Straight and to the point, this is the Toy Story 3 Teaser!!! It seems Pixar wanted to release it right along UP. Watching the trailer really brought back memories. Toy Story came out in 1995. Has it really been that long? Wow….time does go by so fast. But hey, at least we’re getting part 3!!! I”m there opening day! Who’s with me?
Best Thing: Its Terminator! That and Sam Worthington as Marcus Wrigth, his Performance was solid!
Worst Thing: Not enough humanization on the characters, that and the plot. Not the best, but not the worst.
Score: 6.8/10
Terminator Salvation as you all know, is the 4th film in the Terminator franchise. This franchise had much success with the first 2 movies, especially the second, which in my opinion is the best one. Then came the third and well….it wasn’t what everyone expected, but it also wasn’t tooo bad…right? lol. And now we have this forth film which in many ways is a “salvation” of the terminator franchise.
It manages to do many things right. The whole atmosphere of the film is dead on. Very raw in your face camera style, which really makes you feel like you’re there. The special effects are dead on, as is the sound effects. The robots look realistic, as in, its not to far fetched that these robots can actually be built today. Even Arnold’s cameo appearance looks pretty good, he looks like he did in part 1.
Now on to the bad…for a movie talking so much about the difference between robots and humans, it doesn’t humanize the humans enough. Sounds weird right? But it’s true! ( i sound like my sister now lol) Christian Bale playing as the much hyped John Connor, never once, asks his wife (played by spiderman-3’s Bryce Howard) about the baby she is carrying! I mean i know its war, but come on man, you can at least show her a bit more love! Also another compliant, what on earth is Batman doing in Terminator? I’m not referring to the fact that Bale played Batman and now he’s playing Connor, no, i mean why does he have to do the Batman voice?? Seriously i was like what?? The director actually let that go by? I know the voice is cool and all, heck I even do it sometimes (where are they?!?!?) but come on…
The plot also suffers a bit, i mean after thinking about it, the whole movie is just about Connor saving his father (who is a teen) to send him back to the past. All the stuff in between is just added there to get to that point. It serves no other purpose, i mean they even blow up a base, which they say is skynet, but then at the end, you get another John Connor voice over, “we blew up their base…but its not over…they still have a network of robots….the war continues…”. Another minor complaint is that some parts of the movie may not be too clear to some viewers. Like the whole story behind Marcus Wrigth, the whole point of his existence and what happens to him is explained really quickly by some screen on a computer. If you’re not quick to read them, then I guess you’re lost. Also I dont think enough is clarified on the importance of John Connor as the faith of humanity.
Overall, Terminator Salvation is a good summer flick and it really did bring back the Terminator franchise. Now here’s hoping that the next one, is the Dark Knight of the Terminator franchise!! till next time…..
One of the highlights of watching Wolverine, were the teaser trailers. Not only did we get Terminator: Salvation, but also Transformers 2, which looks like its going to be pretty good (better than the 1st one hopefully). But there was one other trailer that caught my eye, and that was District-9. It was if you recall, having to do with aliens. Now in the trailer the aliens face was blurred and what they said, had no subtitles. Yet it still looked interesting. Well if you’re curious i have here the trailer with no blurring and subtitles to get a better feel for the movie.
Personally i’m interested. What are you’re thoughts about it? And… am i the only one that thinks the ship got ripped right out of Independence Day??
Worst Thing: SO much wasted potential…that and wraith…
Score: Got out of the theater and said 3.5/10 (probably cause the wolverine fanboy inside of me pushed me to this verdict) but after thinking about it. 1.7/10
Almost a year and half ago when this movie first was being announced, everyone was supped about it. I mean, come on, whats not to love? We were gonna have a movie about Wolverine!! I mean, even though the other 3 movies where basically Wolverine’s movies, this was going to be just him. The main character, front and center. No more crappy Cyclops or stooge-like Storm. Just WOLVERINE. Cool.
YET…thats not what happened. What FOX decided to do, was to make WOLVERINE’s origin. Problem is, that we basically knew his origins cause the other 3 XMEN movies were debating that. You have him having all these headaches about his past and walking around..etc. So instead of moving forward with the franchise and Wolverine, they moved back. Why? Well now after seeing the ending to Origins, basically because they want to make X Men: Fist class part 1,2 and 3. So they sacrificed Wolverine in the process, believing that he will heal and walk again to box office glory like he always does.
So after that small rant, whats wrong with the movie besides the mentioned points? There’s no point. This movie really has no point but to just give wolverine adamantine claws and skeleton. Thats it plain and simple. All the action, all the “story” could have easily been skipped and we could have just gotten to the point of Wolverine getting his claws and forgetting everything.
Another flaw, no sense of fear or worry. As the audience we have to root for the good guy, and feel fear, that he might get hurt or die. NONE WHAT SO EVER. WHY? cause they make wolverine out to be like superman in this movie. I mean this guy can’t die at all. He doesn’t age. He’s immortal. So put 2 immortals in a fight together, without any danger to anyone around them, in other words just 1 on 1, and you have very boring pointless action (even though good special effects).
One pointless scene that really bothered me was the fight between Wraith (will.i.am) and Sabertooth. Its the most pointless fight in the movie. Why? Well u would figure that Wraith would figure out, “Gee… wolverine is like indestructible has been fighting wars for years, killed his father, has huge claws..man this guy is bad to the bone…YET he can’t kill Sabertooth, even though he stabs him countless times with his claws!” Yet Wraith somehow gets to the conclusion that if he punches Sabertooth enough times, he’ll kill him. take a moment to process that ……………………………………………
Yep… POINTLESS. If Wraith wasn’t a class A stooge, as soon as he would have seen Sabertooth, he would have BOUNCED himself out of there, to Hawaii or something!! Not inches away from Sabertooth. And worst of all unarmed. PATHETIC!!
I could go on ripping this movie for more of its flaws, like Agent Zero (the Chinese Mutant with the guns), this guy opens up the movie with a crazy action scene taking out all the guards, YET….when he is chasing Wolverine on the Helicopter, he doesn’t once think “Hmm…i have some beasty aiming, why dont i just shoot Wolverine’s motorcycle gas tank when he’s out in the open, so the thing blows up and Wolverine has to walk, he’ll be slower = easier target for me and my crew”. Stuff like that gets me mad, and dont get me started on how they mixed Weapon XI with Deadpool, please none of that.
Take it easy ppl and here’s hoping they dont make X Men Origins: Storm.
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