Terminator Salvation
I loved "Terminator 2". Loved it! "The Terminator" is a classic, and I even enjoyed "Rise Of The Machines", but in T3 it started going down a road that I was hoping would be adjusted in T4. I'm sure most of you felt the same, that in T3 it was getting a little repetitive, a little unrealistic and a little too much like a movie and less realistic than the first 2. Part of the reason I enjoyed the first 2 is because it was (marginally) realistic. The Terminator (Ahnold in part 1) acted like a killing machine, the T-1000 (in T2) acted like a killing machine, and Ahnold in T2 acted like a protector. It still felt like they were inserted into our world, and it worked pretty well.
I guess "over the top" would be a good way to describe how T3 and T4 felt to me. Enjoyable, yes, but with so much going on it was hard to call them excellent movies. I think they fell into the same trap that most movies fall into nowadays, where they try so hard to be overly complex and to throw as much into the movie as they can.
There were so many moments where this movie was "Hollywood-ized" that it became distracting.
Here's what I didn't like:
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I liked a lot of things in this movie too, but it just felt like it bounced from idea to idea very quickly. Plus it wasn't rated R which to me just seems ridiculous for a Terminator movie.
I liked:
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As a whole I can't say I hated it. It was enjoyable and fun, and I know I'm nitpicking many of my complaints...I mean after all it's a movie about mechanical killing machines and computers that took over the world and tried to exterminate the human race. Not bad, not great...
3/5
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