Terminator Salvation Nitpicks
WARNING SPOILERS
WARNING SPOILERS
WARNING SPOILERS
first draft of some thoughts on
Terminator Salvation Nitpicks:- The opening title sequence was one of the those panning over pieces of some large object. Turned out to be the title. Snore. Should have been pieces of a post apocalyptic city.
- Then there was a second title sequence, like printouts from a command prompt. I actually like this one better, but why the second one.
- Why do terminators throw their victims all the time. Why not just crush their throats?
- They didn’t show Marcus getting healed. That could have been a cool part, a la beginning of The 5th Element.
- They didn’t imply any kind of germ or chemical warfare - or nuclear fallout radiation sickness. WTF is Kyle doing hanging out in LA?
- Speaking of LA, when Marcus first see downtown, he is standing by the Hollywood sign. First, that’s overused. Second, he would have seen that the city had been nuked before walking up that hill. It’s not quite on the edge of the city.
- There was a conveniently located really big payload to drop on the Terminator in LA. That’s a horrible booby trap.
- Laying down on a roof would make you visible to ther persistent lighter-than-air surveillance vehicles Skynet certainly would have over every city
- The ample tiny fires in human areas at night were ridiculous. I thought you weren’t suppposed to stick out at night?
- The landmines were silly. There are flying bots.
- Too many references to Terminator 2. The worst was the exact Guns & Roses song from T2 playing on a boombox. (that scene with hacking the motor cycle bot was badass)
- The “skynet woman” mentioned failed attempts too kill Connor. That doesn’t fit the timeline, as they hadn’t sent back the original terminators yet. They didn’t know it wouldn’t work yet. The year in the movie is 2018, and the year in the future Kyle Reese gets sent back is 2027.
- The “skynet woman” switched to a terminator face in between other possible avatar. WTF, that’s like switching desktop backgrounds on a PC and a pic of a silicon chip showing up. Ridiculous.
- In the end, it is unlikely that sympathetic explosion could make a nuclear device go off.
- When nukes go off, they release an EM pulse that knocks out electronics, like that helicopter that’s flying away.
