Alright. I'm gonna spend 2.5 hrs of my life watching it.

11/21/2015 8:41:13 PM

The biggest problem with this movie is the big gaping plothole of the old Arnold. They never explained who sent old Arnold back to screw up the timeline. Sure, maybe they planned that reveal in another movie, but that is just poor, lazy writing.

And besides, this movies shows us that the machines aren't locked in to a particular point in time that they can send machines back, so why not forget about the 20th century, and trace Connors lineage back to 1870 and take out his family then? They'd have a hell of a lot less resistance.

11/23/2015 8:17:31 AM

lord emilia clark is a poor actress

11/23/2015 8:30:19 AM

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"The biggest problem with this movie is the big gaping plothole of the old Arnold"

Really? I thought that it was a smart way to add a little mystery to this saturated narrative, and it kept me guessing throughout the movie as to whom the ultimate protagonist was/is.





Shit, I hate that my beautiful one page review of this movie is stuck as the last post on the previous page.


[Edited on November 23, 2015 at 9:36 AM. Reason : dp]

11/23/2015 9:30:33 AM

Ending was way too happy. One of the big parts of the series has been its bleak take on the future. This one ended with Sarah, Kyle, and their upgraded lovable T800 driving off to solve another mystery next week.

If I hadn't seen this on a plane I would have walked out.

11/23/2015 11:18:05 AM

I always thought that the ending to the second one was happy. The machine finally got to experience love and companionship on a deep emotional level, SC got reconnect with her son JC, and they saved the world. One of the best movie endings ever.

11/23/2015 3:36:43 PM

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"And besides, this movies shows us that the machines aren't locked in to a particular point in time that they can send machines back, so why not forget about the 20th century, and trace Connors lineage back to 1870 and take out his family then? They'd have a hell of a lot less resistance."

If people are going to resist they are going to resist no matter who is at the helm. Go back, kill John Connor, return to the present, then find out you need to go back in time to kill Fred Andersen too. Well then you kill Fred Andersen... then what?

11/23/2015 4:45:34 PM

Yeah, but it is a classic bootstrap paradox. The machines have to send a Terminator back to kill SC so that evidence can be left behind to spawn sky net. Again, that is why I liked this film because it went away form that for the first time in the whole franchise. The third one was just a lazy rehashing of the second one, and the fourth was just a couple boring days stuck somewhere in the middle of this multigenerational time loop. People blame McG for the failure of the fourth one, but the problem is that it probably had the most uninspired script that anybody could have put together.

[Edited on November 23, 2015 at 5:52 PM. Reason : a]

11/23/2015 5:47:08 PM

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"And besides, this movies shows us that the machines aren't locked in to a particular point in time that they can send machines back, so why not forget about the 20th century, and trace Connors lineage back to 1870 and take out his family then? They'd have a hell of a lot less resistance."

This is the terminator movie they should make.

11/24/2015 8:24:44 AM

yeah, but that would totally break the whole narrative that the franchise is based on. Just read my previous post. And it would more than likely turn into a shitty western. Westerns aren't good anymore unless Tarantino is involved, and they are not gonna let him do an R rated Terminator.



[Edited on November 24, 2015 at 8:54 AM. Reason : y]

11/24/2015 8:37:13 AM

What I liked most about this one is that it pretends like Salvation never happened.

Add Matt Smith to a cast and everything turns into timey-whimey Doctor Who stuff, with Arnold as the Doctor. The technobabble was TNG worthy.

Speaking of Matt Smith, he didn't really add anything to the movie. Could have been any generic face in the crowd and it wouldn't have mattered. If you're going to personify skynet, why only use it for 5 minutes of screen time?

11/25/2015 4:26:59 PM

I'd imagine for a sequel

11/25/2015 5:17:17 PM