T4
June 27, 2009
For the first time in my life, I went to see a movie by myself last night. I had always felt that going to see a movie was a social event and I had always had people come with me. Last night I decided to make it quality alone time since the woman was out with her coworkers and I really enjoyed it. I got to pick a movie without having to consider the woman’s preference. I could have my own drink (we usually share and she doesn’t like coke). I even had no neighbors in the theater because a 20:50 show is considered “late”. I think I’ve found a new pastime when I’m alone.
I went to see the new Terminator movie and while it’s called “Terminator Salvation”, it’s really “Terminator 4″. It was excellent. It was all I had hoped for. After the atrocity that was Terminator 3, I had my doubts about this new movie. I didn’t like T3 because they basically destroyed the premise built up from T1 and T2: that the future was now a dark highway and that humanity was free to decide its fate. In T3 they destroyed that idea and went into a deterministic, “It was meant to be so whatever happens will happen”.
In T4, the much anticipated fights in the future were done well although there weren’t many battles with multiple terminators – you mainly saw one terminator on the screen at any given time. I loved how they incorporated things from the past movies into this one without being overtly obvious. Kyle Reese was introduced well and I was hoping for a bit more character development. There was no main enemy found in each other Terminator movie but I guess the Marcus character was the closest thing. I won’t give up too much about the movie but I thought the story worked well and didn’t come as too big a deviation from the other films’ mood and plots. As expected Christian Bale did a fantastic job as John Connor. He excels in angry man roles. Even the Arnie model, as CG as it looked, worked itself into the movie well but I wish they showed Arnie more.
That’s about all I can think of right now. T4 is going to on my must-see-again list.
June 30th, 2009 at 16:09
Never got around to seeing T4. Mostly because it was nixed by the girl. Maybe I should have my own movie nights too…
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:38
Exactly why I went alone. I didn’t want her to tolerate seeing a movie.