Posts tagged Sam Worthington
The Debt – Movie Trailer
Sep 8th
The espionage thriller begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Helen Mirren) and Stephan (Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciarán Hinds). All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1966, when the trio (portrayed, respectively, by Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, and Sam Worthington tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel (Jesper Christensen) in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team’s mission was accomplished – or was it? The suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations.
“Terminator Salvation” The Beginning of the End
May 27th
The Beginning of the End
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
TERMINATOR SALVATION is the fourth in the series of movies beginning with the 1984 TEH TERMINATOR, which started the story of robots taking over society in the future and sending a robot back in time to kill the woman who has the child who will defeat the robots in the future.
That child, John Connor, is all grown up in this movie, which takes place in 2018, and he is played by Christian Bale, most recently famous for his profanity-laced tongue-lashing of a crew member last year on the set of this movie.
The gimmick in this movie is that a robot is sent into the future and ends up helping Connor in his battles against the robots.
He doesn’t start out as a robot, however, but as a prisoner in 2003 who agrees to have his body turned over to the authorities after his execution in prison.
So, when Marcus Wright shows up in 2018, he looks exactly like he did
15 years earlier, except that he has mechanical underpinnings and can heal any injuries to his flesh almost instantly.
The other gimmick is that Kyle Reese, the man who was sent back in time to help Connor’s mother and ends up becoming Connor’s father, is a teenager in this movie.
When Marcus meets Reese and his young partner, Reese says, “We’re the Resistance, L.A. branch.”
Everything has been pretty much destroyed by the robots in what the humans call “Judgment Day,” and the future of the human race looks as bleak as the landscape all around them.
However, Reese is the key to the past and the future, although he, of course, doesn’t know that at this point in his life.
On the other hand, this is all the back story that the audience needs to know in order to understand what is going on.
If you don’t know the background information, then watching this movie can lead you to the conclusion that modern stories don’t have to make sense or be logical anymore. And special effects can allow the filmmakers to do anything they want.
Special effects also allowed them to include a surprise cameo of a guest appearance that builds on “I’ll be back.”
TERMINATOR SALVATION is the beginning of the end, and I’d just as soon hope there won’t be any more.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
Terminator Salvation – Movie Trailer
May 21st
The fourth installment of the Terminator series follows an adult John Connor (played by Christian Bale) as he attempts to organize a human resistance force which could prove to be mankind’s last true hope in the war against the machines. Opening in the year 2018, Terminator Salvation finds John Connor’s certainty about the future shaken by the sudden appearance of a mysterious stranger named Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), whose last memory is of sitting on death row and awaiting execution. Unable to determine whether Marcus was sent from the future or rescued from the past, Connor begins to wonder whether there is still any hope left for the human race as the robots grow more powerful and aggressive than ever before. It appears that Skynet is preparing a devastating final attack designed to eliminate the human resistance once and for all, leaving Connor and Marcus with no choice but to strike back at the cybernetic heart of Skynet’s operations. Once there, the two battle-scarred soldiers discover a devastating secret regarding the potential annihilation of all humankind. Anton Yelchin fills Michael Biehn’s shoes as a young Kyle Reese in the first installment of a planned Terminator trilogy from director McG (Charlie’s Angels).
