Terminator - My Hollywood Enlightenment

Cristian 2022-04-21 09:01:24

At first I thought this was another remake of the first movie, and thought Schwarzenegger would be playing the T-800 who was going after Sarah Connor again. But when Reese went back to 1984 to meet T-1000 and T-800 killed T-800, he realized that history had changed dramatically.
The setting of the plot is quite bold, and even subverts the image of a certain hero. The effects do look better. And the film pays tribute to the first three. Schwarzenegger is old, but not useless. It was a historic moment when he jumped out of the helicopter shouting "I'LL BE BACK". And when he was crawling on one arm, when he grinned ugly, when he was alert to the enemy, he was still the same T-800.
The emotional positioning is more successful than the second part of the emotional drama. Sarah not only taught the robot to laugh and joke like John when she was a child, but even developed a father-daughter relationship. Unfortunately, the expressiveness was insufficient and no tears were formed. The son-in-law-father-in-law rivalry between Reese and the machine is sweet and endearing.
Long Ma's performance was excellent. Sarah Connor was the first woman I've ever seen in my life, and Cameron's ex-wife showed her quite deeply. But Long Ma is not inferior, on the contrary, it is more sexy and cute, but it lacks the atmosphere of the 1980s (after all, it is difficult to compare people who have passed the 1980s).
The first Hollywood blockbuster I ever saw in my life was Terminator 2, when I was 7 years old, and it brought me a new world, new idols, and took me on the path of being a movie fan. After watching it more than 10 times, the enjoyment of "Terminator 2" has not diminished at all. On the contrary, with the attention to detail, the charm of the sense of age, the reflection of technology and the sincerity of emotions, I want to watch it again and again. Now being able to see the Terminator in the theater is a great gift from God to the post-90s generation.
And Schwarzenegger was my idol throughout my boyhood. No matter his acting skills, human nature, sense of humor, or filming, he has completely exploded some tough guy stars such as Stallone. I hope that the hero is not old, but since the Terminator can legitimately have gray hair, then Schwarzenegger is not too late. Hope he can continue on the screen and go further in the Terminator series.
PS: There are Easter eggs at the end. It surprises me when I seriously revel in the classic Terminator melody. In addition, children's shoes who haven't seen the trilogy are best to watch it after finishing it, otherwise the surprise and tribute of this film will be greatly reduced, and the enjoyment will not be sufficient. (I'm referring to Cameron's trilogy. As for the "Terminator 2018" piece of crap, forget it).

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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.