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Terminator Salvation – Blu-ray Review

August 5th, 2012 By David Scarborough

Thanks to some unfortunate incident called Charlie?s Angels, the regrettably named McG has been tarred with the same brush as his peers Brett Ratner and Uwe Boll.

In fact, his handle on the Terminator story turned out to be a surprisingly decent entry into the muscular Arnie franchise.

McG knew he had much to prove, this would be an Arnie-less sequel for a series he owned from the moment his naked buttocks walked in front of the lens. So, with Bale serving as the ?name? on the banner it may come as a surprise that he actually has far less to do here than expected.

Why Terminator: Salvation Is 2009’s Most Relevant Summer Movie

August 7th, 2012 By hecklerspray staff

Full disclosure: we were completely sober when we watched Terminator: Salvation.

And yes, it very much is the most relevant summer movie of the year.

Why? The Terminator franchise has a history of being timely, a sort of dark mirror reflection of current society when each film was created. The first film has been described as a punk love story ? perhaps the most apt description of the feeling of alienation and disenfranchisement many young people had in the early 1980s. The shadow of some future nuclear conflict wasn?t science fiction as much as it was everyday headlines, and the idea that a relentless killing machine might come back in time and chase one of us down seemed possible if not probable.

Up Goes Up The Weekend Box Office (See What We Did There?)

May 31st, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

It's the summer. And that means that, as weekend box office law states, all films released now must be angry, loud and full of massive robots punching each other.

But weekend box office law has another rule for the summer – that Pixar gets to release a new movie, and it'll make all the other films look a bit silly in comparison. And this year that film is Up, the new US weekend box office number one.

What made Up so popular? Was it the groundbreaking technological accomplishments? The mature storytelling? No, it was all the balloons. Balloons are fun. Wheeeee!

Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is

August 4th, 2012 By Chris Laverty

Phat and Small.

Folded:

Terminator Salvation (worse than hoped, better than expected)
Farmers (about the only people doing great during this recession. Why? Because of the weak pound we have to buy our produce over here, that's why)
Outrun Online Arcade, downloadable for PSN and Xbox LIVE (more fun than cheating at your exams)
We Are the People by Empire of the Sun (calming in a really cool, just drunk kind of way)
Moon Bloodgood (see Terminator Salvation. Wow…just WOW)

Creased:

Bank holiday drinkers (why not drink on the Sunday instead? You have Monday off, not Tuesday. Cretins)

Film Foam: Terminator, Iron Man 2, Wheelman

May 19th, 2009 By hecklerspray staff

Ciphering through the wasteland of recent movie related news, a few choice nuggets stick out between the tidal wave of trailers and clips that have submerged the internet recently.

Sherlock Holmes is now blowing shit up instead of smoke rings and all creativity seemingly being lost, Hollywood enlists Peter Berg to direct an adaptation of the board game Battleships (Wasn?t that Crimson Tide?). If someone doesn't shout out ?You sunk my battleship? then something has truly gone awry.

So at least this week has proved to be surprising! Here?s some more?

Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is

August 4th, 2012 By Chris Laverty

Folded for the good stuff, Creased for the bad.

Folded:

Land of the Lost trailer online (and, surprisingly, it looks okay)
Being only as tall as a Ribena Berry yet still being able to kick everyone's ass (we're talking about you, Mr. Jack Bauer)
The Thing…coming back to your screens on September 15th (a giant widescreen head on legs? We’re there)
Dr. Oetker pizzas (extra fat, extra taste)
Dizzee Rascal (don't let the fact that Dizzee looks like a sixth-former playing truant fool you, he’s alright)

Creased:

Four minute Terminator Salvation clip online (enough already)

Schwarzengger In Terminator Salvation? Nobody Knows, Or Cares

April 22nd, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

It had it all – a furious star, a nonsense story, an oddly-named director – but now Terminator Salvation has more.

That’s right – Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sort of. Even though it opens next month, Arnold Schwarzenegger still doesn’t know if he’ll be in Terminator Salvation or not. He might be, but only if producers insert footage from the first Terminator into the new film.

Which is rubbish. We want Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator Salvation in real life, perhaps as a demonstration of the time Skynet got drunk and made a murderous robot that looked like a fat old man for a laugh.

$160m Flesh-Covered Terminator Salvation Lawsuit Already Arrives From The Future

March 25th, 2009 By Shawn Lindseth

Judging by the trailers, the basic plot to Terminator Salvation has something to do with flesh-covered robots enslaving everything all over the place.

If that sounds terrifying – don’t worry, because according to other trailers we’ve seen John Connor defeats them by reprogramming a bunch of Roomba vacuum cleaners to infiltrate the enemy and destroy them from the inside.

We’re told this scene is particularly gripping, as one robot vacuum has to slowly suck up its own mother.

But this isn’t the only Terminator Salvation drama – no! There’s also a producer already suing other producers for 160 million in non-robot dollars.

Watch The New Terminator Salvation Trailer

March 25th, 2009 By hecklerspray staff

Hey kids, here?s the new Terminator Salvation trailer – and, though we hate ourselves for saying this, it looks pretty good.

But we warned, the trailer does give away some pretty important Terminator Salvation plot details – like the bit where Christian Bale realises that the only way to beat the invincible machine army it to loudly berate it for trashing his scene, mock the way it walks by screaming “AH DA DA DA DAH” at it and then inform it that he’s finished with it professionally. So, you know, watch it at your own peril.

Christian Bale Rant: Stars Continue To Spoil Our Fun

March 24th, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

Christian Bale’s Terminator rant is easily the best thing to happen to the world in about five years – fact.

But what’s also fact is it’s not universally loved. The sad truth is that some saps can’t take pleasure from a recording of a prick being a prick to a prick. And, inevitably, most of those people are famous.

So far, Whoopi Goldberg and Terry Crews have stood up for Christian Bale, building hopes that there’ll soon be an all-star charity concert to raise awareness of the rights of unbearably dickish actors with indeterminate accents so. Fingers crossed it’s called AH-DAH-DAH-DAH-DAH-Aid.