coffeeinhell" Taylor bitchslaps SkyNet:I find myself still pondering Salvation. But I'm not thinking about the waste of a perfectly good Christian Bale, or continuing to boggle over the sadly inept action sequences. To be honest, I willed myself to forget most of it as soon as I was in the car. It seemed kinder to just let it go.This is explained in more detail and humor at the link. Taylor also invokes Colossus of 1970's Colossus: The Forbin Project, a movie which I mainly think of as being one of the few well-known flicks to have the M rating before that changed to PG. Still: giant all-knowing computers that could end the world as we know it were apparently smarter 39 years ago...
No, what I can't get over is how dead stupid SkyNet turned out to be. The evil, all-powerful threat to humanity that James Cameron introduced in 1984 turns out, in the fourth movie, to be a huge, incompetent boob who can be beaten with a tool belt and a lucky shot fired at a coolant line.
