Let the Right Robot In

Well, I certainly enjoyed the new Terminator movie, but that is because I am quietly a Terminator geek. (Though I didn’t watch much of season 2 Sarah Connor, simply because I could never remember when it was on. I’ll get the DVD.) I mean, robots! KILLER ROBOTS!

So, this movie has no time traveling in it, which is nice because sometimes time traveling is annoying.  Though it’s never bothered me in the Terminator movies, probably because there are no stupid philosophical/physics-related questions as to what might happen if someone goes back in time and – *gasp* – meets themselves.

Some people really worry about this. I say, everything I need to know about time travel, I learned from the Back to the Future movies.  I.e., if you meet yourself in the past/future, you do not create a black hole or destroy the universe, you merely FAINT.  And your actions in the past can change the future.

Thank you.

Anyway, so Terminator Salvation was pretty decent, however I missed any mention of time travel at all, so if you hadn’t seen any of the previous Terminators, you might be confused why a 35-yr old guy is trying to rescue a teenager who he says is his dad…

But yeah, ROBOTS, EXPLOSIONS, naked CGI-Ahnold-as-T-800 cameo…

Heh.

I would give it a solid B grade.

Additional points for the Marcus-kind-of-an-infiltration-unit guy/robot being super hot.

*ahem*

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I would still like to see Star Trek again, plus there are still a couple of movies coming out this summer that I would like to see, including the new Transformers and the new Harry Potter.  I didn’t see the first Transformers in the theatre, and I think that it would have been pretty awesome. And I always go see HP in theatres.  This is the one where __________ dies, so I’m curious as to how that will be handled.

I’m currently trying to watch “Let the Right One In” which is a recent Swedish film about a vampire girl and a serial killer and bullies.  I had a hard time getting into it at first because the DVD is dubbed rather terribly into English, but I finally figured out how to get it to play in Swedish with subtitles and it’s much improved. I will try finishing that one tonight.  There is apparently an American remake in process, but, yawn.  The original is lovely, and hell, you can watch the crappy dubbed version if you don’t want to watch it in Swedish. I’m not sure why they’re remaking it, except that Hollywood hasn’t had an original idea in years.

Now, if Showtime would ever freakin’ replay Season 3 of Dexter, I’d be all set. Hmpf.