Terminator Salvation

most odd, watched Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Henry V the other day and who was in it but Christian Bale. Bit weird seeing a child batman in a shakespeare play! He was pretty good even back then when he must have been 15/16 at most.

That’s one of the things that spoiled Batman: Dark Night for me (apart from it being nothing like the comic). I kept hoping Christian Bale would clear his throat and talk normally, although it kind of makes sense. It’d be like if Pharty became a masked superhero, we’d all know his voice (not that many Kiwi’s in London), so he’d have to put on a funny voice like Mr Bale (and yes I’d call him ‘Mr’ ‘cos I think otherwise he’d flip out and start swinging his fists).

Salvation looks pretty darned good. I’d hoped that the 3rd film would have taken place during the war, rather than re-doing both of the other films. Although I’d like to get stuck in a nuclear bunker and have to procreate with Claire Danes to keep the human race alive. Kerr-ching! I’ll be seeing it this weekend.

Just been to see this with the wife and I was heartily impressed. Not as good as 2 but better than 3, definitely. I loved the shots of the nuked cities near the start, reminded me of Fallout3 a lot.
One thing that I kept wondering all the way through though…
[spoiler:2k574to3]If Skynet had control of all the nukes to level the cities, what was it doing with them when JC and his resistance buddies were sitting out in the desert surrounded by planes and helicopters and shit? Skynet would know exactly where they were, it'd still have all the serveillence satellites and shit. Hmmmm.[/spoiler:2k574to3]

I give Terminator 4, BotoxedArnie/10

@sickofitall wrote:

Yeah, I still turn up occasionally. Don’t post so much as I tend to write long paragraphs of bollocks. There was a Lion Man thread where I started a doing a quick reply and it went on for effing ages.

Unfortunately, I’m not actually in the TA. I’m sure that the Armed Forces is a prefectly noble calling – I’m just not sure that there are too many openings in there for aging, embittered, drunks. Plus, in relative terms when “having a bad day at work” equates to getting shot in the face or having your bollocks blown off I can’t honestly say that I can muster much enthusiasm for it.

As I understand it aging, embittered drunks are higher up the preferred list than middle-class bank clerks who’ve read Bravo 2 Zero fifteen times and say things like “let’s kick ass” and “everyone stay frosty”. I reckon that companies should try and cash in on what the TA does and offer people the chance to be part-time cashiers or sales assistants. That way people could get just as enthusiastic about working as those who are in the TA. You could call them Saturday workers or something.

And everybody likes your long paragraphs of bollocks. It’s the cornerstone of what makes XDC what it is (oh and online gaming or something).

Also for those of you who haven’t seen it Terminator: Salvation delivers the goods in spades. I went to see it on Saturday with Cowboy who had issues with minor things like plausibility, motivation of the cast, ‘bloody kids’, women not taking their kit off and Skynet’s disregard for logic, but he said similar things about Wall-e.

T00thy, do you always have to be so bloody insolent? I’m writing a half decent review of Terminator: Salvation, and you have to jump in with your facetious comments.

It’s like this guy in my unit who’s always joking around and when we were on night patrol last week he was making so much noise I was going “Private Jones, we’ve got hostiles all over so stay frosty.” Oh, I’m in the TA BTW.*

*A special division of the TA where I stay at home and pretend to be in the army by watching war movies and eating pot noodles.