Terminator salvation first reviews (OMG SPOILERS)

Why did they have to give this a kids rating?
Does it mean I'll have to experience a similar misery to Terminator 3? (Kids laughing for ages at the fight in the bathroom) "a toilet!? hahahaha"
Making movies all flower filled and nice for low age ratings should be an offence punishable by death.

I'll go and see it but I expect pain and misery, all the robots will no doubt have evil personalities, instead of actually being machines with a "kill humans" goal. :(
 
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Just seen the clip with Arnie in

CGI is simply amazing, it looked like they used some old footage from T2, brilliant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YIi3PMqYCU

@ 1.15

It's a trailer by the way, so it's spoiler free

EDIT - I'm starting to think after watching the rest of the video, that maybe that is old footage? Looks too good
 
Steedie said:
EDIT - I'm starting to think after watching the rest of the video, that maybe that is old footage? Looks too good
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That is old footage from T2 promos. The Arnie in the film looks pretty pants, he looks just to shiny and clean, and his hair is wrong lol. Body looks very good, but his face is just to smooth and shiny.

Just got back from this. My housemate works at Vue so get early screenings, I have not pirated it before you delete this post!

I can't really be bothered to write to much about it, other than its really not very good. Story is pants, even the action isn't that impressive and it feels very disjointed.

Whoever decided to give the task of 'rebooting' (ish) one of films most iconic and famous series', to the man that bought us Charlies Angels and The OC, needs a ruddy good slap. The whole film just feels completely undercooked and not thought through. There are quite a few plot holes and the whole storyline adds nothing to the Terminator series whatsoever.

Also, somehow Christian Bale is pretty pants in it. He keeps his stupid gravelly voice from Batman (Although not as bad) and is actually not in the film that much.

The only enjoyment I got from it was the fact it was Terminator, oooh and actually the sound was pretty nice.
 
Why are all movies turning this way now? It seems audiences love that type of rubbish - Transformers, Batman (the last one), Quantum of Solace and now Terminator - they all seem just action explosion action action explosion. grr
 
explosions impress the kids !

and explosions are okay aslong as theres little or no blood! you can kill people with explosions and its still considered child friendly!
 
arknor said:
explosions impress the kids !
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I'm not a kid and the explosions still impress me, dont mind the odd occasion when I can go to the cinema, switch my brain off and watch the pretty lights :)

However I didnt want this film to be one of those occasions.
 
Christo said:
Why are all movies turning this way now? It seems audiences love that type of rubbish - Transformers, Batman (the last one), Quantum of Solace and now Terminator - they all seem just action explosion action action explosion. grr
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Id like to say its because of the money but i dont think it is, people seem to just like watching unintelligent shallow films these days, its the same with games i think, as long as stuff blows up everyone is happy.
 
Christo said:
Batman (the last one),
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There was action in The Dark Knight? I actually thought its major downfall was the lack of a memorable action sequence. I can't remember going wow at any point in that film, not from any action anyway. Not even any fancy camera moves, something which Terminator does very nicely at the start. QoS, was a steam pile of horse faeces though, no doubt. Stupid Bourne style action, utter tripe.
 
I think a lot of these films now are taking the example of the A Team. Fire several hundred rounds but don't show anything worse than a hurty knee. Terminator should have been an 18 for all the right reasons to pay back the fans from way back in 1984. Remember the scene where he takes out his eye in the bathroom in the original - well now it would be him plucking his eyebrows! Probably won't be seeing this dulled down teen film.
 
Does a film really have to have graphic scenes of violence to be good?

I mean dont get me wrong i love watching a gore fest as much as the next bloke but im a big Terminator fan and also enjoyed watching the Sarah Connor Chronicles recently.

Im going to watch this and make my own opinion up, and not listen to some pompous film critic who has his head up his arse too much to make any good judgement on a film.
 
rojones said:
Does a film really have to have graphic scenes of violence to be good?
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No, but films like Terminator do, because violence was in its roots and it seriously helped make the first two films as good as they were.

I mean the premise is post apocalyptic - machines wiping out the human race... with a plot like that it needs a darker more violent side to work properly IMO.
 
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No, but films like Terminator do, because violence was in its roots and it seriously helped make the first two films as good as they were.

I mean the premise is post apocalyptic - machines wiping out the human race... with a plot like that it needs a darker more violent side to work properly IMO.
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The second film wasn't really violent though, and you can tell when John Connor is telling him 'not to kill anybody' and when he's firing that mini-gun at all those cops and at the end it comes up on the terminator vision 'zero casualties'.
 
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There was action in The Dark Knight? I actually thought its major downfall was the lack of a memorable action sequence. I can't remember going wow at any point in that film, not from any action anyway. Not even any fancy camera moves, something which Terminator does very nicely at the start. QoS, was a steam pile of horse faeces though, no doubt. Stupid Bourne style action, utter tripe.
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I consider a somersaulting articulated lorry a rather impressive setpiece. Also, the batbike was just too cool
 
Streeteh said:
I consider a somersaulting articulated lorry a rather impressive setpiece. Also, the batbike was just too cool
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It was done much more impressively in T3, 6 (!) years ago. Batbike was cool no doubt, but that doesn't make every scene its in amazing. It just didn't push the envelope action wise at all, but I admit the film didn't necessarily need it.
 
Ended up seeing T4 and I cant complain - was pretty good all in all. I cant say it was a bad action film or a bad Terminator film (perhaps the 12A license restricted it tho - 15 been better). Much better than the campness of T3 and kept with the canon pretty well - the nods/in-jokes to the previous films were great...

Didnt like a couple of things but will mention that later when more people have watched it - Gerard spoiler is spot on - the CGI for that bit was awful even back in the 90s...

I just liked the fact it just seemed to be a relatively normal month-in-the-life of John Connor while the previous 3 there was the whole world in jeopardy (it also means that if you ignore T3 and T4 you arent really missing much substance to the story)...

6/10 or worth the price of admission - definitely think me going in with dread (McG :rolleyes: ) made me enjoy it more, which I prefer than being hyped up and being disappointed...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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I'm going watching this tonight and it's 12A

There's an 18 rated version screening on Monday, anyone know what the difference is? I'm thinking Moon Bloodgood is topless in that version but surely it's more than just that??
 
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