1/15/10

Terminator Salvation

Since he's not here I'm telling everyone, TAZ just had a b-day and won't be seeing much more of the twenties.

Let me go watch this movie. As TAZ said once when me him and his woman and mine-at-the-time (long story) and the triplets were waitings in line at the overpriced NJ Acquarium to see the overpriced new 3-D all-that show: "Please God don't let this suck."

B back soon...I love the lead in and music and everything. Must be movie-starved. Hope my old laptop DVD lets me watch the whole thing.

"Kill Kyle Reese, reset the future, no john Connor." Not a good plot if they have to telegraph it that way...and acting not great but I'm still interested.

Well it's over, thank God. Couldn't they find a writer? A heart transplant, in the post judgment day desert? Fight scene (in the steel plant again, sort of), chase scene, actor announcing the plot segment we're supposed to feel suspenseful about - others popping in to summarize for us, like the death-row cancer lady (her face anyway). Just boring, and what a rip-off on The last Matrix, which was truly epic and made you feel the fate of the surviving world really was at stake.

Why does John Connor have a lisp?

The musical score was good. "Tell them" -- busy but subdued music suddenly pauses, and you don't realize where it had take you until it does pause "I'll be back."

But in T2, lines like that had referential drama within the movie, like when Schwartz. says Hasta la vista baby we remember JC the kid trying to teach him to lighten up. This movie, like so many sequels, has to refer back to earlier flicks for its drama. That and explosions, which for me is not, sorry, drama, just stimulation.

Stimulation is not art; it's addiction's younger cousin.

And fuck you yes I am an addict. We are all. The machines don't need to defeat us these shitty movies and virulent videogames and fake food and treated week have already done it.

Or nearly. And do me a favor arright--leave a fucking comment why do we have all these hits and no mfing comments. Drones out there surfing the web? Chinese censors looking for suspicious anime?

Abysmal. Except for the score and the kid with the big hair. And sorry about all the cussing.