This comes out on my b-day in australia. I believe because of this fact I may go see it. The last cinema release i went to was Indy 4. Thats not a sign I think it sucked, i just rarely go to be sorounded by a group of people where its questionable they are "movie buff" material. I really enjoyed indy 4, except maybe the ending which i think many would agree was kinda weird, as epic as it looks.
ok, back to the TS trailer. Disclaimer : I am aware i am attacking the bare plot that I've read up on and visually, the trailer material only.
Im sorry, but this movie feels like it has NO unique atmosphere to me ; I remember first seeing this in development on imdb 18 months ago, CB was "rumored" and I had high hopes. However, it looks like they slightly greyed up the digital print and kept everything looking very sharply photo real aside from that color pallete change. Maybe its just the trailer that is appearing that way. It looks like any war movie out there that could exist in a real future world, which sucks this is terminator universe not real world. Everything about past films was heavily stylized filmically.
I love christian bale, but I think he just became the
only reason people will like this movie, because of him as john connor the badass hero. The same cannot be said about past films, where it struck a chord with the truth of humanity through many characters eyes from a story.
I shit you not if john connor of the future ever shows a human emotion before they take down the machines, I will cry bullshit. Anyone whose seen T2 knows that JC was a fucking war animal with one focus at the point they start to take down the machines. He wasnt caring about human emotion, it was a fight for bare human survival and he had grown up with handle for human emotion much like kyle reese, who only opened up when he wasnt in his world anymore and was feeling a connection with sarah connor. In other words, the emotion made fucking sense, thus more impactful.
major gripes
a) machine that believes he is human...
WTF?? all the terminator films the machine knows its a machine and is only designed to blend with humans, not to be human...The fact they were (in the 2 first films) self-aware makes them more intelligent and scary as an enemy. Being blinded into your own existence is a WEAKNESS, a bad one.
b) wtf WOTW?
why does that big machine resemble war of the worlds imagery. Fucking atrosity. The predominant ground units in terminator lore are HUGE TANKS, not giant biped versions of t-800's. What is that shit.. Air units = hunter killers, ground units = mass t-800's. Problem solved..
c) Bryce Dallas Howard
why? she looks like she has little chemistry with bale. Its not that shes not attractive...its that shes not really a badass attractive. Even Claire danes kinda became believable as badass SORTA
Time will tell, I guess