{"id":2991,"date":"2009-12-06T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinemacrazed.wordpress.com\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2009-12-06T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T14:30:02","slug":"terminator-salv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/06\/terminator-salv\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminator: Salvation (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Trust me, if I were asked to watch McG’s treatment of the Terminator franchise I wouldn’t turn it down. Is it one of the best the franchise has ever offered? No. In fact it’s one of the lamest simply because it takes every advantage to flex its PG-13 rating and make sure that everyone but the humans suffer a wicked death. In this version every human is given a bloodless death by robots we’re assured are vicious, merciless, and willing to make their victims suffer a long and painful death. All ounce of suffering we’ve seen at the hands of the machines in previous films is bypassed in exchange for interchangeable special effects and ho-hum action sequences.<\/p>\n

As always McG lets us know that he can be the student in Michael Bay’s school for filmmaking because he takes every chance to show off CGI and bows out on the potential for story, time traveling paradoxes, and the conflict of humanity against an ever vigilant species that continues dominating the world they habitat. This is a shame because respective people like Bryce Dallas Howard, Christian Bale and Anton Yelchin are basically wasted with roles unsuitable for their skill levels. This leaves the movie in a basic struggle to find out what it’s saying and why it should even exist. There’s nothing here to indicate that it’s another installment in the epic tale of man vs. machine, instead it just settles on mediocrity and doesn’t bother to offer up anything spectacular. All the moral conflicts and war set pieces are dead on arrival and eventually the movie becomes one big boring confusing sequel that by any indication of common sense should have been twenty minutes shorter.<\/p>\n

All of the characterization hoped for falls on deaf ears and there often isn’t any reason for most of the characters to be on screen. John Connor simply battles bots and then sits in the bowels of his safe haven ordering others to fight the war. Howard is his more sympathetic fiance who serves a more utilitarian purpose, while Sam Worthington does most of the hard work fighting vicious nomads and coming up with new non-violent ways to battle the machines and human counterparts. This soon becomes exhausting because we’re expected to believe that people with the skills to rig booby traps and manipulate the direction of explosives can’t take down a single T-800. Like a Saturday morning cartoon the producers take every opportunity to prevent the machines from looking human as if they were indicating they didn’t want children to mimic what they see on-screen.<\/p>\n

So most of the machines are shrouded in the shadows while in the light the humans fight sentinels, giant jets, and an unnecessarily gigantic droid that scoops up humans and delicately places them in its compartment. Why are humans being held prisoner? We’re never really told. Why did we have to have “Salvation” as a sequel? There simply isn’t a logical explanation. Just quit trying to live up to Cameron and move on, Hollywood. Oh just watch the short lived television series. Even on network television it grasps the mythos of the Terminator storyline and takes every opportunity to build itself up in to a respectable movie. “Salvation” isn’t the worst movie of the mythos but it sure is the lamest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trust me, if I were asked to watch McG’s treatment of the Terminator franchise I wouldn’t turn it down. Is it one of the best the franchise has ever offered? No. In fact it’s one of the lamest simply because it takes every advantage to flex its PG-13 rating and make sure that everyone but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,71,865,906,922,1020,1037,1173],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-robots","tag-science-fiction","tag-sequel","tag-t","tag-terminator","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}