Terminator Genisys Movie-This time he really is back

So now after many months of regular confusion, suspicion and fan apprehension we get this latest bizarre movie in the sci-fi franchise which has had a good many ups and downs over the decades. It would seem possibly ever since the series picked up again attempting to follow up after the massive commercial success of T2:Judgement Day with Terminator 3:Rise of the machines, it has continually had mixed results and harsh responses from die-hard fans and regular cinema audiences and has never really hit the right balance. So T3 did receive a huge backlash, and while it was not all deserved, it was a film which started really well but fell to pieces before the half way point and by the end became such a sad waste and dissapointment. It gave us a pretty great crazed female terminator, a few break-neck paced action sequences but held back on what we were really hoping to see. The machines did not rise-well, a handful of small laughable ones. The actor playing John Connor was a terrible choice as well. A few years passed, Arnie became the Govornator in America, while on the small screen we actually had a really great Terminator spin-off show The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Sadly this lasted only two seasons, at a time when more and more new shows were appearing and dropping off on a regular basis. It should have lasted much longer. Not too long after we lost this, the next bold and defiant Terminator sequel movie exploded onto cinema screens. This one finally did decide to take us right into the future, to reveal to us the actual world of John Connor and the apocalyptic and wild ravaged times of man against machines and Skynet which so many fans had been desperate to see much more of ever since the first film. Terminator:Salvation looked spectacular, it had so many fantastic and thunderous scenes, it did almost seem like this was it-this time we were really getting what was had been missing ever since the first film, what had only ever been briefly teased. No, it all came to us in such a terrible way. We had Christian Bale so should have been great right? No, that didn’t do much good either, as he was below his usual standards, also because the actual lead actor was more wooden than Keanu Reeves has ever been in any of his movies. The script was fairly dull, predictable, even sexist and disjointed. It was such a waste. Are these repeated failures simply due to original director of the series James Cameron not being there to add his personal touch? This year, we have the next instalment in the series. The reviews are now gradually trickling in today, but responses may not be great already. I cannot speculate an opinion, but it has certainly seemed a very confused film from the various trailers. I am fairly sure that I do just about understand the basic plot premise-an alternate time-line, some similar terminator bonding like we saw in T2 and a young Sarah instead of John, in what mostly looks like T2 again. Well it was T2 which worked so very well, so can we now blame Hollywood for rehashing that particular sequel finally? I really would like this new Terminator movie to work-okay, lets just put aside the matter of Arnie as a T-800 having aged into his sixties as a terminator for one thing-as we really could still have some great sequels in this well loved movie series I think. Some of the trouble may come from the fact that the Sarah Connor tv series was so good that it may have been great to possibly have seen that transfered to the big screen instead. However this new movie turns out to be on screen, a future still needs to be saved.

TERMINATOR GENISYS-THEY’RE BACK, SOMETIMES

Right here in the UK, I think it looks like the new movie sequel/prequel/reboot (whatever) Terminator Genisys is due in our cinemas in around three weeks from now. I’ll be honest, it has taken me a long while to develpe much interest in this movie even while being a big fan of the Terminator franchise.

When first pieces of news and rumours started to slip out around social media about this new Terminator film, I like many people was quickly skeptical and jaded. Let’s face it-look at the previous two movies which never totally convinced or satisfied fans.

Many of us much just think ‘why are they doing this yet again, if not just for some easy cash?’

There can often be various reasons why we get more dumb predictable sequels to well loved or classic movies. We had very high hopes for Terminator 3, but it fell to pieces half way through even while it did have some very cool stunts and scenes early on.

A few years passed, with more videogames, comics and stories inspired by the Terminator movies and suggesting yet again what fans might really like to see on screen but never had. When the next new sequel did arrive, it actually seemed like we might just have been getting what made sense and what we all wanted for a long time.

Terminator:Salvation came with huge style, set in the future times of John Connor and the robot wars. There were again some very great stunts, great robots machines designed and even some of the script was fairly good but mostly (for me personally) the acting was almost overall dreadful and some it just was not how it should have been, as if it had not really had the good final draft it needed before being filmed.

So now in 2015, we will have Terminator Genisys, and this time it all goes crazy. Oh yes, in perhaps seeing how audiences reacted to T-Salvation, we are getting yet another flip around take on the terminator tale, this time the origin story of the first film being possibly mixed up with more alternate future changes returning onto our present time.

Now in this movie, Sarah Connor does reappear but she is much younger, and we get John Connor as well-but possibly not how we might hope or expected him to be. Yes it seems the filmmakers are taking a good few bold chances with this one, maybe it is because the recognize that there is a strong loyal fanbase waiting to see something intelligent and challenging done with the Terminator story.

Is that what we are getting this time? Should we even get our hopes up this time?

If you have seen the trailers for Terminator Genisys so far, you might, like many people have been thinking…WHAT…THE…HECK? JUST…WHAT??

Does it all looks quickly far too confusing, or was it the fact that they seemed to have just taken all of the bits and pieces we know and like from the Terminator films and squeezed them in, with some slightly cringe worthy changes.

At this point, does the spin-off tv series Sarah Connor Chronicles look much better than this? (That series was of course, very, very cool.)

Like many modern big budget Hollywood trailers, did they show us far too much too soon?

As most of us still see Terminator 2 as the peak of this science fiction movies series, and while Salvation did give us something we had been waiting to see for many years still something was missing. In a few weeks, we will see just how far is too far this time for the Terminator movies.