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Easily The Best 10 Minutes Ever Uploaded To YouTube

CajoleJuice — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:24:21 +0000

I thought 10 minutes of the best quotes from The Wire was awesome. That YouTube video pales in comparison to this collection of Arnold Schwarzenegger lines from his unparalleled movie career. Who else has played a barbarian, a cop-turned-teacher, a cyborg from the future, a clone, a commando, a firefighter, a villain obsessed with ice, and a pregnant man? I rest my case.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDxn0Xfqkgw

The pinnacle of human achievement in popular culture condensed into 600 seconds, right here.

Maybe Terminator 4 Won’t Suck

CajoleJuice — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:10:38 +0000

Then again, maybe every trailer with action scored by Nine Inch Nails is bound to get me excited. The 300 trailer with “Just Like You Imagined” is still fucking amazing.

I used to post more movie trailer on here, I feel, and what better way to start doing that again than with what will possibly be the blockbuster of the year.

I’m not even going to attempt to make sense of the Terminator storyline at this point. T2 contradicted T1, and then T3 contradicted T2, when time travel in the sense of T1 contradicted itself in the first place. I don’t even want to think about how the TV series factors in. So some Terminator thinking he’s human — like a Cylon — doesn’t seem out of the realm of possiblity within this franchise’s universe. I just want action and some sense of the indomitability of the human spirit. Wait, no, that last part pussied up this whole post. More explosions! I hear tits are also shown! YES!

P.S. If you want to see a full HD version of the trailer, go here. Or go see Watchmen this weekend.

Terminator 4 – May 22, 2009

CajoleJuice — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:53:26 +0000

Christian Bale playing John Connor is enough to get me hyped up for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. Does anyone get more badass roles?Â Patrick Bateman, Grammaton Cleric John Preston, Batman…and now the savior of the human race.

I can see it. Bale just needs some deep, war-ravaged scars.

As for predicting the quality of the film, I can’t say I trust a guy who calls himself “McG.” Not to mention that his most well-known directorial work was done in Charlie’s Angels. On the other hand, I enjoyed T3 thoroughly, unlike many people who detested it and felt it shit on the previous two films in the series. I can easily see where they’re coming from, as T3 isn’t going to be look at as a classic for years to come like its predecessors. Yet I can’t help but laugh at people saying it fucked up the timeline, as time travel doesn’t make sense anyway! T3 delivered awesome action, and that’s all I wanted.

And to make a point, there’s also people that were disappointed by T2 for completely flipping the point of the original on its head and giving a lighter tone to the possibility of Judgment Day. Just like Alien before it, The Terminator was a masterfully constructed dark thriller, with a lighter action-fest for a sequel. T3 just rehashed T2 a bit too much at parts, turned the cheese factor up a notch, and once again turned the entire mythology on its head, but in a good way. I’m convinced people went in with their hate-blinders on, considering James Cameron wasn’t involved.

It’s just going to be strange to have a Terminator movie without Arnold. I’m hoping Christian Bale can make up for that, but I hear John Connor isn’t going to be the main character in T4. But they have a whole new trilogy to flesh out the story of humanity’s savior. This is the story that we’ve been waiting for.