Christian Bale, you are not my John Connor.
I had pretty low expectations for Terminator 4, so I wasn't disappointed when I saw it. My sister and I went today (um, neither of us having seen any of the previous movies, but being fans of the TV show) and there were almost 10 people in the theatre! It was amazing. This is at 4:20 in the afternoon on the cheap ticket day for a new movie.* Oh, Hoyts, I hope you never go under.

My biggest problem with the movie was that I didn't buy John Connor. I didn't give a damn about him, I didn't like him, I didn't believe that he was the one thing holding the resistance together. If the movie's going to treat him as the heart of the story, then he'd sure as well better come across that way.

SCC!John, please don't grow up to be Christian Bale!

I would have been quite happy if it had just been the Marcus & Kyle Reese + cute kid** show. They could have travelled across post-apocalypse America a la Eden and have adventures leaning out trucks shooting at things, yes please, and been a rag-tag band of travellers inspiring the resistance.

I admit I don't see the point in Skynet making Marcus into a robot... like that was ever going to work. If he can make the decision to stab himself in the back of the neck to foil you, you haven't done a very good job. But I can deal with random cyborg-ness better than not caring about humanity's supposed saviour. Because cyborgs are just inherently cool, and saviours are not.

Even without the WTF heart transplant at the end, I didn't want Marcus to give up his life for John, 'cause John wasn't worth it. I didn't see why they accepted killing Marcus so easy, even if it was to save John. Maybe cyborgs just aren't worth as much. (I was already WTFed though because it seemed like Marcus had been dead quite a few minutes before John electrocuted him... obviously that's why he had to have a 'strong brain' as well as a 'strong heart'. Hell, if he's already been brought back from dead once... obviously I am not quite sure how that is working...)

Anton Yelchin was the best thing in the movie – but then he ought to have been, I only went because he was in it! Having read mostly crappy reviews and so forth. Because I'd seen him before Star Trek in an episode of Criminal Minds – someone made a post about him to criminalxminds, and when I thought back to that episode, and I thought of Chekov, and I was seriously impressed. Being as in Criminal Minds, he played a teenaged sexual sadist who tries to get help for himself. One of my favourite episodes. Criminal Minds, it creeps you out and breaks your heart at the same time.

I am no less impressed having seen him in Terminator. Oh Reese-bb, you were the heart of the movie and they're going to send you back and you're gonna die. He was smart and brave and decent, holding it together even just him and the kid. And learning and adapting to circumstance. bb, John Connor wishes he were as cool as you.

It is no surprise Sarah went there. ♥

*When I went to see Star Trek there, it was around lunchtime and I was the only person in the big theatre. I snuck in a kebab, which was a big mistake because I got kebab-juice all down my top. Nice.

**Okay, and Blair can come along too. I was so impressed when I saw the actress's name – Moon Bloodgood. Isn't that the most awesome name ever? Did her parents actually call her that? Amazing. I was also relieved to see that John's girlfriend was 'Kate Connor' so obviously they are married and will not be having bastard children, nuh-uh.