Why Terminator Salvation Was A Disappointing Movie For Me
I hold sci-fi films in incredibly high regard. I can watch the latest hundred million dollar Hollywood blockbuster, or I can enjoy the equally inept yet financially limited straight to video releases. I can even enjoy the pains delivered by Uwe Boll. But, nothing has disappointed me lately as much as watching the fourth instalment of the Terminator franchise.
I fell in love with this dystopic series when I was 6 years old, and first witnessed the original Terminator. The cheese, the low budget, the terrible dialogue. These are the things that I loved about the series; the elements that made this franchise so attractive. However, after watching Terminator 3, I felt the franchise should not continue. It should’ve died with this pedestrian release. But, a few years later, Mr Cameron in all his brilliance decides to make one more incarnation. I, a relatively positive and optimistic man, chose to watch this with a clear mind. I eliminated the third Terminator from my memory (as I have with the third Godfather film) and entered the fourth with blind faith in that James can gives us something that will fix what he had broken.
He failed. Specifically, without providing any spoilers, the dialogue and events provided nothing new for faithful fans, and left newbies feeling left in the dark; like listening to two old friends talk about stories that you have no way of referencing.
Terminator Salvation ignored why we loved the franchise in the first place. Sure, the dialogue was camp, the characters as two-dimensional as a cardboard cut-out, but these things never bothered me. It’s what they did to the story, and how they dropped it to its lowest common denominator. John Connor, who I have eagerly looked forward to seeing all grown up, was full of clichés and industries formulae. He failed to live up to what I had expected, which considering my feelings of the third one, wasn’t much.
Weird thing, I was talking with my cousin last night and he thinks that in the recession lots of companies are turning towards team building events london to encourage the staff. I am a little put off by how I feel about this, I mean it’s a nice concept but it is never going to stimulate people as much as a nice big check is it?
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