SimplyScripts Discussion Board
Blog Home - Produced Movie Script Library - TV Scripts - Unproduced Scripts - Contact - Site Map
ScriptSearch
Welcome, Guest.
It is March 28th, 2024, 3:29pm
Please login or register.
Was Portal Recent Posts Home Help Calendar Search Register Login
Please do read the guidelines that govern behavior on the discussion board. It will make for a much more pleasant experience for everyone. A word about SimplyScripts and Censorship


Produced Script Database (Updated!)
One Week Challenge - Who Wrote What and Writers' Choice.


Scripts studios are posting for award consideration

Short Script of the Day | Featured Script of the Month | Featured Short Scripts Available for Production
Submit Your Script

How do I get my film's link and banner here?
All screenplays on the simplyscripts.com and simplyscripts.net domain are copyrighted to their respective authors. All rights reserved. This screenplaymay not be used or reproduced for any purpose including educational purposes without the expressed written permission of the author.
Forum Login
Username: Create a new Account
Password:     Forgot Password

SimplyScripts Screenwriting Discussion Board    Reviews    Movie, Television and DVD Reviews  ›  Terminator Salvation Moderators: Nixon
Users Browsing Forum
No Members and 7 Guests

 Pages: « 1, 2, 3 : All
Recommend Print
  Author    Terminator Salvation  (currently 2974 views)
Dreamscale
Posted: June 9th, 2009, 4:14pm Report to Moderator
Guest User



Behavioral segmentation?  WTF is that?

PS  I also really enjoy Point Break, even though there is an awful lot of cheese in it...it still works and is enjoyable for sure.
Logged
e-mail Reply: 30 - 37
Andrew
Posted: June 9th, 2009, 4:36pm Report to Moderator
Old Timer



Posts
1791
Posts Per Day
0.32
In this context, it would refer to the producers of this movie gearing it towards viewers who exhibit an homogeneous 'consumption' of action movies - that is to say, they basically made this for people who like action-filled films. Is that group composed largely of younger people? I don't necessarily think so, plus it's difficult to standardise what a 'young person' is in terms of how they behave, y'know.

I mean, Spielberg did 'Duel' at 25. My point being that attempting to group in terms of age is ultimately folly.

Andrew


Logged Offline
Private Message Reply: 31 - 37
Scar Tissue Films
Posted: September 4th, 2010, 8:15am Report to Moderator
Of The Ancients


Posts
3382
Posts Per Day
0.63
Finally got round to seeing this. After T3 which was so badly made that I could barley watch it, I wasn't expecting much.

It was a lot better than I feared, although no where near what it could have been.

I agree on all points that people have raised about Skynet and the overall story. These kind of things are amazing really. There's whole industries dedicated to telling people how to write films and such, people who run businesses selling scripts, festivals and awards etc but it's pretty obvious that Hollywood doesn't really give a fuck about writing. Seems to be a complete after-thought after the project has been greenlit.

It comes across as almost an irritiating hitch to shooting silly action when you watch a $200M film. Bizarre, but there it is.

Other than that though, it was good. The lack of intelligence present amongst the writers and filmmakers undermines any attempt at taking it seriously, but it was better than 95% of sci-fi action films..which I suppose is quite sad in some ways.

Cameron created such a great story that even pale imitations and hybrids of it still have some interest.

Shame someone like Neil Blomkamp couldn't have directed it, but it was still pretty good, despite everything.

Revision History (2 edits; 1 reasons shown)
Scar Tissue Films  -  September 4th, 2010, 8:38am
Logged Offline
Private Message Reply: 32 - 37
dogglebe
Posted: September 4th, 2010, 9:12am Report to Moderator
Guest User



My big problem with this movie (I may have mentioned this elsewhere) is that it stepped away from the focus of the previous movies of one Terminator trying to kill John/Sarah.  Now it was an army of people versus an army of robots.  It didn't seem as...personal, I guess.

Arnold's cameo was great, though I wished they explained why they chose his 'face.'  In the Sarah Conner Chronicles, an episode was dedicated to Cameron's origin and how she got to look the way she does.


Phil
Logged
e-mail Reply: 33 - 37
Scar Tissue Films
Posted: September 4th, 2010, 9:27am Report to Moderator
Of The Ancients


Posts
3382
Posts Per Day
0.63

Quoted from dogglebe
My big problem with this movie (I may have mentioned this elsewhere) is that it stepped away from the focus of the previous movies of one Terminator trying to kill John/Sarah.  Now it was an army of people versus an army of robots.  It didn't seem as...personal, I guess.

Arnold's cameo was great, though I wished they explained why they chose his 'face.'  In the Sarah Conner Chronicles, an episode was dedicated to Cameron's origin and how she got to look the way she does.


Phil


Fair enough. Personally I've been waiting to see the battle between human and robots on a grand scale since I saw the flashbacks in the first Terminator.

The only real problem I had with the film was the absurdity of the story.

It seems that they tried to do what you wanted and keep up the "kill John Connor" thing, but to me that was one of the reasons it didn't work...it was no longer relevant as we're in the present, not the past anymore.
Logged Offline
Private Message Reply: 34 - 37
JonnyBoy
Posted: September 4th, 2010, 10:56am Report to Moderator
January Project Group



Location
London, England
Posts
994
Posts Per Day
0.18
Did you Sky Anytime it by any chance, Rick? Only, I finally watched this last week too.

It's not as bad as I assumed it would be, but it's not great, either. It just never really felt that involving. Not epic enough to be epic, but not really at all emotional and personal, either. There's basically no characterisation, and while some of the action's well done it never really felt weighty, if that's the word. For me, though, Christian Bale was probably actually the worst thing in it. It's not a good performance. It's the Batman voice for two hours, and that's it. Sam Worthington was fine (although he did lapse into his natural Australian at one point), and Anton what-sit was okay too.

It's just...meh, really. Not bad, but not a worthy sequel to Cameron's original. It just felt like a cash-in rather than an attempt to do anything new.



Guess who's back? Back again?
Logged Offline
Site Private Message Reply: 35 - 37
Scar Tissue Films
Posted: September 4th, 2010, 12:21pm Report to Moderator
Of The Ancients


Posts
3382
Posts Per Day
0.63

Quoted from JonnyBoy
Did you Sky Anytime it by any chance, Rick? Only, I finally watched this last week too.

It's not as bad as I assumed it would be, but it's not great, either. It just never really felt that involving. Not epic enough to be epic, but not really at all emotional and personal, either. There's basically no characterisation, and while some of the action's well done it never really felt weighty, if that's the word. For me, though, Christian Bale was probably actually the worst thing in it. It's not a good performance. It's the Batman voice for two hours, and that's it. Sam Worthington was fine (although he did lapse into his natural Australian at one point), and Anton what-sit was okay too.

It's just...meh, really. Not bad, but not a worthy sequel to Cameron's original. It just felt like a cash-in rather than an attempt to do anything new.



It was on Sky premiere last night.

I agree with what you're saying. It's nothing like as good as a Cameron film, but it was still better than most films in the genre (it is after all very much a B-movie/"ghetto" genre).

Not great, but it was a decent attempt by considerably less talented filmmakers. Just looking at what McG has done before, it's a miracle it was even half watchable.
Logged Offline
Private Message Reply: 36 - 37
RayW
Posted: September 4th, 2010, 11:04pm Report to Moderator
Old Timer


Freedom

Location
About a thousand years from now.
Posts
1821
Posts Per Day
0.36
You guys are chipping into the surface of a serious creative issue affecting any successfull enterprise: Limit future projects by precedents the audience enjoyed previously or to broaden those limitations at risk of offending/alienating the fans that brought the project this far?


Here's $100-$200M: make a decision.

"WHUT?!! HUH?! I... uh... ?"

Do you give back your percentage of that pie that would be your paycheck or do you say "LOL! Screwit!" and produce something that will pay for your ridiculous mortgage and hopefully land your next gig?


I think the mano a mano argument has been played out and now the broader scope of humanities plight is appropriate to be addressed UNTIL that's been played out. At that point - Terminator 9 will revert back to mano a mano.

Personally, as a fan of hard scifi, I wanted to be immersed in more tech and less human condition. (Cliche) dystopian futures disgust me, but that's where this story carries us. Again.
Perhaps the greatest challenge of horror is to out-gun the audience's capability to recognize/accept/adopt an amazing multitude of situational possibilities.
I've seen broken down men and societies resist and perservere.
Show me something else.
Make me say "G@D@MN! That's messed up! Let's not allow that to happen."



Logged
Private Message Reply: 37 - 37
 Pages: « 1, 2, 3 : All
Recommend Print

Locked Board Board Index    Movie, Television and DVD Reviews  [ previous | next ] Switch to:
Was Portal Recent Posts Home Help Calendar Search Register Login

Forum Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post polls
You may not post attachments
HTML is on
Blah Code is on
Smilies are on


Powered by E-Blah Platinum 9.71B © 2001-2006