Portraying John as a sort of nomad was overall a good plot device because the T-X can’t find him. So, she begins killing apparently random people.
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The plutonium used for nuclear weapons is plutonium-239 and the plutonium that powers current space exploration hopes is plutonium-238.
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It’s a science fiction classic for a reason. Save for the bar scene and the ending, the writing is pretty tight when the writers aren’t preaching.
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Last Saturday, young John Connor met the original Terminator and realized it was here to protect him. He then rescued his mother Sarah from a mental institution. I have mixed emotions about the scene that follows. After she is saved from her predicament, Sarah, rather than being grateful, shows anger at John for putting himself at risk. She even tells him that she didn’t need his help. Why is Sarah angry? This scene both does and doesn’t make sense. On the one hand, Sarah wouldn’t want him putting himself at risk for her because he is the future hope for humanity. But on the other hand, she seems more angry about the fact that he saved her than about the Read More ›
The film shows John teaching the Terminator to become more human via the tactic of mimicry, which works as long as it doesn’t go too far.
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Some plot development choices may have been driven by a sense of the need to tone down the violence a bit.
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The film seems to want to parody its predecessor while also appealing to kids. That’s why John Connor is an inventive young teenager during the story.
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Last Saturday, we saw that Sarah and Kyle were spending the night under a bridge. They’d lost the Terminator for a while, but it’s only a matter of time before he finds them again. They make their way to a hotel and grab a room with a kitchen. Kyle then leaves to buy some supplies. Sarah calls her mother, who is worried, of course, so Sarah gives her the number of the hotel. However, the Terminator has broken into her mother’s home and is impersonating her over the phone. He uses the number to locate the hotel. How did the Terminator find Sarah’s mom? He’d picked up an address book while at Sarah’s apartment. Now, one would think that the Read More ›
The hero’s journey is, at its core, an underdog story. This fact makes female action stars ideal, provided the transition to hero is realistic.
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The film doesn’t explain the backstory all in one dump but breaks it up between two scenes and multiple action sequences.
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In terms of quality, I would rank the series like this: Aliens, Alien, Romulus, Resurrection, Prometheus, Covenant, ice melting, grass growing, and Alien 3.
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This film makes a serious effort to tie the alien anthology together. Continuity is too often seriously neglected in this modern age of “cinema”
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When measuring the significance of a plot hole, we should ask, how does it ultimately affect the story? Some of the ones in Romulus are not deep.
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Romulus is likely harmed at the box office by the fact that the previous two films in the series were terrible. It meets the minimum standard for a quality film
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Incoherent cinematic messes are the result of having too many people involved in writing the story. There is no single, coherent vision.
Read More ›The problem with killing the major characters of a film off-screen is that it weakens the audience’s stake in the next installment.
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We begin to learn why the alien xenomorphs take varying amounts of time to develop inside a human body before they erupt and kill.
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One example of the way stupidity appears to drive the plot is that characters who should not trust David seem to do so, with disastrous results.
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Seeing that the robot is frighteningly apathetic toward the death of one of his crew, Oram demands answers from the faulty machine.
Read More ›What’s the point of Daniels being the screenwriters’ prophet if the character isn’t going to even try to take any sort of action to prevent a disaster?
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