10 Reasons You’re Wrong About Terminator Salvation
3. It's Not Just Another Dumb Blockbuster
When do audiences fail to cut a movie some slack? When its a Terminator movie.
Released in the same year as Big Dumb Movies GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Friday The 13th, Streetfighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li and Gamer, Terminator Salvation had at least one thing going for it - it hadnt exhausted its plot after the first 20 minutes. Indeed, anyone who has a problem with Salvations storyline is invited to make sense of Revenge Of The Fallen, which somehow combines an alien machine hidden in Egypt with minstrel humour and a robot dog humping Megan Foxs leg.
The irony is that while audiences were turning their backs on Terminator 4, they were going to see Transformers 2 in droves, and apparently werent offended when, while promoting Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, Michael Bay admitted the picture was kind of a mess.
Bay blamed the writers strike for the films weaknesses, and on a side note its perhaps worth mentioning that Salvation was worked on by a number of uncredited writers, including Paul Haggis (Casino Royale), Shawn Ryan (The Shield) and Jonathan Nolan (The Prestige). Asked why he thought the movie failed commercially, McG said it didnt have enough fun and described how a sequel might work.
It will be more of a chase movie with a new Terminator, he said, uncannily predicting Terminator Genisys.