Video: “Terminator Salvation” trailer

posted at 4:50 pm on December 11, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Worth a ticket? It has a big(gish) star and isn’t as egregiously generic as the new “Star Trek” trailer, although it does of course contain the requisite shot of the hero and his nemesis face to face a foot apart doing the alpha-male staredown. And yet … something feels off. For one thing, they’re painting on a big canvas a la “Aliens” when T1 and T2 were really about the personal battle between Arnold and his foe. For another thing, they’ve got the human characters in the lead instead of the ‘bots, in whom all fascination lies. It’d be like shooting “Star Wars” from the perspective of the Storm Troopers. Or a Romero movie from the perspective of the zombies.

Which, come to think of it, would be awesome.

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