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Boiling Point: Too Early to Talk Avatar?
Wait, what? How could that be? Bale is John Connor, and unless he sends the dude that will ultimately be his pops back in time in Salvation, then he can't die/become a terminator in this one or that screws up the continuity with the first film.
Or I am missing something. Which is possible, since I didn't drink any coffee this morning on account of having run out of filters.
Terminator 3 fell down because of too much angst and not enough metal cold violence.
The Terminator is frightening because it can simply ignore conventional defences and when something attacks your very sense of security its unsettling.
You lock your door, he can break it down
You by a gun, he's immune to bullets
You go to the police station, he walks in calm as day and can still get you
It's basic conventional horror transplanted into a kick ass action film... but it *is* horror.
It's an escape story, but your escaping from an intelligent machine that keeps coming and can calculate where you are likely to be.
Thats just scary as hell.
Terminator 3 was too 'cute' with a crappy script, bad direction and an enemy terminator that just didn't work for me at all. Realistically, Terminator 2 went down this road with all the thumbs up, high fives and a more friendly terminator - but then Cameron can pull that off and there were still very claustrophobic set pieces that kept the horror, dread and 'fight or flight' alive.
The genre changes in an open war setting, but this movie should (in my view) a cross between Terminator 1 and Shindlers list. I don't see how it can be gritty and soul destroying the way it should be in a war humanity is losing at a PG13 rating, but then again - there are some pretty dark films out there that have managed.
The only reason I want this film to be cool is because it *could* be mind blowingly awesome and if it isn't, this 'type' of film is probably not going to be made again for some time - and that would really be a shame. High budget, apocolyptic, humanity murdering Ai films are hard to come by!