Great scott!  And wait til you hear the fans bitchin' about the new Delorean!

Is this a leak? Or making a little buzz?

I remember at one point there was an idea that we would see Robert Patrick as the guy inventing the T-1000... it'd just be a ball o liquid metal floating in the air, but at one point it would morph into the T-1000's original face and talk to him.

It's Clickbait for films, is what it is.  I'm kinda sick of it, but honestly, I wouldn't have had any idea that the trailer was about to come out if it wasn't for this little video.

Now for the actual content:

* I'm actually kinda psyched to see the T-1000 again.  I think it might be Byung-hun Lee, which should be distinctive enough (I just remembered that we had sen a female T-1001 in The Sarah Conner Chronicles, so I guess it hasn't been THAT long since I've seen one of those things.

* I'm honestly thinking of this more like a pastiche and tribute more than an actual movie, there's really nothing to add to the whole Terminator mythos, but there are bits from the last two flicks I liked, so in my mind this is a freebie, it doesn't count, so they can try whatever they want and be redundant or out there or whatever they want.  It's just a movie.

So, I’m telling myself. Ignore Chips concerns. Ignore my overall gut feeling about Terminator: Genisys, and just watch what they present us. Go in with a clear head.

Not impressed. Some of the CGI was mediocre at best. And every scene in that trailer seemed contained some Déjà vu elements. Nothing seemed particularly new to me. And that is going to be my major go to… A good story. Genisys may have a new perspective and an interesting end, but if they fill the rest of the flick with Terminator formula stuff, my enthusiasm will wane.

And while fan boys are probably gonna love Arnie coming back, I rolled my eyes… seriously. You had to say I’ll Be Bach? Again? Really?

Note: We all know trailers are notorious for selling us something different. We unfortounately have to wait for the final product to come out. Then I need to hear an overwhelming hell yes, or Oh hell no.

My thoughts:

* I've stopped giving a d*mn about CGI in trailers because I know it's all rudimentary... the effects artists don't know what's going into the trailer until the last minute, and the shots are all in-progress.  So I'm holding off judgement on that.  So a complaint about bad CGI in a trailer, especially in one for a movie that doesn't come out for six months, is a pointless complaint.

* I don't think that's a CGI Arnold at the observatory, i think it's a shot from the 80s movie (it looks SO out of place), then the other angle is a body double (maybe Roland Kickinger again).

* I love the first two Terminator flicks as much as anyone, and there's no way you can add onto them or improve upon them.  So if they MUST make more Terminator flicks (they must, they must), I appreciate going f*cking nuts and trying something new rather than trying to squeeze in something that doesn't fit (like T3).  And the idea of going back and screwing up the original flicks is exactly the sort of thing *I* would do if I had my hands on the franchise.

* This also seems like the first Terminator flick that's a proper time travel flick... in the first three, time travel was just used to explain the motivations and so on, but this is the first one that said "you know what, let's use time travel SMARTLY and beat the bad guys to the punch!"  I can't believe it took them this long to think of shooting the first bad guy the second he arrived!

* I wasn't ready Khaleesi as Khaleesi at all.

* I didn't see Matt Smith anywhere in the trailer... or if I did, he didn't register as Matt Smith at all.

* There's so much in this trailer, you know, like they're jamming in all the Terminator movies together (the stuff in the future looked too much like "Salvation" for my tastes, I liked the cold blue model+greenscreen feel of T2), but I think that the trailer should have looked like a remake of the first movie.  Lull us into a false sense of security, then changed sh*t up on us.  Shot for shot remake, then throw us for a loop and leave us reeling.  Look at the T2 full-length trailer:


It's real simple, and it's just one "oh sh*t!" revelation after another.  "Oh sh*t, the Terminator's back!" "Oh sh*t, he's after the kid!" "Oh sh*t, he's the good guy!" "Oh sh*t, that other machine is insanely advanced!" and finally "Oh sh*t, I gotta see this movie."

Maybe it's a thing where they have to prove to everyone their flick is good because the last two were garbage and they wind up overcompensating, maybe it's studio pressure, maybe it's just the fact that the saavy audience already knows so much about it already... I dunno.

We also have to deal with the fact that T1 and T2 are simple premises, while this thing is... wild.  All over the place.  They needed to boil it down.  It sounds more like a crazy man's ramblings, or how I sound when I'm talking about something I'm in the process of making.  A trailer, especially a teaser, should be an invitation.  The "what if."  This isn't that.

Isn't it technically already a "rewind" trailer, with the time travel and all?

* Okay, seeing your avatar, I gotta ask: how would you react if Summer/Cameron was in the flick?