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Yes, the studio executives all think everyone has ADD. It's annoying.
Terminator Genisys (July 1st, 2015)
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It's not just explosions either, it's humour. They think there has to be a gag every couple of minutes no matter how otherwise serious the scene.
Movies like the original Terminator could exist today, they'd just be fringe "artsy" movies instead of hyped blockbusters. Die Hard used to be the epitome of in your face action and now it's looked back on as more of a Hitchcockian thriller.
I pray that we never reach a period where Bayformers films are looked back on as "artsy" compared to whatever new things that get released in the decades ahead.
I pray that we never reach a period where Bayformers films are looked back on as "artsy" compared to whatever new things that get released in the decades ahead.
cmiller99
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They won't, because we always liked Die Hard and Terminator from the beginning.
Plastic Bateman
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God I wish action films would go back to being more like Die Hard. If I wanted physics-defying nonsense made entirely in a computer, I'd be playing more videogames.
Die Hard had become this with the 4th film IMO, it was very sad to see. By all accounts the 5th was the same so I never saw that one at all. God only knows what a Lethal Weapon 5 would be if made today. 4 was somewhat restrained by today's standards - I'm not sure there was any CGI at all - but I bet a fifth one would have a 60 year old Gibson and 70 year old Glover CGIed into the most ridiculously unsurviveable scenarios that even their characters' younger and more able selves would never have partook. Escalation always the name of the game no matter how backwards it is, no matter how little sense it makes.
Watch Snowpiercer if you haven't already. It's about the closest thing we've seen to an original Terminator/Die Hard in many years. But like I said that stuff is very fringe and not embraced by mass audiences anymore.
cmiller99
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Snowpiercer could have been a big hit had Harvey Weinstein not granted it any marketing because the director pissed him off. It's shocking to think that a 2014 movie with Chris Evans in it flew so far under the radar for mainstream audiences.
quadcent
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Die Hard had become this with the 4th film IMO, it was very sad to see. By all accounts the 5th was the same so I never saw that one at all. God only knows what a Lethal Weapon 5 would be if made today. 4 was somewhat restrained by today's standards - I'm not sure there was any CGI at all - but I bet a fifth one would have a 60 year old Gibson and 70 year old Glover CGIed into the most ridiculously unsurviveable scenarios that even their characters' younger and more able selves would never have partook. Escalation always the name of the game no matter how backwards it is, no matter how little sense it makes.
Hence the reason why I've only seen one of the Fast and Furious movies. They are just so unbelievable I'm sure my face would be planted in my palm all through the movie...
Seriously. I've only seen the first two Fast & Furious films but I saw a clip of one of the new ones where Vin Diesel is jumping a car from one skyscraper to another. That's the type of **** you'd see in Last Action Hero and would have never been featured in a non-spoof action movie if it were the 80's or 90's.
I think I saw one of the F&F films and resolved that it just wasn't for me. As Plastic Bateman said, might aswell play a computer game for the greater interactivity.
VintijDroidGutzz
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Yeah, great analogy actually.
quadcent
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yeah it would of been good in last action hero. liked that movie, but mostly because it was making fun of itself and you expected such things to happen. I guess I just saw the previews and bits of pieces when my son was watching them and I just rolled my eyes in disbelief.....Maybe I should watch them from start to finish and the scenes I find so far out there might work..
I saw Genisys for the second time tonight. The rot is already setting in. I found it harder to like on this viewing and was checking the time a lot. My Dad fell asleep about 25 minutes in 
I would still say it has some good moments - good moments that entirely rely on nostalgia for T1 (obviously the original T-800 arriving in 1984 LA) or things we've wanted to see since T2 (the T-800 stepping into the time displacement field in 2029, Kyle Reese being sent after him). However once it gets past that into the Genisys stuff you kinda cease to care. It might have had some impact if Kyle Reese had been better cast with someone who'd be willing and able to channel Michael Biehn but with a Kyle Reese who instead might aswell have been a completely different character you feel no investment in this fated love story with Sarah Connor or in Reese's interactions with a reprogrammed 'protector' T-800 - things which should have been very interesting indeed in this new scenario. Alas, not to be.
Overall, a very cartoony film compared to the Cameron ones and, as such, impossible to consider as a real Terminator movie. My rating would drop to a generous 6 after tonight's viewing. Think I gave it a 7 or 7.5 first time out?
I don't plan to watch it again any time soon.
I would still say it has some good moments - good moments that entirely rely on nostalgia for T1 (obviously the original T-800 arriving in 1984 LA) or things we've wanted to see since T2 (the T-800 stepping into the time displacement field in 2029, Kyle Reese being sent after him). However once it gets past that into the Genisys stuff you kinda cease to care. It might have had some impact if Kyle Reese had been better cast with someone who'd be willing and able to channel Michael Biehn but with a Kyle Reese who instead might aswell have been a completely different character you feel no investment in this fated love story with Sarah Connor or in Reese's interactions with a reprogrammed 'protector' T-800 - things which should have been very interesting indeed in this new scenario. Alas, not to be.
Overall, a very cartoony film compared to the Cameron ones and, as such, impossible to consider as a real Terminator movie. My rating would drop to a generous 6 after tonight's viewing. Think I gave it a 7 or 7.5 first time out?
I don't plan to watch it again any time soon.
Patriot666
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I gave it a 6.5 due to nostalgia. I agree with your review a-dev. It will be a while before my second viewing, whenever the blu ray is released I suppose.
cmiller99
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Just as you thought when it was released... everything is going to plan I guess.
Not entirely to plan, I did think I would despise it right from the start Same pattern I have with figures, very positive about them at first...then the niggles creep in and gradually annoy me more and more.
Same pattern I have with figures, very positive about them at first...then the niggles creep in and gradually annoy me more and more.
VintijDroidGutzz
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"..pain causes it?"
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