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Title: TERMINATOR: GENISYS
Director: Alan Taylor
Year: 2015
Reviewed: December 10, 2014
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This is the first time I've ever done this- reviewed a trailer. Why? Well, it's because it's stupid to do so. I've seen trailers that were better than the movie itself, and vice versa. The trailer is just a glimpse, a window, into what could be a wonderful or god-awful film. So, admittedly I'm going against every instinct I have and doing the dumbest thing I could do. (At the very least I seem to be self aware.) But you know what? I couldn't help myself.
The trailer for "Terminator: Genisys" looks fucking awful. And again, I'm coming from a place of complete (well maybe not complete) ignorance. Hopefully I'll be proved wrong and have to "eat crow", but something tells me that will not happen. It appears as if they're J.J. Abrams-ing the Terminator mythos, rewriting the time line so that Sara Connor is an expertly trained warrior and they have sent some sort of T-1000 back this time to kill her. Gone is the tension and the conflict of a woman just trying to live her life thrust into a horrible and harried situation. Gone is the journey of the viewer as we follow her, learn with her, and ultimately care about her. They did the same thing with the re-make of "Red Dawn".
Next we have the future that was so vividly and wonderfully portrayed in James Cameron's first film. However, in actuality we don't. Cameron's future was dark and painful and hopeless. There were mechanized tanks rolling over piles of human skulls. Children eating rats and watching a fire through a burned out tv. It was dirty and dismal. They were hungry and tired. Here (just as in the horrendous Terminator: Salvation) the future is clean and sanitary. Oh, and they're shooting bullets! When did that happen? In Cameron's future the guns shot lasers god damn it. LASERS!
And then, of course, we have the spelling- Genisys. I'm pretty sure this will be explained, but who knows. Quentin Tarantino never explained why he incorrectly spelled Inglorious Bastards. So, I guess you and I will see.
Admittedly, I'm tired of the re-boots... or whatever the fuck Hollywood is calling it. Origin stories are fine, like Batman or the new Planet of the Apes, but re-boots of the original films just never seem to pass muster.
Hopefully, all this will be simply hot air, and I will be proved wrong and "Terminator: Genisys" will be the coolest, smartest Terminator movie of them all.
But I don't think so.
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