I was initially very confident about the fifth Terminator movie. It was in the hands of Alan Taylor and he’s done Game of Thrones and Thor 2 so it seemed like we were headed in the right direction. Then I learned Sarah Connor would be raised by a Terminator she called “Pops”. Yes, Arnold. Balance that against your first look at the film, and my current status is……POPS?
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney, J.K. Simmons, Dayo Okeniyi, Byung Hun Lee and Matt Smith, Terminator Genisys is directed by Thor: The Dark World‘s Alan Taylor from a screenplay by Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier. It will hit theaters on July 1, 2015 and is the first in a planned trilogy of films.
We still haven’t arrived at the machine war, which is disappointing. This does not look like a reset, it looks almost exactly like the first three films, with a few minor tweaks to the formula.
I’m not preaching doom and gloom here. Compared to what I had imagined, this trailer makes the film seem kind of good. But familiar. Oh so familiar. They could be having so much fun with the mythology.
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This has raised my hopes, but yes, I agree with Peter… I’m a little concerned it’s just going to be a mish-mash of the first three with some variation for good measure. Time will tell…
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Well, like you guys I’m very wait and see at this point. To me, it was a little too cute to stick all the series catchphrases in the trailer. Taylor’s directing work before this has been freaking stellar so that’s what I’m hanging on to, but….POPS????
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Right. I’m little concerned about the number of reverential nods and winks, but we’ll see…
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