Rachel's Terminator Salvation Screening Notes
Like any critic worth his/her salt, I try to take notes during movies, to try to capture my initial reactions to what's going on on screen in an amusing fashion. The other day, I was hanging out with my friend Rachel Mercer (here's her blog and twitter) when I noticed she had an artsy notebook full of dense notes. I started reading some of her writings, taken during a screening of Terminator Salvation and found them pretty amusing. I asked her to share the rest with me, which she did below via e-mail (republished with permission). Note: SPOILERS ahead for Terminator Salvation.
"For the rest of my Terminator film notes that you asked about (copied pretty much verbatim, spelling errors and shorthand included), see below:
- Exterior shots are best. Interesting coloration.
- Inside shots shaky, leaves much to be desired
- seamless helicoptor shot is interesting bit of cinematography
- mushroom cloud incites fear in anyone
- these shots vary btwn compelling and sloppy
- cue hoarse batman voice!
- crawling out of the mud per frankenstein (Robert Deniro)
- action scenes sloppy, rest is relatively tight.
- USB sticks in 2018?
- Anton Yelchin unexpected after recent star trek appearance
- holy shit kids with guns
- Yelchin's performance falls flat
- radio still works?
- Moon Goodblood = hot. Need compelling strong woman per Res. Evil
- "All on the same side"
- convincing kinetic machine like mvmts in fight scenes (Marcus)
- "I'm a little cold" - srsly? Not the best script
- always with the "thank you for saving me back there"
- "I'm not a good guy" BS
- Holocaust-like imagery w/ humans ferried into warehouses
- Interesting faceoff bale vs marcus
- an unexpected machine meets human love story
- above water hydro eels remind me of scene in princess bride
- sloppy cgi
- WTF fake Arnold, that was not expected."
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I didn't even see Terminator Salvation and I find that amusing.
I did the same thing for Transformers 2, except I only brought in post-it notes...I ended up using 6 of them (back and front = very hard to write on in a cinema). I ended up with much the same rambling.
Some highlights:
- why is Isabel Lucas orange?
- car drop = nuke fridge
- callous murder of civilians
- obama looks like an idiot
- LP song is best thing about this film
- topical jokes = EPIC FAIL
- teleport - WTF
- the fallen is a NAME?
- "i've gotta trust him" = kill me
- josh duhamel must feel like such an asshole delivering those lines
- why is it so long? 45min to go?
- Team America destruction
- PARENTS ARE BACK?!?
- what is the point of this all?
- "leaving parents" = laughable
- so much for grounded in reality...they blew up Shanghai! American team blows up Chinese city!!!
- NO TUTURRO - stay with coens
- fallen guy finally shows up...like 30min late
- "this isn't over" - worst sequel bait ever
conor.
July 13, 2009 at 5:32 AM