Of course, there is another situation, although the old series is not refurbished, but the old guys team up to find new works. And this can be divided into two types. Just like the people in "The Expendables", the old guys are just playing tickets, get together and make a fortune, give you some feelings by the way, pat on the buttocks and leave. However, although this trick is fresh, it is not edible. No, when it comes to "The Expendables 3", it has to add popular action elements, and it still plays well. Another example is "Battlefield of Red Flames", but it is a completely new trick. It doesn't take the usual path, but it is the author's favorite.
When it comes to this film, the author first thought of "Jurassic World" in the same year, but it is also the benchmark for the renovation of the old series, both in terms of quality and box office. "Jurassic" not only takes into account the fans who have seen the original series, but also adds a lot of nostalgic content, but also adds delicious new materials in order to adapt to the times, so no matter whether the audience has seen the previous work Have fun in the film. In contrast to "Terminator 5", the author thinks that apart from fans of the series who have watched the previous four old works and fans who particularly love this type of sci-fi action movies, they will probably find it confusing and boring.
There is an advertising slogan that says, "It's still the same flavor!", which is used to describe the time-honored food that has maintained its consistent characteristics, and it is just wonderful to put it on this film. Although this film is determined to be renovated, the action is still in the old-school style of the 1980s. Fans and friends who are keen on old-school action films will naturally find it comfortable, but people who are used to watching modern action films may not be used to this kind of simple and crude show. The beauty of strength and violence. The action scenes of this movie are quite intensive. From the beginning to the end, there are countless battles, big and small, and the rhythm is quite fast. It is simple and rude to the end, but it is boring after a long time. After all, contemporary is different from the aesthetics at that time. It is understandable to pay tribute to nostalgia. Once you go to the crooked road of not making progress, you will destroy the series and smash the signboard. Arnold is already old, and from many scenes in the film, it can be seen that he is faltering and moving slowly, so he can only play this kind of simple, rude and effortless film. Make a pose and say [I will be back! ], can make countless fans burst into tears, willing to contribute to the box office. Everyone is familiar with this truth. These old-generation action superstars who grew up with us, watching one game less, maybe one day they will completely stop acting. Using this excuse to make money is always profitable.
In terms of plot, the Terminator series originally had a rather huge world view, which involved time travel, which made the structure more complicated. But after all, it was a sci-fi setting 30 years ago. Although the golden age of sci-fi was not far away at that time, after the development of the new 30 years, sci-fi has taken a new path. The time travel in this series belongs to a more classic mode, that is, travel on the same time line, which is different from the travel of parallel worlds common in comics.
This "Terminator 5" makes full use of this setting, creating viewing obstacles for the audience through multiple crossings. At this point, we see an almost identical application in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Harry was hit in the head, Hermione found that the branches behind him were being moved, and Harry was saved by the Patronus Charm by the lake. At first, he didn't know who did these things, but after crossing, he Participating in the previous events as a bystander, but accidentally becoming the executor of these events, it suddenly dawned on me, as if I suddenly remembered that these things were actually done by myself. This film is just like that. The way Kyle Reese comforted Sarah was that Sarah taught him when he was a child after crossing, and he remembered that Genesis was Skynet's warning that he told himself.
But this film has more than one timeline. Think of the first four films as a timeline, starting with Kyle Reese traveling back in time to save Sarah. Then, at the moment when Kyle Reese crossed, because John was attacked, the future history changed, so the timeline changed at this moment. That is to say, the film takes place on a new timeline from beginning to end. Since the future history has changed, the traversal behavior that occurs in the future will change accordingly, and the future past will also change. It's very similar to "X-Men: Days of Future Past", isn't it, the starting point of all events is the Mystique who shoots Dr. Wolverine to the past to change this starting point, and then the subsequent timeline will be revised accordingly. There is only Wolverine as a traveler, with memories of two timelines. When the starting point of time changes, the follow-up clues naturally follow different. It's just that we are used to rewriting the future by changing the past, but we forget that we can also change the future and rewrite the past.
This film has played the time line enough, but it also leaves a lot of unclear places, which may be the negligence of the screenwriter, or it may be deliberately left blank for the sequel. However, I would like to criticize the behavior of setting easter eggs in this film. We all know the double ending version of "Terminator 2". This film really seems to be going the route of the sunny ending, but the ending egg seems to tell everyone deliberately that we will have a sequel, so please look forward to it. The author does not reject the design of easter eggs, but it is shameful to deliberately create suspense for the sake of the sequel. Marvel Dafa is good, but it is not applicable to every piece.
When the music at the end of the film sounded, it was still the familiar melody, and I couldn't stop getting excited. The film is actually not bad, as a thoroughly nostalgic, it is also delicious.
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Shige at midnight on August 24, 2015
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