Man, if you’re like me, nothin’ is better than a great action movie! Who just doesn’t love on the edge of your seat chase sequences, explosions sequences, fight sequences, unnecessary CGI, flat acting, a bunch of shit stolen from its predecessor, a stupid/boring plot and a poorly directed movie made by a dick who is so self-important he goes by the name McG?
Terminator: Salvation is the latest boring/shitty action movie, released just in time so jerk-off fanboys can spooge all over their keyboards glorifying this piece of shit all Memorial Day weekend. My hatred for this “movie” is actually my fault. I’m the one who thought that maybe the studio would pick a decent script for this franchise. I’m the one who thought maybe the director would give a shit about the source material. I’m the one who had little to no expectations going in (and the film couldn’t even meet those). I mean, after all, the last time I checked IMDB had a rating of 8.4, actually within the weekend it was released it dropped down to 7.6, i gave it a 4, so I guess its me who has the problem, not the film itself. But hey, just for the sake of fun, lets see if I can’t find some flaws.
Marcus Wright, who is on death row and signs his life over to Cyberdyne systems. It’s never fully explained why he is on death row, other than he killed some people. Rather than trying to flesh out the character, the writers just said, “Fuck it…Good enough”, so we are left with this remorseful convict. Who later shows up in the future after Judgment Day takes place. He spends his entire time defending Kyle Reese, John Connor’s father, from SkyNet. The logistics of Time Travel are never elaborated on in any of the Terminator movies, which is fine, but I think this one needed to go there to explain how in the blue fuck SkyNet knew Kyle Reese was John Connor’s father. I’m sure one of you jack asses is thinking, “Jay! It’s because of the first movie! LOL!” I’m not buying the mere suggestion of the first movie as an explanation. It doesn’t matter that this is never elaborated on, because by the time you’ve stopped caring, you find out Marcus Wright is part robot, and at the end its revealed he is a new model and infiltration model that was meant to bring John Connor and Kyle Reese to SkyNet and they will meet their demise by a CGI Arnold Schwarzenegger, only to find out the robot is more human than robot and he will save them. This movie is more predictable than Titanic.
The last twenty minutes is a good indicator at how the movie was produced. If I was a betting man, and I am, I would suggest they found a bunch of frat boys, and possibly a few seventeen year old males and had them watch Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Being so excited from seeing the best action movie ever, these males took it upon themselves to write their own terminator movie. Lacking any creative talent or writing ability in general, they merely took their favorite parts of T2 and put them into their script. They couldn’t even pick a new song, they stuck with “You Could Be Mine” by Guns N’ Roses. I love G’N’R as much as the next guy, but fuck! Actually, this is part of the movie that makes the most sense. Being the leader of the Resistance is a very taxing position and does not allow one to keep up on current trends. Thus, John Connor is still listening to his jams from when he was a twelve year old.
Oh, and while we are on the subject what the fuck is up with gratuitous use of CGI? How is it possible that a movie almost 20 years old has better special effects than this pile of shit? You know the downfall is that everything has to be CGI. They use to actually use props and models. McG is quoted as say that they took the Sam Winston approach to film making and only use CGI when they had to. Apparently, this includes helicopters and fight sequences. This lackadaisical approach to film making is a trademark of McG as he only makes shit, EX: Charlie’s Angels 1 & 2.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment