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Smirk (Login Smirkdirk)
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Posted May 25, 2009 9:32 AM
I've always been a fan of Ebert. You may not agree with him, but he usually can give a good laundry list of reasons for why he feels the way he feels about a particular film. His writing also tends to be entertaining, interesting and sometimes both which makes him highly readable. Although, as of late, since the cancer and maybe just getting older, he's not quite as fun to read as he was in the 90's.
I went to Terminator last night. Not a bad movie but definitely sorta meh. Terminator 3 was definitely a better movie in a lot of ways with a lot better action set pieces. With Cameron evidently leaving the series forever at this point, I don't see much of a future for it.
The best thing going for this movie was the giant robot/abandoned 7/11 sequence which didn't even come close to the chase sequence early in T3, and actually, looked like a bland, colorless, weak version of what I had just seen in the Transformers 2 trailer 45 minutes previous - and that was just a trailer.
Furthermore, did I miss it, or in the brief flash-forwards in the previous three movies it was always night, with roving machines crushing skulls, whole armies of Terminators marching through the dark-blue nighttime... The cloudy desert vision in this movie didn't jibe with the visual glimpses we'd gotten of the future in the previous three movies and that bugged the shit out of me.
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