Terminator Salvation hate?

[Turtleboy1017]

Did a quick search and didn't see any threads covering this, just the game so...

I just got back from seeing the movie, and I feel like people are being sort of harsh. Most people are saying this is an awful movie with bad acting (Well not ALL but a LOT of people, including most critics)

Sure it wasn't as great as the first 2, but it was a bit better then the third one in action if you ask me. The story could have used a little bit of work, but it wasn't anything TERRIBLE.
So I was just wondering what other people who have seen this movie thought about it.

 

[Nargleblarg]

Ya I was personally entertained by it and in the end isn't that all that matters.

 

[bue519]

Ya I was personally entertained by it and in the end isn't that all that matters.

I just wish that there were more all out Human vs. Machine battles like in the flashbacks in the first one.

 

[joystickjunki3]

I found it entertaining, but I understand the criticisms.

 

[sms_117b]

I've been recommended to see it by a fair few people and intend to after my exams are all said and done.

 

[Chicago Ted]

I was told right before to not expect much for story and to just go in there with the mindset of an action movie and I was blown away by the end of it.

 

[Audemas]

The movie overall was pretty good and to see the CGI of Arnold Schwarzenegger kick the crap out of Bale. It gave me a good laugh but the ending sucks.

 

[Lyri]

I just wish that there were more all out Human vs. Machine battles like in the flashbacks in the first one.

This.

I haven't seen Salvation yet, but in the first one John Connor was up to his eyeballs in Metal militants who all had the one goal of plugging him with a lazer beam or two.
In these new films there's a whole lot of zooming around deserts and cities, whatever else. Nothing like the "Uprising of the machines" you see in the first two films.

It's a shame really, I'd like to see a movie like "Saving private Ryan Vs. Toasters gone wild".
Alas, this saga did not deliver.

 

[bue519]

I just wish that there were more all out Human vs. Machine battles like in the flashbacks in the first one.

This.

I haven't seen Salvation yet, but in the first one John Connor was up to his eyeballs in Metal militants who all had the one goal of plugging him with a lazer beam or two.
In these new films there's a whole lot of zooming around deserts and cities, whatever else. Nothing like the "Uprising of the machines" you see in the first two films.

It's a shame really, I'd like to see a movie like "Saving private Ryan Vs. Toasters gone wild".
Alas, this saga did not deliver.

Also forgot to mention that there a plot holes that you could drive a 747 through which really weakens the movie for me.

 

[Turtleboy1017]

It has the same major problem 3 had: it basically served no purpose.

Spoiler

At the end they've blown up SkyNet, but they say "the world net is still active" or something like that, so after all that all they've done is destroyed one little part of the thing. Which means we get more movies that will probably do the same.

There is no definitive "ending" so much as a series of pointless battles. Which maybe is the feeling they're going for, but damn, do we need to make such expensive pointless battle movies?

That does make sense, at the end of number 3 I was left with a "that's it?" Sort of feeling. I guess some of the criticism was justified, but I still don't think that it deserves these D+'s from the critics or what not.