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I think that I will make an effort to change that. Not necessarily with worthwhile content, but perhaps as a repository for my impressions of movies that I see. Since I have Netflix now, I have been able to watch a lot of movies, both through their digital service and through mailed discs. For the sake of ease, I will begin with the movie I received in the mail yesterday, and watched last night:
Terminator Salvation
Spoiler:
This movie was kind of cool, which is not to be confused with good. It was not very good, but it had lots of action and explosions. The effects were not very impressive, and most of the Terminator models were garbage. The only Terminator that didn't look like trash was the Arnold one. There was one who seemed to be wearing a sweatband on his head, like it is Rambo. You are a robot, you do not need to wear a sweatband around your head!
I got the feeling at times that they were trying to make Gears of War the movie, but in the Terminator universe. Many of the Terminators were actually shaped like Locust, if you ignored the fact that they were robots. The protagonist's name was Marcus, and while not necessarily burly, he was a tough, gritty man, and in fact, should there be a Gears of War movie, Sam Worthington would not be a visual stretch if he were cast as Marcus Fenix. The Marcus character's story begins in a prison. Which Marcus am I referring to? The Terminators are taking people back to their evil headquarters for some reason. In Gears of War 2, the Locust are taking people back to their evil headquarters for some reason.
Did they seriously just dispatch one Terminator to try to kill John Conner in the middle of a Terminator factory? One Terminator, in a whole factory of Terminators, to kill your biggest enemy, way to pull out all the stops there Skynet. John Connor's girlfriend was really clean. She apparently owns the only functioning shower on the planet and she allows no one else to use it. John Connor is never really portrayed as being special in any way, of having any special qualities to him. He is just an interchangeable army man whose mother happened to sleep with a dude from the future. Tell me what makes John Connor in this movie any better than the next soldier. You can't do it, not without saying "he's played by a more famous actor than anyone else in the movie". He is the center of the Terminator universe, and yet he is interchangeable. In a building filled with terrorists and civilians, John McClain is the cop. In a city filled with crime, run by criminals, Batman is the guy who snapped and put on a mask. In a world where terrorists devise convoluted plans to attack LA every year, Jack Bauer is the man who understands that dammit, there's no time! In a world where machines are trying to eradicate humanity, John Connor is the guy whose mom slept with a dude from the future and left him some audio tapes.
The movie had some cool, actiony moments, but overall, wow it was silly.
