It wasn't great, but it was still "ok". Not worth full price, or even matinee, really, but still worth renting. I didn't see any real plot holes or have any other issues, it just could have used more action. I thought it was going to be more about John Conner and not the other guy - with JC, but whatever.
I'm not too familiar with Mad Max, but, while there was some similarity to one of the bazillion aspects of BSG, I wouldn't call it a rip-off. Sure, the humans' plan was basically to Locutus of Borg, but even that worked out a little differently. And as to the origianal Terminator's R rating, we just watched it last night, and, by today's standards, it probably would have been PG-13, too, given that the violence wasn't really that explicit, it only had 3 MF's, and only 2 seconds of Linda Hamilton's goods. The smoking by the cops would be the most objectionable thing now a days. Ron --- On Sun, 5/24/09, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote: From: Cary Preston <[email protected]> Subject: [The Unique Geek] Re: Wow, this is a suprise- Terminator getting panned To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, May 24, 2009, 9:21 PM The more I think of it the worse it gets. From the blatant ripoffs (Road Warrior, Battlestar Galactica, the list goes on) to the complete lack of any character development, this was a stinker. For corroboration I give you this- it couldn't beat out the sequel to Night at the Museum, and will clear just $42 million on a holiday weekend. I almost feel slighted, because I don't think I'm in the demographic for this sort of movie any more. It lacked depth, cleverness, story development, intrigue, or any element that could graduate it from long music video to a worthwhile movie. The preteen sitting behind me thought it was "awesome", and for him I'm sure it was- it was visually pleasing with some cool concepts- post-apocalyptic robot versus humans war with lots of fighting and impending doom. Kind of like the Star Wars prequels (kids loved em, most of the fans of the prior triology of films thought they were awful), this seems to be geared towards a wider and younger audience. Notice the PG-13 rating as opposed to the original Terminator's R. I look forward to dissecting this fly-magnet of a movie later. On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Todd Elliott <[email protected]> wrote: Now that I've seen it, it was pretty good. But not the usual Todd likes everything good. There were a few parts that were just kind of slow. And there were a few moments when I was trying to think of had the other movies happened yet, and was this an alternate time line, and my brain exploded. ----------------------------- Todd Elliott [email protected] http://www.theuniquegeek.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
