Terminator Salvation, the fourth movie in the Terminator series, opened to $13.4 million on Thursday, according to Box Office Mojo. The tally puts the apocalyptic action film, which stars Christian Bale, on pace for a five-day gross of more than $70 million. Over the four-day holiday weekend, Terminator Salvation will be fighting for box-office victory against the family comedy Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, which opens Friday.
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Again, I wish they would compare it to the other blockbusters.
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I thought it was a very satisfying terminator film. Lots of great action. Not as good as T2, but better than T3, by far.
I definitely seemed to like it more than many critics … a B+ from me.
Last nite, while waiting in line for an advance screening of the Night at the Museum sequel, I was asking people exiting a Terminator showing if they liked it or not. About 2/3 said they really liked it a lot. The other 1/3 seemed to really dislike it. Interesting that there was NOBODY that came in mid-range. Looks like it’s a movie you either will like a lot or hate!
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I loved it. Although it made me long for the Sarah Connor Chronicles….sigh. Oh well. At least terminator lives on someway.
Terminator was a great movie.. the story was good.. the action amazing.. too me its up there with T2
Terminator was a great movie.. the story was good.. the action amazing.. too me its up there with T2
Its a lot better then T3. Comparable to T2 but falls short because of its chaotic nature. T2 was smooth even during action scenes we knew what was going around. In T4 they have tried to put in too much action in scenes and in doing they kind loose track of emotions and the story line.
Terminator Salvation is a good film though it was more focused on Marcus Wright than on John Conner. We’ll see where we go with the following two films.
I just finished watching the movie. What do other people think of the Nazi imagery (cattle car, death camp) in a mainstream summer movie? Does it show the horror of the holocaust, or does it cheapen history by showing up as part of fiction/entertainment?
I can’t wait to see this. Bale and JC rock! http://cuteguysandgirls.com
I agree Terminator Salvation focused more on Marcus Wright than on John Conner. Which was ok, but I wanted to see more of Christian Bale take John Conner into that leadership role and see the character come more into what we are expecting to eventually see in the future movies.
I haven’t seen the film yet (going tonight) but it seemes to me that the fanboy crowd has one of two reactions to almost every film- LOVE it or hate it and there is no in-between. Some films are flawed(most area). Some are just good but not great while some are OK. The crowd for Summer films is getting harder and harder to please!
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I just got out of a 5pm showing of the movie in a theater where only 17 people showed up to see it. And it’s just god awful. Mindless dialogue. No story other than the same man versus machine stuff we saw years ago. That’s of course interspaced every five minutes or so with an explosion. I mean really there’s no need to lie about this garbage. People are going to discover how bad it is anyway. Expect the fanboy crowd to turn out first weekend and then die off quickly from there. No wonder movie critics walked out of theaters cursing worse than Bale. When the terminators look like people walking around in costumes in various scenes and all you need to “to blow up the world” so to speak, is a toy remote control with a toggle switch, there’s only so much suspension of belief one can do to buy into a film.
I saw it, though I thought it was nothing special. The only time I really got excited was when the T-800 makes it appearance. Those who have seen it know what I’m talking about.
I saw it, and thought it was a solid B. A little too chaotic for its own good, but I didn’t think the action hurt it too much. To differ from the others on this site, Marcus was far more interesting than Connor in this movie. In my opinion there is one really horrible and cliche’d flaw that the movie committed, and that was the ending. I don’t want to say anything to spoil it directly, but let’s just say that there was no reason at all for the film to end as it did. It was as if the creators felt they needed some emotional tearjerker or something.
The orignial Terminator is one of my favorite movies. I liked Terminator Salvation very much. I didn’t love it, but I definitely liked it.
T4 was decent. I was never bored watching the movie, yet nor was I enthralled. There were interesting visuals. I liked the whole post-JD visuals. Made you feel like a war had happened. Also, for anyone who read the prequel book (which was pretty awful despite being written by legenday Star Wars writter Timothy Zahn) you’ll recognize a war-torn LA and Reese running away from a Terminator with speechless Star.
Where are the philosophical discussions? Where are any discussions? What’s the purpose of Kate Connor and her unborn baby? So set up for a sequel too.
C+ (barely)
I liked TS better than Star Trek, the action sequences were fairly spectacular, it’s interesting that the Marcus character was more of a focal point than John Connor.
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Worst movie of the year so far. Big, big drop next week.
Just got out went to 6:30 show..maybe 40 in theatre…it was ok…but wow…we expected way more people…kinda sad how empty
It was horrible!
Let’s just say I burst out in laughter TWICE and it was not supposed to be funny….I think it was supposed to be touching LOL
you.do.not.want.
A majority of the story made no sense at all. I wanted to drift off to sleep but I didn’t want to offend my friend who bought the tickets. Lots of whispering throughout the movie!
t’was ok. I prefered T3 over it (don’t understand why so many people hate T3) but it was entertaining. A summer movie. Not as good as Star Trek though. B-
Some people take movies like this too seriously! I thought it was GREAT.
The ending was pointless. SO friggin manufactured because they had no ending, but what do you expect from the people that wrote Catwoman.
The theater where I saw this was very empty and it was the 7:00 PM show. I heard a few people mumble how it sucked as they walked out.
It was just a series of explosions, so they could have good clips to use in the commercials and trailers. It seemed crudely edited and it seemed they didn’t care about the end product.
The movie made me down right angry. I’m pretty hard on movies, and I had high hopes for this one. I’ve never come out of a movie before feeling like I just graded some kids homework. The beginning credits dragged. The pacing of the movies seemed awkward and off beat.The dialogue was to direct with no room for subtext. Whoever the editor and cinematographer were need to be fired and not allowed to even post on YouTube. The score was unremarkable and was put in at odd places. And for a film done by ILM this was a poor way to honor the late Stan Winston.
The movie dosen’t suffer from a poor job from the actors, so much as just poor directions and lack of vision.
Seems like it was done by someone who just got out of film school or did it in their basement.
Huge thumbs down for a movie that could have been awesome.
I thought it was great, comparable to T2.
T3 was a giant piece of garbage that made no sense whatsoever. Arnold was only mildly inconvenienced by the supposedly awesomely powerful TX. Anybody who thinks that was a good movie is illogical.
Now in TS, the story line made perfect sense, there were no long awkward stories that included random crap, like the speeches in T3, and everything was visualized in TS, so if you couldn’t follow the movie its your fault, not the director.
I give it an A-.
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Having not seen any previous terminator film, i was nervous about seeing this one- would i get it? would i be lost?
happily, i loved it! it was a great, straight up action film, and it was INTENSE. a few silly moments, but they were forgivable.
and helena bonham carter was in it. Need i say more?
8.5/10
It was a very well done movie. I consider myself a sci-fi fan, more so than your average moveigoer. With that being said, if people are looking for the next “usual suspects” type movie go somewhere else. This is what it is a continuation of the Terminator story line and a sci-fi movie. I would recommended to all who enjoy that genre. If your looking for something more snooty why did you even bother coming to the theater? Its entertainment and good at that. Simply put.