Jul 31 2008
Terminator Salivation? (Meaning drool)
Terminator? Is enough enough?
Okay so the first and two films were big hits, due to the fact of Arnold Schwarzenegger delivery of “I’ll be back.” But I think it’s time to put this franchise back to bed. With the trailer for the upcoming TERMINATOR SALVATION turning heads at comic conventions one has to ask the question: Are we really wanting to continue with a franchise that’s started and ended two different times?
At the end of Terminator one, the skynet cyborg war was coming and Sara Connor drove off in a jeep into the unknown. This ending was a beautiful poetic thing, in the second film however, I found a few sticky inconsistencies. In the first film Reese(Michael Biehn character) says that they sent back one robot after they won the war, after Reese went through they blew up the time portal. That’s it, no sequels. So one has to ask with Terminator one and two and the God-awful television series. How many time portals and robots did they send back? Can I get a straight answer? This fact is the only thing that’s making me mental about the series, the fact that there should have been NO sequels. However the current upcoming film, SALVATION, I feel should have been actually TERMINATOR 2, rather then the actual sequel. My fear is that they’re going to squeeze this franchise so dry that it’s going to become an actual joke of a series. However I think it was a smart move to get Christian Bale (the biggest star on the planet now) to star as John Connor. All I can say now, is we’ll see what happens.
