The New Terminator Salvation Movie Hates You So F**king Much
I’ve certainly poked fun at the fourth Terminator movie here at TR, what with its lack of James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and basically all of the elements that made the franchise successful. But technical issues aside, the trailer for the movie that came out a few days ago wasn’t that bad, mostly thanks to Christian Bale (I tell ya, that kid might have a future in acting).
Apparently, it was all a ploy to get us to put down our guard for this massive shit they just took on our collective heads?they’re hiring Roland Kickinger, the guy who played Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Arnold biopic See Arnold Run, to be the Arnold-model Terminators. The man was on Son of the Beach, for god’s sake. Of all the options they could have taken?CG, generating actual new ideas?they chose this one, and now Christian Bale has to act with this man. I’m officially changing this movie’s status from “clueless” to “utter contempt for its fanbase.” (Via FilmDrunk)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.