The Terminator's Subversion and Tribute

Randall 2021-10-20 17:39:54

The overall structure of the story is not successful, at least the old stalk still feels that the explosion has been tried and tested. There is no new idea. It continues the previous worldview and has no loopholes in logic. Even a few robots are not much different from the previous ones, but It’s even cooler on the technical screen.
There have been a lot of subversions in the role. John suddenly became the leader of saving mankind and turned into a big villain. The heroine suddenly turned from the previous good and weak into a strong female warrior. I only saw the first part of the previous Terminator series. I thought that there was a Terminator who was sent to rescue and raised the heroine before. I came back and looked at the first few introductions and found that there was no. So from the moment John was attacked, he had entered a new parallel world, completely irrelevant to the previous one, so the big boss he thought was knocked out at the very beginning. Such a setting is pretty easy and natural. But it completely subverted the previous assumption that I am a bit unaccustomed to it.
This new heroine feels a lot like the old heroine before. I believe it’s not that I’m blind~ Seeing Schwarzenegger’s gray hair is still quite emotional. In the end, no one sacrificed the protagonist, which is also regarded as HE. It’s just that the old man is Who sent it and left a foreshadowing about what happened. It seems that there is another one.
I am old, but not obsolete.

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Terminator Genisys quotes

  • Garbage Man: [the garbage truck's engine stops] What the hell? Goddamn son of a bitch...

  • [first lines]

    Kyle Reese: [narrating] Before they died, my parents told me stories about how the world once was; what it was like long before I was born; before the war with the machines. They remembered a green world, vast and beautiful, filled with laughter and hope for the future. It's a world I never knew. By the time I was born, all this was gone.

    Kyle Reese: "Skynet," a computer program designed to automate missile defense. It was supposed to protect us, but that's not what happened. August 29th, 1997, Skynet woke up. It decided all of humanity was a threat to its existence.

    [scenes of mass destruction]

    Kyle Reese: It used our own bombs against us. Three billion people died of nuclear fire.

    Kyle Reese: Survivors called it Judgement Day. People lived like rats in shadows, hiding, starving, or worse, captured and put into camps for extermination. I was born after Judgement Day, into a broken world ruled by the machines. The worst were infiltration units that posed as humans. We called them Terminators.

    John Connor: [finding young Kyle in subterranean tunnels] Are there others down here?

    Kyle Reese: And then one man found me. His name was John Connor, and he changed everything. John showed us how to fight back; how to rise up. He freed prisoners. He taught us how to slash the machines to scrap. People whisper about John and wonder how he can know the things he does. They use words like prophet. But John's more. We're here because tonight, he's going to lead us to crush Skynet for good.