Movie Preview (old post)

hahah, look at me, I'm actually posting something!

This was half-written during summer in sydney:

Heya you guys, I got an urge to blog today. Problem is that my life isnt that much interesting to blog about as of late. Owh, I had my maple computing test yesterday. Wassat you ask? Its a maths computing test. Using a computer program to solve calculus and algebra problems, not sure if they have that in UBD or not. I thought I did okay, some of the programming language seemed to not work as its supposed to, but hopefully I passed this test. I also have a normal handwritten calculus test tomorrow, so wish me luck.

Anyways, other than the fact that I've been doing maths all this summer, what else have I been doing? That's the first thing people ask me and I'll give them almost the same answer everytime: Aku drumah saja. They would in turn say "what? why? you're in sydney man! go and enjoy yourself!!!" I would then say, "eh, I'm here to study not have fun!" but dalam hati, I would say; "I have no money to go out and have fun, :("

Sydney is a pretty expensive place city, heck its one of the most expensive places in the world to live in. Yeah, I got an allowance from shell, but more than half of than goes to rent and bills, and another quarter goes to food supplies. If I'm not careful with the final quarter of that allowance can be spent in less than a week. So I save my money, I try to anyway. This summer most of my friends have gone home so I dont have much reason to go out really.

So I'm stuck at home, and what do I do? Well, I have internet and my Ps3. But lately, I dont have the mood to play any of those stupidly expensive games I bought for my ps3. This is quite weird, cause I was an avid gamer in my teens (no, I'm not a counter-stike guy), but I always buy loads of pirated games at one go when I go out. Maybe it's because in the playstation days, the games were actually fun compared to the ones you have now which are basically clones and rehashes of one another. I should make a post about games one of these days.

Anyways, I'm a movie guy, I love it and try to watch a movie every week. Usually, I download TV series since I'm stuck at home most of the time, but what makes suckier about summer break is that tv series takes summer breaks as well. So I have to wait a whole month before new episodes of ugly betty, heroes, terminator, pushing daisies start. I've been watching friends and scrubs a lot though lately and I recently bought a blu-ray version of heroes season 1, which is I have got to say still awesome.

Oh yeah, I was talking about movies, and I wanted to talk about a movie I've been keeping track of since it was announced feew years back. The movie I'm referring to is of course, TERMINATOR SALVATION!

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Wow... I never really finish what I start, do I? Well, though a few months has pasts, this post is still relevant. Well, pushing daisies has been cancelled, and terminator sarah connor chronicles has reached its could be final episode (the episode was so awesome btw!), but fortunately, terminator salvation hasn't premiered yet, so I can still give you my two cents on it.


Awesomeness right? If you guys noticed, this is where I first found out about the NIN song (the day the whole world went away) that's playing on the blog at the moment. The cover of the song in the trailer is great! But, I'm not here to talk about the song, I'm here to talk about the movie.

I became a hardcore terminator fan ever since I bought terminator 2 dvd. Yes, I watched it before, but I watched it at a younger age where I didn't understand a whole lot. I bought the dvd when I had 'intelligence' so to speak, and it was also my first DVD 9, the closest you could get to HD at the time. I fell in love with it, the characters, the story, the eye candy. Eventually I bought the first terminator dvd as well, and I loved that even more. When you compare the two, the first one had tons of drama and depth but lacked the visual wonder which is the 2nd terminator. When terminator 3 was announced, I was expecting so much more, but we all know how that movie turned out.

Terminator 3 was just a rethread of terminator 2 and seemed liked another product of high position execs making all the decisions. I wanted a movie to deepen the terminator mythology and advance it. Fortunately for me, terminator the sarah connor chronicles did that for me. And I hope that terminator salvation can do this for me as well. This movie went through so much rewrites and drama (Chris Bale and his tantrum), the director McG promising us fans so many. Let's hope it turns out well.

Salvation continues where 3 left off, the world ending. John Connor must lead mankind to salvation from the machines. The coolest thing about this movie is the fact that it takes place in the future, which we only had glimpses of in the past movies. So we can actually see a full-fledged war between man and machine. Another thing about the terminator series is the whole time-travelling aspect and its connections and consequences. This is integral to the story this time round, and I hope they can explore this properly. We'll also see how the t-800s come into being and if this movie is succesful, more terminator sequels! Another reason why I hope this movie is good, is that the future of the series (Sarah connor chronicles) also hangs on how well the movie does. Here's keeping my fingers crossed!