Re: Terminator: Genisys (July 1st, 2015)
I feel nothing seeing his Reese. Ideally we would be thinking ''oh wow, we're going to see Kyle Reese again. Oh wow, Kyle Reese is going to have to work alongside a Terminator. Wow, Kyle Reese might not get killed this time, how will that play out''. However there's just no connection there. They're calling him Kyle Reese but I just don't see it. They couldn't even give this guy Michael Biehn's 1984 hairstyle? It might have helped a smidge. Why am I to accept that the T-800 is the same actor but literally everyone else is always a different person. I think you made that point before. With so little actor continuity in this franchise it makes it even harder to accept anything beyond the first two films.
I will never like T3, it did a lot wrong, but its crimes are shaping up to be small-time compared to Genisys.
Agreed. And as Spindrift said, I never felt like he was much of a threat. I actually thought the Avengers had him massively outgunned even before Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver turned on him. We already knew the Avengers have no problem beating drone-types and that's all he had.
The thing is, the MCU has plenty of villains with personality, villains who can ''attack with one-liners'' - so it seemed wasteful in a way to make your AI villain essentially just another one of those.
I feel nothing seeing his Reese. Ideally we would be thinking ''oh wow, we're going to see Kyle Reese again. Oh wow, Kyle Reese is going to have to work alongside a Terminator. Wow, Kyle Reese might not get killed this time, how will that play out''. However there's just no connection there. They're calling him Kyle Reese but I just don't see it. They couldn't even give this guy Michael Biehn's 1984 hairstyle? It might have helped a smidge. Why am I to accept that the T-800 is the same actor but literally everyone else is always a different person. I think you made that point before. With so little actor continuity in this franchise it makes it even harder to accept anything beyond the first two films.
That's true. Even in T3 the T-x didn't have a conversation with Arnold.
I will never like T3, it did a lot wrong, but its crimes are shaping up to be small-time compared to Genisys.
Agreed. And as Spindrift said, I never felt like he was much of a threat. I actually thought the Avengers had him massively outgunned even before Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver turned on him. We already knew the Avengers have no problem beating drone-types and that's all he had.
The thing is, the MCU has plenty of villains with personality, villains who can ''attack with one-liners'' - so it seemed wasteful in a way to make your AI villain essentially just another one of those.
