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Interesting Sequel… Complete With CG Schwarzenegger

Advantages: Entertaining - good story - great special-effects.
Disadvantages: Colour is a bit bland - a few continuity problems caught on tape.

...the addition of a humongous Terminator that could not only transform into an aircraft, but also possessed removable motor-cycle ‘attachments’ with machine guns that could be deployed in order to hunt down humans. More than once I felt like I was watching a ‘Transformers’ movie. While I liked both ‘Transformers’ movies, I didn’t much care for the ‘Terminator’ version of a 3-in-1 robot. Also, when the motorcycle attachments are deployed and come off ...
...(character appears as girlfriend in Terminator 3) is expecting their first child - Cameron the lovable Terminator is missing, but then again, Cameron might still come along in yet another sequel because the Terminators in this movie are not as technologically advanced as Cameron, however, the inconsistency remains in the fact that there was never any mention made in the television series about John being married or having a child. The inconsistencies ...

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Review of Terminator - Salvation (DVD)

Terminator Salvation- An action flick that worked for me!

Advantages: Christian bale.Nice action.Camerawork.
Disadvantages: Sort of cliche.Story is thin

Terminator Salvation is the continuation of the terminator series which gained much popularity in the 90's. Following the trend of recently succesful sequels, this one comes with a newer look at the man v/s enemy battle;the latest addition being a futuristic concept,new technology and advatnced graphics. The story doesn't need to be elaborated,its a plain man v/s machine battle,set in 2018. I am not a fan of Wham wham thank you ma'm kind of films,i ...
...if the genre has to fall under action.Blame it on the technology or the craze of futuristic concepts,the order of the day seems to be robots and machines fighting it out with humans.I guess that makes the concept very novel,saving mankind and similar attributes. The director also emphasizes on human emotion and some time is spent giving both the principal characters some emotional backdrop which works for the film.Behind all the action bonanza and ...

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Review of Terminator - Salvation (DVD)

Time to terminate this series!

Advantages: action scenes are top notch
Disadvantages: acting is very basic

...bit unsure. In my mind Terminator means Arnie, and vice versa. Still, Andrew wanted to watch it, so we gave it a go. First off, the storyline is pretty confusing. It involves a mix of being set in the past and the future and having some characters either from past or future depending on who you believe. Some scenes take place in 2003, whilst the majority of the film is in 2018. Even after reading the IMDB.com explanation, it's still pretty confusing, ...
...If you're one of those people who struggles to keep up with difficult plots, then give it a miss! What I can say is that it basically revolves around John Connor taking on Skynet, and attempting to rescue a child version of his dad at the same time, whilst trying to work out whether he can trust Marcus, a half robot half man who is either a Skynet baddy or not. Of course, all that is pretty much secondary detail, because this is really an out and ...

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Review of Terminator - Salvation (DVD)

More Fallen Than Revenge

Advantages: Visually very impressive
Disadvantages: Too long and without a terribly good story

...when I was a kid, Transformers were one of my favourite toys. The fun of having something that was a car one minute and a robot the next took a long time to grow old. As an adult, I've found I can get similar enjoyment from watching the same thing happen on the big screen. It's a lot more sophisticated than it was back then, but I try to fool myself that I am as well. Following on from the events of the latest "Transformers" film, the Autobots are ...
...the film, in that the Transformers are a little too human at points. Maybe this is a deliberate attempt to portray them that way as they've now been living and working with humans for some time, but it did blur the line between them slightly. This was particularly noticeable with Skids and Mudflap, who played the joker roles that are usually assigned to a human sidekick in a film like this. They're funny and they do get the best lines, but it shifted ...

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Review of Transformers - Revenge Of The Fallen

It's not over until the fat lady sings

Advantages: Great acting and effects
Disadvantages: Obvious computer generated effects

BEWARE! THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SPOILERS AND PLOTLINE! THE STORY The story starts in space and we see the moon. We see dust on the moon shaking and a shadow coming over the top. We then see an alien spacecraft. In the USA, a young man is practicing his golf stroke in a laboratory. He notices a warning light flash and a strange noise. He quickly gets his boss and they find that the noise is coming from the moon. They contact the Secretary of Defence ...
...over the moon and that is has broken off into lots of pieces. It is rapidly coming towards earth. He contacts The President. Meanwhile, the president Thomas Whitmore (played by Bill Pullman) is just getting up and gets the phone call from the Secretary. On the other side of town, David Levinson (played by Jeff Goldblum) an ex-scientist has been told that there is interference on all communications. He works out that the interference is coming from ...

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