come with me if you want to live
Saw Terminator Salvation tonight and mostly succeeded in feeling no bitterness towards it on account of TSCC's cancellation. Don't click if you don't want to be spoiled.
WOW were the explosions numerous in this movie. I'm going to go with 1400. There were 1400 explosions. I'm pretty sure. And I generally enjoyed the film though I couldn't help but think about or compare it to TSCC in nearly every scene.
I have to admit that seeing CGIed Arnie come out of that room to the terminator music of doom was such geeky awesome goodness.
Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese is wonderful. Adorable, believable, and heroic. He made me believe he could be that guy that travels back in time to be badass and father John Connor. I also felt bed for him with no big brother Derek to look out for him. No Reese boys, but that little girl with the huge eyes was super cute.
Loved all the callbacks to the other films. My two favorites: Kyle Reese says "come with me if you want to live" to Marcus, and John Connor says to tell his men "I'll be back." I also really enjoyed the presence of Sarah Connor in the recordings John listens to like they're his Bible and the battered picture of her. The recordings made little sense to me as I would have thought Sarah would have taught him so much more before she died, like he was just listening to things he had heard from her a million times. If that's the case, then I just feel sad for John clinging to his mother so desperately that he needs to listen to her voice to give him strength. That I could see from series John (who henceforth will be called "my John"). Ya know, listening not because he needs actual information on the machines, but because he just wants to hear his mother's voice. That I would get, but I got the feeling from this that he was listening to tapes he's heard many times and now is just searching for any small scrap of info or wisdom from his mother that he might have overlooked before straights became so dire. Whatever the reason, those scenes made me sad and gave me the feeling I was watching my John.
Fucking Kate Brewster. I didn't hate her or her unborn Connor spawn. In fact, yay for movie John for picking a redhead. But again I thought of TSCC, and I need John Connor to be lonely, like Cameron said he would be. The idea of him having a family and maybe being relatively happy just doesn't gel with how I see him. Maybe I just need him to be more tragic, but I don't see him getting a happy ending. Sure, he can save the world, but he should be miserable whilst doing it.
Holy Jesus did a shit load of people know Kyle Reese is John's dad! I felt like Sarah Connor telling him no one is safe when thinking he needed to keep that information to himself a little more. I was expecting one of the random minions who knew to accidentally tell poor Kyle after he is rescued. Jeez, movie John, my John couldn't even tell his uncle that he was his uncle! Keep a lid on it!
The hybrid cyborg Marcus Wright was really interesting. I couldn't help but see him as a Cylon sleeper agent ala Boomer after the reveal at Skynet HQ, but he was a well done, nicely fleshed out character. And dear lord was the actor playing him, Sam Worthington, hot as hell. Rawr.
What I liked best about Marcus was what he brought out in the humans around him. The concept of a machine being seen as more than metal is not new to the Terminator franchise, and it allows for some of the most compelling moments from John Connor in the films and the series. I think John is the leader he is because of his capacity to see beyond the metal and humanize them, to a certain extent. My John came out in this film most in two memorable Marcus-related scenes. The first was when a captive Blair told him why she helped Marcus escape. She said when she looked at Marcus she saw a man. John's reaction? He immediately lets her go. He understands, for all the reasons he knows he shouldn't. The second instance in which my John shines through is when he tries to revive a fallen Marcus. He's beating on his chest, refusing to leave without him, shouting "come on." By the time he was shocking his heart back to life, I had tears in my eyes because that was my John. Risking his own life for a cyborg he knew he could trust. That's my John Connor.
Throughout the scene in the Terminator factory, I kept seeing an endoskeleton and thinking, "OMG, that could be Cameron!" I so want to read a fanfic putting Cameron in this movie, somehow.
Overall, the action was phenomenal, the CGI fantastic, the acting good, and the twists just twisty enough. Yeah, I prefer TSCC and my John Connor, but this is a Terminator film and the Bale does Connor justice. I could have stood a little more robot hand holding, but I won't complain. :)
WOW were the explosions numerous in this movie. I'm going to go with 1400. There were 1400 explosions. I'm pretty sure. And I generally enjoyed the film though I couldn't help but think about or compare it to TSCC in nearly every scene.
I have to admit that seeing CGIed Arnie come out of that room to the terminator music of doom was such geeky awesome goodness.
Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese is wonderful. Adorable, believable, and heroic. He made me believe he could be that guy that travels back in time to be badass and father John Connor. I also felt bed for him with no big brother Derek to look out for him. No Reese boys, but that little girl with the huge eyes was super cute.
Loved all the callbacks to the other films. My two favorites: Kyle Reese says "come with me if you want to live" to Marcus, and John Connor says to tell his men "I'll be back." I also really enjoyed the presence of Sarah Connor in the recordings John listens to like they're his Bible and the battered picture of her. The recordings made little sense to me as I would have thought Sarah would have taught him so much more before she died, like he was just listening to things he had heard from her a million times. If that's the case, then I just feel sad for John clinging to his mother so desperately that he needs to listen to her voice to give him strength. That I could see from series John (who henceforth will be called "my John"). Ya know, listening not because he needs actual information on the machines, but because he just wants to hear his mother's voice. That I would get, but I got the feeling from this that he was listening to tapes he's heard many times and now is just searching for any small scrap of info or wisdom from his mother that he might have overlooked before straights became so dire. Whatever the reason, those scenes made me sad and gave me the feeling I was watching my John.
Fucking Kate Brewster. I didn't hate her or her unborn Connor spawn. In fact, yay for movie John for picking a redhead. But again I thought of TSCC, and I need John Connor to be lonely, like Cameron said he would be. The idea of him having a family and maybe being relatively happy just doesn't gel with how I see him. Maybe I just need him to be more tragic, but I don't see him getting a happy ending. Sure, he can save the world, but he should be miserable whilst doing it.
Holy Jesus did a shit load of people know Kyle Reese is John's dad! I felt like Sarah Connor telling him no one is safe when thinking he needed to keep that information to himself a little more. I was expecting one of the random minions who knew to accidentally tell poor Kyle after he is rescued. Jeez, movie John, my John couldn't even tell his uncle that he was his uncle! Keep a lid on it!
The hybrid cyborg Marcus Wright was really interesting. I couldn't help but see him as a Cylon sleeper agent ala Boomer after the reveal at Skynet HQ, but he was a well done, nicely fleshed out character. And dear lord was the actor playing him, Sam Worthington, hot as hell. Rawr.
What I liked best about Marcus was what he brought out in the humans around him. The concept of a machine being seen as more than metal is not new to the Terminator franchise, and it allows for some of the most compelling moments from John Connor in the films and the series. I think John is the leader he is because of his capacity to see beyond the metal and humanize them, to a certain extent. My John came out in this film most in two memorable Marcus-related scenes. The first was when a captive Blair told him why she helped Marcus escape. She said when she looked at Marcus she saw a man. John's reaction? He immediately lets her go. He understands, for all the reasons he knows he shouldn't. The second instance in which my John shines through is when he tries to revive a fallen Marcus. He's beating on his chest, refusing to leave without him, shouting "come on." By the time he was shocking his heart back to life, I had tears in my eyes because that was my John. Risking his own life for a cyborg he knew he could trust. That's my John Connor.
Throughout the scene in the Terminator factory, I kept seeing an endoskeleton and thinking, "OMG, that could be Cameron!" I so want to read a fanfic putting Cameron in this movie, somehow.
Overall, the action was phenomenal, the CGI fantastic, the acting good, and the twists just twisty enough. Yeah, I prefer TSCC and my John Connor, but this is a Terminator film and the Bale does Connor justice. I could have stood a little more robot hand holding, but I won't complain. :)