McG you are a butt head

Rating: Null/10 (28 May 2009)

Much like the recent debacle that was Wolverine, Terminator Salvation is best enjoyed by having absolutely no prior knowledge to the mythos. But let's face it, these characters are ingrained in pop culture. So unless you've been under a rock or on a desert island for the last 25 years, you should have had some exposure to them and that's where TS totally fails.
This movie probably looked good on paper. Robots like that movie that made money a few summers ago, check. Established franchise, check. Over rated hack director, check. Obligatory references to prior movies, check. Popular leading man, check.
Green light this project now, let's not worry about trivialities like say a script. We'll just blow up lots a things. Wait, here's the sure fire guarantee it'll be a box office smash. We'll throw Arnold in one scene for no reason at all, except for the fact that he was a Terminator in 3 movies. We'll even resurrect a Guns & Roses song that was in a movie and was popular like 20 twenty years ago. This way the fans will see that we know about the Terminator Franchise and respect it. To push it over the top we'll throw in a couple of catch phrases that everyone knows, that'll prove we know what we're doing.
I didn't think the Terminator Franchise could have gotten worse after T3, but this movie totally misses the very soul of these characters. And it's had three prior movies to draw on for source material. It ignores a little thing called logic because motivations and driving forces of characters are easily established in a short scene in between blowing things up. People won't notice, they'll be too wowed by the explosions.
McG, go take some lessons from JJ Abrams about how to respect a franchise and the fans. To quote the late Chris Farley 'you are a horses ass '