Comments on: Terminator Salvation http://www.cinemalogue.com/2009/05/21/terminator-salvation/ I went into this movie expecting to hate it and, for the most part, I did. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:05:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Rubin Safaya http://www.cinemalogue.com/2009/05/21/terminator-salvation/comment-page-1/#comment-58559 Rubin Safaya Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:21:24 +0000 http://www.cinemalogue.com/?p=541#comment-58559 The late critic Pauline Kael once wrote, in her essay "Trash, Art and the Movies," that American filmmakers confuse technology for technique. This has been going on for decades before <em>Star Wars.</em> The problem with <em>Terminator Salvation </em>is that, while it's admittedly kind of neat to look at, it isn't sufficient to make up for the lack of character development and story that would make it a truly engaging action movie in which we <em>care</em> about what happens to whom. The original <em>Terminator</em> was eye candy, too, but even Sarah Connor was given a backdrop against which you learn something about her so you give a damn when she's fighting her way through the machinery in the film's climactic sequence. The tension was greater, and the budget lower. Isn't that interesting? The late critic Pauline Kael once wrote, in her essay “Trash, Art and the Movies,” that American filmmakers confuse technology for technique. This has been going on for decades before Star Wars. The problem with Terminator Salvation is that, while it’s admittedly kind of neat to look at, it isn’t sufficient to make up for the lack of character development and story that would make it a truly engaging action movie in which we care about what happens to whom. The original Terminator was eye candy, too, but even Sarah Connor was given a backdrop against which you learn something about her so you give a damn when she’s fighting her way through the machinery in the film’s climactic sequence. The tension was greater, and the budget lower. Isn’t that interesting?

]]> By: Reggie http://www.cinemalogue.com/2009/05/21/terminator-salvation/comment-page-1/#comment-58558 Reggie Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:17:58 +0000 http://www.cinemalogue.com/?p=541#comment-58558 Sir, This movie was pure, blessed eye candy. The mute girl, sad, obviously shocked. What is there to speak of? Behind the preposition was a terminator motorcycle, and other robust terminators. Seeing the film on the big screen, when the big bot grabs the children up out of the bus (or whatever), YOU FEEL AS IF YOU WERE NEXT. The undefined visual techniques put you on the ground, minus the dust in your mouth. The subtle mechanical noises, etc., etc. Best value around. Makes you feel like a wondering child again. It´s like life, we all gonna die. And live again... Now, let me finish reading. Sir,

This movie was pure, blessed eye candy. The mute girl, sad, obviously shocked. What is there to speak of? Behind the preposition was a terminator motorcycle, and other robust terminators. Seeing the film on the big screen, when the big bot grabs the children up out of the bus (or whatever), YOU FEEL AS IF YOU WERE NEXT. The undefined visual techniques put you on the ground, minus the dust in your mouth. The subtle mechanical noises, etc., etc.

Best value around. Makes you feel like a wondering child again. It´s like life, we all gonna die. And live again… Now, let me finish reading.

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