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It actually had some good ideas here and there, but it was all so badly executed. Emilia Clarke was just so unconvincing as Sarah Connor. I don't know why she was so bad. Did she have second thoughts? Is she just a bad actress? The guy playing Kyle Reese wasn't quite up to par either, though the writing didn't help.
Lol I know I'm the minority here but I still feel Salvation has been the best sequel since The original 2 films. I rate T3 and Genisys way below Salvation. I honestly really enjoyed That film.
Oh well lol
I really question the future of the franchise now. They attempted a Xmen dofp sequel/reboot and failed at it in my opinion. Genisys had its cool moments but it was pretty bad. I'll watch it over T3 any day though.
Arnie will be back once again as James Cameron is partnering with DMG Entertainment and Studiocanal to return Terminator 2: Judgment Day to global cinemas in a digitally remastered 3D rerelease.
DMG and StudioCanal will work with Cameron to supervise and produce the 3D conversion using the latest technology from StereoD.
The new Terminator 2 3D is targeting a worldwide release in 2016, but a key target market is understood to be China, where the conversion will make its global premiere courtesy of DMG's China branch, DMG Yinji, working with China Film Group.
McG is a proven hack at this point. I'd argue that he failed Terminator visually too. He took an iconic established look and turned it into Mad Max with sprinkles of Transformers. He had a much, much larger budget to work with, but couldn't create something as visually striking as Cameron did with the future sequences of the original.
I saw this recently myself. Honestly, I thought Salvation was forgettable, but not terrible. Didn't leave much an impression one way or the other. Sort of a forgettable post-apocalyptic action movie. Like a Resident Evil movie or something.
This movie was so bad it was kind of entertaining.
It actually had some good ideas here and there, but it was all so badly executed. Emilia Clarke was just so unconvincing as Sarah Connor. I don't know why she was so bad. Did she have second thoughts? Is she just a bad actress? The guy playing Kyle Reese wasn't quite up to par either, though the writing didn't help.
In Salvation, I actually thought Anton Yelchin was Kyle Reese from The Terminator. He did really good in that role. Bale, not so much; he just phoned it in.
Using John Connor as a villain just didn't work for me, even though I thought the actor did okay.
I felt that Arnold was kind of going through the motions for much of the movie. There were a few scenes where I think he actually tried.
Throughout the film, I never felt that these characters were in any real danger. The atmosphere they had in the first two terminator movies, and even the third was totally missing.
Cameron want's to re release The Terminator as well for 3D.
Bad news, seems like if you're in the States you'll have to wait till 2017. Got to give the Chinese their go first.
I rewatched Genisys recently, as I often do to see if a film improves/worsens on a repeated viewing. It's just not a good film, and the entire concept is flawed.
We've been sold John Connor as the salvation of the human race for so long that the big 'twist' - which was basically ruined by trailers anyway - doesn't come so much as a shock, but more a mockery of the character. I get that he wasn't evil all along or anything and has been basically corrupted by the machine that Matt Smith plays, but it still feels like it was played for shock value rather than being true to the one character who is motivating everyone else, consciously or subconsciously.
I felt the same way about the Connor twist. It's frustrating how many people I've seen use the whole "because it's different" excuse for liking it. I'm so irritated by that rationale for liking something.