Terminator Salvation reviewed by The Rotten Tomatoes Show

it was iight, i thout it was gonna be THA SHYT but there was usm corny lines..

Here is a British review of the film and my commentary appearing first:

Why I LOOOOVE to death British critics: They hold no bars and tell it in excruciatingly eloquent linguistic detail, like it is!!!

Here is the Telegraph's deciphering of T4 and oh yes! It is spot on!

My favorite line in the review has *got* to be this: "...it’s a catastrophically bad movie whose aggressive dullness and dumbness can best be reproduced by picking up a brick and slamming it against one’s forehead for two hours."

I wonder if Bale will ever be in another T film???! I bet not if he's as smart as I think believe he is.

And the reviewer is ABSOLUTELY correct about Ledger overshadowing him. IMHO, however, that's merely a case of someone with such overwhelming natural presence and talent (Ledger as Joker) vs a well-studied passable actor (Bale).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/5443812/Terminator-Salvation....

Telegraph readers will need no reminding about how fascinating and sometimes important leaks to the media can be. In the film industry too, this has been the year of secret footage going public: first, when, weeks before its official release, a studio insider uploaded a work print of Wolverine onto the internet where it was promptly watched and sniggered at by millions of people; secondly, when some naughty chap decided to let the world hear an audio recording of Christian Bale, star of Terminator Salvation, yelling at the film’s director of photography.

Actually, yelling is putting it mildly. Bale went ballistic, roaring about wanting to “kick your ass” and “trash your lights”, effing and blinding about professionalism — in a manner far from professional. For a moment, you feared he was going to turn into Patrick Bateman, the name of the serial killer he played in Mary Harron’s American Psycho (2000), and start dismembering the poor fellow who’d made the mistake of walking across the set. It was a totally compelling blow-up, a window onto the borderline psychotic egotism and combustible temperaments of top-line actors that studios employ legions of PRs to conceal.

At the same time, it’s hard to escape the suspicion that the “leak” may have been deliberate. As a piece of tactical marketing, it certainly had the effect of whetting our appetites for the follow-up to Terminator: Rise of the Machines (2003). After all, the whole series, ever since it began in 1984, has been a celebration of berserker extremity: looked at this way, Bale’s outburst enhanced rather than spoiled the brand, just as the equally OTT spat between Lily Tomlin and director David O. Russell on the set of the latter’s I Heart Huckabees (2004) has helped give that film a longer life than it possibly deserves.

It’s more interesting by far to conjecture about Terminator Salvation than it is to watch it. Scripted by John Brancato and Michael Ferris (Jonathan Nolan, brother of Dark Knight helmer Christopher, overhauled it), and directed by McG – a man who has overcome the misfortune of having a name that makes him sound like a clownish Scottish rapper, and whom we may or may not wish to thank for bringing Charlie’s Angels to the big screen – it’s a catastrophically bad movie whose aggressive dullness and dumbness can best be reproduced by picking up a brick and slamming it against one’s forehead for two hours.

I was extremely offended by the continual reguritation of images that were first brought to us in T1 and T2.

How many flashes of metal feet on grating do we actually need? How many quick shots of red eyes blinking out is necessary? How much imagery of 1/2 flesh// 1/2 metal facial structure does it take to get the point across???

I think they grossly underestimated the viewing public's intolerance for this type of grade-school level garbage this time around. Or is it just that the original Terminator movie (1 & 2) fans have a higher standard than average?

In any case, it has positioned itself to be one of the worst films this year.

Now....onto Transformers. How many vacant gazes, silicon boob jobs, characters running amock over rocky terrain in spiked heels with no plot or genuine art in sight will the public continue to stand for???

Don't even get me started on the overly-humanized childlike robots that somehow behave just like us and display very much the same emotional range AND REACTIONS to situations that HUMANS do!!! : (

Cringe factor alert!!!!

I actually liked it.

I mean, it certainly isn't great, but I wasn't bored watching it.

I give it a 47.562984%
because my accuracy is really that amazing!