Writing a good time travel movie is tricky business, writing a good time travel movie franchise is almost impossible, but that doesn’t stop the makers of The Terminator movies from trying. Bless their greedy little hearts.
Tag: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Maggie (2015) – Review
What do you do if your parents start to smell delicious? This is one of the key questions that crop up in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film Maggie, a film that tackles the zombie genre in a very different light.
Kull the Conqueror (1997) – Review
Sword-and-sorcery had been kicking around for years, but 1982’s Conan the Barbarian sparked a full-blown boom, unleashing a wave of bargain-bin imitators like Deathstalker and The Beastmaster. By the late ’90s, the trend was long dead, yet Universal took another swing despite the lukewarm Conan the Destroyer and the flop Red Sonja, once again calling…
Time Travel and The Terminator Movies
Time travel in The Terminator films isn’t a clever scientific playground so much as a brutal narrative trap, where the past and future are locked in a relentless feedback loop. The series turns the idea of changing history into a grim paradox, suggesting that every attempt to escape fate may be the very thing that…
Batman & Robin (1997) – Review
After the Groundbreaking 1989 Batman, the bar was set high for the (up to that point) mostly trivialized Superhero Genre, Batman Returns was another solid outing (albeit much darker) and even Batman Forever had some things going for it, but showed signs of the complete disaster to come. It takes a special kind of…