But yea, having Bale on board does give the script a good endorsement... He's been in nothing but quality work before and after Batman Begins...

Yes, that was all horseshit I just pulled out of my ass.

McG tho, man I dont know. I think one thing they need to do, story-wise, is destroy some of the Terminator continuity. Like have John's wife get killed, or something, or else all you're left with is "well it's all going to work out because it's already been preordained by the first 3 movies that John wins and nothing can change that", and you have no feeling of danger at all.

Shit, at least I know what category I fall into now.

And AnimalStructure, he was good in Batman Begins (fat? your hate for Batman Begins has made your vision blurry), The Prestige (another good Nolan movie I might add), American Psycho, and though I haven't seen them, 3:10 to Yuma and Rescue Dawn, he's gotten good reviews for those roles.

McG: Hey there! Me (sitting down): Hi... uh... Mr... uh... um... G.

McG: Funny how I still use the name my high school buddies gave me, huh?

Me: I suppose. So what should I call you?

McG (scratches chin): Let's see... how about Manny? Me: Manny?

McG: Yeah. Call me Manny the Man! Yeah... that's cool too.

Me: Mmm, ok. So, about this new Terminator film...

I hope the new film kicks ass. I'd love to see Bale and his soldiers blast the shit out of those motherfucking cyborgs. I want the scenes to feel as real and bloody and pulse-pounding as Reese's memory of the red-eyed Terminator break in. I want the sadness of what's been lost, the desperation and tears of the survivors, I want the screams of people being roasted alive in giant machine-driven ovens, and, most of all, I want to see sullen but steely eyed Bale bring humanity back from the edge.

Make it happen, Joseph.

There's not one actor out there who hasn't made a bad movie. Sometimes even with very good directors.

The key to directing a good new Terminator film, in my opinion, is focusing on mood and character instead of spectacle. I'm not sure McG is necessarily the man to do this, but I remain hopeful until he proves me wrong. We'll see.

"We hafta WUUUHK tuhGEVVA!"

Sure it was made to piggyback on the success of the Matrix because of the look and feel of it but I thought that it succeeded so much more on different levels such as the fact that the fights were all done practically and based on a real theory, the acting was top-notch, and the story was coherent and realistic and you really identified with Bale's guilt and conscience after killing his best friend and seeing the woman he wrongly put in jail being burned to death as punishment for feeling. Yep, if you haven't seen this movie go rent or buy it now. Hell, even download it because after seeing it, you'll want to buy it.

As for Bale being in it, maybe the script is good and just having Bale in your movie elevates it automatically. I think that if the movie sucks balls then at least he would have given it his all and put in a good performance. I think at this point the movie will either suck bad or be great but then again it's looking like it just might be mediocre but with a great lead. I must say T3 left a bd taste in my mouth and could have been great if they had put some actual substance into it and not made it a self-parody but yeah the ending had some balls but that was about it.

People keep saying that want Schwarzenegger in the film but really how would they go about making him look 10-15 years younger? He looks like an old bag now and has let himself go recently. Maybe some CG-youngifying? It would be nice but I don't see how they would do it without it falling into that self-parody thing again. I think at the very least if the producers want the fans to get behind the project 100%, they need to get a director with some credibility in the geek community cause this just reeks of that piece of shit Transformers all over again.

Would the world end? I think it might.

Don't get me wrong; I quite like Mr Diggs (being a Day Break fan) but I'm surprised the director let him get away with his performance here. Bale's acting his guts out to appear like a man rediscovering his emotions and Diggs is there grinning like he's The Joker.

If this thing's gonna be a trilogy I want to see how Connor becomes a leader, I want to see the slave camps where the machines put the remaining humans and how they escape and form the resistance. They need to show in detail how terminators are made up. Do they use existing human templates like bodybuilders? That would be a good place to put the Arnold cameo. They also need to show where the advances in technology came from. Then the filmmakers have to essentially make the film gritty, like those first few minutes of T2 and the flashbacks from T1. Only then will it be anything like the way Cameron intended, at least in my mind.

Sheesh, just unbelievable...

M-O-M frothing at the mouth over Bayformers.

This is going to be a fun work day.

And Equilibrium does indeed rock, Reign of fire- not so much. I want to like it- Dragons and all are cool- but I can't get over feeling robbed by the poster which showed London being levelled by Dragons and then the whole film being set in Northumberland or some such dreary place. Cock teasing of the highest order- and not to be forgiven.

As if he's a marquee name in movies. Damn, that fuckin' name is so pretentious and stupid.