Seems that it's not a bad film at all for what it is 
Terminator: Salvation
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spacemonkey
I Love Noodles
I liked it! I'm not sure I liked the kid playing Kyle Reese, needed someone grittier.
Good to see Sony managed to get their product placement in.
Good to see Sony managed to get their product placement in.
I look forward to seeing it. 
I'm not sure what you are getting at. What are you referring to and why do you think it is funny?Good to see Sony managed to get their product placement in.
spacemonkey
I Love Noodles
It's not difficult.
It's a Sony Pictures production. Therefore they try to squeeze in as many references to the Sony brand as they can. Have you seen the new James Bond films? Every gadget is a Sony, they have slow, lingering close ups so you can clearly see their logo.
In this film, his handheld gadget thingy is Sony. There's another scene where he's holding something and it says VIAO in the top right hand corner. *face palm*
Good to see they still have their production lines going in the post apocalyptic future. There's also 7eleven brand placement and ABB Robotics.
It's not a new thing, the first Terminator film had loads (and don't get me started on T3). Still fucks me off though.
<--- this was ironic.It's not difficult.
It's a Sony Pictures production. Therefore they try to squeeze in as many references to the Sony brand as they can. Have you seen the new James Bond films? Every gadget is a Sony, they have slow, lingering close ups so you can clearly see their logo.
In this film, his handheld gadget thingy is Sony. There's another scene where he's holding something and it says VIAO in the top right hand corner. *face palm*
Good to see they still have their production lines going in the post apocalyptic future. There's also 7eleven brand placement and ABB Robotics.
It's not a new thing, the first Terminator film had loads (and don't get me started on T3). Still fucks me off though.
It might not be difficult to understand your comment if it was a Sony production. The fact is, it isn't. It is just distributed in the UK and some other countries by Sony.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I thought he was excellent casting, just right. Remember Kyle Reese only becomes the way we know him in T1 after spending time fighting along side Conner in the resistance.
spacemonkey
I Love Noodles
It might not be difficult to understand your comment if it was a Sony production. The fact is, it isn't. It is just distributed in the UK and some other countries by Sony.
Whatever, the film has links to Sony. http://www.sonypictures.co.uk/movies/terminatorsalvation/
As soon as I saw Sony Pictures mentioned in the beginning credits I knew there would be Sony Branding/Products littered throughout the film.
And I was right.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I didn't think the Sony stuff was that obvious really, not compared to CR which was fucking ridiculous!
spacemonkey
I Love Noodles
It was a lot worse in Bond to be fair. And it wasn't the most obvious branding in this film either.
I noticed Chrysler managed to spend some of US Taxpayers money to get their name in.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Saw it tonight and really liked it - some great set pieces, good robotic rampaging, nice performances, especially from the guy playing Marcus and Anton Yelchin who I thought was great as Kyle Reese (and who is also in cinemas as Chekov in "Star Trek" at the mo!)
Ticked all the right boxes to be a good, exciting action movie. Just wish Christian Bale wouldn't growl so much. I have heard him speak normally and his voice is not that deep!!
Ticked all the right boxes to be a good, exciting action movie. Just wish Christian Bale wouldn't growl so much. I have heard him speak normally and his voice is not that deep!!
Yeah, I watched it tonight and enjoyed it a lot. Not enough fully pitched battles between the humans and da robots, but apart from that it was fully fledged awesome. Just the right balance between staying true to the back-ground ledge and creating new and interesting story lines. Awesome effects. The Marcus story was an excellent addition.
mhendo
Aussie in San Francisco
Saw it a couple of weeks ago, in Hollywood of all places. As a stand-alone, fun, shooting-and-killing action movie, it was fine; as a member of the Terminator series it was slightly better than T3 but an awful travesty compared to T1 and T2.
While the whole Terminator timeline, like most time-travel plots, is rather contradictory and inconsistent in places, the plot in T:S was just so fucking full of holes that i couldn't take it seriously at all.
Perhaps the most glaring and crucial one was:
While the whole Terminator timeline, like most time-travel plots, is rather contradictory and inconsistent in places, the plot in T:S was just so fucking full of holes that i couldn't take it seriously at all.
Perhaps the most glaring and crucial one was:
the whole bit about the trap.
The machines go through this whole massive, convoluted plan, including building a special new half-human terminator who doesn't even know he's a machine, in order to get John Connor into their clutches.
And then, when this incredibly elaborate trap works, they don't simply incinerate Connor by locking him in a booby-trapped room and blowing him to pieces. No, they send one single, slightly upgraded Terminator after him, and let their new machine-with-a-conscience waltz off and help Connor.
Also, Connor makes clear on multiple occasions that if anything happened to Kyle Reese, the whole timeline would be fucked and Connor wouldn't even exist. Surely the machines know this too, but do they kill Reese as soon as he's in their clutches? N, they decide to use him as bait for Connor.
Now,you might argue that getting Connor is also important to them, but they could have killed Reese and still used him as bait (assuming Connor didn't just disappear once Reese as killed), because the only way that Connor knew that Reese had been captured was that Marcus told him. Connor knows only that Reese has been taken, but has no way of knowing whether he's dead or alive. So the machines could have killed Reese without nullifying his effectiveness as bait.
The machines go through this whole massive, convoluted plan, including building a special new half-human terminator who doesn't even know he's a machine, in order to get John Connor into their clutches.
And then, when this incredibly elaborate trap works, they don't simply incinerate Connor by locking him in a booby-trapped room and blowing him to pieces. No, they send one single, slightly upgraded Terminator after him, and let their new machine-with-a-conscience waltz off and help Connor.
Also, Connor makes clear on multiple occasions that if anything happened to Kyle Reese, the whole timeline would be fucked and Connor wouldn't even exist. Surely the machines know this too, but do they kill Reese as soon as he's in their clutches? N, they decide to use him as bait for Connor.
Now,you might argue that getting Connor is also important to them, but they could have killed Reese and still used him as bait (assuming Connor didn't just disappear once Reese as killed), because the only way that Connor knew that Reese had been captured was that Marcus told him. Connor knows only that Reese has been taken, but has no way of knowing whether he's dead or alive. So the machines could have killed Reese without nullifying his effectiveness as bait.
bouncer_the_dog
Well-Known Member
I like the way you can sync a Terminator with Skynet, a bit like an iPod.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
I liked that too - it made me giggle. In a girlish way.
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
I was not too impressed. Robots were good, but plot was nothing special, and full of holes, as other posters have said.
Also, why to Terminators not just crush human's throats when they get hold of them, rather than throwing them about, through tables and glass panels and that?
Also, why to Terminators not just crush human's throats when they get hold of them, rather than throwing them about, through tables and glass panels and that?
spacemonkey
I Love Noodles
I like it where they explain the terminators hunt at night using Infrared, making it easier to spot humans.
Then in another scene they snuggle up next to a fucking fire to keep warm!
Then in another scene they snuggle up next to a fucking fire to keep warm!
nuffsaid
But this goes up to 11
I expected loads of CGI action and obvious plot holes so I got what I expected and it was fun.
Absolutely loved the sound of that gi-normous terminator with a head for a gun that was killing all those people as they scarpered. More of that please! :
Looking forward to getting a copy and playing on the surround sound on volume setting 11.
Absolutely loved the sound of that gi-normous terminator with a head for a gun that was killing all those people as they scarpered. More of that please! :
Looking forward to getting a copy and playing on the surround sound on volume setting 11.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Not a big action fan, but to be fair, some of that was great fun.
a big noisy crash bang wallop!
Plot was paper thin, but it kept moving.
My son's review 'awesome!'.
a big noisy crash bang wallop!
Plot was paper thin, but it kept moving.
My son's review 'awesome!'.
Jenerys
Stormborn
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Not the Batman voice
His voice changes throughout the film - sometimes it's the batman voice, other times the twatman voice.
Augie March
blahem
Ah it was alright I guess. Apart from the corny ending that is. But you could say the same thing about T2's 'thumbs up' ending too.
And after watching the original the other night, I'm fairly convinced that Arnie was a CGI creation in that too.
And after watching the original the other night, I'm fairly convinced that Arnie was a CGI creation in that too.
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