CARRIED AWAY » Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines http://www.carrieisgett.com The Optimistically Cartoonish Blog of a Cartoonishly Optimistic Writer Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:19:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Oh Great, Salvation is Here. http://www.carrieisgett.com/2008/08/oh-great-salvation-is-here/ http://www.carrieisgett.com/2008/08/oh-great-salvation-is-here/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:05:05 +0000 Carrie http://www.carrieisgett.com/?p=42 James Cameron accomplished the awesome in the 80′s/early 90′s.  He made the first two Terminator movies, which in my opinion, T-whatever is the only role the Governator was perfectly suited for.  Though we can never really fully grasp why the futuristic cyborg has some strange miscellaneous accent, it seems to be forgiven and we allow the man who can hardly form a sentence save (or destroy) the day.  In 2003, we thought that Nostalgia and the Gov alone would be able to setup some box-office gold with Terminator 3. It almost worked… almost.  Turns out you have to actually have a good movie as well and cannot rely soley on a sixty year old man who used to be cool to sell the movie (this applies to Chuck Norris as well). 1  

The grudge look attempts to promise quality.

Though all seemed to be forgiven (and possibly forgotten) regarding Terminator 3 and America was equally as stoked when the Sarah Connor: My Long Title Promises Awesomeness TV Series came into view.  Even this show was smart enough to pretend that T3 didn’t exist by jumping through time, effectively erasing the flop’s existence.  This must have built up some good karma because Sarah Connor is terrific, like really.  I enjoy it immensely and that’s not only because I have not-so-PG fantasies about Leda Headey, who plays the eponymous character, or that oh-so flexible Firefly chick.  Me, along with lots of other viewers anticipate the upcoming Season 2.  It has great potential and I believe that soon it will find it’s place on it’s own without the two movies and possibly earn a shorter title.

One would think this would be enough to the various sized Enchiladas in Hollywood. They have found a way to earn back our trust while also having a way to continuously generate an income due to the ongoing nature of a TV show.  But alas, it is not enough.  As Abba said, Money, Money, Money. Now we can all anticipate the arrival of the 2009 Box Office Smasher, Terminator Salvation.  I am stoked, let me tell you.  And to make things better, James Cameron has little to do with it and they have hired McG to be the director.2 One might be able to say “Hey look, Christian Bale is in it as John Connor, and he’s Batman, so like, it’s going to be awesome.”  Unless he decides to put on the Batsuit with little to no explanation to his fellow characters, I highly doubt awesomeness will occur. 3

 

Though I might not be able to claim to be the first person to report on this movie, I can say that I’m definitely the most disappointed, possibly more so than I was with the last Harry Potter book. I can’t believe anyone would think that this was a good idea.  Even if I was a thirteen year old boy promised a free Playboy Mag upon entry, I would not turn up for this piece of bull.   What is the logic here?  Could it be a fake nostalgia thing?  The target demographic is far too young to remember the arrival of the first two movies and it’s even unlikely that a number of them have even seen them.  At best, there will be some that have occassionally tuned into Sarah Connor  or went and saw T3 for Kristanna Loken in that red spandex get up.  When things get down to it, and these kids were actually to see this movie, they wouldn’t enjoy it.  The effects are no where near what they would be used to and the first movie is way too long for their little attention spans. 4

Lucky for execs though, they do have one marketing tool that they can take advantage of — the fact that if you tell kids that it’s something they should remember as awesome, they will assume they remember it is awesome and will buy into the hype.  Have you seen those “Bred in the 80′s” shirts?  The majority of the consumers that buy that shirt were probably born in ’89, ’88 at the earliest, but they have been told that living in the 80′s was THE thing and therefore they get to share in this glory on a technicality, though they have absolutely no recollection of what that means. It’s false memories thus it’s false nostalgia.  I am assuming that this is the same principle that Terminator Wankation is trying to channel to ensure viewers. That, and Batman.

I may be way off on this assumption, but I guess we will have to wait and see what happens when it comes out.  Until then, I will be doing what any other self respecting Terminator fan will be doing: watching Leda Headey run around in kick-ass boots trying to forget that distressing night out with Kellie and Old-Man-Governator.

 

Wii Fit says I gained .4 kg.

  1. Unfortunately, I never made it to Arnie’s entrance due to the fact that I was on a blind date that I had to escape from by sneaking out to “go to the bathroom” only never to return. From what I could tell from the first ten minutes, I was doing myself a favor, both as a movie goer and a date goer. ↩
  2. You may know him as the director of Charlie’s Angels and producer of The Pussycat Dolls Present. ↩
  3. From the trailer it appears that he has stolen the bat-voicebox so, this specific awesomeness might be more likely to happen than I give it credit for ↩
  4. Length would be forgiven if the were movie was labeled “Epic” but since it is merely a “Classic” it might as well be labeled “Boring. ↩
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