I decided to brave the New York City holiday weekend crowds on Sunday morning so I could check out "Terminator Salvation," the latest in that much-loved series from my childhood. "Terminator" and "T2: Judgment Day" have long been personal favorites; not so much with "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," though I think it's better than the sizable group of haters would like people to believe. As for the TV series, I've already discussed my disappointment at the cancellation of "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" here on the blog.
Okay. Back to "Salvation." Needless to say, spoilers are to come. If you want a proper review, I encourage you to check out Kurt Loder's more detailed assessment on MTV.com. It's an interesting beast, "Terminator Salvation." All previous incarnations of the franchise have dealt with protecting the Connor family and preventing mankind's fall at the "hands" of a global artificial intelligence gone rogue. Always, there was this possibility that the nuclear holocaust might be diverted, that Skynet might be made to lose before its winning was ever a possibility. Then the bombs fall at the end of "Rise," and destiny becomes reality. Read more...
Editor's note: Last week, we asked you blog readers to submit questions for McG and the cast of "Terminator Salvation" to address. Well those queries have been received, processed, asked and answered. Here are your responses.
FROM MTV.COM: Whether you're a casual viewer or someone so hard-core that you've got an Arnold catchphrase tattooed across your "I'll Be" back, the "Terminator" franchise can get pretty confusing. With millions of soon-to-be-harvested humans having now seen "Salvation," we took some of their burning (and spoiler-heavy!) questions straight to the stars.
Q: In "Salvation," was John Connor aware that time travel would someday exist? Was he just waiting around for it?
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"Terminator Salvation" may not hit theaters until the end of the week, but MTV has you covered if you want to get your post-apocalypse on just a little bit early. You've probably seen portions of the five clips featured below in various trailers and TV spots, but here you get some unbroken, raw footage pulled straight from the film.
Starting us off is Anton Yelchin, shedding his thick Russian accent and barely pubescent charm from "Star Trek" to deliver Michael Biehn's iconic (and oft-repeated) Kyle Reese utterance from the first movie: "Come with me if you want to live." Yelchin of course plays a younger Reese in the film, long before a trip to the past inadvertently turns him into the father of humanity's savior.
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J.J. Abrams' fresh take on "Star Trek" is looking like it's gonna be huge, taking in as much as $75 million at the box office through the weekend. The film features a whole new cast of predominantly little-known actors taking over the iconic roles of James T. Kirk, Spock and the rest of the Enterprise crew. So which of these up-and-comers will be the movie's breakout star? Who will everyone be talking about on Monday? Will it be Chris Pine as the young and cocky Kirk? Maybe "Heroes" villain and brand-new Spock Zachary Quinto? Perhaps Zoe Saldana’s sultry Uhura, Anton Yelchin’s navigator Chekov, Karl Urban’s doc Bones, or Simon Pegg’s beam-me-up engineer Scotty.
A case can be made for any of them. But MTV News wanted to know what you had to say, so we sent our own Tim Kash into the heart of Times Square to get your take on who will be "Trek"'s breakout star.
