Terminator: Genisys
Jul. 2nd, 2015 05:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semiotic_pirateTomorrow night, as part of "Fuck Yeah, It's A Three Day Weekend" celebration DH and I will be going to that great All-American pastime, the drive-in movie theater. First up will be Inside Out which, if you haven't seen it... GO SEE IT IT IS FANTASTIC IT MADE ME CONTINUOUSLY CRY IN A CATHARTIC WAY AND SADNESS STOLE THE SHOW. The second movie, the one I suggested the drive-in for (two movies for the price of less than one at an indoor theater) was - you guessed it - Terminator: Genisys. Although I mocked their choice of titles, I am pretty open minded about what I'll be presented with in the movie.
I told DH when I suggested this line-up that I'm going to go in thinking about The Matrix (a never ending cycle) and Star Trek (with all of its long history of complicated, temporal messiness.)
Then I decided to go look and see what the critics thought over on Rotten Tomatoes. It. Got. A. 24%. Splat.
This is part of a “splat” rating but it sounds like a “fresh” one to me:
“Terminator: Genisys feels like a VHS cassette that's been rewound and recorded over for 21 years. It's haunted by ghosts of old movies, a cyborg whose entire DNA is déjà vu.”
People, and by people I mean critics, can’t seem to wrap their heads around temporal anomalies, shifts, and the reframing/rebuilding of an entire universe and timeline due to small, basic changes (or goddarn big changes) made in the past trickling into a roaring rush of changes in the “present day.” And this is AFTER they were able to marvel at it being done in the first of the Star Trek reboot movies.
The whole point of Terminator is a temporal battle, right? It's been like that since the first time we saw Sarah Connor meet up with Kyle Reese and encounter the T-800. Or do I have that backwards? Well... There was an "encounter" with Reese... Never mind; I digress.
This next one is from an actual “fresh” rating that sounds like a backhanded compliment:
“Terminator Genisys prospers in sublime action and special effects, but they are outweighed by too many plot holes and erroneous events in the new timeline.”
Seriously?
Anyway. When we see this tomorrow night, I’ll know if these people are just dense or if the reviews are accurate. *goes off humming the Back In Time song from another temporally-based movie series*
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Update: Here's my possibly spoiler filled review.
I told DH when I suggested this line-up that I'm going to go in thinking about The Matrix (a never ending cycle) and Star Trek (with all of its long history of complicated, temporal messiness.)
Then I decided to go look and see what the critics thought over on Rotten Tomatoes. It. Got. A. 24%. Splat.
This is part of a “splat” rating but it sounds like a “fresh” one to me:
“Terminator: Genisys feels like a VHS cassette that's been rewound and recorded over for 21 years. It's haunted by ghosts of old movies, a cyborg whose entire DNA is déjà vu.”
People, and by people I mean critics, can’t seem to wrap their heads around temporal anomalies, shifts, and the reframing/rebuilding of an entire universe and timeline due to small, basic changes (or goddarn big changes) made in the past trickling into a roaring rush of changes in the “present day.” And this is AFTER they were able to marvel at it being done in the first of the Star Trek reboot movies.
The whole point of Terminator is a temporal battle, right? It's been like that since the first time we saw Sarah Connor meet up with Kyle Reese and encounter the T-800. Or do I have that backwards? Well... There was an "encounter" with Reese... Never mind; I digress.
This next one is from an actual “fresh” rating that sounds like a backhanded compliment:
“Terminator Genisys prospers in sublime action and special effects, but they are outweighed by too many plot holes and erroneous events in the new timeline.”
Seriously?
Anyway. When we see this tomorrow night, I’ll know if these people are just dense or if the reviews are accurate. *goes off humming the Back In Time song from another temporally-based movie series*
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Update: Here's my possibly spoiler filled review.
