last weekend i went to wisconsin with my parents to spread my recently deceased grandmother’s ashes. i had to hole it up in a hotel room with my parents and little brother for the first time in several years. it was a little awkward because as of lately, me and my brother haven’t been getting along great. we have almost nothing in common these days, but it’s okay. he’s still my little brother.
when we were kids there were a couple of things we would frequently do together regardless of our differences.
1. watch professional wrestling (i know…. wtf?)
2. watch the alien movies
3. break shit
4. watch terminator 2 on repeat
i’ve seen terminator 2 more than any other movie in the history of all the movies i’ve ever seen and i’ve seen a lot of fucking movies. terminator 2 makes me nostalgic. i absolutely love it. simply put, it’s fucking awesome. i want to pretend like terminator 3 never existed, but after seeing the trailers for terminator salvation- i was stoked.
being that the terminator movies were one of the few things my brother and i agreed on, we decided to check it out in the suburbs of milwakee last saturday. i read some of the reviews on rotten tomatoes prior to going to the theater. most of them said it was a steaming pile of shit. i, however, disagree. i thought it was better than star trek and for whatever reason; everyone seems to love star trek. i thought star trek, regardless of how exciting and delightful it may have been, was still nerdy as hell and i couldn’t get over that.
while i was watching the flick in wisconsin, my roommates were back in austin ‘experiencing’ it in the new d-box seats at the galaxy highland theater. i texted william after i saw the movie and instructed him to leave immediately after the final explosion. the ending was unbelievably lame. of course, that advice is retarded because if he hasn’t seen it, then he obviously wouldn’t know which explosion is the final one.
anyway. william said that he couldn’t seperate the worth of the actual film from how exciting it was to see it in the moving chairs and believe me; he talked about those chairs ad nauseam. i suppose i’ll have to wait for the next big action flick to try them out. maybe, transformers: revenge of the fallen?
christian bale’s character, john connor, was basically batman. i seriously didn’t see any discernable differences between john connor and batman in this flick besides the obvious absence of bat costume.
okay, christian… let’s do this scene over again, but please can you make your voice a little raspier please? someone get this fucker another pack of smokes…
as the movie progressed and especially near the end of the flick, there were too many scenes that borrowed shit from the previous movies (or at least the good ones). however, i was really pleased with the CGI arnold. i love arnold.
i am already hearing that there are sequels in the works. probably not a great idea, but i’m sure it won’t stop me from going to the theater again.
oh yeah, what the fuck kind of name is McG anyway?
-claire
