Terminator - Dark Fate
Discussion
To sum up - remake/mashup of Terminator and T2 with women being the saviours of the present and the future.
Kyle Reese is now a bad-ass female soldier and John Conner is a Mexican girl. Their relationship in the future is that 'John' saved 'Kyle' as a child.
Linda Hamilton is there because she fits the political narrative and it pretends there is continuity with the first two movies. Arnie gets to reset the canon at the beginning and provide comic relief later.
Throw in some blatant, clumsy political references to Trump/gun laws/border walls and that's your package.
I went to see it with no preconceptions or knowledge of what it was about. Wish I hadn't bothered. File it with the Ghostbuters remake and Ocean's 8 as 'films that are s
t but are above criticism because women'.
PS. The final third is too darkly lit.
PPS. I was thinking of recording a 'lobby correspondent' review along the above lines and sending it to 5 Live Kermode and Mayos' Film review show, but it'll never get broadcast and I would probably end up with the police at my door.
Kyle Reese is now a bad-ass female soldier and John Conner is a Mexican girl. Their relationship in the future is that 'John' saved 'Kyle' as a child.
Linda Hamilton is there because she fits the political narrative and it pretends there is continuity with the first two movies. Arnie gets to reset the canon at the beginning and provide comic relief later.
Throw in some blatant, clumsy political references to Trump/gun laws/border walls and that's your package.
I went to see it with no preconceptions or knowledge of what it was about. Wish I hadn't bothered. File it with the Ghostbuters remake and Ocean's 8 as 'films that are s
t but are above criticism because women'.PS. The final third is too darkly lit.
PPS. I was thinking of recording a 'lobby correspondent' review along the above lines and sending it to 5 Live Kermode and Mayos' Film review show, but it'll never get broadcast and I would probably end up with the police at my door.
Edited by Evercross on Sunday 27th October 10:07
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