"Terminator Salvation" Movie Review

Title: Terminator Salvation

Year Of Release: 2009

Review Date: June 31, 2010

Rating: PG-13

Running time: 97 minutes

Box Office Gross: $122,444,772

Site Rating: 2 out of 10 stars

The film "Terminator Salvation" was a disappointment and did not live up to the hype that accompanied its marketing push. The Celluloid Film Review suspects, this is why domestic and international ticket sales, were relatively low for the fourth installment of the franchise. The problem was the script. It was bad and dark.

"Terminator Salvation" is about a man fighting off robots that have taken over the planet, after a war destroys modern civilization. The previous "Terminator" films weren't as severe in content or tone. So much of "Terminator Salvation" is muddled, making it one big mess that is sometimes tedious to follow.

Note: the Terminator films were born out of copyright infringement, as James Cameron stole the original script, from a New York paralegal named, Sophia Stewart, after it was passed to him, as revealed by an FBI investigation into the case. Cameron was later accused of stealing the show "Dark Angel" from another writer's copyrighted story, which was available on the internet, years before his program aired. The same story has repeated itself once again, as Cameron stole his latest film "Avatar."

Avatar Sales Status Questioned

Box Office Mojo has questioned the claims "Avatar" is the best selling film of all time. When adjusted for inflation it is not. Hollywood has raised ticked prices each year to make up for the fact that less people are going to the movie theaters.

Movie tickets used to be $4.50 in the 1980's and now the price has more than doubled to $10.50. They are overcharging the public, while bragging of alleged record-breaking revenues. Some studios also inflate their numbers, to steal the number one on Sundays, when box office tallies are announced. Sony and Warner Bros are notorious for this misconduct.

What this means is, to keep the kind of large profit base they desire, they have raised ticket prices so high, significantly less numbers of people are actually seeing the finished product, which is the film at the theatre. But they only care about the money, not moviegoers on the whole.

It really is not fair to films such as "The Ten Commandments" and "Gone With The Wind" that pulled in far more moviegoers to theaters than current movies claiming to be the best selling of all time.

STORY SOURCES:

http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm

http://business.theatlantic.com/2010/01/is_avatar_really_the_biggest_movie_of_all_time.php

Avatar Under Performs

James Cameron's latest flick, Avatar, has under performed at the North American box office. It's opening weekend tally is $72 million dollars. It was expected to do upward of $85 million in that time frame. The film cost $200 million dollars to make, with an additional $35-$50 million to market and advertise.

Avatar's impact is somewhat like that of "Watchmen." Big budget, a lot of hype, then massive fizzle. The box office numbers are not far apart as well.

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Box Office Report: 'Avatar' takes No. 1 with $73 million

After months of breathless buzz, speculation, and doubt, James Cameron’s Avatar finally arrived in movie theaters nationwide, and its box office prognosis definitely isn’t blue. The 3-D sci-fi epic landed at number one with an estimated $73 million, according to Hollywood.com Box Office.

The number is certainly on the lower end of expectations for the long-anticipated film, but considering that much of the east coast was buried under record snowfall for most of the weekend, it remains an unambiguously solid opening — the best 3-D debut ever and the second-best December debut behind I Am Legend.

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com

Avatar Is Overrated

I saw the trailer for James Cameron's forthcoming film "Avatar" and it is quite overrated, considering he claimed he created a new "fusion" camera system just for the movie that would change the way films are made.

Smurfs anyone?

However, looking at the trailer and accompanying publicity stills, it doesn't look much different than the processes used to make films like "Beowulf" or "The Chipmunks." Sorry, but that's how it looks to me. He behaved as though this thing would be celluloid on crack.

Avatar Is Overrated

I saw the trailer for James Cameron's forthcoming film "Avatar" and it is quite overrated, considering he claimed he created a new "fusion" camera system just for the movie that would change the way films are made.

Smurfs anyone?

However, looking at the trailer and accompanying publicity stills, it doesn't look much different than the processes used to make films like "Beowulf" or "The Chipmunks." Sorry, but that's how it looks to me. He behaved as though this thing would be celluloid on crack.