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thecaptainoutoftime asked:
What did you think of Terminator: Dark Fate?
spockvarietyhour answered:

Like the post T2 movies, it’s uneven. I think overall though, it gets closer to the source material than any of the other ones. 

The Sarah Connor stuff works pretty well and I’m damn glad to see Linda Hamilton again, Emilia Clarke just wasn’t….wasn’t it. The T-X Rev-9 has some fun humour associated with it, but the damn half empty Endo skull inside of it is still weird. The trailers telegraphed who we’d meet in the cabin but it’s still the right call to let Schwarzenegger sit out the first half of the movie.

I’m gonna also dovetail for a second that the uncanny valley in the prologue was pretty damn good, each movie is inching closer and closer to uncanny Arnold. The back muscles looked a bit weird tho, or the arms I’m not sure. I still don’t think they got the proportions for that right (or whatever ripped actor they got to mocap him).

Oh and that leaker a few months ago that gave us the prologue was spot on, I don’t remember if he had the rest but he had that.  

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I think, compared to the other post T2 movies, there isn’t a single bad casting note (I never really dug Nick Stahl as Connor in T3, or John Connor in Genisys (to say nothing of Matt Smith) and I’m not settled on Helena Bonham Carter avatar). I really liked Grace, and Dani if it took a while for the reveal of her role to finally land. 

The cinematography itself is also good, better than Genisys or T3. I like the idea of a completely new iteration of Skynet, Legion, even if it does sound ripped from a comic a different comic book (see also Time Travel Superhero Landings). It might have tried too much with the action set pieces.

This is probably where this series of movies should end, really.

I’ll probably watch it again when it gets out digitally and that’s as good a praise as i can give it. The uneven parts make it hard to really place it. Better than Genisys, absolutely. I’ll say that I liked it better than Season 1 of Sarah Connor Chronicles too.  My impression as it stands right now is better than T3 but not quite as good as salvation as a movie, but in the spirit of the original two it gets it right. 

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Oh and I loved seeing the classic chrome HKs, even if it was for a moment.

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thecaptainoutoftime asked:
What did you think of Terminator: Dark Fate?

Like the post T2 movies, it’s uneven. I think overall though, it gets closer to the source material than any of the other ones. 

The Sarah Connor stuff works pretty well and I’m damn glad to see Linda Hamilton again, Emilia Clarke just wasn’t….wasn’t it. The T-X Rev-9 has some fun humour associated with it, but the damn half empty Endo skull inside of it is still weird. The trailers telegraphed who we’d meet in the cabin but it’s still the right call to let Schwarzenegger sit out the first half of the movie.

I’m gonna also dovetail for a second that the uncanny valley in the prologue was pretty damn good, each movie is inching closer and closer to uncanny Arnold. The back muscles looked a bit weird tho, or the arms I’m not sure. I still don’t think they got the proportions for that right (or whatever ripped actor they got to mocap him).

Oh and that leaker a few months ago that gave us the prologue was spot on, I don’t remember if he had the rest but he had that.  

back to more thoughts

I think, compared to the other post T2 movies, there isn’t a single bad casting note (I never really dug Nick Stahl as Connor in T3, or John Connor in Genisys (to say nothing of Matt Smith) and I’m not settled on Helena Bonham Carter avatar). I really liked Grace, and Dani if it took a while for the reveal of her role to finally land. 

The cinematography itself is also good, better than Genisys or T3. I like the idea of a completely new iteration of Skynet, Legion, even if it does sound ripped from a comic a different comic book (see also Time Travel Superhero Landings). It might have tried too much with the action set pieces.

This is probably where this series of movies should end, really.

I’ll probably watch it again when it gets out digitally and that’s as good a praise as i can give it. The uneven parts make it hard to really place it. Better than Genisys, absolutely. I’ll say that I liked it better than Season 1 of Sarah Connor Chronicles too.  My impression as it stands right now is better than T3 but not quite as good as salvation as a movie, but in the spirit of the original two it gets it right. 

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