“Pack the guns. I’ll make pancakes.”
I mean, really, it couldn’t get much cooler than that.
It took me some time to warm up to this one. The woman who plays Sarah is that chick from The 300, so though she’s not as kick-ass as I’d like her to be, I have faith that she’ll warm up as things go along. She’s got a strong face and a good presence. I think she’ll find her groove soon enough (yes, a lot of that is that I’d like her to be physically more powerful looking than she is now. +20 lbs and some muscles, OK, people? This is Sarah Conner. I’ll give you the teenager terminator, but give me my buff, scary, kick-ass heroine too, OK?).
Summer Glau was perfectly cast as the awkward terminator; she creates just the right dissonance in her performance between high-school chick and scary Other. It’s a good performance. Like Heady’s, I think it’ll get better as it goes on.
The kid? Yeah, well, hopefully he’ll get a backbone and some fucking sense as things go on. You need to have somebody strong enough to stand next to these women, and thus far, he’s underwhelming.
You’d also think that with so many folks recognizing Sarah, she’d, like, get a fucking hair cut and dye job, tho, don’t you think?
I’m just sayin’. I’m not gonna handwave that one much longer.
You also gotta love all the guns and violence and the wacky space travel and rebels-from-the-future thing. Throwing in a huge cast of rebels and terminators should also make things really interesting. I like the idea of creating a far-future army in the past to fight the creation of their own future.
Making this movie “fix” the crap that was movie 3 was brilliant also. I was hoping they’d do that. Who fucking kills Sarah Conner?
Puleeez.
We’ll definately be watching the others.
