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The director knew, for instance, that audiences wanted to see Bale in another spectacle movie after the success of the Dark Knight, and the hiring of that film's screenwriter, Jonathan Nolan, to work on the script, was another clever move. I strongly suspect that McG is being targeted because reviewers have spotted the obvious: he is no visionary, but rather a hard-working film-maker who works by pulling together the best talent he has available and proving himself as an astute observer of popular themes. It seems to me there is something more going on here other than critical derision.
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Knowles mentions the film in the same light as Alien Resurrection, that nadir of the slasher in space series launched by Ridley Scott Ebert's comments recall the criticisms levelled at the final Pierce Brosnan James Bond movie, 2002's abominable Die Another Day, with its Madonna fencing scenes and that dumb invisible car.īut while both those movies were the apotheosis of awfulness, Salvation is at the very worst a little bland. I've already gone on record as saying that Terminator Salvation is not nearly as bad a movie as these reviews would suggest, but more specifically, I think it's worth pointing out that neither is McG as poor a director, nor such a miserable excuse for a human being as people seem to think he is. I hated it so much I didn't want to see my friend's faces afterwards.
Ebert himself, who admittedly has some form in McG bashing, wrote: "It gives you all the pleasure of a video game without the bother of having to play it." Harry Knowles, editor of geek bible Aint It Cool News, was far more scathing: "It is a very rare thing for a film to shit squarely on my open and unexpecting eyes to such a degree that absolute hatred and loathing festers out of my every pore… but McG managed to do it with Terminator Salvation," he wrote. Which is why it's so surprising that Terminator Salvation was so roundly condemned in the US upon its release last month. And early screenings of footage suggested the movie would at the very least look pretty damn cool: the future machines trying to bring down Connor and co were imaginative and superbly realised. The appointment of Christian Bale, star of last year's biggest film, The Dark Knight, to the role of human resistance fighter John Connor, went down well.
Nevertheless, there was a brief period last year, as the Warner Bros hype machine ramped up, in which critics' attitudes towards Terminator Salvation seemed to soften.
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