Something I noticed before, but forgot about. The movie is already online, high definition version. When the "New" T-800 is going after Kyle Reese in the abandoned warehouse, and after the T-800 is defleshed, it moves like it did in the original Terminator movie. It has jerky, stop motion motion movements. They are not as obvious as they are in Terminator, but they are still there in a subtle way.
Across the $350 million mark! That's getting into very respectable territory. That's about what Ant-Man has taken in so far. I imagine it will be up around $370-380 million by the time it ends its run. Not too shabby.
I noticed that too. 75 percent of its take has been overseas so clearly critics don't carry much weight outside the United States. I think when it enters the home video market more people here will give it a shot.
Foreign markets tend to be a lot less "discerning" when it comes to movies. One of the reasons why we've gotten sequels to Rambo, The Expendables, and other movies starring the likes of Stallone and Arnie is that they bring in plenty of bank overseas, and their domestic box office is merely an afterthought. And FYI, there's going to be a Rocky VII movie, called "Creed," which features Stallone training the son of Apollo Creed to be a boxer. Think American audiences want to see that shit? Probably not.
Terminator franchise still moving forward... http://comicbook.com/2015/10/07/terminator-producer-says-franchise-is-not-on-hold-but-just-re-ad/
I think you are dead wrong. There is a lot more competition here because lots of foreign movies make their way into the same movieplex as do US movies do. It's just that the Land of Dragons (=world minus US) is a lot bigger. GENISYS made more in China alone than at home
Honestly, I think the issue with this movie was Jai Courtney. Not that he was bad in the movie but he just isn't bankable yet. Also, it's quite possible that this story has been told and resolved already.
I think they've already rebooted it enough to be irritating. CTRL-ALT-DEL again. They keep overwriting the older timelines and there's no logical end to it unless they add a significant amount of new material to take the story further. Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles was probably the best thing they had going. If they got really creative they could try something from the previous movie (and reflected in the machine version of John Conner in the last one), which is scanning in a human brain to gain the creativity and insight that keeps thwarting Skynet's efforts. But that would create an entirely different story of human minds in cyborg or robot bodies and would be a technological version of a superhero genre similar to Iron Man but without the flesh.
Yeah, but they just did machines evolving all the way to a humanoid with a soul with the Vision in "Age Of ultron".
This. It was the best thing to happen to the franchise since T2, and the idiots at Fox cancelled it. Fuck Fox!
So I just rewatched this movie and you know what, I like it better upon second viewing. Yes, T2 is the best, but I like it better than 3 and 4. It's really not that bad.
I enjoyed it myself on first viewing. Between that and Batman vs Superman I'm pretty much done with rottentomatoes because obviously modern audiences have far different expectations than I do.
Finally got around to watching it. It's a decent popcorn flick. Jai Courtney is annoying, though. I don't recall seeing him in anything else, but he's horrible in this movie. The movie does reinforce the fact that Emilia Clarke looks way hotter with her natural hair color than she does as a platinum blonde.
He was in Die Hard 5, played John's son, he was also in Jack Reacher, he played the guy the Reacher fought and killed at the end. He also played Varro in Spartacus: Blood and Sand. I watched the entirety of Spartacus: Blood and Sand and then later watched Die Hard 5, and Jack Reacher. Didn't realize he was the guy who played Varro in Spartacus: Blood and Sand until I looked him up for Termnator: Genisys. Guess he wasn't memorable enough, or it was the curly blonde hair.
I get the same impression of him. Most actors/actresses you can remember from a few roles once you've seen them. In Spartacus: Blood and Sand, he was in 10 episodes and played a main character. And even after seeing him in two other movies, he just didn't make enough of an impression to be recognizable in Terminator. And of everything I've seen him in, the Spartacus role was probably the one where he had the most presence.
