Thursday June
4, 2009
Ok, so here I am a self proclaimed Terminator Junkie... When
Arnold had to kill himself in the 1st... It hit me right where the
beat in my chest comes from. When they had to freeze T-1000 I was
jumping through my skin cause I realized there was a weakness to
(at the time) the most bad-ass killin' machine ever thought about.
T3... uhhh Arnold was getting kinda old, but the special affects
were pretty cool, and it had a chick kickin' ridiculous amounts of
rump, so ok it passes.
Now, here I am... I've got my popcorn, I've seen a couple off the
chain previews. Christain Bale's in this one, Common's in it. It
has to be the best one ever... Right??... Wrong. I'm sorry to say
it but Christian Bale didn't bring to the terminator what it
needed, an Arnold replacing Bad Ass as a hero. There was the cool
new guy that was half human, mostly robot, and then there was
Christian Bale who is the "savior" but there wasn't anyone or
anything that lived up to what happened between T1 and T2. Sorry
there just wasn't... plus there wasn't near enough violence in
this one... I think something like 4 people died... Now I'm not
the one for Gore Fest 09 necessarily but why wasn't this movie at
least rated R. The problem here is that there were no personal
deaths... the people that died were escaping in car or van so the
whole van got blown up... there was non of that I'm gonna kill you
just cause you happened to be on this chopper and I need it, or
cause you happened to be the wrong cop at the wrong time, or not
even the I like your leather and glasses give'm to me deaths... I
think that's what makes this one a step below.. now like I said
I'm not all about the killing, but somethings are just
necessary... here we are with Machines (Skynet) that are trying to
ERADICATE humanity without prejudice, and nobody really gets
killed... Kinda makes it hard to swallow. Correction at the
beginning a few folks die, but you don't really see how.. it just
happens so then it's harder to feel anyway about it emotionally.
Despite all my ripping about death I still give it a solid B. Not
great, but worth seeing in a theater. Looking forward
Transformers.. it didn't let me down the first time, I'm pretty
sure It'll do what it needs to this time.
Peace,
Iz
