Terminator Salvation

Two days ago, the teaser trailer for Terminator Salvation was released.  The movie stars Batman, oops I mean Christian Bale as John Conner, the leader of the resistance forces against Skynet.  Now in the future, John Conner is much older and looks very different (obviously) as he and his forces fight the terminators sent out to destroy the very last of the human race. The movie is directed by McG, never heard of the director before but he does produce the funny secret agent oriented television show, ‘Chuck’.

The trailer was released July 16th, and fifty-five seconds long.  It is one of the most suspensful and entertaining teasers ever.  Most teaser trailers usually show the characters with their props and their costumes, or just have their voices playing over a bunch of words trying to hype up the movie and make it mores suspensful.  This trailer actually shows some action sequences and does show a well cut Bale, with army gear facing off against terminators and other robots Skynet has built. Bale now looks and sounds different, he has a raspy, voice in the trailer and he has a buzz cut.  Much different from Bruce Wayne, it wouldn’t be enjoyable to watch the movie if Batman was fighting the robots.

The teaser does what its supposed to do and has hyped up the movie, it feels like the movie is going to be completely different from the rest of the Terminator movies, the very first big difference is that Arnold won’t be in the movie.  Luckily he’s too busy being the Governor of California.  Maybe he will make a cameo appearance as the latest Terminator that is built and is sent through the wormhole at the end of the movie thus completing the cycle of the story.  The movie seems to be much, much more darker than the other ones.  There probably won’t be any comedic relief in this one which pretty much almost destroyed the third movie with Arnold and his witty lines.

The movie will be released next year in the summer of 2009.  If the teaser trailer is this good, then the trailer will be much, much better and the movie will be dam, fantastic.  Christian Bale will now have his fifteen minutes of fame being Batman and John Conner.