Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Things I liked about T4:

The opening credits. I know most people won't get this, but the way the credits circled around on themselves is a revamp of the opening credits of the original. I was annoyed at first that they weren't using the theme music, but then it popped in now and again throughout the film. I would have preferred a Brad Fiedel soundtrack, but this one wasn't terrible; it could have been worse.

The Sarah Connor photograph; Kyle Reese; the closing fight between John & the Terminator mirroring Kyle's fight in T1. Nice.

The Marcus Wright storyline was awesome, and gave us new material to play with, while following up on older storylines.

Marcus's Terminator like behavior; the way he turned his head, and the way he turned back from a punch was straight out of T1 & T2. M-101 does this later in the film.

The 600 Series. "HK's" hunting during the day and other random references that match up with T1.

CDS M-101. Perfect cameo.

The explanation for John's scar in the pre-title sequence for T2 was unexpected, and very cool.

The new year for Judgment Day, John's wife Kate, and the nuclear power cores for the Terminators made good use of Terminator 3, which was the weakest link in the film series.

"I'll be back."

"Come with me if you want to live."

Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor; the new recording for John (not the one meant to be from the first film - but a different entry) is perfection.

Seeing the dark tone of the first film on display here (while slightly brighter here) brings home Kyle's arc in the first film.

Things I didn't like:

The tape from Sarah that's supposed to be the tape from the end of T1 is obviously a new recording, which would be fine, except they changed some of the dialogue, which annoys me.

John should have given Kyle the picture at the end; his not doing so doesn't mean he won't do it, but it would have been nice to see on screen.

Some scenes were a bit flat; emotionless and in the end kind of pointless. This didn't kill the movie for me, but I did notice it.

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There are more on both lists I'm sure, but that's all I can think of at the moment.

I'm sleepy.

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