Terminator Salvation Motion Poster
We now live in an age of “motion posters” for motion pictures.
Case in point: Check out the cool new Terminator 4 poster.
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Sarah Connor: Complications
“You’re in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise. It’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?”
Do you remember where you heard that?
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Sarah Connor: Mr. Ferguson Is Ill Today
Well, the folks at FOX told us that an important character was going to die this week on The Sarah Connor Chronicles. They weren’t kidding …
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Sarah Connor: Brothers of Nablus
Yeah, I know, I’m VERY late posting about this past week’s show. I’ll keep it brief …
Remember When Sci-Fi & Horror Were the Same?
“It’s 1984 and you’re seated in a dark theater. A beautiful woman … is on the run from an unstoppable killing machine, a marginally human force focused only on death. Her death. Shoot it, light it on fire, blow it up … it just won’t stop. Merciless and unrelenting, its sole goal is to kill this particular woman, preferably in some unspeakably horrible way.
“Now answer me this: Are you watching The Terminator or one of the Friday the 13th flicks?”
Such is the premise of an interesting post by Todd Brown over at AMC’s SciFi Scanner. It’s a great point, and he traces it all the way back to the granddaddy of all genre-bending classics, Frankenstein — a “horror” monster created through scientific means. So where do you draw the line … and why are we even drawing lines to begin with? Give it a read, and let me know what you think.
Sarah Connor: The Tower is Tall But the Fall is Short
This week’s episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles was definitely lighter on the physical activity, and heavier on the psychological activity. Not so coincidentally, most of it centers around Dr. Boyd Sherman, one of the names from the blood wall, who is a child/family psychologist who used to work primarily with war veterans. The Connors set out to protect him, and they do. Yet somehow they never quite figure out why he’s so important to Skynet. But we do.
Sarah Connor Not Dead Yet
According to Variety.com …
“Terminator is far from being terminated.”
Apparently, FOX ordered the “back nine” episodes of the Sarah Connor Chronicles late on Friday, filling out the full second season order. This, despite the fact that the ratings haven’t been great so far this season.
No reason has been given for the pick up yet, but it may have something to do with a desire to cross-market with the pending Christian Bale Terminator movie. Or the critical attention the series has received this season. Or the fact that Dodge doesn’t want to lose its advertising vehicle (pun intended).
Whatever the reason, I’m happy!
Sarah Connor: Goodbye To That
In this week’s episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, we get what is essentially a very traditional Terminator storyline. Nothing too complicated: A cyborg travels back in time, its mission to kill somebody who is crucial to the human anti-Skynet resistance movement. The twist in this case is that for once, it’s not John Connor, or even Sarah, but instead somebody named Martin Bedell, one of John’s best soldiers/tacticians in the future.
And so the race begins to see who will find him first, the Connor Crew or the determined T-888 which, as we all know from past experience, cannot be bargained with or reasoned with and (say it with me) “will not stop until you are dead.”
Sarah Connor: Allison From Palmdale
This week’s episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles was a HUGE improvement over last week. Mainly because it relied so much on the acting chops of Summer Glau, who — let’s face it — plays everybody’s favorite character on the show. One of the main reasons I didn’t like last week’s episode is because Cameron was largely sidelined throughout it. It’s a strange thing to say, because she’s a cyborg, but I’m beginning to see that Cameron — not the Connors — is really the heart of this series.
Sarah Connor: Mousetrap
Okay, so the title of this week’s episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles is “Mousetrap”. And about 15 minutes into the episode, you already understand why. And then a few minutes after that, Cromartie point blank gives you the history of the mousetrap, and how it can’t really be improved upon. Which is probably true. It’s not really possible to build a mousetrap that’s much better than the original. But, as Wile E. Coyote has proven time and time again, it is possible to build a more COMPLICATED mousetrap … which may or may not work.