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It is now time for the fans to rise because #HeIsBack! How excited are you on a scale from 1 to 10 (10 being pumped as fuck).
Trailer Tease Analysis:
Time to hit play on this 15 second Teaser Trailer- for a Trailer. Time to be critical and look at this in detail.
0.00-0.01:
Music slams in and the word TOMORROW appears in the new Terminator Genisys font style… Excitement level set at… interested. The length of waiting time experienced to see this puts my expectations very, very high indeed.
0.01-0.04:
A familiar enemy morphs through the front of a smashed windscreen of a moving car. This could indeed be this T-1000’s attempt to leap into the back of an armored truck that the T-800 is driving while Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) and Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) try to protect the back of the truck by pumping this counterfeit police officer with round of ammunition. Watching this scene frame by frame you can see bullets deflecting as sparks, my mind has problems dealing with how the bullets damage the liquid metal this time around. More crumple than a liquid distortion.
The squareness of the car suggests that this in the 1984 LA setting of the movie before the characters will travel to a 2017 time period as discussed in our previous stories.
The night setting gets a thumbs up, wet roads, disused trailers from large trucks, maybe this chase goes through some kind of industrial park/site? We can see tall buildings in the background (LA) even though New Orleans is the filming location and the filmmakers have used New Orleans to recreate a 1984 LA setting for this particular timeline in the movie.
The CGI seems particularly weak in this scene and although the concept is cool- it does NOT feel like an evolutionary step up from Terminator 2: Judgment Day in the liquid metal effects department. Hopefully this is not the final product; but it is better than the awful liquid metal T-X transformation in the cemetery in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
Raise the bar people. We could have a fantastic sequence here,- the T-1000 in liquid metal form bringing back the shape and feel of Robert Patrick’s liquid metal God.
Lee Byung Hung has the physicality to do the role justice so we can’t have below par CGI lowering the quality of such a chase sequence.
0.04-0.05:
I have problems with the word ‘He’ appearing in the teaser or trailer, it denotes that we are saying Arnold Schwarzenegger is back and that the Terminator is a person; The Terminator is not a ‘he’ it is not human the T-800 is an ‘it’. Sexless, therefore genderless despite the aesthetic appearance of a male. It is back would be more suiting to the dark roots of Terminator. The use of ‘he’ reinforces that this is a humanized version of ‘The Terminator’ (Pops). As a hardcore fan I want current day Schwarzenegger to be evil at some point in this new trilogy not just a CGI bad young version of him. I really don’t know how much more surrogate father Terminator I can take and if the movie is PG-13 then the younger Arnold Schwarzenegger could be dethroned as the badass Terminator we once knew in a reverse from his original R Rated setting into the feared PG-13 territory.
0.05-0.06:
Next up we get to see the Time Displacement Equipment.
The ring design created in concepts by Steve Burg (which were later used in the movie ‘Contact’) are back as we had hoped. Nice blue color tone to the cinematography and lighting. Love seeing electric streaks that we have seen in previous Terminator movies. It is unknown where the location to this is timeline-wise or who the people are but they could be resistance fighters. I do feel slightly confused at all the people in here like it’s a public event. Could there be more than one time machine in the movie in different timelines?
This could be 2029 showing Kyle Reese going back through time just after the young T-800 will in the full trailer (if past reports are correct and the trailer hasn’t been altered).
This isn’t how I imagined the Time Displacement Chamber to look,- as I always took the Jim Cameron and Steve Burg concept arts as canon in my mind of how it should look. Even Terminator Dawn of Fate did a good job at following those designs.
If this isn’t the time displacement device it could also be SkyNet’s main CPU and the rings could be a device of confusion but it is most likely the time machine. “Time is the Ultimate Weapon” according to Terminator: Genisys… ! On a more positive note this time machine might not be located in the heart of SkyNet but another location like Cheyenne Mountain, a location of SkyNet at NORAD’s base of operations also in the mythos, or a secondary housed base of SkyNet where the machine is located. Obviously this is a reboot so things will get changed.
If the location of SkyNet was say Cheyenne Mountain then the base would be under rock and be more of an underground base from SkyNet than the SkyNet Pyramid we glimpsed in Terminator 2: 3-D Battle Across Time.
0.06-0.06:
We get to the ‘is’ in “He is back” … obviously waiting for the word ‘back’ now after some more glimpses. The font is good and I accept this for future publicity material/websites. It is right for the image of the movie.
0.06-0.07:
Judgment Day… or should that be Judgment Night?
The painful memory of Terminator 3 hits me in the face, touted as “standalone” why are there so many homages to all the other movies in this movie? Didn’t Arnold Schwarzenegger say CGI in the movie would be to a minimum and that CGI would only be used where necessary to make you go wow? I was expecting more practical effects than this. This scene does look like a similar shot from T3 but panned out further into SPACE! Again the CGI isn’t doing anything for me and it looks like a digital artist left a copy of photoshop open and his 3 year old drew white lines with a paint tool while he went to use the bathroom. Is this another excuse to not show the trauma of Judgment Day or people exploding and instead we hear the silence of space and distant rumblings of nuclear destruction to build tension instead of showing the actual carnage and hysteria… It is actually less impressive than T3’s apocalyptic scenes.
0.07-0.08:
#HeIsBack yes… okay but where is ‘Arnold’?
0.08-0.09:
Here he is…
I do like his facial expression; this looks like 1984 facial expression T-800! A leather jacket how cool. I’m sorry but I’m gonna bring focus to this f*cking arm… a CGI arm… In Terminator Salvation they did a great Terminator fist clasp in the Terminator factory scenes with a practical effect arm, so why are they doing this with CGI?? His arm is steaming because his flesh has probably just been taken off… but no blood whatsoever. If my arm looked like that I’d probably have the same facial reaction as Arnold in this picture.
Is this whole scene and some of the rain also CGI behind one or two real layers of water being sprayed down on set? Sadly the arm made this a scene I sadly LOL’d at. I would rather have just seen Arnold Schwarzenegger turn towards the camera with a badass iconic hand held gun with a laser sighting. The Terminator’s big return and debut after all these years is looking at his arm bemusedly like sad batman! I can actually imagine Batfleck emerging from the rain and giving the T-800 a hug.
The arm seems dimensionally wrong, could this be due to streamlining the T-800 Endoskeleton design? The original Endoskeleton matches Schwarzenegger’s cranium and body size specs… how tiny is that skeleton in his body? It’s like the arm of a teenager. They really need to sort this scene out. An obvious homage- not bettering the original execution. Why are we regressing here in laziness (using CGI to cut corners on practical effects) or in PG-13 comic book style fervor… Practical Arm NEEDED… BLOOD WANTED. #NotGoodEnough
Releasing effects like this in the final product will not stand the test of time with audiences.
0.09-0.12:
Overall the trailer did create some interest for me, I did like some of what I saw but the CGI-VFX stopped this being a great tease. I don’t think it was a good move to tease the trailer in this way, I enjoyed the Motion Poster much more. I would rather have seen a really badass image of Arnold as the T-800 holding a gun.
It definitely looks more enjoyable than T3 or salvation but that isn’t a hard thing to achieve. There is hope here. VFX and CGI are the main and only real gripes, this can be rectified or polished before a theatrical release.