RE: The Terminator
May 5, 2014 at 12:07 am
(This post was last modified: May 5, 2014 at 12:08 am by Anomalocaris.)
The first one was great. The second one put on a good show, but you can already see the franchise setting sorry course for the third and forth.
I think giving storyline "closure" satisfy the fans who take the story too seriously. But it detracts from the power of the genera, which resides having an poorly defined, amorphous and yet implacable menace hanging over the audience.
This is why terminator 1 works. The antagonist is defined just well enough to maximize the threat and menace from the unknown. Same with the first alien movie.
Once the franchise tries to rationalize the story, the whole thing loses its potency and gradually degenerates into a largely brainless CGI pyrotechnic brain rotter.
I think giving storyline "closure" satisfy the fans who take the story too seriously. But it detracts from the power of the genera, which resides having an poorly defined, amorphous and yet implacable menace hanging over the audience.
This is why terminator 1 works. The antagonist is defined just well enough to maximize the threat and menace from the unknown. Same with the first alien movie.
Once the franchise tries to rationalize the story, the whole thing loses its potency and gradually degenerates into a largely brainless CGI pyrotechnic brain rotter.
