BEAR on 13/6/2009 at 02:24
I'm beginning to hate the word "flick" with a passion. It seems to only be used when someone is justifying a terrible movie and trying to pass it off as fun.
catbarf on 14/6/2009 at 13:59
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Did anyone get the impression that the old lady was part of a larger sub-plot that got cut? After discussion, my friends and I suspect she's Sarah Connor.
It's possible, but unlikely, since I have a hard time believing that Sarah would leave her son and go live in the middle of nowhere. But I definitely agree that there's implication in the scene that something was cut.
I just watched T2 for the first time, and I realized that for the early part of the movie, one who had seen T1 might assume that Schwarzenegger is the bad-robot and the other one is the good-robot. When the movie was first released, was it well-known beforehand which of the two was which?
rachel on 14/6/2009 at 14:12
It was supposed to be the big surprise, but the geniuses in charge of the trailer and promo gave it all away.
catbarf on 14/6/2009 at 15:43
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It was supposed to be the big surprise, but the geniuses in charge of the trailer and promo gave it all away.
Ugh. I'm not surprised, that sort of thing does seem to happen fairly frequently.
Vivian on 14/6/2009 at 16:04
I just saw it, and it was ok. Had some pretty solid boom in the first hour or so, and the design of the new bots is decent (Love the redesigned aircraft), BUT suffers from severe brain-in-rectum on several fronts. Why the fuck does the evil supercomputer robot lair have screens everywhere? Does an evil robot need to look at a screen to know its unlocking a door? and fucking BUTTONS - because robots in constant remote control via some kind of super wifi need to actually push a goddamn button to turn the lights on. Why do they even have lights? (Mind you, why do they have teeth? Always wondered that. Would one bite you if you removed all of its other means of offense?)
Also I am totally sick of the secret radio-control jacking mcguffin that hollywood retards (and Crysis) seem to wank themselves into a frenzy over. Turns out all you need is a macbook pro and bluetooth and the combined forces of alien robots are yours to control.
Despite that its quite watchable, and I only actually swore audibly at the screen once (that bit when the little kid holds hands with the loveable terminator at the end). I give it 3 out of 5.
Missed opportunity to have some machine rolling around emptying skips full of skulls all over the landscape. That would have been fun.
Why is it that some old guy with terrible, terrible taste in shirts who hasn't made an action film in nearly 20 years is still kicking everyones arse? Roll on Avatar.
Muzman on 14/6/2009 at 17:02
Quote Posted by Vivian
suffers from severe brain-in-rectum on several fronts. Why the fuck does the evil supercomputer robot lair have screens everywhere? Does an evil robot need to look at a screen to know its unlocking a door? and fucking BUTTONS - because robots in constant remote control via some kind of super wifi need to actually push a goddamn button to turn the lights on.
This was true of the first one though. The Terminator doesn't need a targeting reticule and endless readouts for any reason other than 'looks cool', unless some circuitous design requires the info already in his head to be relayed to his eyes so it can be read by him again (and obstruct vision to boot).
I let them off the hook for 'looks cool' though, provided the flick is decent.
SubJeff on 14/6/2009 at 19:06
Saw it at last. Pretty awful. Its saying something (bad) when the best bit of a 4th sequel is when the baddie from the 1st film appears.
Effects were great but the plot was rubbish and Bale was bad. They also never told us why Skynet was collecting humans in the film, only in the trailer. And there were far too many one liners from T1.
I never saw the trailer for T2 btw so the flip was a nice surprise. Don't watch trailers, especially American ones- they always spoil the film.
Vivian on 14/6/2009 at 19:29
I think the moment when I lost most of my hope for it not being stupid was when Bale Jumped out of a helicopter and apparently pretty much landed in a submarine.
David on 14/6/2009 at 20:44
That bit got me too. They just spent the previous 30 seconds establishing that they don't know where command is, so Bale just jumps into the ocean and OMG COMMAND SUB comes right by.
