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.
"SkyNet is reduced to being just another lame villain who doesn't think the plan through."
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It's easier to have stuff to write about if I leave the house
I should have gotten out of the house on Sunday and Monday. I didn't. Yesterday was a nice day, too, so I had that incentive. I made sure to go out…
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'Nervous?' 'Yes.' 'First time?' 'No, I've been nervous lots of times.'
Something I was worried would happen, won't happen. The night before I had my car picked up, I imagined waking up to finding the car not stolen, but…
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Off to the great Car Farm up state
I'm now carless, by choice. I've had this 1998 Honda Civic since 2008, when I got it to replace the 1988 Accord I'd gotten in 1997. Like the Accord,…
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