Comments on: Terminator: Salvation

By: tudor clothes

tudor clothes — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:28:19 +0000

Wonderful insight

By: H-Man

H-Man — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:27:03 +0000

One thing I forgot to mention earlier, Danny Elfman truly butchered the brilliant "Terminator" theme in this. By far the worst rendition of it ever.

By: RickSwift

RickSwift — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:17:52 +0000

Yea, Yelchin had a GREAT 2009 though, sucker was everywhere. It wasn't the best T movie, that would be the original to me, I am a purist I guess.

By: H-Man

H-Man — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:29:47 +0000

Finally saw this one on Blu-Ray. I must say, although it's not a bad film, it was definitely the least of the Terminator films. I found the performances uneven, including Christian Bale's ("WE'RE DEAD! WE ARE ALL DEAD!!!"-cut to H-Man laughing his ass off), and the script even more so. The writing at times was downright putrid, and they even screwed up Sarah Conner's recorded dialogue from the first film… talk about an easy thing to get right! I also felt that in the first two films the characters and story had real depth. I cared about the people and the impending future was actually quite scary. The glimpses we got of the post-Judgment Day world were truly nightmarish in T1 + 2, but as visualized by McG (buddy, if you ever want to be taken seriously as a filmmaker, drop the McG crap and use your real name) the war torn future just looks like another Mad Max wasteland. As for the characterizations, they were strong in the first two, as said, but that eroded a little in T3, and now in TS they're gone completely. John Conner been stripped of all his personality, as has Kate, his wife. At least her character was a character in T3. Marcus Wright, the Terminator/human hybrid, was a non-entity. The only one with a pulse was Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin's performance is the best in the movie), but he didn't have enough screen time to really make a huge impression. The scene where he and Conner come face to face finally should have powerful, but it wasn't. I also agree with "King of the World" Jim Cameron when he said that they went over board with wink wink nods to the previous films (Gun n' Roses, really?). The action scenes were well done, but nowhere near as memorable as anything in the first two films. Overall, though, not a bad movie. I didn't hate it like Harry Knowles at AICN did. It was a perfectly good action film, but as a Terminator film, it didn't quite stack up. And, I saved this for last, despite "Arnold's cameo," his presence (and Cameron's) is sorely missed.

By: PapaD

PapaD — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:29:19 +0000

for kratos….its a moooovvvviiiieeee, and if we are going to compare then wouldnt you rather bring up battlestar? i mean down to the whole loving a robot deal…

By: Kratos

Kratos — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:53:27 +0000

For 2009 the movie was good and enjoyable. It does leave a few questions open as to how the humans are capable of fighting the robots with so much destruction. How did they get airplanes, helicopters, submarines, other fighting stuff if it was all destroyed (hey what about gasoline). If they have a base wouldn't the robots find the base and destroy? The movie does link the 1st movie and that is very good. It is amazing the 1st Terminator movie came out over twenty years ago. Most of the actors did good in the movie one actor in my opinion was horrible Mr. Ironside stick with Star Ship Troopers.
Putting my negative comments aside the if you have nothing to do it is worth seeing in a theater.