06-30-2017, 06:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-03-2019, 10:02 PM by ZpaceJ0ck0.)
So yesterday I watched the musical 'Pink Floyd: The Wall' while today I watched the 3rd and 4th 'Terminator' films.
Pink Floyd: The Wall: As someone who has never been a fan of the musical genre I must say this was one hell of a LSD trip. The animation sequences were really smoth, Bob Geldof's performance as 'Pink' is spot on and I liked the overal surreal atmosphere. By the way: there are very few words in the film, most of the story is told by the songs of the album, so if you really want to understand, you have to pay attention to the lyrics!
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines: I've seen a lot of people shitting on the movie, but I partially disagree withe the sentiment. Okay sure, Edward Furlong was replaced with the inferior Nick Stahl, but other than that it established good lore and presented a natural evolution for Skynet.
Terminator Salvation (aka Terminator 4): This movie is slightly worse than Terminator 3. The robot desings feel like something out of Transformers, all glosy and pointy looking. Christian Bale's performance as John Connor was spot on; sure, he doesn't really feel like an interesting character, but look at it from this perspective: if you have to awake every morning knowing that the fate of what's left of humanity is in your shoulders, would you be a fun guy to hang around with? John Connor as a religious figure in the Terminator universe simply has no room for expansion. I also liked how we managed to see the T-600 Terminator model, the one with that it's "dumber, with rubber skin" as described in the first film, that's a cools detail. I heard they were also present in the TV show The Sarah Connor Chronicles, but I never watched that show.
One negative from the movie is how the future portrayed in the movie doesn't exactly match the one created by James Cameron.
Pink Floyd: The Wall: As someone who has never been a fan of the musical genre I must say this was one hell of a LSD trip. The animation sequences were really smoth, Bob Geldof's performance as 'Pink' is spot on and I liked the overal surreal atmosphere. By the way: there are very few words in the film, most of the story is told by the songs of the album, so if you really want to understand, you have to pay attention to the lyrics!
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines: I've seen a lot of people shitting on the movie, but I partially disagree withe the sentiment. Okay sure, Edward Furlong was replaced with the inferior Nick Stahl, but other than that it established good lore and presented a natural evolution for Skynet.
Terminator Salvation (aka Terminator 4): This movie is slightly worse than Terminator 3. The robot desings feel like something out of Transformers, all glosy and pointy looking. Christian Bale's performance as John Connor was spot on; sure, he doesn't really feel like an interesting character, but look at it from this perspective: if you have to awake every morning knowing that the fate of what's left of humanity is in your shoulders, would you be a fun guy to hang around with? John Connor as a religious figure in the Terminator universe simply has no room for expansion. I also liked how we managed to see the T-600 Terminator model, the one with that it's "dumber, with rubber skin" as described in the first film, that's a cools detail. I heard they were also present in the TV show The Sarah Connor Chronicles, but I never watched that show.
One negative from the movie is how the future portrayed in the movie doesn't exactly match the one created by James Cameron.