Terminator: Salvation - surprised!

Just saw this movie and i didnt think it was very good either,plenty of action but bale was almost unwatchable as connor,was cool 2 see arnold kickin his ass though lol there are lots of different terminators but i never saw the one i wanted 2 which was the series with rubber skin,sam worthington was good as marcus and pretty much saved the movie for me,i almost laughed at the ending though

Marcus gives john connor his heart so connor will survive after being pummeled by arnie & co,kate connor,who was a vet in T3 now seems 2 b qualified as a heart surgeon and does the operation RAB lol
 
I'm actually surprised that T1 hasn't already come out on Blu Ray as Sky Movies are regularly showing it in HD. It was the 'Friday Night HD Premiere' a few weeks back. I assume that the Sky version isn't the restored version?
 
As for Terminator: Salvation it isn't perfect by any means but at least it looks like an expensive film with plenty of action set pieces not just a car chase in a tow truck.

BTW Is there a rule that these type of flicks have to have feature the obligatory rapper & annoying kid? ;)
 
You do realise that the film at the cinema is actually much higher resolution than anything you can get on Blu Ray? I saw a digital screening and the picture was perfect.
 
The T-600 didn't have a minigun for an arm, it was just carrying one.

Kyle did say that the T-600s were easy to spot. I don't think its too unreasonable for them to have been big and bulky. Close up, the rubber skin would give them away anyway, so they were obviously never going to be highly effective infiltrators.

I mean, there's no chance a T-600 with its rubber face would manage to sneak into a resistance base (like we see a T-800 do in a flashback in T1). Their likely infiltration capabilities were probably limited to sneaking up on humans by not being too obvious from a distance. All they needed was to not get noticed until they got within firing distance.
 
I have to say I agree with you Paddy C. I saw the film on Saturday. I was very disappointed. Mr Carrier thought it was very good. I thought it was a very boring war film.
The storyline was weak. I was disappointed by Christian Bale's acting. I thought he was quite good until I saw him in this role. There was no acting at all, just shouting. The young Reese I thought was very good but generally I thought it was a boring film. I was not convinced by any of it. Sadly I think there is definitely room for a T5. I would only be interested if James Cameron were to take the helm again. As the original director, he is the only one who had true vision and was able to direct two extremely good films with plot, special effects and believable characters. If T1 & T2 didn't exist T4 would be an "ok" film as it stanRAB I think it was pretty poor (but not as bad as T3!)
 
Yes but folks - the bad news is....its directed by i believe, Jonathan Mostow. I think he did a competent job on the third one. But I'm not sure he has quite what it takes to do action movies properly. hope that makes sense.
But I hope its good as it is surposedly the rebirth of the whole franchise (showing how john conner works out how to send a 'good' terminator or human back to 1984, to save his mum..)
 
Cameron will never return and is why he didn't direct T3 as he felt he had concluded the story after T2 where Judgement Day had been averted and humanity was now safe. I wouldn't be surprised if he hates T3 and T4 considering what they have done to the franchise.
 
my megageek continuity gripes would be

- in T1 kyle reese explains "the 600 series had rubber skin, we spotted them easy but these are new, they look human...!" so why was marcus, and the "arnie" t-800 even in the flick at all? due to the timeline, they probably wouldn't have been invented yet?

- in addition, the 600 series, and the later 800s were described by reese as being "infiltration units". it has always annoyed me (and cameron himself did it in t2) that the 800 chassis is used as a footsoldier. would machines bother to make humanoid footsoldiers when they have those massive flying and tracked HKs? i think not.

- the size of the t-800 endoskeleton (in lots of different media, not just this film). the chassis is designed to be beneath a human skin covering, such as arnie. he's big, but he ain't that big, but the endoskeleton is always shown as being huge, with massive shoulders and proportions! in T1 at least it was kind of slender, and you believed it might fit within arnold's proportions.
 
Excellent. I generally agree with Empire's reviews so this gives me hope that Harry Knowles' "review" was nothing more than a fanboy rant because the future war wasn't what he'd been masturbating over in his head for the past 20 years...

I'm now going to ignore all reviews :)
 
Oh, if only that were true. Some screenings are better than others, it's true, but frankly some cinema's are really letting the whole industry down. They just aren't up to scratch.

It was somewhat hard and suffered over sharpening in Plymouth. This had a strange effect on the light, making it over-white. Surround effects were lamentable. From experience I know even the DVD will be better quality.

It didn't help that there was a patch (or a light leak) about 2/3rRAB of the way along the bottom of the screen. Shaped like the silhoutte of a tank.

This is screen 7 at Plymouth's Vue.

I thought she had wondefully ample parts. Any more than a handfull is a waste.
 
fair point, i guess it is down to how the individual (including mcg) interprets the earlier films, and how that translates into what gets put on screen.

we all probably have a different idea of how the whole thing should look / feel etc
 
Gee I wonder how you managed to see it so early being in Scotland :rolleyes:.

I am tempted to grab my home cinema ticket for it as well, but am not that keen on the actor playing the lead role.
 
you must remember this is set before Kyle Reece is sent back so the resistance hasn't got to that stage yet

I've just back from seeing it and I loved it
 
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