Terminator: Salvation aka so I didn’t need to get drunk.

// June 3rd, 2009 // humour

Ok, so if you are a Terminator geek like me than we can skip the into being: time, place, setup of Terminator Salvation. I did a bad thing before seeing this film; I read countless reviews all hoping that this film would somehow “redeem” the mess T3 made. It certainly left me going into that theatre facing the worst case scenario but I managed to just become a Terminator geek – see how that played out.

Salvation is certainly a standalone film. It’s set in post Judgement Day – so different from the other films that still had the familiarity of life as we know it. All of a sudden, we skip the years from 2004 to 2018 and arrive in a desert land (aka Los Angeles). It has the usual references to all the other films which any geek would love – you know “Come with me if you want to live” and all that shit. But it lacks the heart and soul of the first two films. Is it because Sarah Connor is long dead? Is it because we missed 14 years of pretty juicy stuff, like John Connor actually becoming a leader in the Resistance?

McG said he was influenced by Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”. I can see perhaps a 2 second reference to this book in this film. The film would have greatly benefited if there was some realism in terms of supplies, ammo, food – where does it come from? How do these people survive? It’s all well and good that a book was written to bridge the gap between this film and the last, but I could have appreciated some visual aides if this film was set immediately after Judgement Day. Maybe hire some unknown actor for John Connor, who isn’t a douche bag like this person turned out to be (I used to love you Senor Bale). Give it some cred – ANYTHING but hiring Common. Or at least use his real name.

There are going to be die hards that rip this film to shit, and I can understand why. But the Terminator films (I cannot say “franchise” – what an ugly word) are not about deep, existential issues. Sure, you can read it that way if you want but then you have a lot of time on your hands. I’m here to have fun and that’s what TS is about.

 

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