Tuesday, July 07, 2009

 

Terminator Salvation

I'm on holiday so it's off to the 11:15am showing of the latest Terminator movie at the Showcase cinema down the road (sorry, Gavin).
The whole building seemed deserted - two staff on the ground floor (one for ticket sales, the other on food and drinks) and no customers to be seen. In screen 11 there must have been only 5 other people watching the film with me - perfect.

The film itself isn't too bad - not an epic sequel in the way T2 followed T1 (or Aliens followed Alien for that matter), but adequate to flesh out more of the Terminator storyline.

Instead of reviewing the plot, I'll list the good/bad points.

  1. Loved the hardware. The Skynet mechs and aircraft look great but some basic physics was ignored - harvester mechs are very heavy and so cannot creep up on ANYONE undetected; if a truck driving past would rattle the windows then a harvester mech is going to make the frames come out.

  2. Every now and then you would see a scene that would be a random encounter in a D&D game. For example, a bunch of hydrobots attack for no good reason except to show off a mech designed for the movie.

  3. Nobody ever bruises, even when they have been used as a club to demolish the scenery.

  4. Terminators fire a vast amount of ammunition and so should be lugging behind them a hopper the size of a Grundon full of bullets.

  5. The CGI for the closeup of the cyborg's face is awesome.

  6. Why does SkyNet have to act like a stereotypical James Bond villain and explain the plot?

  7. How do portable radios work between one person who's inland and another that is at least 500 miles away and underwater? The Transformers sequel did this as well between someone in Giza and the captain of an aircraft carrier who must be at least 100 miles away.

  8. The mute little girl seemed a rip-off of Newt from Aliens.

  9. Reading the wiki, I see that the re-use of phrases and scenes from the earlier movies was a deliberate homage. That's cool.

  10. Medical facilities in a post-apocalyptic world are second to none.

  11. Why is SkyNet's HQ designed and laid out to be used by people?

  12. Arnie!

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