Terminator Genisys

Terminator Genisys
Movie Blurb by Shale
July 1, 2015

"I'll Be Back" one of the few (and only memorable) lines Arnold Schwarzenegger said in Terminator 1984, but he meant it. Four decades later he's back, as his 1984 self (with the help of Brett Azar's young body and a CGI face), as well as an older cyborg with his human skin showing normal ageing.

All the Terminator movies involved time travel, most going back to kill Sarah Connor to prevent the birth of John Connor who leads the resistance against the Skynet/Cyborg world of the future. Like those others, this is a time travel movie, but with more alternate timelines at play.

The movie opens with a brief rundown of the Judgment Day and aftermath and how John Connor (Jason Clarke) saves a kid who grows up to be his close soldier, Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney). They are planning a final assault on Skynet to destroy their ultimate weapon the time machine. Of course before this happens Skynet send a T-800 Terminator back to 1984 to kill Sarah Conner (Emilia Clarke). John and the resistance capture the machine shortly after and find out what happened and several soldiers volunteer to go back and save Sarah, but John picks Kyle.

John Conner sends Kyle Reese Back


This so far is the timeline of the 1984 movie, where John clues Kyle that Sarah Conner is a waitress who will find it hard to believe that a Terminator is trying to kill her. When John does his naked entrance he finds the timeline has changed and he is trying to escape from a T-1000 Terminator (Lee Byung-hun) and Sarah rescues him.

Sarah Conner (Not so Helpless)


This is where Kyle meets Sarah's Guardian T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who, along with Sarah dispatched the first T-800 that Skynet sent back. This T-800 rescued Sarah as a child years ago and she has more knowledge of the alternate timeline than Kyle.

Sarah Conner with Her Guardian T-800


With the timelines altered they have to get to Cyberdyne Systems Corporation in 2017 to prevent an OS called Genisys that everyone in the world is using from activating Skynet.

Planning Their Next Time Jump


That is pretty much the setup to this movie and I will not attempt to run down any more of the plot because time travel with alternate timelines is confusing enuf to follow as it unfolds onscreen, no need to try to sort it out in print. Besides, I will have to study this movie further to see if all the temporal paradoxes are resolved but it looked like they made an effort to explain them all.

This movie was not well liked by the critics, only 25% but 72% of audiences liked it. It is a fan movie not a critic movie. I liked it, may be seeing it again in theater or at least get it on DVD.

 

Ive enjoyed all the Terminator movies. Looking forward to seeing this one ..

 

Haven't seen T-3. Worth watching??

 

T3 chase scene was crazy .. youll like it .

 

It's pretty corny but some good action scene and a smoking hot Terminator. (Not Arnold)

 

Thanks-----------it doesn't seem to be on Netflix.

 

I thought this one was pretty good, I was entertained throughout.

Critics slammed it, I think they sometimes just like to band together, get on their collective high horses and play with themselves with critique of some movies or actors they are jealous of.

Arnie still has it.



Add me on the list for people that like T3 it hasnt got the usual- heroes survive save the world happy ending. Love that ending

 

I think terminator 2 was my favorite for some reason.

 

Mine too, although I've yet to see Genisys. T-1000 and the liquid metal morphing was badass, however I still chose to be the T-800 for Halloween.

 

The first two Terminator movies were great because they were decent action flicks. Another thing to note is that not many people find Linda Hamilton to be too attractive and neither do I which is why these moves were so good too, the plot and action made the movie, not the actress.

T3 was appalling introducing bigger named actors and unfortunately female eye candy. No longer were the terminators out to kill, they were made to impress to and they were also emotionally upset over trivial things like the size of their breasts. -rolls eyes- a terminator making her breasts larger was a terrible idea. Another thing to note in T3 was at the very end, John Connor says "I had to survive". Like gee thanks genius, be we all knew half way through the first movie. -rolls eyes again- I can't stand when different non original directors put their grubby mittens on decent franchises. There's no place for love stories in a Terminator series. Shouldn't work like that.

Then in Salvation, they just go overboard. Terminator robots weren't enough so they made some bullshit terminator snakes to roam the rivers of earth. Lol. Yeah, right. Whoever thought that was a good idea should be lined up and shot, because it wasn't good, it was fucken stupid.

Genisys, the name bothers me straight away and the shorts look nothing short of laughable. Sure I'll go watch it, and I'll shake my head at the first scene, lean over to my missus and whisper "never seen so much bullshit on my life". It's a guarantee.

 

^^^

I love the end of T3, its just so nasty

 

How so "nasty"?

I would have liked to see the nukes do their work and not just from a long distance space shot. Like the flashbacks in T2 of the firestorm. Needed half an hour of shit getting blown up and then it may have saved the movie.

 

Cos it was like, meh, we cant save anyone, everyones gunna die, lets just worry.about ourselves

Its what would happen if I was John Connor

 

Send a robot back in time to kill the director's mother

 

Terminator should come back as a dog kill everybody

 

Terminator:Salvation was better than I expected...

Interesting view there Irminsul...If I think it through, I may see where you're coming from.
Morphing, Melting cyborgs which can regenerate themselves after taking shotgun blasts is all good but robot snakes is just an absurd idea.

 

I could easily go another 3 terminator movies, with or without arnie

Franchise is much better than most post apocalyptic nonsense out there, anyone remember that will smith one

 

I Am Legend
Review by Shale
December 15, 2007

Watching the Trailers and ads for I Am Legend, I knew this movie was familiar. It was the same setup as The Omega Man with Charlton Heston, a movie I saw in 1971. Well, after reading up on this movie, I find it is the third adaptation of the story on film (The Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price in 1964 was the first). This movie is the first to have the title of the 1954 book by Richard Matheson but as with the others it was mentioned that none of the adaptations follow the original story. Since I don't know the original story it doesn't matter. The movie somewhat follows the events that I recall from The Omega Man tho obviously with better special effects.

Robert Neville, (Will Smith) a military scientist is the last survivor in New York City of a deadly genetically altered virus that wipes out most of humanity. We learn of this in flashback from Neville's thoughts and in watching along with Neville, vids of the morning news shows when the virus was a promising cure for cancer.

 

It did a lot of things right. I think it's most people's fav. True classic that rivals the first in how good it was (how often does that happen?) (obviously the reason it is milked out with as much sequels as is bearable)

 

It felt like James Cameron kind of took his formula for success with Aliens(sequel to Alien) and applied it to Terminator 2 insofar as sacrificing some mood from the originals, in order to up the ante with the action and personality. Cameron was really good at retaining and building on elements of the original though.

The T-1000 took robots/cyborgs to new conceptual frontiers with the liquid metal morphing, it turned the archetype of the rigid robot on it's head. I'm not sure I've even seen as creative of a concept since in regards to robots and the special effects were spectacular for the early 90's.