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    Terminator: Dark Fate (Review)

    Linda Hamilton and Arnold are back together in this latest installment of the franchise. The movie is full of modern all inclusive woke-ness which gets annoying, dialogue is awful, ending is predictable and rehashed from 100 prior movies. Hamilton can't act her way out of a paper bag, and it's almost 200m worth of over produced meh. Seeing Arnold return as the original terminator has some fun moments, the visuals and action are good, and the new hybrid lady not-a-terminator-but-sort-is, played by Mackenzie Davis does a good job of what she's given. Watchable on rental but no apparant effort made to do anything remotely original in this one. C+

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    Saw it when it Thursday I liked it. It could have done without some of the current social BS but I enjoyed watching it


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    Get woke - go broke

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    I logged in hoping you would have a review. I saw it Friday because I can’t pass up a terminator movie especially seeing as it is supposed to be a direct sequel to T2. I thought it was decent, the hybrid was cool. There were plot holes....my first thought was why doesn’t the Rev 9 just use a drone...and alas he does but not very wisely.

    I didn’t feel it was as “woke” as everyone keeps saying..meh.

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    Yea, action good, deleting/killing John Conner not so good! Agree some funny stuff,action very good and yea the "enhanced" fighter kinda cool,,BUT because I'm a geek and think about this crap,,WTF does she need Meds because she gets tired fast,but in the end they rip out her power sorce so they can kill the new Terminator,when I thought about that I was yea,right,,kinda lame. Oh well went with my Son & 14 year old grandson and we had fun,,so basic Family time/fun mission accomplished !

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    The movie is bombing it appears. Per my review, not real surprised, and of course for people under say 40-ish, Arnold is just not a ticket seller any more and few remember Hamilton at all, so...

    https://variety.com/2019/film/box-of...op-1203391309/
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    I thought Sarah Conner died in 1997 in Mexico and her friends scattered her ashes in the sea?

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    Quote Originally Posted by elephant View Post
    I thought Sarah Conner died in 1997 in Mexico and her friends scattered her ashes in the sea?
    No kidding. With Terminator I was done by 3. Same with Rambo, Rocky, Predator and Alien movies. They should just stop already. Glad they only messed with Blade Runner the one time (director cuts notwithstanding) and Carpenter's "The Thing" wasn't ever remade even though it was a remake of a 1950s film.
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    The Terminator was a ground breaking film with a fresh idea and a new twist on robots, time travel, and the apocalypse. With a fantastically stretched budget. Casting was laser accurate. 1980s Arnold as the deadly, emotionless, nigh unstoppable robot. A young, clueless, in over her head young woman just scraping by. Instead of some cover/fitness model hero we had a guy really pulling of the mind scarred, barely surviving future soldier.

    T2 was fantastic in its own right. Young John was a poor choice and a barely tolerable character. After Hamilton had nailed Sarah in the first movie, I was in awe of her acting ability as she transformed into a chainsmoking, survivalist, psych case. It was well done, and as cool as the effects were I was dismayed they broke the law of that universe, sending back tech not covered in living flesh.

    I was OK with T3. The casting seemed even more off. The antagonist was interesting, it had a decent twist.

    And I have found it to be just worsening since.

    I have come to realize Hamilton was not a very good actress. She literally was clueless and in over her head in the first movie, and literally was a chain smoking psyc case by the second.

    I have similar thoughts about the Alien franchise, Predator franchise, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, etc.

    The only reboot I want to see opens with Space Force, a new service, with its own new Tier One assault force, arrive in really cool new space marine type exosuits on a deserted island to test their new equipment. Things are going perfectly. The space force unit is very woke. It is commanded by Colonel Jenny Matrix. Then they find some weird alien vault and a swarm of Aliens come out and start hatching and doing their alien stuff. Things should have been fine, but their prototype suits have issues and they whole unit is in dire straights and going to be massacred.

    In this movie universe Dutch and Matrix are the same guy, the Terminator flesh shell was based off of him. They also have a powered down captured Terminator. They have also decoded part of the functions of captured Predator ship remnants. Dutch, the Terminator powered back up and programmed to kill aliens, a pair of predators that show up when they activate the help me kill some aliens distress call they decoded, a prototype one shot combat model synthetic human, a similar replicant, and the shamed, guilty designer of the exosuits now wearing a different model that makes him look suspiciously like Robocop, are rapidly assembled as the best Hail Mary team to rescue the space force guys and eradicate the aliens before they get off the island and cause the extinction of mankind.

    If Jean Claude and Dolph can get added in as universal soldiers I am cool with that.

    Things are looking good, they have won, the rescue a success and hordes of dead aliens surround them. Then, after the thrill of victory, and everyone incapacitated or dead, they note a couple aliens have escaped, they can’t get to them, and all is lost. They see a boat off the coast and make contact.

    Murtaugh and Riggs, who have somehow met McClane, have chartered a fishing trip. A loner who has left land for life as a solo captain, also old, is always mumbling shit like “they drew first blood” and “you gotta become war”, and keeps trying to get them to blowfish. And has a weird massive fillet knife. They are nearby on a boat on a fishing trip. Despite all four totally being too old for this shit, they get in on it and intercept the aliens swimming away. An M60, bow with explosive arrows, big knife, model 19, and couple of Berettas are employed and they succeed.

    The woke space force unit is perfectly woke and selection based on fairness, equality, quotas, etc. selection is based on whether you identify as a tier one operator and if there is a slot. All training is training, not a course you have to pass.

    With their failure based on that, plus the shitty malfunctions based on a similar woke R&D and production of their suits,

    The movies then becomes a brutal kill fest of no social or redeeming value without an ounce progressive bull shit.
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