It seems like Terminator Salvation was set to fail from the start because it's not James Cameron. He's not coming back. Yes, he gave us this brilliant story, two films that action and sci-fi have imitated, mocked and for the most part, failed to live up to. He hasn't done a full out action film since "True Lies", hasn't directed a film in twelve years. Cameron was once a young filmmaker who just needed a chance. I'm not saying McG is awesome, but if someone wants to step up to the plate, by all means, have at it.
This isn't S. Darko or some straight to DVD hell hole. This is Terminator with Christian Bale, studio backing and a summer release.
The music isn't that classic score from the first two films which concerned me at the beginning. A little background is written on the screen for the rookies, one sentence talking of John Connor as a possible prophet? I was hoping we weren't heading into Matrix Revolutions territory.
You can tell it's not Cameron's apocalypse. We've seen so many apocalypses over the last twenty years. It's very hard to show us anything new, especially when we already have a view from the first two films.
What I loved about this film was we didn't see every plot point spliced into the trailer. It's almost misleading because this isn't John Connor's story as much as it's Marcus Wright's. Sam Worthington is going to be a huge star. He is what engages you into the film. I thought Bale was just pissed and kind of one note but maybe that's what they needed him to do to show the cyborg's humanity.
The small flashes from the mythology, from Arnold, melting a terminator, freezing a terminator, all the way to the classic "You Could Be Mine" were present in the film.
I'm glad McG took the film into this new frontier because there are all kinds of things they could do. This is what they should've done with the third film.
What do you guys think? Are we ever going to get over James Cameron and date someone else?
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