Half in the Bag: Episode 90 - Terminator: Genisys

[@kingsleycy3450]

"...and I start to see things I recognize" is criminally underused in future reviews.

[@mrscruffles801]

"What?"

[@ForgetfulPaladin]

@@mrscruffles801 What!?

[@karlgustav999]

​@@ForgetfulPaladin What?

[@tehbigshow]

"But that's a different guy!"

[@SultanSamet]

It is basically the tought behind most "critics"

[@mooniejohnson]

"He never gets rapey, but he *does* have sex." Possibly my favorite description of Data's character.

[@jcse16]

If they put that on my grave stone, i'll be satisfied.

[@haleymist09]

Adam Winkelmann 6

[@Welcome2TheInternet]

@@jebes909090 Actually Data fucked a woman of color in the episode "The Pegging of Guiynan".

[@TheKaiTetley]

Floss Man. That should be the tag line for the new Star Trek film.

[@toebeee5168]

27:33

[@doubledown1138]

"He looks like...man." The best damn description of Jai Courtney I have ever heard.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

Jai Courtney only works when he's not the sole focus, or a main character, he's really good in supporting roles.

[@davidvazquez8547]

You haven't seen Good Day to Die Hard

[@mckenzie.latham91]

StrokeMeYouInsolentHumanCuzIAmACat Watch the Water diviner with russel crowe, it's about a Australian man who tries to find the bodies of his sons killed in the first world war in turkey after the disastrous battle of Gallipoli...Jai plays an Australian officer whose working to recover the bodies and bury the soldiers killed in the campaign, and helps crowe. again it seems when he's in supporting roles and or not the main focus character he's good.

[@a.g.m8790]

Lol he's a human male

[@bckroobnzi141]

Harvey Weinstein Ejaculated On Me Was that a joke?

[@nifralo2752]

"I need your boots, your clothes and for you to leave the Terminator franchise alone"

[@nifralo2752]

+Toad Lash someone needs to say that to the producers.

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

"Heh heh heh! Ya forgot to say 'please'." _Tsssss_

[@DeltaD36]

live with me if you want to come

[@roach9397]

This should have been a line in the movie.

[@heno02]

"what"

[@danielastorga6853]

I came

[@bigpun7916]

DeltaD36 that's what Arnold said to his maid .

[@matthewlennhardt8408]

DeltaD36 original

[@cammameil]

I love it when Jay stares right into the camera whenever Mike starts talking about Star Track.

[@gregdavidl647]

cammameil Star Trek But yes. You are right

[@SnowPirateYT]

@@gregdavidl647 You realise the joke is that Mike always pronounces it "Star Track". Right? You can't have missed the joke THAT hard. He LITERALLY said "Star Track" in this video.

[@umbaupause]

@@SnowPirateYT Oh right, cause the english language is so strict with all its pronounciations, and so there is no wiggle room at all with many words, nor the fact that there are many regional differences when it comes to how words are said out loud! So the joke is very transparent because it clearly violates the strict guideline on how to say "trek"! No wait...

[@BCBaron]

@@SnowPirateYT A "track" is something a train goes on, whereas a "trek" is something the Enterprise is on...

[@jackmaddox4960]

Ach noo, and here oov been calling it 'Star Trok' all deez yars...

[@MikeDo_0]

I work at a coffee shop in Beverly Hills, I see people having meetings about movies all the time. Your "I'm pitching a movie" impression is spot on.

[@JustChadC]

What coffee shop?? I gotta see this.

[@OswolseViclher]

@@JustChadCstop trying to kidnap people. it’s not deemed as accessible in our economy of late.

[@MrBeckett74]

"We've talked more about the plot than the writers did" is one of the funniest things ever uttered in a movie review.

[@TerrenceNowicki]

As Arnold gets older, they'll have more Terminator sequels where the good Terminators go further and further back in time to protect previous generations of Connors from bad Terminators, then just hang out for longer and longer until time loops back on itself. In the intermediate decades, the good Terminators all have a club together called "The Connor Sitters Club" where they share stories about protecting Sarah Connor's ancestors, and also solve mysteries.

[@joshuabanner9920]

This was accurate.

[@matthewbowen5841]

Them solving crimes together between films would be better than any film after T2

[@92brunod]

how hard is it to write Connor correctly and why does the same thing happen with Lex Luthor? I'm not a native English speaker and this always confuses me

[@katandmart]

Correct

[@TheGeneralDisarray]

@@92brunod conner is al alternative spelling of Connor, Luther and luthor is the same.

[@lonelycastle8023]

I would honestly love a Terminator Western that follows a T800 from the moment it appears in the past, with absolutely no context given on the target or mission, and just watch it dispassionately push through any obstacles or situations that arise as it goes, until an eventual climax where the target is finally met and is the first character to know anything about what's going on and what this unkillable metal man even is Little to no dialogue, brutal action used sparingly, following an increasingly visually battered Terminator - essentially like a monster movie where you follow the monster, with a heavy does of the classic Western man-with-no-name

[@cacomeatballmarinara2014]

A Clint Eastwood type Man with No Name vs the T-800 Man with No Name

[@Ken-fh4jc]

Wacky time travel accident to 1884 instead of 1984.

[@itsd0nk]

After the Prey movie came out and was generally well received, this might be the best and most viable next terminator film pitch I’ve ever heard.

[@MatiPryjomko]

I have the perfect title for the Wild West version: Terminator Tarnation

[@jonthehedghehog]

Terminator Stepsys for the porno

[@BlielPol]

Terminator: Darnation

[@noobie1890]

Cowboys and Aliens, but with Terminators?

[@atom_gray]

Terminator: _Applesauce_

[@Pumpkin_Fart]

Can there be a gag where Arnold kills Will Smith & Kevin Klein who are riding some steampunk spider contraption?

[@aurayafrost6253]

it's great coming back to this after watching their Dark Fate review: Genysis vs Dark Fate: "Arnold's the best part of this movie" vs "The worst parts were with Arnold" "An actress who is nothing like Linda Hamilton" vs "Linda Hamilton should not have been in this movie" I'm so sorry these movies keep letting you guys down like this

[@aurayafrost6253]

@@RandolphTheWhite1 lol are you okay

[@DevineInnovations]

The franchise just needs to die.

[@Dorian-_-Gray]

_Dark Fate_ is a cynical grab for cash that meanders all over the place without having much to say. It's mediocre at best, and I can't recommend it. _Dark Fate_ is also a *_much_* better movie than _Genisys._ _Genisys_ has some of the worst writing in Hollywood.

[@chonconnor6144]

@@DevineInnovations Terminator 3 should have killed it.

[@perunplague9794]

@@DevineInnovations but the Terminator film producers can't be reasoned with, they can't be bargained with... they don't feel pity of remorse or fear... and they absolutely will not stop making these films. Ever. Until you are dead inside.

[@R3DHULK]

As far as I'm concerned the story ended in Terminator 2 Judgment Day, & it ended well.

[@DevineInnovations]

The alternate ending with elderly Linda Hamilton should be canon.

[@Dorian-_-Gray]

If you felt secure in this you'd never bother typing it into KZbin. Same goes for all the likes on your comment. Movies are discrete stories. _The Terminator_ and _Terminator 2_ are discrete stories, both of which are pretty good. The way you get all the stuff you don't like is by living in this world where there's such a thing as "the story" across a pop genre movie series. It forces you to pay attention to crap.

[@thagrammarnazi]

Dorian Gray It's a franchise, it's a property, it once had people in awe and emotionally invested and now irks them with every new iteration, it probably shouldn't hinder enjoyment of the original two movies but it can be annoying to have something you used to like now officially tied, even loosely, to something you don't like and be reminded of it, so OP prefers to disregard them. Ironically I feel like John Connor in T2 having to explain this basic shit to you. People did this with Halloween 3 and that was what. 40 years ago?

[@PyrokineticFire1]

We never saw the REAL John Connor. T1 was about the victory of the machines in altering the parentage of the human leader. Sarah didn't get knocked up at a bar while blowing off steam about her shitty job. she didn't go to that bar, her life was in danger. some time traveler was occupying her womb, preventing the conception of the real hero. subsequent movies show the terrible ramifications of this change.

[@Randomshit2727]

Yup

[@CrunchyBrownie5]

I like how this movie is in essence about robots trying to stop two humans from having sex.

[@jerome1lm]

So it's like space balls?

[@LectricSheepz]

If I was the savior of humanity, they wouldn't even need to send any robots.

[@taylorcourville9193]

Which from this perspective is exactly what T1 is about

[@Tacheonblack]

@@jerome1lm "I'm programmed to go off before YOU do!"

[@gezenews]

"Theyre sending back the super twinkie formula" "No!!! That will kill rich evans, leader of the insulin resistance"

[@hysteria347]

"Wow movies have really gotten bad haven't they?" Favorite quote from this episode,

[@trevorthornley8835]

They get worse 6 years later

[@rossstolzenburg2969]

Hard disagree. Those mid 2010s blew chunks.

[@trevorthornley8835]

@@rossstolzenburg2969 at least they weren't as political as they are now. It got really shitty 2018 on

[@TheMasterQuests]

2014 was the last good year in film. Indies, some Oscar bait was solid and blockbusters still had brains

[@rosenyne]

I know it's not the same as the Wild West, but in Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, there was an episode where a Terminator accidentally went back in time to a 1920's speakeasy and he worked his way up to become a real-estate mogul and there was even old-timey newsreel footage of him meeting Rudolph Valentino. I am not kidding, this was an actual episode. I was laughing SO hard throughout the whole thing. I can't believe people actually thought that show was better than the movies. Well, anything's better than this movie...

[@Generationd20]

The prequel should have arnold as the teacher and you name it "Kindergarten Bot."

[@We_Are_Borg_478]

Dialogue options for class: Please Be Quiet Shuuut Uuuuuuup! I'm sorry. Fuck you, asshole

[@Largentina.]

Kid: "You just can't go around teaching people." Kindergarten Bot: "Why?" Kid: "What do you mean, why?! Cause you can't." Kindergarten Bot: "Why?" Kid: "Because you just can't, ok? Trust me on this."

[@Donjuggaxote]

Magnets, how do they work? Jay's jab at ICP went completely over Mike's head lol

[@christiegreenwood2642]

There's a lot to hate about this movie, but two things pissed me off the most: a) They actually dared to make a point out of mentioning that the original movies' timeline was erased. I mean, the first two movies are what made this shlock possible in the first place, and they actually thought that was a good idea? Way to go alienating your audience, guys. b) You do NOT make yet another T-1000 rip-off. The original one was awesome. He's one of the best movie villains ever, and just copying him is fucking infuriating because it's lazy and insults the audience. Come up with something else instead of making the viewers wish they were watching T2, instead, film-makers. Crikey. Oh, and Emilia Clarke really was awful in this. Wow.

[@GugaGDFABC]

Yeah, I like her in GoT but here she just seemed miscast.

[@kalibos]

+Guga but do you like her because she's a good actress or because her character is well written? Or because she's fine as shit? I've been thinking about it and I can't actually justify thinking of her as a good actress. The character is just so well conceived that it gives the illusion of good acting. George RR Martin is the key to all of this.

[@GugaGDFABC]

kalibos She's very cute and I actually think she is a fine actress. But not a great one yet, I mean, GoT is probably one of the TV shows with the best acting ever, so I don't think she's as good as, let's say, Lena Headey, Maisie Williams, Peter Dinklage, Charles Dance etc, but still decent.

[@douglasquaid1711]

Emilia Clarke is actually awful in everything. She gets a pass in Game of Thrones simply because her character is written so well. She's just as bad in GoT, but the good writing covers up her terrible acting.

[@RegretfulDeadMan]

On the bright side, the new new Terminator movie erases everything after 2. So this shlock is no longer canon. Though the tradeoff is that John Connor is now dead.

[@soundstudio594]

That's the problem with movies these days. Back when T2 came out (this was years after the original terminator) they gave a few winks to the audience but it was still genuine fun. There was still heart and soul to the movie and that's what made it work. The acting was good and you cared about what happened, even though it was going down familiar territory, it still brought a lot of new things to the table. Now with these new movies they bring nothing new, the acting is crap, and it's just a gigantic soulless nostalgia fuck fest. It sucks.

[@reservoirfrogs2177]

Sound Studio There's like 2 lines that reference the first terminator in T2, but T2 is a different beast entirely and it's amazing, the first 2 are excellent and all the sequels seem to have forgotten everything that made the first 2 work.

[@technosis9094]

@@twistedoperator4422 yea I loved it too. I guess it was too slow for a lot of people, but i liked that slow build up. I thought it was very satisfying and the world they lived in seemed real and lived in.

[@fewwiggle]

"Back when T2 came out" -- shocking!!! The first LGBTQ terminator ;-)

[@ephin3242]

I’m all for mocking soulless corporate filmmaking, but you just sound nostalgia blind when you say shit like modern movies have bad acting. That’s just as untrue now as it was in the 80’s. No decade had better actors lol.

[@redwolf48845]

"Sarah Conner, played by someone terrible" 😂

[@johnashley327]

Have some respect. That's the Mother of Dragons.

[@shuddhakibria820]

Well, they are not wrong. Never heard of this actress before. She is apparently British

[@samsmith3590]

John Ashley read a book and you’ll understand how terrible her portrayal is in the show of her also she can’t fucking act she’s dreadful when you start to understand that she’s not great she’s takes her cloths off

[@JoseMolina-jz9hh]

How do you feel about her now? Season 8 of GoT

[@Noplayster13]

All throughout this movie, I kept thinking: “Why would this bland, personality-less jarhead fall in love with this charmless, insecure bitch (and vice versa)? Modern feminism has done a terrible disservice to all of us (though women most of all). It’s somehow convinced us that a women has to be angry, insecure, completely lacking in human warmth, and bereft of any kind of charm or charisma in order to be “strong”. Linda Hamilton pulled off an absolutely perfect example of a strong yet human character in the first two movies, but that was before this whole new social justice religion took over. We were allowed to have good female characters in those days.

[@ThatMovieNerdKevin]

My God, 90 Episodes Already?! Wow! So Glad To Have You Hacks!

[@TevyaSmolka]

***** nice

[@Shermos]

This movie sounds like it represents everything that's wrong with Hollywood these days.

[@fenriz218]

The movie was worth it's weight in gold! A masterpiece, with splendid actors, CGI-effects that screamed for an oscar and a storyline that would have made Orson Wells ejaculate spontaneously... best regards from the year 2019... :(

[@ccgreniewicki]

@@fenriz218 It was at least better than Dark Fate, which truly does represent everything that's wrong with hollywood these days lol

[@tonymp]

@@ccgreniewicki I liked dark fate a lot more than Genisys. At least it has a consistent story and seemed to have some logic behind it. Genisys was just crap and hurt my head to try to make sense of. The thing I didn't like about DF were the unbelievable scenes like Linda hanging from a flying Hummer as two Boeing 777s collide midair. Also, the augmented girl seemed to have to constantly remind us that she's a super soldier from the future was slightly annoying - other than that, I was fine with DF. Seeing John obliterated at the beginning of the movie was gut wrenching, but a good way to start the movie off

[@ImperfectWeapons]

Every single good thing about this movie was completely ruined by the trailers. There are several moments that would've worked great as actual fucking surprises.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

But the problem is studies have shown that people go to see movies based on the trailers, people want the plot in the trailers so they can decide if they want to see the full thing or not. i agree trailers that give away everything are annoying, but that's what the general public want.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

Just to prove my point this article used the film Southpaw as a basis: "Even Southpaw’s own director thinks the spot could have handled it without being so heavy-fisted. “I was concerned about [the revelation], for sure,” Antoine Fuqua (The Equalizer) tells EW. “I still am. And I spoke my mind about it.” Fuqua is just the latest director this summer-movie season to voice disappointment about the trailer for his own movie. But he also points to the underlying motivation behind such a strategy. “The audience sometimes, I guess, needs a little bit more [plot], especially for this type of movie,” he says. “So I had to roll with it. I trust them, [Southpaw‘s distributor] the Weinstein Company.” (Southpaw opened at the box office to a better-than-expected $16.5 million.)" And he’s right to trust them. According to experts in the trailer-making business, the more audiences know, the likelier they are to go. “There was a lot of discussion internally whether to show the death of the wife,” says Matt Brubaker, president of theatrical at Trailer Park, the agency that edited the preview for Southpaw. “But it was decided to show more of the good, so to speak. People have felt burned in the past. If someone’s going to pay $20 to go on opening weekend to see this movie, they want to know that they are making a pretty good investment.” And that is borne out in the rigorous focus testing that studios perform. “As much as people complain that trailers give away too much,” says Brubaker, “nine times out of 10, the more of the plot you give away, the more interest you garner from the audiences. Audiences respond to the trailers with more of the movie.” “We prefer to be mysterious,” says Dan Asma, co-owner of trailer company Buddha Jones. “That’s what good marketing is. But what can we do when testing and focus grouping consistently say that numbers spike when you give away more of the story.” ew.com/article/2015/07/27/trailer-spoilers-southpaw/

[@mickyblue011]

Terminator; Tales from genysis space. A terminator is sent back in time to stop a Minotaur alien who shoot lasers from its lenis and then promptly explodes.

[@nikobellic1924]

+Kristen ingram Terminator is sent back to make Tales from genysis space win BOTW and Rich Evans is sent back to make sure S.O.S. Still wins.

[@Myrkky100]

Mike just made me laugh simply with the way he said "the connection between your phone and the fuckin' NORAD launching nukes".

[@TheDannyg1311]

You guys are awesome. You are the modern day Siskel & Ebert. Only funny. Keep it up. No Sarcasm is meant in this post only a compliment

[@grimkaizer8417]

@Tiztu siskel and ebert werent THAT snobby

[@ThoRCX]

"He has a boring face. He looks like... man" That's the most accurate description of Jai Courteney I ever heard.

[@jonathanw1019]

I still wanna know why there was no CGI Bill Paxton and Brian Thompson at the scene in Los Angeles when the Terminator comes back at Griffith Park.

[@stvbrsn]

"The show that takes place on the Star Track Enterprise, with Dr. Spock." I love you, Mike.

[@russelldelmet]

Terminators in the Wild West already happened. They called it Westworld and it even had a comically European-accented actor in the person of Yul Brynner.

[@DavidLand91]

Episode 100 is gonna be Star Wars: The Force Awakens... and it will be so good Mike will retire on the spot and Jay will finally come out of the closet as a Rich Evansexual.

[@wishcraft4u2]

***** I'd have expected Mike to turn out to be the Rich Evansexual and unable to come to terms with it. Somehow since the episodes featuring both him and his gf Jessi as well as Rich Evans I picture him having these anxiety dreams where he's frolicking half naked in a dewy meadow with Jessi. Jessi starts laughing and then Mike is increasingly unsettled as she gradually turns out to be Rich Evans, eventually causing him to wake up feeling really confused. I don't know, the human subconscious sure works in mysterious ways. It might have something to do with the uncanny similarities in the way they laugh, maybe? Although I think we are all deep down a little bit Rich Evansexual. My favorite fantasy is a friday night sleepover where we sneak out of bed really early in the morning to play nintendo in out jim jams before saturday morning cartoons. What's yours?

[@Siegbert85]

"Someone from Game of Thrones who looks like a little kid and can't act" Thought I was the only one who thought that way.

[@nickford3328]

MacX85 don’t forget Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles had the queen playing Sarah Connor as well crazy they both played sarah Connor loved her in 300

[@joshuabanner9920]

I liked the idea of her character but it wasn’t executed well at all.

[@defmore5099]

chill out dude she has literal brain damage. dunno why they keep casting her tho

[@user-hf9hf6hw8j]

@@defmore5099 really? What kind of brain damage? Lol. That explains her in this movie. 😂

[@user-hf9hf6hw8j]

@@defmore5099 just looked it up. The brain aneurysm should effect her speech and memory not her acting.

[@sskoog]

There was a kernel of a good storyline at this movie's center -- the idea of "A SkyNet who won" (T-5000), then, in its free time, started figuring out how to reach out into other timelines, even allying with alternate-timeline SkyNets so as to join forces and conquer additional Earths. They could have built a new trilogy on that concept -- which was, I think, the plan -- getting into some swirly time-travel ideas. But instead they used the temporal concept as goofy fanservice: Good John Connor is now Evil Cyborg John Connor, Old Arnie got futuristic goop, etc. Six years later, the Marvel franchise sort of did this with their "Ultron who won" (Infinity Ultron) concept from the animated What If series.

[@marshmallowok]

I knew I was in for a bad time when it opened with five minutes of narration. One thing I've noticed in every movie after T2 is the terminators don't feel right. When they fight each other they knock each other around like ragdolls, which looks ridiculous and immediately breaks my suspension of disbelief. They also have unrealistic strength, like in this one a terminator just punched through a concrete wall like he was Superman. I'm not an engineer or a robotics expert, but even if a terminator is 10x as strong as a person I don't think that's in the cards. It was kinda cool when the T-1000 broke off a piece of his arm and threw it at them. I'm sure the staff were proud of that one. But then you think, wait, why didn't the T2 T-1000 ever do that? This is why sequels and reboots are dangerous. Even a little thing like this makes you go huh? What? The problem with a lot of these over the top modern action movies is that when you stray so far from reality there's no tension anymore because you know the hero will do something ridiculous to save themselves. The end of T1 when Sarah is crawling away from the torso of the terminator is way more exciting than watching people get punched across the room or somehow living after a school bus flips over 37 times. One is comic book shit, the other is somewhat grounded in reality and more relatable and something you might have a nightmare about. At least it was kinda funny.

[@Welcome2TheInternet]

I am an engineer and I can confirm that metal can smash concrete.

[@BrettJones27]

I'm a builder, and I confirm that metal can smash concrete... but not without sustaining some damage

[@CarloisBuriedAlive]

After Terminator 2, the Metal Terminators never seem....heavy. Like there’s no weight to them, man.

[@adiahaalexander9359]

You mentioning the weightlessness of the characters, thats exactly how I feel about the current D.C.E.U movies (except for Wonder Woman) none of the action scenes have *punch* know what I mean?

[@CarloisBuriedAlive]

Adiaha Alexander agreed, it’s hard to get immersed because of it

[@jimpepper7148]

TERMINATOR in the wild west was made already - it's called WESTWORLD

[@wrayday7149]

Now you know the true secret to Kindergarten Cop. Arnold was protecting a young Sarah Conner in elementary school.

[@chonconnor6144]

Who is your daddy and what does he do?

[@randalgraves6979]

Its not a Tumm-ahhhhh!!!!!

[@gold333]

Biggest problem was casting a bodybuilder for the wiry Kyle Reese.

[@papasmurf205]

you call that a bodybuilder? lol

[@DancingMad17]

The biggest problem was making this movie

[@TheNinjaMarmot]

One of the biggest mistakes was casting Jai Courteney as Kyle Reese

[@anubusx]

He was good in Suicide Squad.

[@samuelperezgarcia]

@@anubusx he was decent in Spartacus, terrible in everything else.

[@CureOptimismForHumanity]

I was 8 years old when I saw Terminator 2 and the ending was the first time I wept at a movie. The second time was Hachi. A Dog's Tale when I was 20.

[@shootatsquare]

Cure Optimism don't remind me of Hachi. god damn

[@philswift1252]

Cure Optimism yea seriously the thought of that movie breaks me

[@chandler224]

My childhood dog was a Shiba Inu like Hachi. Watched the movie once, never again...

[@javiergf]

watch interstellar and let me know if you can help to not shed a tear when Cooper gets a video from home... I couldn't

[@Tippet76]

Hachi was the first one that got me. I had an old akita that we had to put down and he was the same color as the dog in the movie.

[@styeiwehdeisfdo]

The acting is so bad I stopped watching after 40 minutes and I'm a huge Terminator fanboy and even sort of like T3. It's quite an accomplishment to have both a female and male lead be terrible actors and no chemistry in a big budget blockbuster. They make Arnold look like Daniel Day-Lewis.

[@Boobalopbop]

Good Lord that last line was funny. Hahahahaha!!

[@flippedoutkyrii]

Ah, a fellow Terminator fanboy that also sort of likes Terminator 3!

[@ac8911]

are you talking about terminator genisys or RLM [ joke ]

[@gibberconfirm166]

@@ac8911 Terminator 3 fight scenes you at least feel the weight of these things when Arnold throws her into the bathroom. I couldn't believe they'd fuck up basic shit like that.

[@death-king1834]

When your making Arnold look like a legit actor you know something is wrong.

[@XC11301991]

It's like poetry so they rhyme.

[@Jackmono1]

GSDAkatsuki If we go back in time, we can make a better rhyme.

[@FBSidious]

GSDAkatsuki When we hear the T-800 say "I'll be back" in the helicopter, it kind of "echoes", and we see where it's eventually all gonna go with him saying "I'll be back" in the police station in Terminator 1. Each stanza kind of rhymes with the last one. *shrugs* Hopefully it'll work.

[@FBSidious]

fourcrippledhorses THAT'S gonna be great.

[@MrGeorgeFlorcus]

Jonathan Belmont Whoever wins the war should just wait like, 10,000 years and then just send back some unstoppable, otherworldly war machine to ensure their side comes ahead in the end. Easy win.

[@craftymiscreant5748]

Fuck you lucas!

[@99luc10]

James Cameron definitely stopped giving a fuck after Avatar.

[@johnnycage6729]

I like redlettermedia because they use appropriate terms like "soulless corporate hacks", "characterless and devoid of personality" and "piece of shit". I can't watch people like Chris Stuckmann who, at absolute worst, would describe a bad movie as "dry", "bland" or "not entertaining". Bad movies deserve to be punished.

[@JV-mm2yf]

You good bro

[@InkBleedsDeeper]

It would take me too long to properly articulate how awesome they are. They're the only critics I look at.

[@tanner201x8]

Mauler

[@misterwishart]

I feel that Stuckmann is more about the craftsmanship of movies and something like Genisys obviously has had work and effort put into it that paid off, albeit just making the special effects look good. Give him something utter atrocious like Cats or Twilight or morally corrupt like The Haunting of Sharon Tate and he'll turn on the bile

[@shevgaonkarkush11]

Have you seen his hilariousity reviews?

[@krampuskardashian5890]

Watching this years later and having forgotten about the Video Game Store Arc, the set dressing for this episode was very startling.

[@SimonBergeron1977]

I believe even Kyle Reese said, in the very first Terminator, that you could travel BACK in time but not FORWARD... and here... well...

[@kobold1538]

Jay's ICP joke about magnets flew a thousand miles over Jay's head.

[@TheBreadcrab]

26:36 "Wow. Like, movies have really gotten bad." Quote of the year.

[@falconer02]

23:00 This is a great idea. Comedy or not, I would totally pay to see this on the big screen.

[@joelwills8712]

Watch "How Terminator Should've Ended" and it's basically that crossover but as a trailer, it's great.

[@KugleeKuglee]

+falconer02 or go back to the medieval era, fight with the crusaders :D

[@FullPlaythroughs]

+falconer02 There's a film called Westworld that's a little bit like that, here's the plot; An amusement park for rich vacationers. The park provides its customers a way to live out their fantasies through the use of robots that provide anything they want. Two of the vacationers choose a wild west adventure. However, after a computer breakdown, they find that they are now being stalked by a rogue robot gun-slinger.

[@joelwills8712]

Full Playthroughs they're doing a tv show on that as well.

[@huggeebear]

+falconer02 Oh man, me too !

[@EFino-th4ir]

Please, for the love of god, stop casting Jai Courtney!!! Especially in roles that were perfectly cast to begin with ie. Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese.

[@ironprime287]

Sebastian Stan would have been a decent Kyle Reese

[@blorkpovud1576]

Yeah that's quite a contrast. Usually you have good actor vs not as good. THIS casting you had fucking brilliant vs bottom of the barrel.

[@alexandermilner4248]

Yeah agreed. The casting of Kyle Reece, the self sacrificing soldier from the future with PTSD, now being played by this wise cracking, attempted one-liner dropping piece of rag on a stick, was the worst of it for me.

[@alexandermilner4248]

That’s also taking into account that it’s already a train wreck of a movie.

[@OptimisticCynic715]

He's okay in secondary roles with few lines (like Jack Reacher and....Jack Reacher)

[@Dasyati]

18:15 I particularly loved when Skynet was trying to preach at them through a thousand holographic projectors stashed throughout the building and their response was to waste a bullet on every single projector

[@eedoamitay3341]

I freaking love these guys, they give the most objective detailed analysis of movies, top notch

[@doublehirn]

The truth is I have seen all the Terminator movies but I only remember what happened in the first two.

[@than217]

Terminator 9: John Conner must go back to the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance to make sure Kyle Reese and Sarah Conner still become a couple. The terminator steals the DeLorean in 2015 and is waiting for John in the past at the dance trying to break them up.

[@KneelB4Bacon]

26:50 _"This movie is a shiny object you dangle in front of a __-cat-__ fanboy."_

[@afanofpeanuts7381]

And I, unfortunately, was that sad dumbass fanboy that fell for it >x(

[@jhcoverdrive9287]

Arnold breaking a horse sounds eerily similar to a certain scene from Jack and Jill...

[@Trendyflute]

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE JILL IS FAT. FAT PEOPLE ARE FUNNY. FAAAAATTTTTT

[@gonecoastal4]

Shyamalan Twist: Arnold goes back in time even further, something goes wrong and ends up becoming Conan.

[@bkk397]

Then another Arnold travels back in time to early 90s nyc and finds a magic ticket where he ends up inside a movie and he goes by the name Jack Slater The t1000 follows him even

[@jacobpeters5458]

funny enough I rewatched the 1982 Conan yesterday, and while I didn't like it years ago as a kid because little action, I found it 10 times better than this piece of garbage Terminator movie and all its *convoluted* mindless action

[@jonaskoelker]

I guess SkyNet could only build the T1000 after solving the riddle of steel.

[@TheMeanMongoose]

"Come with me if you wanna live" -they don't go- OH I GET IT

[@specialK312]

Terminator 2: Judgement Day just might be the best film ever made in cinema history. This Genisys was a disaster. It was a decent action flick but does not deserve the iconic name "Terminator"

[@hellion7514]

"Wild West Terminator" is actually a really good idea.

[@SomeKindaSpy]

It's a good idea as a parody, to be sure.

[@johnnyrambo5083]

Yeah the movie sucks, these reboots and remakes just need to stop. People need to let the past go, it's starting to get embarrassing.

[@estarr86]

WRONG. TERMINATOR: DARK FATE WILL BE THE BEST MOVIE

[@user-hf9hf6hw8j]

@@estarr86 you're Wrong

[@_V.Va_]

@@estarr86 Comment aged horribly.

[@derrayproductions8945]

This is perfect material for a Plinkett review.

[@heathers.7755]

"Star Track" "Star track enterprise" You're doing that on purpose.

[@frankmerker630]

“THE star track”

[@SpardasTechReviews]

John Connor looks like a mid 40s dad pitching something at a business meeting

[@cavalier973]

In "Wild West Terminator", the Terminator runs out of energy, so they have to rig up a steam-powered generator and fasten it to his back. They toss chunks of coal into the generator to keep him going.

[@jrd33]

Sounds like you are describing a Terminator railway locomotive. Come on now, that would be pretty cool...

[@cavalier973]

@@jrd33 the Terminator T-4-4-0

[@matthewbowen5841]

Then Mary Steenbergen shows up with a flying train. Oh, wait.

[@joshuacopley2331]

When you steal a joke from Jack and Jill you know you're scraping the bottom of the barrel

[@TacticusPrime]

I thought that uncanny valley effect actually worked in the movies favor with digital Arnold. It just made him more machine like.

[@corsair4309]

Mike, I'm 1 minute 40 into the thing and I'm fucking laughing my ass off at you calling Kalissi "someone terrible". You're a legend dud! keep it up!

[@fuguilist]

Shin Seiki Evan She's below average. Her plotline is easily the worst on GoT. I'd rather watch Brienne meander about the woods with Podrick. At least they have chemistry.

[@hailmary7283]

ロックマン I feel like her plot line isn't bad, it's just the way its handled that isn't very good. Her character does have to make a lot of tough moral decisions that should tear her apart. However, the only time we see that is when she locks up the dragons. Normally she just makes decisions with ridiculous amounts of confidence. It would be far more interesting to see her as a character who feels more forced into the role of ruler and feels nervous and reluctant most of the time. This also makes sense given her characters story of being treated like shit her whole life. I haven't read the books so maybe something in them explains it better than I can.

[@fuguilist]

hailmary7283 Yeah, but even with the material she's given, I don't believe Emilia Clarke has the acting chops to communicate subtlety. She's either shouting or demure, and any emotional impact from the story is dampened by her terrible delivery. You know, Daenerys had a moral dilemma of opening the fighting pits in Meereen; she had an exchange with the muscley mercenary guy about executing the city elders; she has an abrasive relationship with Jorah. And in any of those cases, I couldn't tell what she's supposed to be feeling.

[@corsair4309]

I agree with everyone here. I think it's safe to conclude that Emilia isn't the new Meryl Streep or Cate Blanchett. As the show progresses I find her to be less and less emotionally present and more and more present at the production set buffet.

[@hailmary7283]

ロックマン Good point. I think the main problem with her acting in deciding to reopen the fighting pits decision is she was always mad. There isn't really a range of emotions she feels. I don't know how much of that is on her as an actress and how much of it is on the directing for not giving her better ideas on how to play the scene.

[@weavehole]

Your writers were so preoccupied with whether they could pull off the special effects that they didn't stop to think if they should.

[@ericv00]

weavehole The question is, how can you know anything about a script? How could you ever assume that you can control it? They have terrible actors in this movie. They picked them because they look good. But these are aggressive living things that have no idea what movie they're in... ...and they'll defend themselves. Violently, if necessary.

[@johnnycage6729]

The movie is so horrible I can't even watch the clips they use in this review.

[@DirtyBoySingToGod]

I do always absolutely love the editing from RLM, the way they cut off the lines when about to go into a diatribe is so perfectly timed. It's pretty wonderful. I don't know who edits their stuff, if it's Jack or Jay, but they constantly do a great job. I am sure they're not the first ones to do it, but I sure do see a lot of other youtubers copying them now. It's always funny, but RLM always do it best :)

[@viscountalpha]

The trailer ruined the movie. A bad trailer = me not wanting to see this utter pile of garbage.

[@OnlyAMan]

The plots in these reviews are always so immersive.

[@jackee-is-silent2938]

Jay, Mike, I'm from the future! You guys have to open a VCR repair shop lightning fast or we're all doomed!!!

[@RyanDepauloDegenerateGambler]

Literally such a big fan of you guys it makes me watch movies like this that I otherwise wouldn't see and know isn't great but want to fully experience HITB

[@lg3106]

it's 2019, so, don't worry, this very year there is a new Terminator movie...

[@PeterBrockie]

"It's a whole system of time travel inbreeding". So when is Netflix's Dark getting a Re:view? haha

[@jayphailey]

"This movie is a shiny object you dangle in front of a cat." Keeper.

[@gbrown932]

It's funny that Sarah was played by 2 Game of Thrones actresses but Lena Headey nailed her performance in TSCC

[@pjschnapp7324]

The color correction on the third camera that shows both of them is so distracting. Their jackets go from red to orange.

[@dieppat]

Fucking hacks!

[@CaptWesStarwind]

i love all of Mikes Star Trek references this Data one is one of the best.

[@rokujones]

Cops, the TV show, is actually still on the air. It's been 28 years and well over 900 episodes. Individual rookie cops have literally been shown in the earlier years of the show who are now fully retired from their respective police forces. It's that old.

[@paulpsycho78]

I love the episode of cops where they make a mistake

[@MikeDingDong10]

Rewatching this before the inevitable HITB ep of Terminator Dark Fate

[@SeanSmith-lv7wl]

Dark Fate ended up being even worse

[@adamsmith8765]

@@SeanSmith-lv7wl see you i 5 to 10 years when the next movie turns out to be even worse.

[@frankmerker630]

Terminator deep fake?

[@WhiteRhinoPSO]

I sort of feel bad for Mike when he starts quoting the "are you fully functional?" line. When he mentions that it's a reference to Star Trek: The Next Generation, you can see Jay's shoulders instantly sag. I've absolutely been the Mike in a situation like that.

[@joeu.3624]

I've how you can see the seam in the wall where you had the split screen. Total schlock - you guys rock!

[@The_MightyJingles]

Loved the review, but had to mention one point. The whole "No-one knows who sent Pops back because it's classified" thing. They did explain it, it was wiped from his memory so if he failed he couldn't be used to determine who else Skynet needed to kill.

[@cameronleach5475]

Jingles? You watch Redlettermedia too!

[@blunteastwood]

They meant an explanation for the audience

[@eldenlean5221]

Its still convenient lazy writing thats clearly meant to be explained in a sequel if it did well enough for one tho

[@navylaks2]

I can't wait to hear scientist mans take on Terminator Dark Fate lol ;)

[@vandalo6851]

well, the only thing I truly enjoyed about this movie is this review!

[@robball1000]

Genisys feels like a movie made for people who have seen the first two Terminator films, but didn't like them.

[@fenriz218]

Dark Fate feels like a movie made to trample on the cadavers of people who liked the first two Terminator films.

[@the81kid]

That's a good description of basically every franchise made now. I know people who love the Jurassic World films who say the first Jurassic Park is boring and they couldn't finish it. The new Star Star Trek films are made for people who hated Star Trek. Ditto with so many other remakes/reboots/sequels/prequels/sidequels/whateverquels. People hate the originals; they just like the idea of liking the originals.

[@HeyTray1]

27:50 "We talked about this more than the writers did" - I laughed so hard at that.

[@matthewbesson5367]

I love the thing they always do to Jay when Mike starts up what he does at 21:38. Amazing.

[@Uptomyknees]

You really gotta stop talking about "the writers" when you talk about a movie like this.

[@QLCHerald]

lol

[@arbitor365]

Uptomyknees They need to stop calling them "writers" because that gives them too much credit

[@PinkoJack]

Uptomyknees this movie had writers?

[@sillywilly7428]

Uptomyknees Hey now Max, you have to respect the writing of "Terminator Genisys", it's an amazing film.

[@Artsificial]

Uptomyknees What should we call them, then? Sentient hipster mold?

[@mdjones4]

When they start talking about cowboy terminator, it reminds me of the movie Westworld. Classic

[@gefiltefish6704]

I DO remember those Apple watches! - Sent From My VHS® Smartwatch

[@davidr1620]

I love the parody of the writer's room. So freaking true.

[@robertstaples3256]

"Get this shit off my cabinet!" This should so be on a list of Plinkett phrases on a phone app.

[@UberGingah]

Is it me or did Jay age incredibly well?

[@monsieurcondottiero2685]

He aged better than this review did. Terminator Genesis is now regarded a modern classic !

[@johnpanicker7590]

@@monsieurcondottiero2685 No it isn't

[@mongooseunleashed]

@@monsieurcondottiero2685 WTF!!

[@luiginastro8831]

@@monsieurcondottiero2685 No.

[@jerome1lm]

They put digital vaseline on his face I think.

[@TheUltimaFortuna]

I love Jay's reaction everytime Star Trek is mentioned

[@xSoupCan]

I'm pretty sure Mike had been watching Star Trek: The Next Generation on Netflix for awhile, so many references in this episode.

[@arrowhiteshark]

That piece of tape behind Mike's head is bugging me.

[@MetalMD7]

Skynet is all like: "All your base are belong to us"

[@dickheadrecs]

TAKE OFF EVERY ZIG

[@williamcronshaw5262]

I understood that reference.