could this rock any more?!
Mar. 6th, 2009 12:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Heheh. New Terminator Salvation trailer decidedly doesn't suck, woohoo!! Not that any of the footage I've seen so far has been worrying, but, new trailer? Super cool.
And it manages to co-exist beautifully with the TV show, so we get all the angles covered.. I'm a happy bunny. It looks immense, and dark, and there's a twinge of Dark Knight in there (which can't hurt box office) and yet there's also a lot of bleak, sunbleached skull-crunching warzone stuff.. I'm sold.
And Bryce Dallas Howard, yay!
From what I can hear, Sam Worthington is sounding slightly Aussie though... It's not impossible in that universe (Jessie's presence got explained a couple of episodes back in Sarah Connor) but I get the impression the character is supposed to be American, unlike Jessie. Which bugs me, yet again... I also get the impression that some Americans don't recognise Aussie accents, as a lot of them seem to slip through without mention when people are playing Brits/Americans.
Russell Crowe, especially, can't hold an accent up to save his life these days (seriously, just compare LA Confidential with American Gangster. He's actually worse at keeping the accent up now than before he won the Oscar. Go figure.) . Melissa George bugged me the whole way through her stint in Alias by sounding ridiculously non-English... and I could go on but it's turning into a bit of a rant now.
Last week was also Franklyn. Ah, almost, almost, such a great film. Shame about it being totally batshit crazy.
Although - Meanwhile City was fabulous, and I am so impressed with Ryan Philippe's Brit accent (proper accent, rather than the posh version most A listers adopt) and his running around doing a Rorschacht impression with a very funky mask.
The whole thing was well done, really, it just asked you to swallow rather a lot of hallucinations and insanity, and poor Sam Riley's character was terminally dull to the point where you wondered why he was there (to hallucinate some more and then stop a bullet, as it happens). The only bugger was that the few minutes that Eva Green and Ryan Philippe were onscreen together, you suddenly got a flash of the completely different, less batshit crazy, direction the film could have gone in. And it makes you sad that they chose to do what they did instead.
As mad as it was, Meanwhile City would have had more heart as a real alternate world, and it would have been cool to see Eva cope with an actual bleed-through between the two realities rather than the umpteen pretentious suicide attempts we were treated to instead. Although the fantasy elements were obviously there, is the weird thing - the janitor at the hospital (St Thomas', of course, lol!) was either psychic or some kind of angel, and whatever the hell 'Sally' was, I'm assuming it was some kind of guardian angel? But sadly Eva and Sam's characters had zero chemistry and would have made a dreadful couple, so you weren't exactly rooting for them by the end of the film (although you were endless rooting for the crazy homicidal David/Preest. What is that about? Aside from the Rorschacht factor, of course..)
It wasn't disappointing in the end. It had the particular Lost-y squee factor from seeing familar characters suddenly in strange situations being different people.. I was never the biggest Sawyer fan, but seeing him as Head of Security was absolutely priceless. And oh, look, he and Juliet don't seem to play mindgames and make each other miserable, so they're already well up on him and Kate. They were absolutely adorable, actually - why does Juliet always have to lose out to Kate though? Because she's too dignified to really fight for her side, perhaps.
Ack. I still feel like we've missed out on some continuity there though... and where's Dan?! All we got was a quiet little breakdown and then him seeing what could only have been a much younger Charlotte when they arrived - and not mentioned or seen again. So sad...
