Let's talk machines, for the rest of the week, on both blogs. My Arcade will cover AIs in video games, and My Cinema will cover machines and AIs in film. Will we finally get to see a Matrix blog? Maybe, but for now let's tackle the movie I just got done watching.
TITLE: Terminator Genisys
DETAILS:
...will be dropped from this point on. The Details section is a great thing when dealing with foreign movies and obscurities, but for the time being I'm hitting mainstream titles, and the "details" I provide hardly cover all the bases, nor do they really provide new information.
SUMMARY:
When John Connor, leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline.
PERSONAL CRITIQUE:
Okay, real quick, someone tip me off, do I have to watch the Sarah Connor Chronicles to figure out what's going on in this alternate timeline? Because there's seriously no clarity to be found here. Okay, random spot of irritation done there.
Great movie, really enjoyed, it I laughed, I frowned, I never cried, because it's not appropriate to cry in a movie like this, but it did move me a bit. The story, as you would expect from a Terminator movie, follows a human from the future, Sarah Connor, and a psychopathic killer robot...and another killer robot...and another killer robot...for a while anyway. So yeah, a classic Terminator movie.
So here's the gist, in case the summary doesn't explain it well enough, Kyle Reese goes back in time to mate with Sarah Connor...I mean protect Sarah Connor, but she doesn't need protection, she's a strong independent woman with a powerful butt-kicking robot sidekick, known only as Pops...and T-800...and "Guardian" in the credits. Whatever. This has just as much time-travel shenanigans as the first two movies, with not only a causality loop, but a causality defiance combined with a potentially universe altering time-hop.
I won't go into so many details that I ruin the ending of the movie, but I will tell you what I enjoyed the most. Schwarzenegger, right down to the line he apparently has to say in every movie "I'll be back." The idea of the T-800 developing a human-like personality is fantastic and played-up very well as the movie progresses. That combined with an over-all decent cast made for some good story-telling. Partner good-storytelling with a musical score that never put me off, but didn't really draw a lot of attention to itself, and fight scenes that weren't trying to be realistic, but instead took advantage of the over-the-top science fiction setting and released an epic battle between obsole- I'm sorry- old and new.
RATING:
Nine out of Ten old models remastered would give this movie Four magnetic sucker punches, out of Five.
If you haven't watched this movie yet, what are you waiting for? Place your hand on your partner, look them dead in the eye, reach for the keys and say, in your best T-800 voice, "I'll be back."
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