Terminator Salvation<\/a>” in the cinema.<\/p>\nHow good was it? A bit.\u00a0 Nothing special.\u00a0 It had the humans and machines, it had the time travel, it had some war, it had plenty of special effects.\u00a0 But it lacked two most important things which Terminator is all about, at least for me – Arnold Schwarzenegger and the huge scale.\u00a0 Call it ambition if you will.<\/p>\n
The movie makers at least agreed with me on the Arny.\u00a0 I guess they tried to get him in, and they couldn’t, and they couldn’t make a Terminator movie without one, so they ended up rendering an artificial Anry on a computer.\u00a0 He didn’t come bad or anything, but it’s just not the same.<\/p>\n
Regarding the scale, the ambition ,the “WOW! Effect”, they totally blew it.\u00a0 There was no scale to this movie.\u00a0 Nothing that we haven’t seen before, nothing surprising, nothing mind or eye blowing.\u00a0 Same old, same old.<\/p>\n
While, McG knows how to make good action movies, and both parts of the “Charlie’s Angels” are here to prove that, I think it’s him to lacks the scale.\u00a0 Scale is something only a few directors have a feeling for.\u00a0 Steven Spielberg is one (and he knows war too). Peter Jackson is another (although I don’t know how good he is with machines).\u00a0 Michael Bay is yet another one (although he is already doing a good job with another robot-related series).\u00a0 McG? I’m not so sure.<\/p>\n
And I’m pretty sure it was the director’s lack of magnitude.\u00a0 Because the only other possible reason for not having scale in the movie is budget.\u00a0 And I don’t think budget deficit applies to the Terminator movies.\u00a0 As I said, this is one of those well recognized brands, so there shouldn’t be any problem finding the money or bringing the profits home.\u00a0 I might be wrong, of course, but that is my opinion.<\/p>\n
So. The summary.\u00a0 If you haven’t seen it, go and see.\u00a0 It’s worth it.\u00a0 If you are deciding between seeing it in the movies and getting the DVD, go see it on the big screen.\u00a0 It’s just better.\u00a0 But don’t expect much of it either way.\u00a0 And maybe then, when you don’t expect much of it, you’ll enjoy it more.\u00a0 My rating – 3 stars<\/strong>.\u00a0 Not bad, but average.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\nThere are a few brands in the movie industry, which you just can’t miss.\u00a0 Whenever a sequel comes out, whether you liked the previous or not, whether you are a fan or not – it all doesn’t matter, you just have to go and see it.\u00a0 “Terminator” is one of these brands.\u00a0 The first two … Continue reading Terminator Salvation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1706,1,24],"tags":[1572,1790,1836,1849,1875],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-stars","category-general","category-movies","tag-christian-bale","tag-helena-bonham-carter","tag-mcg","tag-moon-bloodgood","tag-sam-worthington"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7236,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2003\/09\/10\/terminator-3-rise-of-the-machines\/","url_meta":{"origin":11590,"position":0},"title":"Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 10, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Grokking the GIMP most of the day. 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