (I liked couple of his new tricks). Pops was cool. Beginning of the movie made me scream internally: "YES!! That's what Salvation should have been, instead of boring desert with boring Bale and 1/2 Terminators". Just as I thought, TG is not better than T1 / T2, but it's a good action movie. While not groundbreaking it's rather pretty and fun, which is all I care, when I go to see action movie like this. So, I feel like time and money were spent wisely. Though, TG definitely lacks in wholenes and plot, why theoretically, interesting, presented in a way that can confuse the hell out of people with its pseudotechnobabble, overall I liked this move a lot more than T3 and especially T4.