Favorite Films First Half 2015

1. The Lobster
2. Inside Out
3. Kingsman
4. Chappie
5. Sicario
6. Maps to the Stars: part Hollywood, part psychology, part metaphysical
7. It Follows
8. Ex Machina
9. Madonna 
10. Clouds of Sils Maria
11. Max Max: Fury Road 
12. Terminator: Genisys
13. Avengers 2: Age of Ultron
14. Kung Fury 
15. Ant-Man
16. Carol
17. The Age of Adaline
18. Tomorrowland 
19. Jupiter Ascending

Review: The Terminator is the sum of its GREAT GREAT parts

Since Terminator: Genisys is coming out, I figured I'd do an analysis of the Terminator.

Story:
The Terminator is about a machine that wants to stop a mother from delivering a child that lives through a tough life where he fights a war vs machines and goes to their military base nearly destroying them, prior to the machines sending a lone cyborg back in time to kill his mother, the main character of the story.

It's a sci fi classic story.
*****/*****

Style
This was such an interesting classic. It's a little beat over your head with the tech noir neon sign, in addition to having a story that's basically spelled out for you, but Sarah Connor as the femme fatale was a good choice. It may even be a reverse police story as there's no detectives and the police are obstacles in this story, which I may get to.
It's part sci fi. It's part romance. It's part chase film, a la the Driver or Smokey and the Bandit.
Watching Nick of WeLiveFilm's analysis of Back to the Future, I couldn't help but think of Terminator as well while watching it with chase scenes and time travel of the 80s before he mentioned it as well.

*****/*****

Action:
It's a little cheap at how the Terminator can't die or react other than with special effects when he's shot, but it's different.
It sorta reminds me of Chappie now where they just kill everybody no selling everything shooting up entire places.
The scene where he just runs the car through the police station is epic.
Suspense should be added to these scenes as there's a bit of terror as Sarah runs from the robot, afraid of how to destroy it, in every scene. Great job by Linda Hamilton!
*****/*****

Themes:
There's a fear of things different in this film.
Xenophobia,
Mechaphobia
Corporatephobia.

Fears of Nazis, Japanese, Russians, Cubans and other people making nuclear bombs to destroy you.
The fact that the Japanese economy in addition to the German were developing better steel factories were indicative of how relevant the end scene of the film was where the Terminator gets destroyed by another machine.
The idea of a corporation making nukes to make money that can destroy the world. The fact that there's. This sets up a lot of Paul Verehoeven's superior original classic RoboCop.

*****/*****

The acting:
Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese really should've been associated with the greats such as Martin Scorsese's Robert De Niro, Francis Ford Coppola's Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman in general. One of the best portrayals ever as the military paranoid Kyle Reese, who seems to be this scary unlikeable guy, who you don't know anything about in the film prior to seeing him shoot the other dude, who is later revealed to be a cyborg assassin. Side note on how no one has to explain how slow the Terminators fight or walk/run.

And Sarah Connor goes from this character that Cyberdyne makes just like a Terminator machine, fake bland and suburban white trash perfect to pulling off cool lines such as "You're terminated, Motherfucker!" That's just great.

There's regretably not a lot for the police officers to do, but they seem just as concerned for saving Sarah as Reese, albeit they just don't believe in this fantastical story about futuristic robots trying to kill everyone.





*****/*****
 
Casting:
Everyone was good.
And Arnold really broke out as the Terminator, doing whatever he could to look the part, not to mention the accent.
He seemed to be an action movie star because of this unique film, despite the great performances everyone overlooks by the rest of the cast.

*****/*****

Overall, a very unique film. It's not the most realistic where you have the existence of time travel, the improper use of time travel, as the machines can't pinpoint where to find Sarah Connor, or don't target a better place in the timeline to kill off her or the John Connor line, and a Terminator robot surviving truck explosions. And maybe there's something Rob Ager can tell me about Robot AI that's not accurate, which doesn't have to be in a movie.
*****/*****

List of PS3 games I recommend to my brother

Valkyria Chronicles
Uncharted 1-3

Mass Effect 1 and 2
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Tokyo Jungle

Little Big Planet 1-2
Metal Gear Solid 4
Final Fantasy XIII
Natural Doctrine
CastleVania
Child of Eden
Demon's Souls
Dark Souls 1-2
Thief
Eternal Sonata
Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection
Jenova Chen Collection
Katamari Forever
Knights of Amalur
Resonance of Fate
Tales
Time Crisis 4

Rebuy:
Wild Arms
Wild Arms 2
Mega Man X4
Mega Man X5

Films I should watch with my brother summer 2015

Age of Adaline
Ex Machina
Tomorrowland
Ratchet and Clank
Age of Ultron 2
Mad Max: Fury Road
Inside Out
Ant Man
Terminator Genisys
Fantastic Four
The Man from UNCLE

Best trailers Summer 2015

1. Ant-Man,
2. The Martian
3. The Walk,
4. Spectre
5. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, which is basically just Skyfall with a plane stunt
6. The Man from UNCLE, Guy Ritchie, yes.
7. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
8. Everest, 
9. Self/less
10. Southpaw

Ant-Man, looks like Honey I Shrunk the Kids meets Superman
The Martian, reverse Mann
The Walk, looks great in 3D.
Spectre, something original opposed to
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, B
The Man from UNCLE, B
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, C
Everest, a bunch of white dudes wanting to get themselves killed, F
Self/less, a film about Ben Kingsley wanting to become Borat again. F
Southpaw, Jake Gyllenhaal, crying about purposely getting his family ruined, F

Pieces of FF7 that will probably be DLC

Kung Fury DLC
Getting Gil
Leveling up
Getting weapons
Buying skins for vehicles
Buying skins for characters
Resurrecting Cait Sith No. 1
Dating Don
Dating anybody at Gold Saucer
Getting GP at the Gold Saucer
Kickstarter for bringing FFVII remake to Xbox One
Resurrecting Aeris

E3 2015: Halo and Gears of War

Halo: It feels cool that there's 24 players in multiplayer mode, but they didn't care about story, so why should I? Nothing else was really mentioned.

Gears of War, they showed nothing. Some monster. Didn't really look like the monsters from the first two games. Everything was too dark to see anything. (Microsoft didn't learn from First Person Shooters from 5 years ago.) Nothing too innovative, impressive or anything in this game.

List of complaints regarding Jurassic World

1. The movie is pretty much summarized by the kid using the original Jurassic Park banner as a torch
2. Test Tube Rex is smart according to the dialogue but not the audience
3. Test Tube Rex is Takeshi Kitano Rex
4. Test Tube Rex speaks Raptor
5. Test Tube Rex should be killed because he is Frankenstein
6. Test Tube Rex should be killed because he is Black Widow
7. Taxi Driver
8. The symbiote    
9. There's no main character
10. There's no family connection like with Alan Grant or Ian Malcolm and kids
11. The older brother is a hentai.
12. There's no John Williams
13. There's no arcs
14. There's no characters
15. Ron Howard's daughter plays someone with no character, and acts if she is just reading lines.
16. She gets involved in the worst romance in movie history
17. Star lord is introduced too late in the movie
18. Star lords best friend bishop has unknown whereabouts at the end of the movie  
19. The death scenes are g rated garbage  
20. There's a bunch of references to the military that may be propaganda and if so have a point
21. The illogical plot point of using raptors for military purposes goes wrong and not for the most rational reason
22. The movie doesn't have an ending 

Stuff that should be done to change Final Fantasy 7 for the 20th Anniversary:

Should Aeris be resurrected?
Business vs art, so DLC

Disc 2 and 3 monsters

Other worlds

Harder difficulty.

Collector's Edition PS4

Achievements
10 x beating Ruby Weapons

Peter Molyneaux FF7

Aeris DLC
Star Wars with Obi-Wan Kenobi

Aeris is deleted from the game after .
Even in replays you can't get Aeries.

Sephiroth Clones

JENOVA
Advent Children

FFT

Mini Games

Cloud's Date
Anybody

Other enemies Lifestream

Cloud use a gun SOLDIER

Lifestream=internet

Final Fantasy crossovers, character uses

Crossdressing Cloud? Lightning in Buster Sword Uniform

Sephiroth should have two performances


FF4 Journals Bravely Default Encounter Rate

Why Lost World is a good sequel to Jurassic Park

Instead of using Sam Neill, take Steven Spielberg’s place as the star of the film, it’s Jeff Goldblum as the Ian Malcolm character dealing with his kids, promoting him from his role in the first film.
Heck, he even has Julianne Moore taking place of Laura Dern in the first film as archaelogist girlfriend.
Kelly’s adventure is stowing away.
No one really cares that Ian Malcolm had an interracial relationship or sexually promiscious. Points that were brought up in the first film. Pretty progressive.
I guess the third film they should’ve had Hammond as the main character, which they can’t really do now unfortunately.