Posted on 12/05/2014 6:45:07 AM PST by C19fan
The trailer for Terminator: Genisys was probably doomed to mockery before it even hit the Internet, based on that title alone. The American consumer can tolerate some intentional misspelling—Inglourious Basterds, Pet Sematary, Bratz dolls—but Genisys makes not even a little bit of sense. It doesn’t help that public appetite for the Terminator series feels low after two terrible, forgettable films (2003’s Rise of the Machines and 2009’s Salvation) and a non-canonical TV series that never rose above cult status (The Sarah Connor Chronicles).
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More proof that little talent remains in Hollywood. What was the last truly great ‘original’ movie made after about 1999? Hell 90? There arent many.
Reboot: Agreed. Recycled is more apt.
I still have a treatise outlining another chapter in the Terminator saga, written out of frustration about the direction of the movies. The intention was to write a Treatment and farm it out. It got shelved after an auto accident.
Someday I’ll have to revisit it...
A bunch of actually.
New,movies were generally fun up until the very late 80s to me. I can take or leave them after that.
Goonies (planned?), Neverending Story, Flight of the Navigator, Jurassic Park (too late), The Last Starfighter, Krull, Cocoon, Back to the Future, Revenge of the Nerds, Porkies, Groundhog Day.
The well is not yet dry.
People my age supposedly love these movies so much from when we were kids, that they just have to remake them....apparently because they aren’t good enough to enjoy on their own.
For example?
Safe, Magnolia, Election, Zodiac, 25th Hour...too many to count.
Who knows. I'll wait till it comes out on Netflix.
Avatar sucked. That's the last mega-SF movie I wasted my attention on.
I guess we have a different idea of what constitutes ‘great’.
Sounds like the author of the article hasn't even seen it. At the least, we should get reviews after the reviewer sees it.
The original is the greatest action movie ever made.
From the opening reel to the exciting conclusion, its a slam bang roller coaster ride.
It made the then unknown Arnold Schwarzenegger a star. Its just edge of your seat entertainment and at the time it was a sleeper movie.
None of the Terminator sequels have matched it for its relentless pace and stunning images that come at you literally out of nowhere.
Its considered to this day the gold standard by which an action movie is measured.
“Rise of the Machines” was awesome. What is this writer smoking?
Let me clarify that a bit.
Sci Fi...
Blade Runner. Aliens. Star Wars
Horror
Elm Street. The Thing/John Carpenter
Without going into the rest of the categories, I see nothing modern that even comes close as far as originality. Modern film rehashes and relies on SFX rather than plot.
Name some ‘great’ films. The 90s were a much better time for American movies than the 80s.
There's a Spanish-made horror film called "The Nameless" ("Los Sin Nombre") that's not bad; in my opinion, it's up there with the two names you gave.
It was made in 1999, but only became available in the United States in 2005. It's on Netflix streaming at present.
See above.
The 90s drove me to Japanese Anime because of superior writing and more logical, deeper plot lines. And yes I’m serious. You show me one 90s movie in any genre with more depth than Ghost in the Shell and I’ll run out and buy it.
Oh, and I think you have to admit that “Silence of the Lambs” wasn’t too shabby.
Thanks. I’ll definitely look into it.
I’m sure there were good/great movies made, but as I look at my DVD collection, nothing modern really jumps out at me. I maintain there arent many.
Anime? lol Sorry but I’m not 15. Some of the films I mentioned stand up to comparisons to Bunel and Resnais.
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