Terminator: Salvation trailer

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I'd like to graciously extend an invitation to all those Hollywood producers who feel it is their personal mission to take every great idea and give it to the crappiest writers and directors in Western Civilization to shoot themselves in the face. No, no, really, thank you.

The genius directing this latest sequel will be none other than McG, who gave us the timeless masterpiece Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. And just to prove that people like to hang out with those even uglier than themselves in a futile attempt to look beautiful by comparison, the writers are those who gave us nearly ever movie we've ever forgotten, and some we are still trying to forget, such as Catwoman and Rollerball.

Another Hollywood corpse being dug out once more is the tortured "Hero rises up to free the suppressed from their cruel masters" formula. Yeah, yeah, I know, the movie just follows a nuclear holocaust, whereupon the robots enslave the human race and Jon Connor, as we all know, raises a resistance and defeats the robots, so that formula was sort of a tough one to avoid. Still, though, the movie's creators raced towards it like a diabetic to insulin.

There is, however, one infinitesimally small ray of hope: Christian Bale. That guy has an uncanny knack for showing up in great movies. I'm crossing my fingers.

On another note, can anyone think of a particularly good reason why Southern California is a such strategic location for defeating Skynet?

Hollywood in its current form basically consists of trying to convince people that a big bucket of vomit doesn't actually smell and taste like vomit, but really smells like roses and tastes wonderful. With each sequel they try to do the same but with a regurgitated bucket of vomit that gets more and more vile with each sequel.

Unfortunately, Hollywood movies have been steadily declining since the 1970's and I don't see much hope in that changing anytime soon.

dclxvinoise said:

Hollywood in its current form basically consists of trying to convince people that a big bucket of vomit doesn't actually smell and taste like vomit, but really smells like roses and tastes wonderful. With each sequel they try to do the same but with a regurgitated bucket of vomit that gets more and more vile with each sequel.

Unfortunately, Hollywood movies have been steadily declining since the 1970's and I don't see much hope in that changing anytime soon.

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I think that the large majority of movies will always be a pile of suck, and there will always be that 5% that rekindles our love of cinema. One thing I will say, however, is that today's television make the television of twenty+ years ago look like a cruel insult by comparison. Can you name one show from the eighties (that's when I grew up so that's my frame of reference) even a quarter as good as The Wire, Dexter, Lost, Battlestar Galactica or Rome? (And by the way, I'm talking about American television, or else British drama and comedies would kick our asses to kingdom come).

Cardinal said:

I think that the large majority of movies will always be a pile of suck, and there will always be that 5% that rekindles our love of cinema. One thing I will say, however, is that today's television make the television of twenty+ years ago look like a cruel insult by comparison. Can you name one show from the eighties (that's when I grew up so that's my frame of reference) even a quarter as good as The Wire, Dexter, Lost, Battlestar Galactica or Rome? (And by the way, I'm talking about American television, or else British drama and comedies would kick our asses to kingdom come).

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I know exactly what you mean. I was actually discussing that with my wife the other day. I never thought I'd see the day when TV would kick Hollywood's ass. A lot of the TV shows of today are just so good and they keep getting better. I keep hoping that Hollywood will take a cue from this and improve the swill that they keep releasing.

As a massive fan (and I do mean massive) of the Terminator series, I will be watching this film, likely on the first day of release. I am disappointed Arnie will not be in the film, but I am very eager to see exactly how Connor manages to defeat Skynet.

Cardinal said:

On another note, can anyone think of a particularly good reason why Southern California is a such strategic location for defeating Skynet?

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It saves on the movies budget.

Cardinal said:

--(And by the way, I'm talking about American television, or else British drama and comedies would kick our asses to kingdom come).

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I was just about to post two pages of great drama from British TV that I grew up with when I saw that line...

I like the last 5 seconds when they show the huge robot.

Anybody wanna tell me why California always needs to get destroyed? Why not Idaho? Seriously.

What the hell is Christian Bale doing in this? Someone must have blackmailed him, it's the only plausible explanation.

Hatuey said:

Anybody wanna tell me why California always needs to get destroyed? Why not Idaho? Seriously.

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a)It's a cultural center thing, so Washington DC, NYC and LA are always going to be the ones to get hit hardest in any Michael Bay-ish movie. Who the **** cares if Buttmunch, Missouri gets nuked by aliens? Yeah, that'll sell tickets.
b)Los Angeles (and especially the Mojave Desert, where a pretty sizable portion of the Terminator movies was shot) is easy to film in because it's close to Hollywood. However, to correct an earlier misperception, that's not because it's cheaper, only more convenient. So if you've got a multi-zillion dolallar budget, it's perfectly fine to shoot in S.C. Otherwise you have to go to Canada, Australia and New Zealand like everybody else.

Hatuey said:

Anybody wanna tell me why California always needs to get destroyed? Why not Idaho? Seriously.

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My alternate answer: It's not California that everybody fantastizes about being nuked/zapped by aliens/annihilated by earthquakes/covered in molten lava/connived against by Lex Luthor, etc. etc. etc. It's just Southern California. I'm not necessarily sure I'd mind if it disappeared.

And I live here.