First Full Terminator: Salvation Trailer (Rocks!)

Looking good,McG! The Terminator film seems to have a dark and complex soul. Agreeing with Vic, both Star Trek and Terminator:Salvation trailers have very exciting and new essence. Interesting... didn't see any footage of Sam Worthington or did I miss something?

Whatever,,,
The entire trailer looked like cut scene's from the Transformers opening...

I expected more,,,
This really looks like a total POS film... The dialog and Marcus just ruin this for me...
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Yetchen as Reese also sticks it in and breaks it off...

This looks great! I feel like this could be one of the best movies of all time. This new trilogy of terimator (4,5,6) are going to be great. And you couldnt get a better actor for john connor. My only complaint is that they didnt get any other major actors and of coarse the governator but he may be back for 5, n 6 if he doesnt run for senate.

It doesn't feel like a Terminator film at all. The ultra serious dialogue and the extra snazzy scenes are symptomatic of recent trends in action movies.

I like it. It feels Terminaterish to me. They seemed to keep the industrial grunge sort of look that was in the original and the desert scene makes me flashback as well. I can totally see the scenes they show as the opening scene of the very first Terminator with all the Guerrilla War tactics. But from Christian Bale's voiceover, I'm worried John Connor is going to be some paranoid nutjob and not the war hero he is supposed to be.

btw i though Screenrant ran a story a while back about Arnolds likeness being used in the film for one of the Terminator's models. True? Not true?

@Spark

Well, I haven't heard anything that said this will NOT be true, so I guess it might still be true. So I guess look out for a glimpse of maybe a deactivated Terminator or something that has Arnold's face on it, lol. Or maybe John will see it and get all freaked.

@ arrell

I agree that it doesn't feel like a Terminator film, at least not the ones I remember and acknowledge to be Terminator films (1 and 2), but I disagree with your reasoning. Serious dialogue? Maybe you're thinking about T3, that one doesn't count. T1 and T2 were very serious films. There was no "talk to the hand" or anything like that in the REAL Terminator films.

Anyway, about this trailer, I don't know, it doesn't feel Terminator-ish, except for the music. Damn I need a Terminator ring-tone...

But besides that point, it looks pretty good. I'm definitely there to see it. I actually think McNugget, McFlurry, or whatever the heck his name is, might have surprised us with a non-Charlie's Angels movie...

I'm going to watch the trailer a few more times to see if I catch anything else that might affect my opinion, lol.

Oh yah, and that guy playing Kyle really does look horrible for the part... Could they have found a wussier looking person to play one of the most badass characters in the Terminator story???

Looks good. The previously unseen Terminators sure look promising.

Ken J, this looks good to you?

Man o man,,,,

I'm a lot more impressed by this than I thought I would be. After the self-parodying travesty that was T3 it's good to see the franchise back on track.

I wasn't convinced that another installment was necessary at first, but I guess if it's done well then there are plenty of stories that could be told after judgment day takes place.

I don't really understand the time line though - didn't T3 end in present day with Judgment Day kicking off? Yet this is set in 2018 and seems to depict the start of the war. So what happened during all those in-between years? Have I missed something or are they ignoring T3 completely?

Trailer looks cool enough, but it should.

"one way or another, tonight, this war ends."
Somehow I doubt that.

@790, just because they seemed to have insulted T3 many times during the production of this film and you want to hate its guts for it, but that is the very reason why I have hopes for it. I say any movie maker with the sense to insult T3 must be on to something. Hopefully that's not McGriddle's only glimpse of sanity...

I'm not thinking this will hold a candle to T1 or T2, not in the slightest, I think it looks pretty promising for a good action flick. I tried to have that attitude for T3, and it even fails with those standards... I would say I hope it is better than T3, but that's a pretty insultingly low standard to hold an upcoming movie. That's like me saying I hope my $60 steak will taste better than feces...

@Lank

I hope that's evidence that they were telling the truth about ignoring T3. That would make this film so much better. In fact, the more they insult T3, the more credible this movie becomes. Hopefully it's actually entertaining to watch...

I'm VERY interested to see what the new ending is after AICN & CHUD leaked it a few months back...

Jamie.

@Ken J: Hmm, it's probably Bale seeming over-the-top here to me. Yes, T1 and T2 were serious... but judging by the dialogue here, it doesn't feel genuine or realistic. Whereas one could vaguely imagine the suburban horror of T1, the action scenes seen here belong on an alternate reality.

OMG.

I've wanted to see something like this since I saw T2. This looks incredible.

I just hope it will be as good as it seems, if its a cheap milking then I wont be happy.

Gotta say, whatever casting director thought Anton Yelchin was a good match for a young Michael Biehn was definitely off his/her nut. And the fact that McG didn't veto that bugs me as well.

I know he's the "flavor of the month," but come on...

Other than that though, this looks great. Only wish they would have gone with a full-CGI Ahnuld in there.

Vic

Looks really cool, but is anyone else thinking that they might be headed for overkill with this franchise? Between the new movie, the awful T3 movie (IMO), and the ok S.C.C. tv show, not to mention the books, comic books, etc. I think that if this movie doesn't deliver, there will be some serious backlash from the overexposure to the franchise. IMO for example take the AVP franchise and it's branches. I'm hoping for the best, cuz I am a big fan, but I don't want to be one of the last, like I am with AVP!

@Dannyboy

Well by the time this movie comes out it will have been six years since the last Terminator movie came out. The ratings for Sarah Connor are pretty low, and even fewer people read comic books.

I don't think saturation is an issue.

Vic

I liked it. The motorcycle terminators STILL look ridiculous, but everything else looks like it'll be fun to watch!

Damn that kid playing Kyle Reese REALLY REALLY REALLY bothers me. The one thing that bothers me the MOST about who they picked, is the fact that they don't even TRY to make him look less of a dumbass by maybe at least cutting that stupid hair of his... I mean, come on, hair grows back, it's not like I'm asking for them to do plastic surgery to make him look more macho... Why the freakin hell did they let him keep that stupid curly fro for this movie???? I would have shaved his head to at least make him look more serious...

Oh yah, I remember there was an article on here a while ago written by Vic about Journeyman, and some of you seemed to have been fans. I'm sure you guys realize that Moon Bloodgood is in Terminator Salvation, the girl that played Livia, McKidd's "dead" ex-wife and fellow traveler one the show.

I think it looks great. I really like the TV Show and I think this looks to be an excellent film. Great casting as far as John goes. I'm not the biggest fan of T1 or T2, but T3 was simply trash. I'm happy that there isn't an Arnold bot in this one. I can't stand Arnold and why any one would want him in this films is just crazy. Simply because he was in the other three. Good for him for me he is on of the things that dragged them down. He is a terrible terrible actor one of the worst in fact.

I agree with you Vic...I think Anton Yelchin was a poor choice for Kyle Reese considering the actors that were available that looked the part and could play the part(tough and war weary)...I think the trailer looks very promising and I am really looking forward to this film..

The speech Connor gives Marcus is laugh out loud funny. (Totally out of character)

The line, "This isn't the future my mother told me about" sums up my feelings on this re imagined franchise.

Huge Transformer Harvesters, Robotron motorcycles, bad casting, was that a fleet of (apocalypse now) helicopters? and did anyone notice the ET symbolism when he flies past the moon on his motorcycle.
This almost looks like a Terminator parody. I lol, when he shot the crushed endo at point blank range with the AR-15. Those bullets wouldn't have been able to penetrate the skull of a Terminator. They would have ricocheted off that curved skull prob right back into his crotch. Lame!!!
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@kenny
I love how you seem to defend this film, even as you say it won't hold up to T1 and T2,,, you seem to defend the film as long as your responding to my comments then as Vic brings up a point on casting your quick to rag on it...
Btw I never mentioned this sucking because there not following canon laid out in T3,,,

"This war ends tonight". Lame,,,
I sure hope this film ruins Mcg once and for all... Really sad as the future war practically writes itself if they would have stuck with the mythology laid out in T1,,, not T3.

Terminator Salvation my ars.

I still maintian that the big one at the end escaped from Sids Toy box from Toystory, and the motorcycles really don't look like they belong and were thrown in there becasue Michael Rejected them for Transfomrers and someone had to use them, why not McCraptastic.
Other than those issues, looks pretty darn good to me.

Um, I've mentioned the Anton Yelchin thing LOOOONG before Vic mentioned it here... It was one of the very first observations I made about this. T1 is one of my favorite movies, so when this film was announced, one of the first things I looked out for was who they cast for Kyle Reese, and when I saw who it was, I commented on it right away, and that was like months ago... But whatever, lol. You can be wrong as much as you like, I have no qualms with it.

And like I've said before, in case your reading comprehension skills have gone down the drain, again, I am not judging this based on T1 and T2. To me, you can be many steps below them and still be good entertaining movies. I said I think this looks like it might be an entertaining movie on its own. I've agreed with someone else that it doesn't seem very "Terminator-ish" in terms of being canon with the original TWO. But still looks entertaining. The reason why I didn't like T3 was not for that reason, the reason I didn't like T3 is because it SUCKS, both as a Terminator film AND as a normal action film.

Terminator - Great, groundbreakng

Terminator - Great, triumphs over the cliche of sequels sucking

Terminator 3 - Absolute garbage

Terminator: Salvation looks great! We will have to wait and see!

Who are you = I'm John Connor

Who are you = I'm Batman

I love the hyper-real war-feel that they're clearly achieving here. Finding something "new" in something not only "old" but very revisited isn't easy, and I think they've achieved that as well.

The paradigm of something like TERMINATOR is made of somethat will "flex" the constraints that we as fans put on the franchise - forever. Sarah Connor on Fox lives independently, outside of ANYTHING and is a direect follow up to the second film, but has nothing to do with the 3rd or fourth or subsequent offerings according to Prop Master Scott Buckwald in his interview with us.

While we all have varying "loves" for the original film, films and subsequent offerings, the fact is that it's time to flex, folks. I'm there and taking it all in. I love Bale as the choice and while a couple here have said "oh look it's a cowlless Batman" Bales action chops shine through BRILLIANTLY here. Not many can pull off the angry Metallica voice and sound different and Bale DOES it!

The opening line of this trailer emphasizing that this isn't the future my mother told me about is PERFECT for what is the launch of this branch of the TERMINATOR Franchise tree.

LOL @ ADT, yah yah yah, I'm hearing a lot of people saying he's using the Batman voice. But I don't think so, because I can actually understand him. I couldn't understand a single thing Batman was saying when he was talking to Lt. Gordon... I think I'll turn on captions when I watch the DVD for that scene, lol.