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Terminator Salvation - Holy Crap, It's Actually Quite Good!

Terminator Salvation is surprisingly good. Given the disappointingly forgettable summer popcorn flick that was Terminator 3, the fourth title in the series didn't give one hope of being much better. Worrisome things like the fact that McG, the new director 's most notable movie was " Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle " didn't help either. The fact that the credited writers were the geniuses behind the appalling Terminator 3 script really made it seem like an abandon-all-hope scenario. An audio recording of Christian Bale losing his temper on set was fairly amusing, but definitely not reassuring in any fashion. Given all of this, I went into the theater with fairly low expectations, and came out stunned and impressed by what I'd seen. Certainly stunned by the fact that the movie was almost just as good as T2 had been. Impressed by how well everything had been done - the writing, acting, effects and the entire movie overall. The scope of the movie's post-

A Prediction

I'm going to go out on a limb and make a prediction about the new Terminator movie: I think that it will be boring and halfway through it, people will start quoting the Christian Bale rant. What say you? You heard it here first on Montag's Reviews.

Star Trek XI: The Future Is Full of Lens Flare

My god Jim! It's full of lens flare! The first few mentions I heard of the new Star Trek movie didn't really bode well for it. A prequel? With 'younger versions' of Spock and Kirk? Directed by J.J. Abrams? Star Trek meets Lost? Oh my. This can't end well. The funny thing was, it did. It even broke the curse of the odd-numbered Star Trek movies being worse than the even numbered ones. Not only was it good, it was surprisingly good. It's possibly the second or third best Star Trek film ever, actually. Which is really impressive, frankly. Aside from a few minor annoyances, like the heavy use and abuse of lens flares ( apparently everything in the future is so bright it causes lens flares. That's how you know it's the future ! ) So what's the move like overall? Click below to read the rest of the review and find out! The movie follows Kirk and Spock as they grow up, and it's pretty funny at times, especially as you see hints of the people they will