By: Billy Beerslugger
I have been a fan of the Terminator movies since birth. I can remember watching The Terminator and Ghostbusters over and over as a child. The film spawned the sequel Terminator 2, in 1991,which was not only awesome but blew the doors off of the use of Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) in movies (although it did use a ton a actual stunts and real explosions). Terminator 3 was a I’m guessing a way to get money for Arnold Schwarzenegger as he was running for Governor of California. It really was not very good although I still want to give Clare Danes the high hard one.
In May 2007, the rights for the movie franchise passed from two feuding producers to a new company which planned a new Trilogy. The first film of the Trilogy is Terminator: Salvation, scheduled to come to a theater near you on May 21st. Pulling out all the stops they got the greatest action hero of today, Christian Bale (of American Psycho and Batman fame), to play the role of a grown up John Connor fighting in the resistance against the machines.
The film is one of the last for legendary special effects Stan Winston and is said to be once again pushing the limits in terms of that category.
I for one cannot wait for this movie to come out and is one of the few franchises/movies I will actually go to the movie theater to see.
I guess the only problem I have with it is that rapper Common is in the movie. While not a slight to Common I do generally hate movies with Rapper/Actors in them.