I had gone for a movie a few months back (I don't watch a lot of movies in Cinemas) and saw the trailer of Terminator Genisys. Somewhere deeeeep down in my heart I got a little excited. I had loved 'The Terminator' as a child, but now, especially after having watched the latest one, I have begun to cringe at the mere mention of it. I'll admit, the sequel wasn't SO bad and I may be more biased towards the original movie because well, nostalgia and it was entertaining. The same can't be said for Terminator Genisys.
Terminator, Terminator *shakes head in disappointment*. Oh you poor stupid old fool. You haven't been able to terminate anything for decades now!
It's been some twenty years and these so called advanced, liquid morphing (no upgrades there eh?) machines are still TRYING to kill Sarah Connor. Skynet decides to do something about it and that's pretty much the movie in a nutshell. What is really annoying - more than the clashing plot-lines in the series, is that the Terminator can't wipe out his targets AND he has no right to be called the 'Terminator' anymore...Like at all...Ever...The titles of the movies need to change because he only keeps 'saving' and 'protecting' the Connors.
Protecting Sarah since childhood
In Genysis they take the original character to newer lows and reduce him to a trained dog! He obeys commands like stay, stop, jumps in front of you in the face of danger and attacks like a pitbull.
Apart from his watchdog qualities, (also getting his ass whooped all the time) he's constantly referred to as "old but not obsolete". The makers of Genysis decided to take a massive dump on the Terminator and made him more fatherly towards the woman he was originally suppose to kill (part 1). He's literally called Pops in this movie! How far the movies have strayed from the original. Sigh.
Keeps 'trip down memory lane' drawings
Fuddy duddy daddy
Watching you with a frown when you kiss bae (considering what's coming next...hint hint - sex)
More disapproving Pop's looks
A Terminator with arthritis? (his hand starts shaking in this scene)
Five movies down and Sarah Connor (and the result of her 'one night stand while on the run') still manage to be on every Terminator Machine's hit list! The Terminators have in every movie just thrown their 'targets' around but somehow always manage to kill only cops/security folks.
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The get tased
Shot at
Bladed
and back-stabbed
There are two ways to make a Terminator movie - before Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor did 'it' and after they did 'it'. Only then can we look at humanity being a threat to machine's existence...Or something like that. One would think after shooting a gazillion bullets on the robots, they would carry less guns and more bazookas or grenades or as demonstrated some 40 mins into the movie - use acid where the machine can turn into mush. Especially when the Terminator can't come back from this. Yet throughout the movie we keep seeing only guns being used to 'stop' it.
Help me! I'm meeeellllting!!
One would also think if Skynet is SO smart, why it not send more than one Terminator in the beginning. Like only one at a time to kill Sarah? To kill Kyle? If the newer Terminators can detach parts of their machinery then why can't they look at splitting themselves and attacking all at once? or using multiple weapons and all to kill targets?
Terminators literally hanging around
I don't remember much about the robots, but does a shot to the heart really kill them? Is it that easy? Then why do they keep wasting bullets on them trying to 'slow them down'.
Genysis just felt like the makers were being lazy. They used the exact same stunts, dialogues and action scenes - the shot in the eye, the Edward Blade arms. Genisys actually reminded me of Hindi movies from the 80s where the priority was to confuse the audience, throw unnecessary action, and in this series case - done to death time-travel plotlines and of course, ignoring logic!
Whenever it was time to make a getaway, why on earth were they always picking the heaviest and slowest vehicles? The mini truck was it, in the first chase scene? Then the school bus!! All of this for three people! It's not like other vehicles weren't available.
Plenty to choose from
Even had bikes waiting around!
But they decide to go for biggest and brightest thing they could find
Yea, they get spotted in literally 3 seconds!
As expected, they lose their head-start advantage in no time!
Maybe because A BIKE was used by the Terminator!
To cut a long story short, all three of them (Sarah, Kyle and Pops) took an entire movie to stop Skynet and right towards the end Pops single handedly (quite literally) puts an end to it all in the stupidest way. If ever there was a time to face palm, this was it!
The one armed Pops
One arm lifts
One arm body slams
And just when you think it's finally all over and RIP Terminator. This happens!
Groans!
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