Terminator Salvation
May. 9th, 2012 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethTerminator Salvation really is as bad as I remember from the cinema.
Marcus gets a character arc, but he also gets to do brain surgery on himself with his bare hands, and in logic world that doesn't tend to go well.
John Connor is an idiot. Like, seriously and repeatedly.
Kyle Reese did okay for a damsel in distress.
... were there other characters? I think there were a bunch of women who exist only to make googly eyes at the macho guys and have no agenda of their own. They didn't talk to each other. Or in one case at all.
Blergh.
Also? The worst bit?
He got in a fist fight with a Terminator.
You know in the first movie where Reese warns the Terminator will pull Sarah's heart out?
Hell, the first thing a Terminator ever does is kill a man with one punch and do something nasty to another's internal organs.
How do you have an actual fist fight with that? It makes no sense. None.
It was a whole plot point in The Sarah Connor Chronicles too. They hit you, you die, no chance to defend yourself.
And it's not just that fight, in every action sequence it ignores laws of physics, strength of humans or lack thereof, and medical basics.
It's just really seriously deeply stupid throughout.
Bad movie.
Marcus gets a character arc, but he also gets to do brain surgery on himself with his bare hands, and in logic world that doesn't tend to go well.
John Connor is an idiot. Like, seriously and repeatedly.
Kyle Reese did okay for a damsel in distress.
... were there other characters? I think there were a bunch of women who exist only to make googly eyes at the macho guys and have no agenda of their own. They didn't talk to each other. Or in one case at all.
Blergh.
Also? The worst bit?
He got in a fist fight with a Terminator.
You know in the first movie where Reese warns the Terminator will pull Sarah's heart out?
Hell, the first thing a Terminator ever does is kill a man with one punch and do something nasty to another's internal organs.
How do you have an actual fist fight with that? It makes no sense. None.
It was a whole plot point in The Sarah Connor Chronicles too. They hit you, you die, no chance to defend yourself.
And it's not just that fight, in every action sequence it ignores laws of physics, strength of humans or lack thereof, and medical basics.
It's just really seriously deeply stupid throughout.
Bad movie.
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Date: 2012-05-09 08:30 pm (UTC)(My canon is the first two films and SCC)
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Date: 2012-05-11 05:39 pm (UTC)though since every time travel makes a whole new time line canon is a shifty sort of thing