I know the new Star Wars teaser is a tough act to follow, but come on guys. It doesn’t even seem like you’re trying. The trailer for Terminator Genisys (wow, I can’t believe how icky it feels just to look at that spelling, let alone force myself to type it) feels like a lazy kid on YouTube edited it and tacked on whatever shitty music he already had lying around on his hard drive. Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese is such a gross miscalculation (here’s proof) I initially turned the trailer off before it was over. That’s never happened before.
To quote a hilarious line from Beavis & Butt-Head, “These special effects aren’t very special, huh-huh.” Watching a gray-haired Arnold Schwarzenegger dive into a helicopter prop is jumping the shark in the most disingenuous way possible. So is having a T-1000 chop off his own knife-arm to make a javelin. Speaking of the new T-1000, how is it physically possible for him to conceal all that liquid metal mass in something as thin as a car hood?
I’m not making fun of Arnie here—the guy’s easily my favorite movie star ever—but he’s gotta be sick of his famous catchphrase by now. According to Wikipedia, he’s muttered the line (or an obvious variation of it) in over a dozen films. That’s like forcing Travolta to dance in every movie he’s made after Pulp Fiction. I know I’m not the only one rolling my eyes at this point..
You can read my review of Terminator Salvation here. In it I say Terminator 2 is the best in the series, but in the time since I’ve come to enjoy the original more. There’s just something about it that’s hard to define and Schwarzenegger seems more like a machine. Hell, the entire movie feels more like a machine, coldly logical and smoothy efficient.
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