Movie Trailer: Terminator Salvation

Christian Bale has an excellent track record for picking well developed productions that are worth the while. The idea of another Terminator film following the disappointing Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines didn't seem like a great idea. Bale's inclusion and this trailer make me want to forget that they're trying to revive this franchise instead of pumping investments into something fresh and original.

I guess we'll have to be satisfied that if the suits at the studio don't want to bother themselves with the risk of backing smaller but inventive films, they're at least making their safe, known commodities as compelling as possible.





Screenwriter: John D. Brancato (Catwoman), and Michael Ferris (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
Director: McG (We Are Marshall)
Actors: Christian Bale (The Dark Knight), Common (Smokin' Aces), Bryce Dallas Howard (The Village), Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club), and Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men)
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5 comments:

  1. disappointing?

    au contraire, mon ami!

    I expected a wretched mudball of a movie in III, but what I got was a sharp, well-played setup that begins to close the loop, rather than fray out the edges, of the story's recursive plot.

    Every return increases the risk of disappointment, of course, but it hasn't happenned yet! Don't rush it. :)
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  2. Really? The third one? The one with Kristanna Loken has the baddie? You saw a different movie than I did, my friend.

    I'd have to say this trailer helps lessens my worry about be disappointed - then again, that's its purpose (it is marketing after all)
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  3. it picked up, one-upped, then let go of the comical winks in T2 & Arnold's career early; it quickly dealt with all the comedy-inducing adolescent humor of the "female Terminator" gag; it continued the multi-layered father/mother thematics of the early ones (think of Sarah contemplating how perfect a father a T1000 would be, then behaving more like a Terminator than a mommy when protecting her cub); it got serious over the course of the action sequences, letting the schticky humor go without becomeing pretentious; it blew up the world, and we cared, and then it let us go home.

    Not bad for what is, after all, just another big-bang summer blockbuster franchise. I think it delivered, and it certainly did better than I feared.....
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  4. Christian Bale also has a record of playing brooding, surly characters. I'd like to see him expand his range and try something a little different.
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  5. totally looking forward the new Terminator... Christian Bale tends to do a great job no matter what role he takes
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