Terminator: Salvation - surprised!

Saw TS last night and thought it was a decent popcorn action flick. Had a few annoying plot holes but wasn't nearly as bad as i was expecting from a movie directed McG and much more enjoyable than T3 so 7/10
 
No, its the same Christian Bale who got angry and threw his mother and sister out of his hotel room, after they came round insisting he give his sister
 
Which just goes to show that as long as a film has plenty of action and violence it will sell well, irrespective of the quality of the script.
 
Maybe...

human manure then they used the sand trick. Where you grow carrots in sand and the feeder roots go out into the surrounding soil (human manure).

Just an idea :D
 
The Americans on imdb.com's forums are up in arms that it has been rated PG-13, but quite honestly it really doesn't bother me. From what i can tell, the story seems to be quite strong and in the end i'd rather have that than countless uses of the F word, excessive violence and pointless nudity (it's funny that some of them seem to have a problem with no nudity in the film, surely if you are on a computer you can find nudity if that's all you're bothered about...).

T3 was a 12 anyway, and that managed to get away with quite a bit of violence, so i'm really not worried about these baseless accusations that it's been toned down for the kiRAB. The BBFC seem to have tightened up since the release of T3 anyway, so my money is on a 15 rating over here.
 
Im not too fussed by what reviews say to be honest. The Underworld films get dissed every time a new one comes out, but my other half and me love them! The Fast & Furious films, Resident Evil films all get slated, and again I love them!

I remember a film called Existenze, or something like that, and reviewers went mad for it. I went to see it with a mate of mine and I thought it was one of the worst films I've ever seen - my friend said he wished I'd told him that halfway through because he thought the same and we could've left rather than endure any more of it!

Each to their own at the end of the day!



Dave
 
i would say, up to the bit where the T-1000 walks from the burning truck in the spillway.

after that, it loses its way a bit for me plot wse, although the sfx and action spectacle are first class
 
No you're not alone, i really enjoyed it too. It wasn't up to T2's standarRAB, but it was still a very enjoyable film imo.

When it first came out i remember almost all the reviews saying that it was a lot better than it had any right to be, but over the past few years it seems to be on the receiving end of a load of undeserved fanboy hate...
 
The T600 that Marcus enounters in LA near the start does have rubber skin on (albeit badly damaged), and is mistaken for a person by him. Teenage Kyle, however, spots it easily - so that ties up to a passable extent.

After all the bad press, I expected this film to stink (watched it last night), but I actually rather enjoyed it. Better than T3 by some margin, and a few terribly cheesy moments aside ('Jumpstart my Heart', and 'field hospital heart swapsies'), it wasn't half bad IMO. The kid playing Reese looked nothing like Michael Biehn, buy he got the voice down perfectly. Bale wasn't very good IMO, but something about it hung together and it pushed my geek buttons in a way I really didn't expect it to.
 
the point i was making was that reese proclaims the terminators as "new" in T1, when he is about 30(?) years old.

yet they exist in terminator salvation when reese is a teenager, so hardly that "new" for the older reese?

i'm confused (i shouldn't be so anal about these things :D)
 
I am not a "fanboy" but I hated this.

The whole feel of the film was wrong. McG was given "on a plate" how the film should have looked from the future scenes from T1 and T2. It was just little things that all added up to spoil for me:

- the huge variety of Terminators
- it was mainly set in the daylight
- submarines!!
- air-bases out in the open!!
- Guns 'n' Roses!!
- the stupid growling noise all the Terminators made
- Helen Bonham Carter as the "face of Skynet"
- Skynet knowing abut Kyle and John - how and why not just kill John right there and then - problem solved?
- nuclear explosions going off right next to people and them walking/flying away
- If Marcus is such a great "infiltrator" - why bother building T800s
- How did Connor get in the submarine? He jumps in the water and then he is inside. Suspension of Disbeleif is one thing but this is ridiculous
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Its simple, in T1 the future was based on Judgement day happening in 1997. This of course changed in 1995 when T2 took place as they shutdown the Skynet that was due to be activated in 1997, it didnt stop it though just postponed it till a later date 2004

Sarah Connor was told what happend in the future by reese, but the future he saw was different to what happend so basicly anything goes in the new movies as everything we knew about the future changed with the events of T2
 
Oh dear....

I really don't care what Harry Knowles has to say though, he hates practically everything, and he's no doubt jaded because it's directed by McG (he seems to have an unnatural hate for the guy). Another reviewer on AICN says it's a perfectly "good" action movie as long as you don't expect too much from it. I'll make up my own mind in two weeks thank you very much!

Speaking of which, why do we have to wait two weeks? It's not like they have to dub it into a new language:mad:
 
Saw it today, its a decent action flick but I felt as disapointed as I did when I saw Terminator 3.

Considering Skynet was producing hundreRAB/thousanRAB of terminators each day in suprised that there was only one or two actually guarding the place.

Im sure the vision of the future in the first 2 films was humans lived underground, only coming out at night to fight the machines, not have airbases and submarines and walk around in broad daylight etc
 
Yeah, it did get pretty good reviews at the time.
Thought it was very good personally - feel all the hate is unjustified.

Just watched the trailer for Salvation and it also looks excellent.
 
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