10 Reasons You’re Wrong About Terminator Salvation
6. Terminator Genisys Won't Be As Inventive
Reasons to be worried about Terminator Genisys: the script is credited to Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier, whose respective credits include Shutter Island and Dracula III: Legacy. The poster shows Arnies T-800 character, metal visible beneath his skin, under the words, Hes Back!
Can you say bland and anonymous sequel? Judging by the trailer, it wants to be the Back To The Future Part II of reboots a movie that references its predecessors and even recreates key moments from the original story, but that likely won't add anything (watch this space).
Of all the criticisms levelled at Salvation, you cant call it bland and anonymous. Its the creation of filmmakers, rather than committees and focus groups. You might care for McGs vision or you might not, but he wasnt just recycling, he went ahead and made his own movie.
The odds were stacked against him, though, because nobody who paid to see Rise Of The Machines left the cinema thinking, I cant wait for Part 4, and when Governor Schwarzenegger declined his cameo (despite having made one in The Expendables), it made the project seem like the hoariest cash-grab of the summer.
It wasnt. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen took that honour.