Tag Archive: Terminator
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Terminator: Dark Fate
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“Go woke, go broke” is a saying that has originated these past few years. It’s an expression typically used to express the sentiment that companies who embrace political correctness or cave to demands of social justice activists will suffer financially as a result. In terms of movies this means that movies containing woke elements tank…
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Terminator Genisys
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It’s the second attempt to reboot the Terminator franchise after Terminator Salvation wasn’t the smash hit the studio hoped it would be. Apparently steering too far from the chase-movie concept the previous three movies had alienated audiences a tad too much. But where to go now, when everything that could have been told has been…
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In defense of George Lucas
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If there is one movie maker people love to hate it’s George Lucas. Lucas made himself an empire when he wrote and directed Star Wars back in 1977. This was the last highlight of his career as a director as the only movies he directed after that were the critically failed Star Wars prequel movies….
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
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After the events of Terminator 2 it seemed as if the Terminator story was told with a satisfying ending. The world had been saved from Judgment Day and humanity would live happily ever after, but when it comes to Hollywood, the making of a quick buck is more important than respecting a told story. So…
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
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Upon its release the original Terminator was a modest success, but once available on home video did it become a really successful movie. In the meantime director James Cameron made the hit movie “Aliens” and the not quite a hit movie “The Abyss”. The groundbreaking computer generated special effects used in the latter, became the…
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The Terminator
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When people mention the Terminator franchise it gives us this image of a big action blockbuster filled with CGI and a lot of pyrotechnics. That’s not without reason as Terminator 2 was basically responsible for kick-starting the use of computers to create near perfect effects on the big screen. With that in mind it’s fun…
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The day the special effect died
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There are two kinds of special effects in movies; the ones that attract no attention at all and the ones that just do that. The first category is there to make what you see on screen believable, and because it succeeds in generating a realistic image it attracts no attention at all. We believe that…
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Terminator Salvation
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The salvation in Terminator Salvation, it’s such an aptly chosen title. Not only does it replace the “4” that would have been put otherwise in the the title, but it’s also a statement about the franchise itself. With two very clever and high-octane movies followed by a lackluster third, which I must admit did have…
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The most shameless poster ripoffs… ever!
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Have you ever wandered through your local video store, searching for that one title until you found it? You pick it from the shelve only to realize that it’s a totally different film, only the cover looks exactly the same as the cover of the movie you came for. It happens more than you think…
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