[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Just saw it. I was going to make a thread just to discuss it now that it's out, but the movie doesn't deserve it. DO NOT GO SEE THIS PIECE OF SHIT IN THE THEATER! Worse than wolverine, worse than T3, worse than freaking about anything. Truly awful. It's late, so I'm not going into detail right now, but please trust me, do not watch this movie. I haven't sen a movie in the theater this bad since Pootie Tang. Waste of time, waste of film, waste of money. If you need your scifi fix, go see Star Trek again. Horrible, bad, bad movie.

This is John Conner, ruining a franchise.

[HoosierDaddy]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on May 22 2009, 05:19 AM, said:

Just saw it. I was going to make a thread just to discuss it now that it's out, but the movie doesn't deserve it. DO NOT GO SEE THIS PIECE OF SHIT IN THE THEATER! Worse than wolverine, worse than T3, worse than freaking about anything. Truly awful. It's late, so I'm not going into detail right now, but please trust me, do not watch this movie. I haven't sen a movie in the theater this bad since Pootie Tang. Waste of time, waste of film, waste of money. If you need your scifi fix, go see Star Trek again. Horrible, bad, bad movie.

This is John Conner, ruining a franchise.

Holy Fuck. That bad?

[HoosierDaddy]

Well, I know RLY saw this post, so I can only assume he agreed. Evidently Terminator Salvation SUCKS.

Goodnight RLY and a well deserved, soft burial to the Terminator Series. Taps playing as music, and a solid eulogy given by somebody other than me. Adieu.

[dktorode]

they are already penning the script for the next movie

[HoosierDaddy]

I hope it is good.

[Sixty]

Probably going to be seeing this tonight...very excited.

edit:
wait what the fuck 33% on rottentomatoes...ugh maybe not.

This post has been edited by Sixty: 22 May 2009 - 01:37 PM

[Slum]

The reviews have been anything but kind. Every one that I've read call it atrocious.

[Vengeance]

A funny review


http://www.theawl.com/2009/05/flicked-off-...nator-salvation

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Ok, back online, got called in to work. let me repeat myself. This movie is unbelievably bad. The first half hour or so it wasn't so bad, I was just excited to be watching a Terminator movie. It slowly started dawning on me though that it wasn't very good. It then proceeded to get exponentially worse with every minute. This is one of the most poorly written scripts I have ever witnessed. The cinematography was odd and off-putting, the dialogue was wooden and cheesy, the special effects were crap for the most part, makeup was a joke, continuity from the first 3 was screwed with, nods back to the old movies were cheesy and overdone, the plot was absurd (even for sci-fi), the cliches ran wild and as free as the birds, plot holes you could drive your mom through, Christian Bale had an emotional scale of 1 emotion (that emotion was batman), fun stuff like violence and nudity were either underdeveloped or not there at all due to the pg-13 rating, it was really bad.

This is coming from someone who wanted nothing more than for this movie to be awesome. It wasn't. A perfect example of how not to reboot a franchise. The Terminator show is better. Just about everything ever put on film is better. I saw this for free and still felt I was owed money back at the end. Crap, crap, dirty stinking mean movie. I hate you.

@HD: Yes, it is really that bad. I literally would rather watch Pootie Tang again before this. There is literally 20 seconds of redeemable movie in this turd. Look in the spoiler box if you want to know the only decent thing about the movie, and then you won't have to go.

Spoiler

They use CGI to superimpose Arnold's head on a bodybuilder, and John Conner fights an original Ahnold terminator. That's it.

This post has been edited by Raymond Luxury Yacht: 22 May 2009 - 02:49 PM

[Slum]

Oh, that spoiler is kind of cool. Really, once I heard McG was directing my expectations went down the drain anyway. I had a little hope Bale would work his magic, but apparently that is not the case.

[masan's saddle]

I just posted in the other thread, I can't believe this !

I saw some trailers and thought it looked pretty good, combined with Bale ( who is good in most things he's in ) and the fact that the Terminator "franchise" is bordering on royalty I cannot believe they have fucked it.

Saying that though my spidey sense started tingling when I saw the rating they had given it.

Bollocks, I was really looking forward to this.

[Slow Ben]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on May 22 2009, 04:19 AM, said:

Just saw it. I was going to make a thread just to discuss it now that it's out, but the movie doesn't deserve it. DO NOT GO SEE THIS PIECE OF SHIT IN THE THEATER! Worse than wolverine, worse than T3, worse than freaking about anything. Truly awful. It's late, so I'm not going into detail right now, but please trust me, do not watch this movie. I haven't sen a movie in the theater this bad since Pootie Tang. Waste of time, waste of film, waste of money. If you need your scifi fix, go see Star Trek again. Horrible, bad, bad movie.

This is John Conner, ruining a franchise.

I'm sorry, this is completely off topic, but...


You went and sas Pootie Tang...in the theatre?

[masan's saddle]

What's a Pootie Tang ?

[Sixty]

A "piece of shit", I gather.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

imdb it. Pootie Tang is indeed a piece of shit. I don't remember the exact circumstances under which I saw it in the theater. I believe it might have had something with a girl wanting to see it.

[Slow Ben]

I was desperately hoping that was the reason, but you never know.

[RodeoRanch]

Just saw and thought it was pretty good. Not great but with loads of winks and nods to the previous films that left me smiling.

[KalamMekhar]

saw it today and i was disappointed by the movie. I guess i set my expectations to high for this movie, and was let down by it. By the end of the movie i had to pee so bad, i was sitting next to a friend who saw it yesterday, and asked him if it was almost over lol, because it was too long imo, some parts could have been left out.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

RodeoRanch, on May 23 2009, 03:50 PM, said:

Just saw and thought it was pretty good. Not great but with loads of winks and nods to the previous films that left me smiling.

Not trying to argue, as it's a matter of taste, but in my opinion the nods at the old movies were poorly done. They felt shoehorned in, and fell flat in most cases. Some of the "nods" actually directly contradicted the old movies. Like

Spoiler

at the end when they dumped molten steel on the terminator in a nod to the first one, and then froze it in a nod to the second. It's been established that molten steel will fuck up a terminator, but not anymore I guess, because that one was fine.

[McLovin]

Saw this yesterday. Should be called Terminator: Suckvation. At least Christian Bale managed to not sound constipated in this film. And however they comped in young Ahnold was seamless. Other than that the movie was dumb from start to finish.