Terminator Salvation is almost here!

Considering that a year ago I was less than thrilled about the prospects for a new Terminator movie for 2009, the fact that the upcoming release, Terminator Salvation has me stoked is quite a compliment...

Well, the official release of the new Terminator Salvation movie starring Christian Bale is now less than a week away and I have to say that I am personally really starting to feel a real positive buzz about this movie. That is a pretty impressive notion considering the recent negative publicity the movie received with the highly publicized on-set meltdown of the film's star (Bale), the audio of which was recorded in its entirety and released onto the internet. As well I have to admit that when I first heard that a fourth Terminator movie was in the works I was not that enthused, but once I heard that Christian Bale's name was attached to the project the new Terminator movie 2009 gained a lot more credibility in my mind.

Until now, the Terminator franchise was really looking kind of like it had almost reached the end of the road; In its current form the story lines of the franchise looked like they had been mined about as much as they could in any interesting way. There had been three Terminator movies and an ongoing television series and the storyline of impending doom seemed like it was truly done. (the fact that the third Terminator film was lackluster reinforced this point) However the makers of this movie went with an idea that should have been more obvious to me: a chronicle of life after the computer Armageddon and take over. This was an idea that always only been scantly touched on in the previous movies and had only been more fully developed in the various licensed Terminator comic book series over the past twenty years. Now, preceded by a kick ass grim and gritty trailer, the new Terminator Salvation movie is finally here, and I for one could not be happier.

A meatier Terminator Salvation trailer is now out.

I went out with some friends last night to attend the midnight screening of the new Watchmen movie (well, technically it was the 12:01 screening, just so the theater was not screening the film before the allowed date) and of course there were anumber of trailers before it. The one that I thought was the most enjoyable of all of the trailers shown was the new Terminator Salvation trailer. I felt that it really helped to sell the movie in a couple of ways: first it showed the film to have an interesting plot with some twists to it, and second, it showed off some of the films special effects to very good effect. The earlier teaser trailer was just that and did not have as many effects available at its disposal to show audiences; this time around, there is definitely much more available to choose from for the filmmakers in their promotion efforts.




Seeing the intensity that Christian Bale has brought to roles such as Batman and apparently this upcoming Terminator film, I just can't help but imagine how he might portray another somewhat iconic hero figure, that being Captain America. I mention this only because there is currently much discussion and speculation by comicbook fans about who they think should portray the iconic hero in the future Captain America movie. There is already a Director attached to the project (Joe Johnston) so the naming of a lead can't be too far away and I think that Bale would do a good job of it thoughg he would probably want to avoid the typecasting by that point since he will be donning the cape and cowl for a third Batman film at some point from what I have heard. Oh well I can always imagine...