#Terminator: Genisys

[onetrueartform]

If you told me 8 years ago that the Terminator installment I liked the least (at the time) would go on to become a “comfort film” I would not believe you.

[nonkosherian]

Just watched four very different movies recently. (I will be spoiling as little as possible.)

Arrival. The aliens are scary, vast, and unknowable (friendly?).

Annihilation. The aliens are scary, vast, and unknowable (Lovecraftian).

Terminator: Genisys. It’s a fun action movie if you don’t think too hard.

Terminator: Dark Fate. A worthy sequel to T2.

Arrival:

I went into Arrival with high expectations and wasn’t disappointed.

The plot hinges on something I know to be “junk science,” but if you accept it as part of the fiction it’s very well written.

The aliens are very weird and you can definitely believe that nothing on earth would have evolved like they did.

It was a beautiful ending as well. I appreciate the reasons why the hero makes the choice she did. The ending is also a kind of hopeful we need in the world right now, and I don’t think anyone would have written it today.

Annihilation:

I knew going in that this would be a horror movie. But it was thankfully light on the jump scares. (I think “Alien” would be a match for this movie on the spook-O-meter. Both in content and tone.)

This movie uses its runtime efficiently. By the end I walked away feeling like only the important scenes were left in, nothing felt like filler.

The lighting is beautiful inside “the shimmer.” I’m very interested to see a behind the scenes for how they achieved the look of that area.

And when I say the “””Aliens””” in this movie are a Lovecraftian kind of unknowable, that’s literally the point in this movie. We don’t even know if it knows what a thought is.

Very interesting movie. Will be thinking about it for a long time.

Terminator: Genisys

This feels like fan fiction (in the best possible way). Literally jumping into act one with loosey-goosey time travel AND alternate timelines. You’re along for the ride or you’re not. This movie isn’t gonna slow down and let you think about how nothing here makes sense.

Emilia Clarke is great in this movie. It feels like everyone was on the same page about how goofy this was going to be and just went for it. And no one is really overdoing it and chewing on the scenery. All of the performances are (in my opinion) finely calibrated for a target tone. Emilia’s performance is the glue that holds the movie together. I can think of so many other actors who would have fumbled this hard. Props.

Terminator: Dark Fate

A massive contrast to Genisys. Takes place in a totally different timeline where that movie doesn’t exist.

I found it fun and interesting to see a world in which Sarah Connor isn’t the “mother of the chosen one.” Now she’s “a bitter old woman that kills robots because it’s better than alcoholism.”

The new Terminator and the hero from the future “Grace” have no idea who this crazy old lady is or why she’s so good at hunting robots.

Grace is an interesting twist on the “guardian from the future” that’s become a staple of the franchise. The fact that she’s an augmented human that is technically more powerful than a Terminator but only for a few minutes at a time. It makes for interesting plot beats as they try to work around this limitation throughout the film.

Genisys is PG-13 and Dark Fate is R. And it shows in the tone. Dark Fate has genuine moments of humor and levity. But it’s contrasted with the horrors of being hunted by an unstoppable killing machine.

I don’t have some big conclusion to make here. Just wanted to share my thoughts while they were still relatively fresh.

[rapidhighway]

so how does a nine year old girl get her own terminator?

[brightbrutality]

[killingdoll]

Why do I refer to Lee Byunghun’s T-1000 as ‘Amsden’ in my fanarts? Bc it’s the name on his uniform — same reason we refer to Robert Patrick’s T-1000 as ‘Austin’. It’s unclear whether he killed Officer Amsden and took the uniform or he just copied the uniform from some cop and came up with the name himself but my money’s on the former since all T-1000s are murderous kitty cats 🐱

For a better look:

[automaticclappingxboxterminator]

AUTOMATIC CLAPPING XBOX TERMINATOR GENISYS

[deathernoia]

This officially turns 10 years this month btw

[onelastride]

Designs for my T-1000 keychains imma make soon

[apofiszkrii]

[anaamaya]

Jai Courtney! 😎🩵❤️‍🔥

[onetrueartform]

I feel like someone peered into my brain and wrote this using all my thoughts.

[pedroam-bang]

Terminator Genisys (2015)

[but-a-humble-goon]

Terminator's an interesting franchise because they spend the entire first movie establishing one of the most iconic and menacing monsters in cinema history and then they spend every subsequent sequel asking "but what if it was dad?"

[strange-doll-child]

I hate her, I'm never rendering metal again/lh

Poster redrawww

[killingdoll]

A scoop of T-1000 of your choice, coming right away!

If you want something sweet and sour and served freezing cold, you got T-1001/Catherine Weaver

If you want something rich and decadent, with an acidic aftertaste, go for T-1000/Amsden

If you want something with a bitter note and melts in you mouth, T-1000/Austin is definitely the one for you

Or just save yourself the headache and get all 3, like I do

(I took notice of Catherine’s T-Rex blade arms)

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]