Did they terminate the story-writers?

Rating: 3/10 (16 June 2009)

The year is 2018, and the world just got nuked as we all saw in Terminator: rise of the machines. You'd expect that people who survived Judgement Day would suffer from radiation sickness, unless you would have lived in the desert you whole life. But funny enough, in the entire movie not one word is mentioned about radiation sickness... Kyle Reese even lives in a city that has been nuked! Apart from the obvious, there are a lot of other dumb mistakes. Let me just name some of them:
1) The robots miss. They shoot enormous salvo's of bullets. But they all miss their targets. Yeah right, a high-tech robot that misses? It can calculate exact when and where to shoot, so everybody in its line of sight should be dead.
2) Our heroes in this movie are shot at by rockets, grenades, etc. And they impact almost always very near their bodies. And they don't even have a scratch! Believe me, they should have been deaf, if they would survive such an impact anyway.
3) The machines are equipped with a USB port? Why would machines that want to kill humans, put an USB port on their motorcycles? So humans can hack them, an use them against them? sure...
4) Skynet is equipped with all kinds of Human Machine Interfaces like displays, and keyboards. Machines don't need no keyboards and stuff...
5) John Connor puts a radio on the road, and turns the music on high volume. I once put a radio like that in the open and turned the volume to max...It was't even audible at 5 meters away. If you want to make noise in the open and attract some robots, you've got to bring something bigger with you.
6) The resistance are the only people left. Yet they treat each other even worse than the machines do. Skynet does not have to built terminators, the humans will terminate themselves if they continue this way into terminator 5.
7) The humans move and behave like robots themselves. They lose friends and family. But never cry. They just don't give a sh*t. I thought the robots didn't give a sh*t. At one part in the movie, John Connor makes a statement about what the difference is between humans and a machine. Well that scene is totally misplaced after John Connor himself tried to kill a robot that was trying to convince him he was not part of Skynet. Instead of hearing him out, they torture him and use any means necessary to kill him.
8) 80% you see in this movies is stolen from "War of the worlds" by Steven Spielberg. Grabbing humans and putting them in containers so they can use them... who thought of that?
9) The rest is stolen from "The Matrix". Snake-like robots in the water? Come on...
10) Hitting a steel machine with your fist is a very bad idea. Yet these humans from the future are made steel themselves, it seems. Getting hit by a machine made of steel is even worse. But these humans from the future can take a beating like that. These story-writes should go on a boxing course...and then re-think those scenes.
11) If I were the resistance, I would save my ammunition, since there are no factories left to produce any more ammunition. But our heroes use their weapons as if they're playing with fireworks! They seem to have enough grenades, bullets, rockets to go on for ages... In reality they should spare any ammo they have. You really want to think twice before firing that grenade, you might need it in the future and there are no new supplies.
12) Why are they so obsessed with Kyle Reese dying? As if that would make a difference? They are already in the future. Kyle Reese dead or alive would not make a difference at all.
13) Who is that Cyborg dude? He killed someone? Where is he from? We don't know. All we know is that Skynet created him. The first robot they create, is also the most advanced robot. Funny, and why would they create a human looking killing machine? Oh yeah, to infiltrate the human population. Well if you want to play it that way, why not create some cancer that simply kills all humans. That would make more sense, since robots cannot get ill.
I could go on an on. Hell I could write a whole book about explosions that should have killed people, flying motorcycles that in reality would not have flown at all, dump behavior of people under stress that is written by people who have never even been under stress. T2 was far more better written, and scarier too.
There are so many things wrong these days with the story-lines of movies, it's just painful. They're all multi-billion dollar productions, and they come up with story-lines that are simply rip-offs of other movies? Why? Can't they think of something original?
I had high hopes that Terminator Salvation might just be another original movie just like its predecessors, but I was wrong.