Rhombaad
Video Game Time Traveler
Walter said:It's like Tito's Berserk game.
Haha, it doesn't look that bad.
Walter said:It's like Tito's Berserk game.
Roger Ebert slams T4 http://rogerebert.suntimes.com / --- 2 stars -- "I know with a certainty approaching dread that all of my questions will be explained to me in long detailed messages from "Terminator" experts. They also will charge me with not seeing the movie before I reviewed it. Believe me, I would have enjoyed traveling forward through time for two hours, starting just before I saw the movie. But in regard to the answers to my questions: You know what? I don't care."
Toronto Star slams T4 http://www.thestar.com/enterta inment - one and a half stars - "Terminator Salvation: It’s back, and it’s bad"
Globe and Mail slams T4 http://www.theglobeandmail.com /arts/ - two stars - "What its predecessors had, this sequel sorely lacks"
USA Today slams T4 http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2009-05-19-terminator-salvation_N.htm -- "Bale is surprisingly one-dimensional as John Connor, the leader of the human Resistance movement whose destiny is linked to the future of mankind in this doomsday action franchise. He seems to be simply recycling his gravelly Dark Knight growl."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/19/DD7V17N5G0.DTL - "McG is a director with an above-average eye and an original instinct for camera placement. To his credit, he's not one of those lazy types who think they can generate excitement in an action sequence by shaking the camera or kicking it. But he has a major weakness as a filmmaker, and that weakness is all over "Terminator Salvation": His grand, elaborate visual sense is completely detached from his brain"..."Whoever thought in 2003 that we'd look back on "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" as the good old days?"
And Harry, the dude that enjoyed Van Helsing and Twilight slams it pretty bad - http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41140 - "I hate the film. Pure and simple. I loathe it. I hated it so much I didn’t want to see my friend’s faces afterwards. I just wanted to go home and vent. I really really hate this film. I hate how much effort so many great artists and technicians put into a film that’s this fucking bad. Ultimately its just shit moving, like a sewer pipe. I hate that there isn’t a sustained scene or sequence that I love as much as the best moment from TERMINATOR 3. I hate that when I left the theater I felt empty and let down. That I felt like writing a review like this instead of fucking dry humping a great TERMINATOR movie."Perhaps I should tell you the opening scene. We open with Sam’s Marcus sitting on his prison bed as a ridiculously awful looking Helena Bonham Carter comes out. She’s there to get Marcus to sign his body, post-execution, away. She tells him she can give him a second chance at life. Wouldn’t he want that? He tells her a sentence about how he killed his brother and some other men, he doesn’t deserve a second chance. She continues to go after his body and he agrees, but on the condition that she kiss him. Her lips are so sickly looking, and he kisses her by grabbing the back of her head and forcing her face into his suddenly. When he pulls away he says rather absurdly, “Now I know what Death tastes like!” – the line and the delivery were BAD! I’m talking the kind of bad that you repeat as a watermark of awfulness. It’s a shame that Nolan wasn’t the sole screenwriter here… but those guys from CATWOMAN and T3.
宮本 グリフィス said:Oh well, I don't think anybody should be shocked, even the four minute clip revealed the material to be less promising when not in music video form. It was over with T3 anyway. =)
Remember though, this is what the critics said about the all-time "cult classic" Alien 3!
Walter said:Terminator Salvation: The kind of movie that wins "best sound editing," and nothing more.
NightCrawler said:Not really. Alien 3 was just too grim and bleak. People didn't expect they would kill off their precious fan-favourites Hicks and Newt.
Walter said:Terminator Salvation: The kind of movie that wins "best sound editing," and nothing more.
Walter said:No, it wasn't incredibly bad, per se. But it wasn't good enough to be a Terminator film, and ultimately added nothing to the franchise/series. I suppose it wasn't given a number for a reason...
宮本 グリフィス said:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/awards
宮本 グリフィス said:Personally, I'm going to be judging it against T3, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection. =)
宮本 グリフィス said:I was always more upset about the lack of explanation about the egg and facehugger that could impregnate twice... Anyway, don't make it sound like it's misunderstand for some brave artistic direction it took on account of it's sloppy departure from Aliens, that's really just a excuse for the film's own shortcomings. If it were a better movie, nobody would have cared.
NightCrawler said:The shortcomings were mostly caused by the producers/studio. Fincher had a great vision and Sigourney backed him, which resulted in friction with the producers. If you have the Quadrilogy boxset, watching the behind the scenes footage clears everything about what happened. Besides, it comes with the unofficial Director's Cut, which is by far, the best DC i've seen, ever. In the way that it changes alot of the theatrical version, in mood, pace, and even plot. They actually capture the Alien in the DC. Which makes perfect sense, and should've been included in the theatrical version. I'm still baffled in the way the studio cut that part.
NightCrawler said:But even the crippled theatrical Alien 3 cannot be compared to such piles of shit like T3 or Alien Resurrection. The AVP movies don't even deserve to be mentioned. Alien 3 has great actors, decent characters/plot, great cinematography, great soundtrack, and great direction.
NightCrawler said:Who fuckin cares about that egg on the ship?
NightCrawler said:The problem was and always will be, that the fanboys wanted Aliens all over again. And they still do, by the amount of stupid stories with pseudo-colonial marines all around games and movies. Aliens was a parody on militarism, and yet most people didn't got it. It's all about the c00l weaponz and teh acctions and sh1t.
NightCrawler said:Alien 3 was the unperfect ending to a great trilogy.
NightCrawler said:Who fuckin cares about that egg on the ship?
NightCrawler said:Alien 3 was the unperfect ending to a great trilogy.
Aazealh said:EDIT: I hesitated to post this in the "Movies to dread" thread, but the truth is I am definitely looking forward to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxB0yXfpQZ8
aufond said:I love Werner Herzog, but using the same title as the Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant is lame as hell. Every time I bring up Cronenberg's Crash, people think of Paul Haggis' shitpile of a movie of the same name. It's confusing, frustrating, and shouldn't be allowed. Albeit it looks somewhat interesting, there's no way it will live up to Harvey Keitel's intense performance.
andRobert Rodriguez is doing a film called PREDATORS, which he's calling a reboot to the series.
Fox is moving on an Alien movie, but it'll be more of a reboot/origins type story than a remake.
Oburi said:Agreed. Though like Aaz said, I suppose I am looking forward to it even though it looks... silly, I guess.
Oburi said:http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41210
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/40865
I also have faith -- that this belongs in the OTHER movie threadOburi said:I have faith, sallimsaying.
Oburi said:It needs a reboot because the series went to hell, plain and simple.
Oburi said:But if you want future movies your going to need to reboot this series because they've taken it in the wrong direction.
Oburi said:The only way to make these movies cool again is to go back to the source material and find out why the first one worked.