In recent years, film franchises (ie "film franchises") have been gaining momentum, and various sequels have emerged one after another, but the original works as the basis have gradually become the bottleneck of its development: more breakthroughs have been criticized as "bullshit", and less breakthroughs have been criticized as "cold rice". ". "Terminator: Genesis" plays an eclectic and clever trick, not only paying tribute to the previous work with a lot of bridges to highlight the rooted "Terminator" bloodline, but also resetting the timeline to add ingredients to build a new "Terminator" three part. But I think "Terminator: Genesis" miscalculated, and the result of being clever is that the level is lower than satisfactory.
Veteran "Terminator" fans may be very cordial to the tribute bridges that are readily available in the first paragraph of "Terminator: Genesis", and the "Terminator 2 Theme Song" that runs through the whole film is even more exciting. But apart from the lingering reverberation of the soundtrack, the tributes are all shallow, just nostalgic and nostalgic for the sake of pleasing the audience. The worst is the T-1000, from the tough Robert Patrick version of the "Skynet" strong soldier to the soy sauce robot of Li Bingxian, who said goodbye to the audience after taking a sour shower.
"Terminator: Genesis" intends to take a different approach, and the approach is to greatly innovate the plot: a complex timeline, a blackened John Connor, the occasional T-5000, an unknown character who transmits "Dad"... But the more I The more I look at it, the more I feel that this is simply digging a hole. The original work of "Terminator" did not delve into the logical rationality of traveling through time and space, but provided the audience with a rich imagination space with blank space. "Terminator: Genesis" does the opposite. There are so many clues and foreshadowings that it becomes a pit, and it is estimated that the sequel will be fully filled.
Indeed, "Terminator: Genesis" is not exciting enough, but fortunately someone saved the field: Uncle Shi! Uncle Shi! Uncle Shi! As soon as Uncle Shi, who was nearly seventy years old, appeared, the atmosphere in the movie theater immediately became high. Most of the audience, including me, must have come because of Uncle Shi. At least, Uncle Shi's box office appeal in mainland China is strong.
You know Uncle Shi's performance style - showing "facial paralysis", showing muscles, punching and kicking Duang-Duang-Duang, guns and short guns Guang-Guang-Guang - but it can attract fans and dominate the film industry. Uncle Shi also rarely sees emotional dramas and inner dramas in his starring works, and the neat action scenes are the characteristics of Uncle Shi. As an "iron fan" of Uncle Shi, I started from "Terminator 2", and enjoyed "True Lies", "Dragon Brothers and Mouse Brothers", "Terminator", "Dragon Pool", "Phantom Heroes" one by one Wait for Uncle Shi's representative work. Although "Terminator: Genesis" is a group show, it is no exaggeration to say that only Uncle Shi is the bright spot.
Uncle Shi is old and his face is full of vicissitudes. "Terminator: Genesis" specifically uses the appearance of T-800 human skin to justify it. But Uncle Shi's eyes are still firm, his movements are still agile, and he has a little more warmth and cuteness: Uncle Shi is dedicated to guarding and taking care of "Dragon Mother", acting as both a bodyguard and a "father"; Uncle Shi has learned to gag, saying " Bite me." Domineering and mischievous; Uncle Shi carried forward the hideous smile in "Terminator 2", and laughed out the highest realm of hideous but not hideous.
Uncle Shi is still young, and he is expected to play. "The Terminator" is the character that really made Uncle Shi famous. After saying goodbye to the "Terminator" series of movies for more than 10 years, Uncle Shi was eagerly waiting to break out in "Terminator: Genesis". The CG synthetic version of the villain, Uncle Shi, wanted to snatch clothes. The live-action Uncle Shi, who appeared on stage, threw out a sentence and picked up a shotgun and fired. Afterwards, Uncle Shi led the male and female protagonists and the second villain T-1000 and the number one villain T-3000 (that is, the blackened John Connor) to carry out road chases, tunnel ambush, close combat, aerial jumping, and hitting the enemy against the wall. Violent display. I love the scene where Uncle Shi holds the T-1000 to take an acid bath, swings the magnetic coil and smashes the T-3000. The climax scene of the grandfather and his parents beating his son together made the audience applaud. "Dad" worked so hard, and fought bravely until his face and hands were broken, but the PG-13 classification restrained the horror and blood, and did not emphasize the aesthetics of violence.
After all, in his twilight years as a martyr, Uncle Shi, who has been in politics for 7 years, has returned to the film industry for the past two years, and the new work starring him has been mediocre. However, the key to Cao Cao's rhetoric is "strengthening the heart", Uncle Shi borrowed a pun from the lines of "Terminator: Genesis" and said: "I'm old, but I'm not obsolete." ("I am old, But it's not out of date.") I sincerely hope that Uncle Shi can grow old and grow strong, and he can use his eight successes in his peak state, and then make a few more acclaimed and popular movies.
The "Terminator" series of movies has passed its 30th year, and this year's fifth film stabilized the situation with nostalgia and Uncle Shi, but it can only be regarded as a stopgap measure, and how to sublimate and break through the bottleneck is a long-term strategy. I still have expectations for the "Terminator" series, given that the film's production side is clearly about to make a sequel.
Written on September 6, 2015
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