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The big anticipation for me this year was obviously Star Trek and last year it was Iron Man, next year I suspect it will be Iron Man 2. But even though the film that I was most hanging out to see this year has come and gone there is still a lot of 2009 film going left.
Five films that are coming out this year that I’m looking forward to are:
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen …
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I watched most of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines last night on television, weird considering that I own it on DVD and could have watched all of it including what I missed during my shower break without commercials. Tracey believes it to be a shared experience kind of thing, that popping in the DVD takes away from the communal sharing of the movie or television show. I’m happy to go with that.
A week or so ago I watched Terminator: Salvation and I just couldn’t make up my mind whether or not I liked it on any level, I know, as a Terminator film that I really disliked it. This kind of overshadowed what I could take away from the film as an action scifi piece. The stigma of being a Terminator film seemed like to much weight for the film to carry.
So it was with more of a curious mind that I found myself watching T3.
Terminator 3 has its share of problems, it has its share, your share and probably my share as well, it has a lot of problems. But then the film almost redeems itself for all of its problems with that last 15 minutes, when we see judgement day take place and John and Kate are tricked by the T101 (I’m so confused over the numbering system – I thought it was a T-800 but he very clearly says he is a T101) into going down into the bunker.
The acting in this scene is superb and like I said it really makes up for a lot of the stupidity of the rest of the film.
Is T3 really better than Terminator: Salvation?
Whoa now! Now did I say that?
Well, maybe it is.
You see for all of its flaws, T3 is a Terminator film and frankly I don’t think you can call Terminator: Salvation a Terminator film. You certainly can’t say that it is part of the series, maybe it is as some have been calling it a reboot?
If that’s the case then I would happily cut it some slack, maybe go back and watch it with less cautious eyes. But I’m not convinced this is the case.
Not that there isn’t stuff to like in Terminator: Salvation, the Sam Worthington character is really interesting, the Kyle Reese character (played by Chekov) likewise. The Arnold Terminator appearance is actually the absolute highlight of the film. But there are more problems than there is good.
Namely one Christian Bale as Connor.
Apparently in the future, if someone doesn’t listen to you yelling something the first time you just yell louder until they see your point.
“I need to go to HQ”
“Sorry dude but you’re pretty much no one so I can’t take you there”
“TAKE ME TO HEAD QUARTERS!”
“Ok.”
And here lies another problem, John Connor didn’t rise up to lead the resistance, he became some podcasting messiah guy (he’s not the messiah he’s just a very naughty boy, who happens to yell a lot). He’s not a great military leader, he’s not even in the loop, and it has to be said that Michael Ironside had a much nicer submarine when he was in SeaQuest.
The whole film feels like a cross between Transformers and the Matrix, but never a Terminator film and had John Connor survived judgement day by hiding in a lead lined fridge I would not have been surprised.
What did you guys think of Terminator: Salvation?
The other day I had a bit of a meltdown on Twitter after we were stuffed around by an insulation guy who failed to show up, not earth shattering in the very least on it’s own but it was the end of a very long day where my mouth had given me all sorts of drama (the socket where the tooth was removed has cut its way through the gum).
So I was just a little fed up on it all.
But the thing is that despite those dramas I’ve got a bunch of really cool things going on at the moment that I thought I might catch you all up on.
The Midnight Movie Club
Probably the biggest thing right now is that Dan of the blog All That Comes With It and I are embarking together on a very cool little blogging project called the Midnight Movie Club.
The basics of it are fairly straight forward, each week we watch an older film that if shown at midnight on a work/school night we would have trouble tearing ourselves away from it despite the amount of caffeine needed to keep ourselves alive the next day. It’s not really a very long stretch of the imagination!
The other neat thing about it is that we’ve been using Google Wave as our collaboration platform to discuss our ideas on the movie. It’s worked really well and it does give us a little insight on the potential for Wave.
The first movie we’re staying up late to watch is Moonraker, the most science fiction’y of the James Bond films. Check out the site at http://midmoclub.com/ it has been a tonne of fun putting it together with Dan and early next year we’ll be opening it up for guest appearances by regular readers!
Armoured Cup of Joe Ltd Edition prints available
I finally got myself sorted and are now offering up some limited edition print runs of some of my illustrations, the first being the Iron Man inspired “Armoured Cup of Joe” . These are really limited runs, with only ten prints being made of each.
Go buy a limited edition print now!!
The Adventures of Professor Abe Decker
I’m loving Professor Abe Decker right now and are already looking at his next adventures despite only being two pages in on his tangle with the horrible Fishman! A new page will appear here every weekend!
