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Terminator Salvation (2009)
Wanna see my phased plasma rifle in the 40 watts range ? Nope...
I'm so disappointed by this movie that you couldn't believe. I watched the first one squeezing in the teather because I was too young to watch it... And I saw that machine welcome, ripping out the heart of a punk... Then it continued firing at point blank at a shopkeeper, used a whole .45 magazine against a fat housewife, the main scene at the police station, then hit and dragged by a truck. It never died, it was the quintessence of a machine determination... It was a lot of fun.
Now we have this... thing of a movie... All yells and CGI and not even a little stab, some blood... Don't worry to bring your children with you, everyone is terminated in a clean way, a sterilizing explosion is the best chance.
Maybe you wanted to see that famous plasma rifle (in the 40 watts range), no way, the T600 have an old fashioned sort of Gatling, but it can even fire 3000 shells, don't worry, it will miss every time.
A couple of the top hilarious moments: Skynet itself talks to Marcus (why talk ?, machines connects...) and say that the best machines have been sent against the Connors, and everyone failed... But the first machine will be sent 9 years after... And guess what ? After the nuclear holocaust they are still able and have all the tools to perform a heart transplant, with a veterinary and a heart donated by a machine (they don't even need to test if it's compatible, it will work and that is all). Simply exhilarating.
I had so many expectations for this movie, that I was almost crying for the disappointment, like if I was again thirteen.
They shouldn't do this to the fans-base, they should not be PAID. I gave it a 5 only for the 3 (three) spitted seconds of a CGI Scwharzy, the rest is a big fiasco.
Live! (2007)
One bullet is only childsplay
I watched this movie but it was below my expectations, maybe if it would be directed by John Carpenter, but it wasn't.
It's portrayed in our actual kind of society but we're still not at that level of cynicism and the even the level of cynicism itself was not enough, with that attempt of a redeeming ending...
And if you think about it, a show like that would be just boring, there is no action, there is nothing. I liked a lot some good novels from Sthepen King like "The running man" and "The long walk", same kind of stuff, but much more interesting.
... And since De Niro loaded it with three bullets, the rest is only childsplay...
Cloverfield (2008)
... yawn...
I won't give a vote to this movie, I don't know what would be the right one. I mean, I'm grown watching Jap Godzilla, alien, blair witch project and many others... But if I consider this one as a movie for youngsters, I mean teens that never seen tons of cartoons with the statue of Liberty beheaded, who know nothing of Snake Plissken or that never seen a movie shaken with a hand-held camera (boring..) etc. it can even be a little bit scary...
For me is a poor mix of some well known and trademarked iconic clichés...
Camera and atmosphere-> Blair Witch Project shaken with the last Bourne Monster -> a Godzilla huge thing that looks like the alien that came out of the dog in "The thing" Little monsters -> Alien's face huggers Exodus scenes and appearance of the monster -> War of the world
All dressed with a love story, so that you can go to the theater with your girlfriend and then be rewarded when back in the car...
Rofl, there is also the gold-hearted soldier that let them go for the the rescue of the poor girl... "I shouldn't do it...but..."
I don't know, maybe they are trying to squeeze the last drops of the post 9/11 mood, but obviously this is ALSO already seen...
And the helicopter scene (tm) ...
The movie begins like if the camera was found in "what was known" as central park -> so you already know that who was around the camera is dead and that the final scene will include the usual nuke...
I want the same camera model used here with those proton-vilitium batteries, and radiation shield for the memory... it run literally forever, lol...
At half of the movie I really urged to go out because I was able to prophesy exactly what would happen, included: monster still alive and more monster coming.
Why don't simply spend a cent for a call to Duke Nuk'em ? The chicks are good enough so he would come to N.Y. for sure.
Rambo (2008)
An old and scary friend knocked at my door...
First, excuse me for my bad broken English...
I loved the 80's and Rambo was one of the icons of my teen age so my expectations from this movie were very high and I was not disappointed. Stallone made a great work closing the circle of the story of this disturbed veteran. In "First Blood" we know that he became a drifter because he was unable to adapt himself to civilian life, maybe seeking for an answer: this is summarized when he is resting and having one of many nightmares of his past life... After the meeting with the minister he finds this answer: "You didn't kill for your country, you killed for yourself" , so, don't search a pretext for your problems in your fellow countrymen that never cheered you when you came back from the Nam, or an excuse for your killings in patriotism, you did it because you liked it, because you're a killing machine, so let's do what you are born for and leave the damn snakes live their life...
Stallone made a beautiful work bringing back Rambo in the places where he belongs, a jungle in some south Asian forgotten country, I mean, f**k the damn boring desert and the annoying terrorists, Rambo is made for buldozering Vietnamese-like nasty armies in the jungle with an arrow and a knife, no better, with a Tarantino-fashioned machete (!!!). There is so much in this movie that reminded me of the classic war movies that I use to like, the element of the river for example, do you remember "Apocalypse now" ? You can see the scene of the boat inspection reversed here with a first bit of the brutality and efficiency of the beast inside Rambo giving the last shot to the wounded pirate like good'ol Captain Willard did to the girl some wars ago. The Burmese army camp is so "Deer hunter" like, the wooden cages, the pigs, the soldiers having fun torturing and raping prisoners... Then there is Rambo at his best. Some people complained that there is not a lot of action and weaponry used by Rambo but I liked the way Stallone came back to the first movie: Rambo uses what he finds on the field and he uses his mature age skill to own the rest of the armed people around, this includes the "dirty dozen" Australian mercenaries that awake to real life war-zone just seconds before dying looking at the testosterone pumped old fart while making the right use of a .50 caliber gun: make big holes into things. The last view we have of Rambo in a battlefield, his expression, show us that it's all done, he had enough, he has seen the same scene a lot of times and he found the answer, now it's time to go back home. The last scene of the movie is so right: Rambo, now dressed with the same jeans and military jacket of the first movie, now unflagged, looks at the road, then to what is supposed to be home, and choose home. The end of the road.
A last note: I gave the movie 8/10 for two reasons: Rambo should be really right at his age with a lot more of grey hairs, showing better that aging means nothing for the beast inside him, and the other reason is that there is more to be shown and probably I'll see what is missing in the DVD's director's cut in a couple of years (sigh). If you haven't done it yet take a look at the R-rated trailer, the point of views are different from the movie and it is a little masterpiece by himself.