Terminator franchise to continue after all

Terminator franchise to continue after all Mar 23, 2017 17:04:54 GMT kingkoopa likes this

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Post by misstique on Mar 23, 2017 17:04:54 GMT

Mar 22, 2017 17:15:35 GMT moviemouth said:

I didn't think Salvation felt like a Transformers movie at all. It felt like a Terminator movie crossed with Mad Max and I am fine with that. I had always wanted to see a movie made about the actual future that Kyle Reese is from, so I kind of took what I could get LOL. I actually think the movie is well made and very entertaining which is shocking considering it was made by McG.

Genisys was absolute nonsense with an unnecessarily convoluted screenplay but the biggest problem is how poorly made and emotionally dead the movie is. The story may feel more like a Terminator film than Salvation but the directing feels far less like a Terminator film imo. It felt like a bad Marvel film to me.

To me it felt like a Transformers movie simply because of all the various non-humanoid robots (Bike Terminators, Aerostats, Harvesters, Giant Terminators, Tank Terminators, Sea Serpent Terminators etc etc.). Why does Skynet even bother creating all these? If it just wants to exterminate humans, there are a lot of other simpler ways like radiation or nerve gas or other such things. Skynet does not need to put a bullet into every single human being.

I'm totally fine with you liking TS over TG. I'm not saying TG is a great movie or even near the level of the first two. But to me, it was more enjoyable and felt more like a Terminator movie than TS.

The core concept of the Terminator movies is a cyborg assassin disguised as a human sent back in time to stop John Connor from existing. So because it takes place in our present time it makes the movie more relatable (T1, T2, T3, TG). The Terminator looks exactly like a human, it is an infiltration unit. It does its work without most of the people even knowing who or what it is. Despite taking place in populated cities, the battle is condensed only on the Terminator and the savior, with a few cops added in. Everybody else is oblivious to it. And most of the weapons of our times are not good enough to easily kill the machine, that makes it even more dangerous and a challenge.

But moving the entire story to the future, like they did in TS, is something that did not sit well with me. Firstly, EVERYBODY knows about the Terminators and Skynet. It just ends up being another post-apocalyptic world movie where the good guys battle the bad guys in a wasteland. There's no excitement or anything new really to expect. There's not more suspense or secrecy. Most robots are just plain robots, not robots pretending to be humans.

When a movie shows supernatural/futuristic/amazing things happening in our times and our location, it is more exciting than when they happen in their own time and place. Imagine if the "Transformer" movies were set on Cyberdyne. What would be so great about that? They wouldn't even need to transform into cars and trucks. It would just be a bunch of robots fighting each other on a world we don't care about.